The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead.
You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response by ruling elites.
As this dreadful year draws near its close, the top U.S. diplomat has put us at far more risk of war than we were at its start.
Americans who stand for peace with Russia – and for peace with the world at large – have lost a towering intellectual leader and a defender of their cause, writes Gilbert Doctorow.
The first real test of whether the U.S. has learned the right lessons from the pandemic will be when the Budget Control Act expires next year, writes Mandy Smithberger.
Like Odysseus, upon whom he models his life, the author takes you to places you may wish to avoid but are essential for true sanity, writes Edward Curtin.
Niraj Lal says in this account of the origins of WikiLeaks that there is seldom any focus on the formidable concept of surveillance applied to structural power.
The “War on Terror” is just high-budget, mass-scale terrorism, and it creates more terrorism of the ordinary variety as well, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Human rights are only ever a concern for member states of the U.S. empire — such as the home country of the WikiLeaks founder — when they can be leveraged against nations outside the power alliance, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
He is being punished not for stealing fire – but for exposing power under the light of truth and provoking the god of Exceptionalism.