JAYFORCE

WikiLeaks is an international, online, non-profit organization which publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources. A few years ago, WikiLeaks published the first set of more than 250,000 secret State Department documents … one of the largest leaks of classified information in history. All in the name of transparency – letting the people know what their governments don’t want them to know – which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange believes is important in keeping societies free.

In the audio below, Assange sits down with Dr. Cornel West at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to speak on the importance of keeping societies and governments open, on propaganda campaigns against him (including those spurred by the U.S. government), on his latest text, “Cypherpunks,” and more. Very interesting listen.

‘Every law, every regulation, every constitution comes about as a result of people communicating… You ask yourself what regulates the law, what regulates mandate, what regulates constitutional change? It is regulated by the people communicating… the only way to hold government to account and modify its behavior and produce an educated body politic… is through free and robust communication. Government must not be in charge of regulating what the people know about government. That would be a self-regulation that is doomed to failure.’

– Julian Assange

DR. CORNEL WEST SITS DOWN WITH JULIAN ASSANGE (AUDIO)