Democracy rests on citizens getting real facts and applying rational analysis. The ability of governments, including the U.S. government, to suppress facts and thus manage perceptions represents the opposite, a power over the people that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange threatened, says Norman Solomon.Why Assange, Snowden, Manning and other investigative journalists and government whistleblowers like them are patriotic heroes rather than the traitors and criminals the US government makes them out to be. It was people like this that dared to confront the King of England and his army in declaring independence
Assange and Democracy’s FutureNorman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy
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