Exclusive: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek In Conversation With Amy Goodman

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Julian Assange, Slavoj Zizek | Jul. 5, 2011 (Interview)

(Multimedia) They discuss the impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, and Cablegate — the largest trove of classified U.S. government records in history. “From being inside the center of the storm, I have learned not just about the structure of government, not just about how power flows in many governments around the world that we’ve dealt with, but rather how history is shaped and distorted by the media,” ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Media
Topics: War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Law, Ethics in Journalism, Journalism, WikiLeaks
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Once you get used to watching Zizek's t-shirt tic, the ideas on information, journalism, democracy, and social change are interesting and provocative.

That’s why it aroused such an explosion of resentment. You are not only violating the rules, disclosing secrets and so on. Let me call it in the old Marxist way the ... More »

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