Click on the headline to link to an Associated Press article on the arrest of master whistleblower and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.
Markin comment:
This one is tricky for leftists in separating out the parts. We appreciate, deeply appreciate, the work of Wikileaks in exposing the insanity of the Afghanistan War and also for providing us amusing, if embarrassing, moments in the lives of the international diplomatic corps and of their duplicities. We have always called for open diplomacy, at least since the early days of the Russian revolution in 1917 when the Bolsheviks, on taking state power, blew open the democratic pretensions of the Entente by publishing the “understandings” between the various partners, including Russia, to divide up the spoils of war if victorious against the Central powers. We also have hailed Daniel Ellsberg’s expose of the criminality of the Vietnam War in his Pentagon Papers. And the other, too few, whistleblowers, known and unknown, who help keep civilization from being totally overwhelmed by the power-mad imperialists. As for Julian Assange’s personal dilemma on the charges of sexual misconduct that is a separate question, although from the look of it right now something is very fishy. In any case work the work of Wikileaks needs to go on unimpeded. Naturally the events of the past few weeks by various governments have us all looking over our shoulders in order to make us afraid to speak out against the plentiful inequities of the world, and that is how the imperialists want it. The hell with that. Hands Off Wikileaks!
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