Britain's Supreme Court has finally approved Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for allegedly molesting and raping two women. Assange has been trying to prevent exactly that since 2010 — he claims the sex was consensual, but that he won't get a fair trial in Sweden — and still…
What's even more subversive than flashing the middle finger during your Super Bowl performance? Composing the soundtrack for Julian Assange's new talk show.
State-backed Russian TV station RT has announced that it will be broadcasting Julian Assange's talk show, which "will focus on his favorite topic: controversy." The Russian government are apparently big fans of Assange, perhaps in part because he hasn't released any of their big secrets — we're sure his new deal with…
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Here's the new show you weren't waiting for: Julian Assange has promised to launch a talk show about "the world tomorrow." Assuming this show actually airs (which it probably won't), who should the WikiLeaker invite as his guests?
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I have less than no interest in discussing, yet again, the merits of the sexual assault allegations against Julian Assange. So it was with trepidation that I waded into Rolling Stone's new interview with the WikiLeaks-founder/guaranteed cocktail party conversation-killer. Against all odds, though, the interview is…
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A UK judge has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face trial for sexual assault. Assange says he will continue to fight the ruling.
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The first excerpts of Julian Assange's memoir have been published, and, unsurprisingly, they include a denial of the rape charges against him. Assange also — conveniently, as it turns out — describes himself as "a little bit autistic."
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Fresh from a birthday celebration that trumpeted his status as the "Most Dangerous Man in the World," Julian Assange was back in court today to fight extradition to Sweden. And though his new lawyers seem to have wised up that victim-blaming wasn't helping their case, they continue to argue that what took place in Sweden …
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Wikileaks is auctioning off a lunch with Julian Assange and the philosopher Slavoj Zizek. As of this writing, the bid stands at £1,070.00, or $1,733.06. But what price the noted charm of Assange?
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Thanks to the Internet, we now know that Julian Assange dances pretty much exactly as you imagine him dancing. Like a guy who describes himself as possessing "a conversational brutality" that took one woman's "breath away," and who believes that "Western culture seems to forge women that are valueless and inane." Let's…
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A British judge has ruled that Julian Assange must return to Sweden to face questioning on allegations of sexually assaulting two women. Assange's lawyers said they'll appeal. The ruling examined and dismissed some of the major claims Assange and his lawyers have made about Sweden and its allegedly draconian, anti-male …
This diplomatic cable from Armenia entitled "A Prostitute's Story," is a thoughtful look at sex trafficking there, indicating that beyond the better-known coercion, economic conditions are driving women to willingly seek sex work, and parents to knowingly pimp their daughters.
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The hearings on the extradition of Julian Assange from England to Sweden have come to a close, with a decision expected in two weeks. But just because he wasn't actually being tried for the two rapes of which he's accused, didn't mean that the lawyers couldn't spar on "rough sex," consent, and toe-sucking. Also,…
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"Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism," Julian Assange has said in a recent interview. "I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism." And there's something the Guardian left out of its report on the accusations against him.
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Julian Assange just told the BBC, "Capable, generous men don't create victims, they try and save people from becoming victims." He also said his accusers had "unprotected sex and they got into a tizzy about" STDs. Generous, indeed!
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If you thought talking about Julian Assange was terrible last week, welcome to today, when Keith Olbermann re-emerges to drastically lower the standards of debate, and Naomi Wolf says siding with Assange's accusers is "not respecting women."
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This week The Guardian received unauthorized access to police documents that provide a complete account of the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Will these new facts finally put to rest the argument that "none of us know" the accusations?
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To some, he's a hero; to Palin, "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands"; to Italian Rolling Stone "rock star of the year"; to The Daily Beast "civilian porn star." Let's all come together — around Julian Assange's hair.
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Where will Julian Assange stay now that he's been released on bail? There's always Couchsurfing.com, where Assange had a profile. He listed his "current mission" as "fomenting revolution." There are references to attempted assassinations, "election rigging," and "politicians' wives."
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It's not clear if the florid, self-aggrandizing OKCupid profile with Julian Assange's photo is legit. But it does sound an awful lot like the florid, self-aggrandizing entries, including about women and sex, in Assange's diaries around the same time! Updated.
