Friday, July 05, 2024

If Assange Is to Be Fêted, Why No Wikileaks Revelations About Secrets in Russia, China, Iran, or Sweden?


Regarding the celebration surrounding the release of Julian Assange, the cartoonist Michael Ramirez has a different take on the Wikileaks founder's record… 

I have always asked that if Assange (né Julian Paul Hawkins) deserves to be celebrated, even lionized as a hero for the ages, for disclosing secrets, why does he do so only with regards to the military of the United States? Why no "WikilLeaks" about the militaries of countries such as, I dunno, China, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, France, the UK, Australia, Iran, Israel, or Denmark? Doesn't the public in each of those countries — as well as, for that matter, the public in America and, indeed, in the rest of the world — deserve to know about those governments' secrets as well?

Naturally, the same questions apply to Edward Snowden — so uninterested in revealing the Kremlin's secrets that he has obtained refuge in Moscow from Vladimir Putin — and Bradley (aka Chelsea) Manning…

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