Assange: Internet Anarchy?

Bakunin.

Emma Goldberg.

The Unabomber.

And most famously, the Joker.

Anarchists all.
So, Julian Assange?

In his own words, Assange seeks to diminish the Empire's ability to conspire, limit its ability to communicate to its attaches. Disrupting internal communications. Keeping the world abreast of how the Empire speaks of it, and the influence such interests have upon other nation-states.

Transparency, and self-examination.

I can only guess that the belief that information leads to informed decisions pulses at the base of his actions. But I can't be sure.

WikiLeaks had its most recent "success"- tearing the lid off of moldering American coorespondances with other nations....As if Uncle Sam kept a journal lying around, and you picked it up, took a long dump, and read what he's been up to.

The sheer quantity is amazing. As is the guy, the mole/private charged with delivering such goods (what were his motives?)

But states jostling each other in forthright, or manipulative means isn't really a revelation.

Perhaps the revelation comes to those who were not sure what the high paid staff do for the governments they serve. Or that there are conflicting opinions and stories behind the seeming wall of unanimity that comes from public declarations?

I guess what surpises me most is that there is surprise that the minions of the Empire are involved in politics- which is by (my) definition, the use of power to benefit one's self-interests. Or surprise at those goverments who allow US activity in their nations while simultaneously blasting them for the sake of public opinion. (Qatar's president might have to dig himself out form his own grave.)

But who considered Qatar's government to be public servants concerrned with public opinion to begin with?And when was the last time, you personally believed in a public figure's integrity? Serioulsy?

We all assume that the "backroom deals," the "special interests" and the "getting down to brass tacs" means saying one thing and doing another, just as "keeping strange bedfellows" and "keeping your enemy close at hand" are part of the game as well.

These "revelations" are a small drop in the conspirator's bucket...in fact, these Obama era shananigans are jack when discussed with the "W" era.In fact, most recently proclaimed conspiracy theorists cut their teeth during the Bush era.

Remember prior to 9/11, when there was no real threat to American power after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China's emergence as a trade partner?

It was a golden moment for change, when the global order could have shifted to soft power, a more equitable re-shuffling of natual resources during "globalization," facilitating the levelling of the playing field of the haves and have nots....

And then Florida determined the American election,  W was delivered a win by court rulings on hanging chads, a staff of war hawks was assembled, and the domestic preparations for the use of unnecceasry force were upon us.

How was American population psychologically prepared for a Pearl Harbour-like event,  prior to 911?

A year earlier, by a movie called, wonder of wonders, Pearl Harbour, awarded the highest of ratings from all the critics you'd never heard of , and those paid by FOX and Entertainment Tonight! (My question--- who produced that historically inaccurate, jingoistic whitewashed version of history anyway? How did that movie, to any of you who remember, generate such amazing press prior to its release, sending the American public to see the kind of movie that generally flops, big time, in theatres?)

And prior to that, how could anyone interested in the Empire, not be disturbed by the much more disturbing COINTELPRO- domestic surveillance of disident identity politic groups within the US, throughout the last half of the 20th Century?

So back to the point-

There's much discussion about Assange. There are even pending rape cases being used to tie his hands for more public disclosures of goverment activities.

But, in the end, it seems like all of this information, alas, will only make an impact to those who listen, those who care, and those who make meaning of it.

In the meantime, no matter the levels of shrinkage of the system, or the diminshing ability for the Empire to conspire, it will be up to the collective conciousness of the world (the literate world, who can read these missives) to somehow form a sustainable collaborative that can change business as usual, if the impact is going to be more than a hard punch to the champion's gut, and then the Empire is off the ropes, and mowing down its opponents once again.