WikiLeaks gains strength; millions of new documents, says Assange

When it seems that parts of the world have hoped for WikiLeaks to wither away and become a distant memory; the go-to place for leaking otherwise secret agreements is now repositioning itself into a historical place of strength that has never been witnessed before.

Despite the US government’s effort to shut down WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website has claimed that the organization now has over “10 million documents” on secret trade agreements and other underground documents.

Spiegel recently interviewed Assange and was told that “WikiLeaks is back — releasing documents proving United States surveillance of the French government, publishing Saudi diplomatic cables and posting evidence of the massive surveillance of the German government by US secret services.”

Even the US blockade where we witnessed PayPal, MasterCard and other US giants such as VISA and Bank of America freeze donations to the organization changed direction with the Icelandic Supreme Court ruling in favor of Assange and WikiLeaks in 2013. The blockade had cut 90 percent of its finances; now MasterCard, after the ruling, has resumed business with WikiLeaks allowing resumption of donations on their part.

Assange concludes the interview with Spiegel by noting the importance of WikiLeaks’ role in displaying the US agenda, and attempting to highlight the geopolitical stage to the younger generations.

“WikiLeaks has become the place to go to leak parts of these agreements that are now under negotiation. These agreements are a package that the US is using to reposition itself in the world against China by constructing a new grand enclosure. We are seeing something that would result in a tighter economic and legal integration with the United States, which draws Western Europe’s center of gravity away from Eurasia and towards the United States, when the greatest chance for long-term peace in Eurasia is its economic integration.”

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