Wake up and smell the coffee generation

Celebrating corporation round and round we thought stirring up another cup of too many wrongs to mention

When greed is hurting you to world war freak and you label truth the conspiracy round we go, so you better take them up

for a moment of clarity.

Welcome to Redact to the Night VIP.

I'm Lee Camp.

Today I talk with the leader of the Internet Party of New Zealand,

Susie Dawson.

But she's also an investigative journalist and has written a truly impressive article.

It's almost more like a short book on both the history of WikiLeaks, who was involved,

who's attacking them now, and the life of Julian Assange in recent years, and a breakdown

of the smear pieces against him.

She believes we are witnessing the slow death of Assange in front of our own eyes, and not many people, honestly, are addressing it.

The truth is, whether you love Assange or hate him, he and WikiLeaks have changed the world in a lot of ways.

So here's my conversation with Susie Dawes.

Hi, Susie, thanks for joining me and congrats on a truly impressive article.

Thank you so much for having me, Lee.

Yeah, it's good to finally kind of meet you.

So let's start with what drew you to devote months of your life to this topic

and why you think it's so important.

I've been writing about WikiLeaks actually since 2011,

but particularly over the last couple of years,

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