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We have hundreds of specific death threats from U.S. military militants. That is not unusual, and we have become practiced from past experiences at ignoring such threats from Islamic extremists, African kleptocrats and so on. Recently the situation has changed with these threats now extending out to our lawyers and my children. However, it is the specific calls from the elites of U.S. society for our assassination, kidnapping and execution that is more concerning.
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- Julian Assange Excerpt from Associated Press (May 10, 2012)

Im living in airports these days.

- Julian Assange Excerpt from The New Yorker (July 10, 2006)
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WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.

- Julian Assange Excerpt from The New Yorker (February 13, 2012)
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They have a rule that mentions gratuitous violence. The violence is not gratuitous in this case, but nonetheless they have taken things down. It is too important to be interfered with.

- Julian Assange Excerpt from The New Yorker (July 10, 2006)
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This video shows what modern warfare has become, and, I think, after seeing it, whenever people hear about a certain number of casualties that resulted during fighting with close air support, they will understand what is going on. The video also makes clear that civilians are listed as insurgents automatically, unless they are children, and that bystanders who are killed are not even mentioned.

- Julian Assange Excerpt from The New Yorker (July 10, 2006)
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I want to set up a new standard: scientific journalism. If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your researchthe idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

- Julian Assange Excerpt from The New Yorker (July 10, 2006)
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