WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said WikiLeaks may have to shut down by next year since the financial blockade organized by the United States has turned off the spigot of donations.
Assange charged that with Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union refusing to provide conduits for donations the site’s revenues have fallen to five percent of their previous flow making it impossible to continue processing thousands of secret documents. -db
From The New York Times, October 24, 2011, by John F. Burns with with reporting by Ravi Somaiya.