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Australian of the Year: Julian Assange : Comments
By Jonathan J. Ariel, published 4/1/2011His significance was realised late in the year, but this shouldn't stop Assange being The Australian of the Year.
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But by far, the most disquietening aspect of the whole Wikileaks drama, disregarding Assange's profit motives, would be the failure of the media to pursue these questions of loyalty, particularly in the United States, the subject of most of the leaks, where the subservience to a foreign country, Israel, through graft and corruption has made its value as a dominant power for good deeds almost worthless in the eyes of the world. Its pursuit of specific interests in Afghanistan and previously in Iraq and currently Iran, all at the behest and directives of the Zionists, had reduced their credibility to zero. Their acceptance of massive drug corruption again, particularly in Afghanistan, shows that to the USA, the end justifies the means, even if the end is wrong, illegal and criminal. Let us not even mention, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and the daily acceptance of rendition as a way of life.
Anyone who considers the likes of Murdoch with his stable of jaundiced publications and media groups such as the despicable Fox News as a contributor to a free and informed society. is naive.
President Kennedy told the Newspaper Publishers Association that "it is to the printing press, the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: Free and Independent."
Who can imagine Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, or Barack Obama saying such a thing today.