Powers & Counter powers

Power & Counter power:

Vocabulary:

- To long for / To pine away for: Aspirer à

- It is no better than: Cela ne vaut pas mieux

- To contend that : Soutenir l’idée que

- To bemoan the fact that: Supporter le fait que

- To go public / To go viral: Etre rendu public

- To make / hit headlines: Faire la une (to hit the front page)

- The inner workings: Les rouages internes

-> Democracy / Dictatorship

Trade Unions / Media (The press) the fourth power

NGO’s

Wikileaks and Mediapart:

Which them are growing in influence?

Which of them can be trusted?

Which of them can be called effective?

Which aim do they pursue?

Why would we be in desperate need of them?

Classified / Confidential information?

-> Information the world needs to know – Whistleblowers

Accused of violating The Espionage Act (1917 computer fraud and abuse)

That’s maybe where real power lie, you can’t change the world without crashing the system.

Who is Julian Assange?

1) He is 46 years old, Australian born computer analyst.

2) He was raised by his mother and was found to be fiercely intelligent by” He was home schooled.

A Self-made and self-taught man.

3) He became a skilled computer hacker.

4) He came into prominence, stepped into the spot light in 2007 after revealing

        rocketed to fame

Bureaucratic secrets globally: The death of journalists and civilians during the U.S attack in Iraq “collateral damage, collateral murder” Assange’s version.

5) He was pronounced to be homeless paranoid by US authorities.

6) In 2011he faced allegations of rape in Sweden He had been on the run for 4 years.

7) Some say he aimed at getting gobal attention.

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