WikiLeaks

Imagine an intelligence agency that uses the information it collects – some if which was gathered through coercive tactics – to trade on the markets in order to expand its operations. It reads like a scenario out of a James Bond novel. Yet, according to internal e-mails from Strategy Forecasting...

After Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) suddenly stopped processing donations to Wikileaks in December 2010, the group attempted to accept payments from cards from Diners Club and its parent company Discover (NYSE: DFS), only to be told that the U.S. government "intervened with Discover,"...

Taking the unusual step of answering the question in the title right at the beginning, I'm going for the former. The anarchists and uber-liberals have been heaping adoring praise all over Wikileaks head honcho Julian Assange with a shovel over the past few months. Without any thought towards...

So much for WikiLeaks killing Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). According to an article from Reuters, some of the files that WikiLeaks had obtained on Bank of America files have been destroyed, according to a source close to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who last...

If banksters like Mastercard want to take on the role as censor for the corporate state, they should expect to get hacked...over and over. They have no right to stop the free flow of money across borders between lawful groups. For those not following the news, Mastercard was hacked today, once...

This is your Benzinga news summary and traders' outlook for Tuesday, June 28, 2011, covering headlines from overnight and Tuesday's pre-market session. Today in domestic pre-market trading, U.S. equity futures are trading slightly lower after posting gains yesterday. The U.S. dollar is trading...

Bitcoin is a digital peer-to-peer technology and currency that allows users to transact online without using credit cards or bank accounts. Think of Gnutella (or if you are not familiar with that, the old Napster (NYSE: BBY) except decentralized). However, with Bitcoin, you are not trading music...

The Wall Street Journal looks to be going after WikiLeaks, not in the way you would think. The Journal has unveiled Safehouse, which is a place where you can safely and securely upload "newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases" to the WSJ. "It grew out of a...

A U.K. judge ruled that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, should be extradited to Sweden from Britain to face rape charges there. District Judge Howard Riddle denied Assange's plea that he wouldn't get a fair trial in Sweden. Assange, and his lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, had also claimed that...

We can all stop worrying about the documents that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have on Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) because he hasn't a clue what they mean. According to Reuters, the documents that Assange said could "take down a bank or two" are probably going to be released without so much as a...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is going back to court today, to decide whether he should extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. Yesterday Geoffrey Robertson, the lawyer for Mr. Assange, said that if extradited, Assange would be subject to a "flagrant denial of justice."...

As rumors run rampant on the dirt that Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks, has on Bank of America, the bank frantically searches for the source of the leak and is prepping for major damage control if information is released. According to the the New York Times, Assange said he is sitting on 5GB...