The Wikileaks Files

The World According to US Empire

by Julian Assange, Dahr Jamail, Dan Beeton, Alexander Main, Robert Naiman, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Linda Pearson, Gareth Porter, Tim Shorrock, Russ Wellen, Stephen Zunes, Phyllis Bennis, Michael Busch, Peter Certo, Conn Hallinan, Sarah Harrison, Richard Heydarian, Jake Johnston

Hardcover, 624 pages

English language

Published Aug. 25, 2015 by Verso Books.

ISBN:: 9781781688748

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WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It brought to the surface the dark truths of crimes committed in our name: human rights violations, covert operations, and cover-ups.

The WikiLeaks Files exposes the machinations of the United States as it imposes a new form of imperialism on the world, one founded on tactics from torture to military action, to trade deals and “soft power,” in the perpetual pursuit of expanding influence. The book also includes an introduction by Julian Assange examining the ongoing debates about freedom of information, international surveillance, and justice.

An introduction by Julian Assange—writing on the subject for the first time—exposes the ongoing debates about freedom of information, international surveillance, and justice.

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5 stars

There is more than enough coverage of US imperialism in contemporary media to fill days of airwaves, but not that much material that speaks through the words of the imperial management itself. This collection of documents showing views on the rest of the world by American policy leaders, strategists and special service heads mirrors the glasses through which other global powers in history saw countries and people subjected - or to be subjected - to their rule. Reading this documentary material leaves nobody with enough space to claim we live in a post-imperial era.