It has been a while since we heard from the chief editor of Wikileaks and profoundly bizarre Australian “hacktivist” Julian Assange, currently on house arrest in the UK. As it turns out, he is working on a gig in 24-hour news– at the network formerly known as Russia Today, RT Television. He will be “hosting a series of in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries” starting this March. A talk show hosted by Julian Assange? What could possibly go wrong?

For well over a year, many have feverishly raced to the defense of U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of 22 criminal charges including aiding the enemy for leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents (and video) to Wikileaks. Late in December, for the first time, we finally heard his side of the story during an evidentiary hearing to determine whether he should be court-martialed. His supporters, often at the courthouse daily clad in t-shirts emblazoned with his picture, must have been disappointed that Manning’s own lawyer hardly portrayed him as the grand patriot those defenders have depicted.

Today is a landmark day in the Occupy Wall Street movement– organizers have called for similar rallies across the world in solidarity with their cause, and images from Rome to Vienna to, yes, back to Wall Street are hitting the web in real time. But it was in London where the crowds received a special celebrity greeting– from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who took a respite from his house arrest to express solidarity with the movement.

Thursday, we reported on a Fox and Friends story that contained enough whole cloth to start its own garment district. Among other things, Fox and Friends falsely reported that a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable showed that President Obama proposed a visit to Hiroshima to apologize for the WWII atomic bombing of that city, and of Nagasaki. We contacted Fox News about the inaccuracies in the story, and they promised us that they would “address” the story Friday morning.

WikiLeaks is in the news again, this time offering a revealing look at how the White House dealt with a sticky foreign relations issue relating to Japan. In the leaked cable from 2009, John Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, tells the White House that, per his conversation with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka, it [...]

Al-Jazeera announced this morning in a statement that Wadah Khanfar, the network’s director of eight-years, has resigned and is to be replaced by a member of the Qatar royal family. Khanfar has been credited with both revolutionizing the Arab media landscape and extending Al-Jazeera’s reach well beyond that region, and the timing of his departure, not long after the release of an incriminating WikiLeaks cable, begs questions.

If Wikileaks began as a mission to enter history for releasing the largest number of sensitive federal documents in history, it may have achieved that this week, at the cost of their own reputations and, potentially, a number of lives. The group released the entirety of its U.S. dispatch archive suspected to have been delivered to them by current military prisoner Bradley Manning– a release that was prompted by a Guardian editor publishing the password to an encrypted file holding some of the documents in his book, and threatens to put many lives across the world in danger.

The epic Julian Assange-penned Wikileaks memoir scheduled to be released last April seems to have run into a bit of trouble. According to a new report from The Guardian, the book deal may have fallen through due to Assange’s fears that publishing his story would strengthen a potential case against him in the United States. While the publishers, Canongate and Knopf, have refuted claims that the deal has fallen through, they have also refused to discuss the book.

Well, this explains that parody commercial. Subversive online group Wikileaks is threatening to sue Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal, among others, for preventing the group from collecting donations. This week, the group announced that they are waiting another five days to sue the companies for blocking their money flows.

Known as an iconoclastic Congressman and serial presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul also has a lesser-known career as a prolific author. To understand more about the candidate, the Daily Beast‘s David Graham went through the 2012 hopeful’s latest tome, Liberty Defined, and came away concluding, perhaps unfairly, that Rep. Paul is not a “disciplined candidate” and, given his affinity for conspiracy, is a long way from the nomination.

Wikileaks is an organization that may not exactly be lacking in publicity but, nonetheless, the group has put together quite a neat little promotional video for itself.

Hacker group “Lulz Security” has made headlines before for wreaking various forms of havoc on websites as varied as PBS.org to CIA.gov, but tonight they have put on their political activist hat and released what they claim is hundreds of top secret documents of Arizona’s police force, in an attempt to protest anti-illegal immigration bill SB1070. The Arizona police have confirmed they have been hacked.

Wikileaks, the secretive international organization that took 2010 by storm with its thousand-page document dumps and the erratic behavior of its leader, Julian Assange, seems to be strapped for cash again. And, as they have many times before, they are trotting out Assange out to sell his charm to the highest bidder. The Washington Post is reporting that Wikileaks is auctioning off lunch Assange in London before a speaking engagement, now going for about €600.

WikiLeaks has gained a number of fans (and enemies, of course) with its attempts to foster transparency in a world of secretive and duplicitous governments. However, it appears they do, after all, still consider themselves a business and, as such, aren’t all too keen on having their own material leaked. The New Statesman has obtained a confidentiality agreement that the organization has its staff sign which threatens them with a penalty of about $20 million if they leak the “valuable proprietary commercial information” that WikiLeaks would rather sell to the media.

The capture of Osama bin Laden was obviously years and years in the making. And, as WikiLeak’s embassy cables show, back in October of 2008, U.S. forces had actually been stationed several yards from the suburban Abbottabad compound where bin Laden and several of his family members and colleagues were ultimately found. The cables also show that U.S. forces may have returned months later as well.

This morning, WikiLeaks Tweeted out the telephone number belonging to District Attorney Tracy McCormick – the DA in charge of a Grand Jury investigation against the organization to determine whether the activities of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, warrant an indictment against them.

The State Department’s favorite whistleblower organization, Wikileaks, has taken yet another holiday to launch a document dump, this time on the secrets of America’s military base on Guantanamo Bay. Like every Wikileak, this one has many in the media, including Bill O’Reilly, calling for the government to press charges on Julian Assange and company, but the group appears to have found an unlikely ally: Bernie Goldberg.

Geoff Morrell is really not happy with WikiLeaks. The organization released over 700 classified documents pertaining to Guantanamo Bay which included disturbing information about America holding prisoners for years without charges, extreme interrogation techniques, and the concern that the prisoners have a higher probability of turning to terrorism after being kept there. The worst thing though is that this release totally screwed up Morrell’s Easter weekend! God, what jerks!

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States government, the media and the world became consumed with the whereabouts of anyone who might have been connected to the 9/11 attacks. It was a consumption that paid off when many of the so-called masterminds were captured or killed one by one in the months and years after the attacks. But the details of exactly what many of them were doing with their time and where they were doing it remained a public mystery until now, courtesy, of course, of Wikileaks.

Shepard Smith is sick of the government lying to us. “The list is so long, we don’t have room for it on the screen any more!” he exclaimed today during Studio B. Smith was covering the latest WikiLeaks release in the Washington Post that details the United States’ secret backing of Syrian opposition forces and he made it abundantly clear just who he thought was fighting the good fight. “Man, we’ve learned a lot from the WikiLeaks people, haven’t we?” Smith asked with a smile.

“What a week this has been for bigotry,” remarked Judith Timson in The Globe and Mail. Dior designer John Galliano lost his job after video came out of him making anti-Semitic comments. Then there was Julian Assange’s claim that a group of Jewish journalists was out to get him. And Glenn Beck compared Reform Judaism to “radicalized Islam.” But the highest-profile case of it came amid revelations that Charlie Sheen called his manager a “stoopid Jew pig” and referred publicly to his boss Chuck Lorre as “Chaim Levine.” Lots of reporters noted what appeared to be a rise in these incidents in recent days, leaving some concerned about a changing attitude toward Jews. Is this a legitimate worry? Writers for Jewish publications weigh in:

Paul Craig Roberts, the former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Reagan Administration and an outspoken journalist and author since, appeared on RT America this past weekend to discuss the legal struggles of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. While there, he had some pretty unsettling things to say, casually dropping his belief that the CIA would kill Assange and that this would be a “common practice” event.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt got a boost from WikiLeaks. In an interview with the Australian program Dateline, Assange says “material that we published through a Lebanese newspaper was significantly influential to what happened in Tunisia,” and Tunisia led directly to Egypt. “Then there’s no doubt that Tunisia was THE example for Egypt, and Yemen and Jordan and all the protests that have happened there.”

The hits just keep on coming for affable paranoid mad scientist Julian Assange. He’s been accused of putting countless informants’ lives on the line by releasing the Afghan War Diaries. He’s been accused of an act fitting the Swedish legal definition of the crime of rape. And now, a former employee is accusing him of abusing his cat in a “battle for dominance.”

Call it a tale of two media break-ups. Shortly after the New York Times’ Bill Keller penned a scathing (and shockingly personal) account of what it was like to work with Julian Assange, UK collaborator The Guardian has done the same. While their rendition of experience does not fail to leave out the requisite depiction of Assange as overbearing and paranoid, the overall tone of the story, rather than vengeful, is surprisingly self-effacing.