Secret Power
eBook - ePub

Secret Power

WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Secret Power

WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

About this book

*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021*

*Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022*

*Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*

'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.'

It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known organization WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings, encrypted files, and explosive documents, what she discovers sets her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of secret power.

Working closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and his organization for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks.

With complex and disturbing insights, Maurizi's tireless journalism exposes atrocities, the shameful treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, on up to the present persecution of WikiLeaks: a terrifying web of impunity and cover-ups.

At the heart of the book is the brutality of secret power and the unbearable price paid by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and truthtellers.

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Yes, you can access Secret Power by Stefania Maurizi, Lesli Cavanaugh-Bardelli in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Intelligence & Espionage. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Ken Loach
  6. Introduction: The Man Who Stood Up to Secret Power
  7. 1. The WikiLeaks Revolution
  8. 2. The Exceptional Courage of Chelsea Manning
  9. 3. Afghanistan: The Faraway War
  10. 4. The Cypherpunk
  11. 5. A Database from Hell: The Iraq War Logs
  12. 6. Cablegate: Rattling Power at the Highest Levels
  13. 7. Guantanamo: The Black Hole of Civilization
  14. 8. “The Huffington Post Gang Is Driving Me Nuts”
  15. 9. From Sweden to Ecuador
  16. 10. No Place for Protection
  17. 11. My Trench Warfare to Unearth the Truth
  18. 12. Arbitrarily Detained
  19. 13. A Russian Connection?
  20. 14. The Fury of the CIA
  21. 15. Under Siege
  22. 16. The Final Attempts
  23. 17. In the Would-be Guantanamo
  24. 18. 175 Years for the Crime of Journalism
  25. 19. Only Kafka
  26. 20. A Monstrous Injustice
  27. 21. Secret Power
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Index