I'm surprised some communists, such as the Progressive Labor Party, are attacking Wikileaks when the establishment is trying to silence its release of damaging information about world imperialism, by forcing Wikileaks off the Internet, attacking its funding, attacking Julian Assange in the judicial system and media and threatening to assassinate him, and changing laws to reduce free speech in the USA. Wikileaks has the right enemies, and to attack Wikileaks is to assist the criminals in the US and allied governments. The government alleges Wikileaks has blood on its hands, but it is no allegation that the Bush and Obama administrations are covered with real blood from their actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Palestine, and elsewhere, and the actions of their proxies in Haiti, Georgia, Honduras, etc. If the US government attacks free speech over this incident, the problem is leaders like Obama and Senator Lieberman, not Wikileaks.
As an article on Global Research (
www.globalresearch.ca/index.phpcontext=va&aid=22389 ) shows, Wikileaks is a liberal organization originally focused on the same "oppressive regimes" targeted by the US, its allies, and the dominant media (with which Wikileaks is allied), though Wikileaks does not overlook leaks from the NATO countries. I doubt Julian Assange is actually a US operative, but Wikileaks could be used by the government to leak documents that aid imperialism, and the government and the
New York Times used the documents against Iran. But the documents still reveal information embarassing to the imperialists (see Fairness and Accuracy in Journalism's article at
www.fair.org/index.php?page=4215 ), and progressive people should critically use this information in the struggle to stop imperialism, whether it was leaked with good intentions or not.
Upcoming demonstrations around the world are listed at:
and
The only protest I have heard of in or near North Carolina is this:
Monday, December 20 · 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Corner of Friendly and Eugene St., Greensboro
Defend whistleblowers and truth tellers...prosecute war criminals! Hands off Julian Assange!
The highest officials in the Bush administration committed war crimes by leading the US into war on false pretenses, ordering torture, using chemical weapons against civilian populations, and indiscriminately targeting civilians. These crimes have continued under Obama.
Over the past several months, Wikileaks has revealed the true extent ...and the depth of these crimes, and the complicity of the Obama administration in covering them up, and maintaining policies under which these crimes continue. Wikileaks has published nothing but the truth about the actions of your government!
Join the rising global protest in calling for the US government to back off Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, and renew the call for prosecution of war criminals!
Sponsored by The World Can't Wait - NC Chapter and North Carolina Labor Against the War
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