The Nation Podcasts Podcast Episodes featuring Julian Assange

Daniel Ellsberg: Espionage and Julian Assange; plus Robert Pollin on Medicare for All and Alyssa Battistoni on Climate Politics

The Nation Podcasts - May 29, 2019 22:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
The indictment of Julian Assange on espionage charges is an attack on freedom of the press—that’s what Daniel Ellsberg argues.  Ellsberg too was indicted under the Espionage Act – and put on trial by the Nixon Administration in 1972, because he leaked a top secret history of American involvement...

Laura Poitras: The Many Contradictions of Julian Assange

The Nation Podcasts - May 03, 2017 20:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Risk is the new film by Laura Poitras, about Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Poitras, who won the Oscar for best documentary for her film about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour, calls Assange “admirable, brilliant, and flawed.” Also: Stephen Cohen says a new cold war is threatening world pea...