Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...him, which is one of the great things that Julian Assange did – was to expose the chicanery in..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

American Dharma

Steve Bannon dissected by the great Errol Morris

"...(putting him on the same short list of what Julian Assange, subject of 2017's Risk, describes as global actors)..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

This Holiday Season, Give Political Gifts That Resist

Anti-MAGA merch, feminist nudie mags, Chron swag, and more

"...meetings between former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Stay tuned for sequels. Especially for..."

Dec. 7, 2018 News Feature by the News Staff

Laura Poitras Takes a Risk

Oscar-winning documentarian on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

"...the Oscar- and Polk-winning documentarian's profile of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It serves as a counterpart to Poitras' 2014..."

May 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Risk

Doc follows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

"...her camera at another hard-to-reach man of the hour, Julian Assange, the besieged and admired founder of WikiLeaks...."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Macon Blair Wins Sundance 2017

Grand Jury prize-winner tops the list of locals done good – and bad – at Park City

"...with the rebellious cool of anti-authoritarianism, palling around with Julian Assange and trafficking pied piper slogans like "I don't..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Jason Bourne

The former CIA op resurfaces in a new era of electronic surveillance

"...expose government data. She has joined forces with a Julian Assange/Edward Snowden-type character who wants to reveal all the..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Most Dangerous Man in Austin?

Cody Wilson's day-to-day life is pretty routine. But the product he's selling threatens to make gun control laws obsolete.

"...So I've always had that." How­ever, it took WikiLeaks, Julian Assange's open-source information portal, to get him thinking about..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

I Wear the Black Hat

Klosterman's critique of villainy over the last 40 years offers some surprisingly sharp analyses

"...(yes) Rick Perry, on to D.B. Cooper, Bernie Goetz, Julian Assange, Kanye West, LeBron James, and Andrew Dice Clay...."

Aug. 15, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Panel: Artists & Homeland Security

Republican grandstanding

"...into a festival. So after a SXSW that saw Julian Assange and Edward Snowden Skyping in to talk about..."

March 15, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Trailer Park: SXSW Film Day 9

Three picks (and clips) from today's screenings

"...Edward Snowden and Julian Assange got to teleconference in and speak for themselves..."

March 15, 2014 SXSW Post by Monica Riese

Point Austin: Firefighters in Action

Snowden and allies on the tech side of human rights and personal privacy

"..."The Surveillance Thread." The relevant names include Aaron Swartz, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Glenn Greenwald. Swartz was the..."

March 14, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Playback – SXSW: Zero Hour

SXSW started early this year, but now – as usual – everything hits at once

"...science expert Bill Nye, political agitators Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, comedians like Portlandia's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein,..."

March 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Headlines

"...hot international news with live-stream appearances of Wiki­Leaks' founder Julian Assange (from London), whistle-blower Edward Snowden (Moscow), and the..."

March 14, 2014 News Feature

Greenwald on Politics, Privacy, Journalism

Reporter/editor says bigger Snowden revelations to come

"...with Sifry that he and other “involuntary exiles,” (as Julian Assange called them earlier this week), forced from their..."

March 10, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Fun and Games With Stratfor

APD and DPS collaborated with private 'geopolitical intelligence firm'

"...possibility of the U.S. killing or torturing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Guan­ta­namo, and reminisced about the good old..."

March 7, 2014 News Feature by John Anderson

Watching the Watchmen

A crash course in privacy, in case you've been (not unreasonably) living under a rock

"...A Virtual Conversation With Julian Assange Saturday, March 8, 11am Austin Convention Center Exhibit..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Julian Assange’s SXSW Music Picks?

Rather, three suggestions for the SXSW Interactive Skyper

"...deliver the keynote speech, SXSW Interactive trumped itself with Julian Assange. Given his exile, there’ll be no helicoptering in..."

Jan. 16, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

The Fifth Estate

It's the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks before they became household names.

"...The website’s founder and visionary Julian Assange (Cumberbatch) recruits computer/interactive genius Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Brühl) to..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Brain Teaser

Author and legendary 'Jeopardy!' champ Ken Jennings comes to the Texas Book Festival

"...As we see, these days, in the cases of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, it's power,..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: Can This Really Be the End?

A look forward, a look back

"...calling (sometimes literally) for the head of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, when they should have been looking in the..."

Dec. 28, 2012 News Column by Michael King

The AggreGAYtor: October 29

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Jesus, responding from an undisclosed location recently vacated by Julian Assange, corrects “on Jeopardy, ON Jeopardy.” Apparently the quiz..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Point Austin: Stratfor's Web

The Stratfor emails raise questions about information, privatization, and official secrecy

"...concern Stratfor's internal commentary on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, and reflect considerable ambivalence about both. Already notorious..."

March 9, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Attack of the Cybermen

Activism empowered by the Internet

"...patently unfunny brouhaha surrounding the intel dumpsite, creator/agent provocateur Julian Assange, and original leaker and presumed government fall guy..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'This Is A Coded Message'

"...“The Cave” by Mumford & Sons I think of Julian Assange, I don't know why. Maybe some of the..."

March 1, 2011 Postmarks

Move Over, 'Mis-leaders'

"...justice, tolerance, and respect for all life. To quote Julian Assange: “[M]ass leaking leaves … [unjust systems] exquisitely vulnerable..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Postmarks

Newsgeist: 1/12/11

The spirit of the news

"...right? Today's version has stories on the Texas House, Julian Assange, and Michael Jackson's doctor. Read more for the..."

Jan. 12, 2011 News Post by Eric Pickhartz

Point Austin: Call Them Irresponsible

The Statesman ponders journalism and secrecy

"...or another of the organization's media partners. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told the British Guard­ian (as repeated in the..."

Dec. 17, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Newsgeist: 12/15/10

The spirit of the news

"...allowing tweets from the courtroom during the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's hearing...."

Dec. 15, 2010 News Post by Eric Pickhartz