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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

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Falling Out of Love with Julian Assange While Still Being Fond of Wikileaks

Ideas and Issues November 16, 2018November 16, 2018 by digital

Nashville         Who’s on first, what’s on second?  The Justice Department seems to be the gang that can’t shoot straight, and, frankly, that’s even a scarier thing than we thought! This time in the era of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, now departed, and what’s his name that they are trying to force into his job, a …

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WikiLeaks without Assange or WikiLeaks without Internet?

Ideas and Issues October 19, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   First there was a note that the daily surge of WikiLeaks email dumps had suddenly stopped for two days prompting speculation that maybe Ecuador had cut the internet connects to Julian Assange in his hideout apartment in the Ecuadorian embassy in an upscale London district. Then there was confirmation, including commentary from Raphael …

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The Clock Keeps Ticking and Investigations Continue on Assange and Snowden

Ideas and Issues May 24, 2015 by digital

New Orleans     Whatever happened to Julian Assange of Wiki-leaks and Edward Snowden of NSA mega-leaks?  Well, Assange has now done 1000 days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he received political asylum, and Snowden remains in Russia where he has been given a 3-year visitor visa. Amazingly, though the investigations by the USA and …

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Continuing Relevance of Wikileaks, Assange, and Snowden

Ideas and Issues August 17, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  Contrary to many published stories, the reports of Wikileaks’ death and demise seem exaggerated, and despite the tedium the mainstream media has developed for Julian Assange and his antics, suddenly he seems relevant again, and Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, seems, surprisingly, to have ignited exactly the kind of high level national and …

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Wielding the Bank Account Weapon to Block Wikileaks and Others

Ideas and Issues June 27, 2013 by digital

Little Rock   In the current showdown between the National Security Agency and leaker Edward Snowden, numerous accounts are resuscitating interest and attention on Wikileaks and its huge intel drop of 2010.  Part of this is simply a case of Snowden being unavailable to talk, thereby opening up a huge media hole that demands to be …

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