tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post7524792858893494073..comments2024-01-04T19:27:02.335-08:00Comments on Zenpolitics: Defending Assange - real and feignedJohn Hilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-38487568877613196152010-12-18T05:02:31.292-08:002010-12-18T05:02:31.292-08:00very good post, john! however, i would go a bit fu...very good post, john! however, i would go a bit further and actually question the sense of dumping all of this information on a mainstream media, which can carefully select, present and, indeed, even interprete the information at will.<br /><br />of course, if we agree with that, your criticsm of most journalists and their inability, or unwillingness, "to see the releases as a moral effort to expose acts of state barbarism and the machiavellian manoevrings behind policies directed towards the mass taking of live", because most relevant.<br />... and apropos "pilger"; it is his stance, which has gone some way to convince me that julian assange is not some sort of osama bin laden alter ego .... a creation of the forces of darkness. <br />nevertheless, when i was writing on wikileaks last week only some 1,100 documents from a total of some 250,000 had been released. possibly this week the figure is closer to 2,000, which, of course, means that wikileaks is going to be almost as ongoing as the perennial "war on terror". <br />no bad thing, perhaps, but like you, i am far from happy at how this information is being dissemenated by its "guardians". indeed, we are almost back to, "according to officially israeli sources ........" keep up the good work!seamus macnielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02087785547751507958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-74444555349913480672010-12-09T03:14:37.778-08:002010-12-09T03:14:37.778-08:00Hope Obama can handle WL Change?
We NEED transpar...Hope Obama can handle WL Change?<br /><br />We NEED transparency for our global society that we created an cannot control.To many crises.<br />We'd never gone to Iraq if we read the cables first?<br /><br />Redesign democracy now. It's E-government, not E-commerce tat changes our world (stupid!).<br />How can a few wise leaders alone solve complex global issues pending ?<br />Come on free press, write about the roadmap to E-power-democracy-morevote!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com