From backroom deals between Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs to US covert operations in Haiti, Tunisia, Italy and beyond, WikiLeaks revealed the dark underbelly of US power. Author and journalist Stefania Maurizi joins The Chris Hedges Report to share her insider perspective on one of the century’s biggest stories, as well as her encyclopedic knowledge of the horrific truths revealed in WikiLeaks’ hundreds of thousands of leaked files.
Chris Hedges worked for nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, National Public Radio and other news organizations in Latin America, the Middle East and the Balkans. He was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of global terrorism. Hedges is a fellow at the Nation Institute and the author of numerous books, including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
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This interview with Ms. Maurizi is excellent and makes one appreciate so much what it means to have people throughout the world who speak more than one language, unlike the general cultural attitude in the US. To hear her description of her own discovery of Wikileaks and then continuing work with Wikileaks is great. So often I have thought about how difficult it is to know about what is happening in the world when it is happening instead of years later through historical articles. We need information here and now and Wikileaks makes this possible. No wonder that Julian Assange is so persecuted. I have lived outside the US for a number of years, and the reality of what is happening compared to news reports is so different and so often distorted. Great interview.
Pretty much anyone courageous enough to reveal the truth about bad government actions and make sure the people see the truth so we can know how to act on issues is the “bad guy”…Julian Assange, along with others such as Ed Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and others like them are, as far as I’m concerned, heroes of democracy, not criminals in any form. It says a lot about our current ideology that Julian and others are suffering long-term persecution for telling truth that made some powerful people look bad, but here we are with Trump, with a long list of actual crimes against our national foundation, still walking around running his mouth telling lies, still committing crimes, but all we see about it after the very good investigation and truth we know, is “well, maybe he might be indicted” for maybe one financial crime, maybe he will do a couple of years…what’s wrong with that picture?