Wikileaks Is Not the Problem: It Is the Solution

Wikileaks is the new boogie man for the media and neoliberals.

The latter two engage in selective amnesia and cognitive dissonance with respect to the first.

No matter that the Hillary Clinton campaign also attempted to collude with Wikileaks, Julian Assange and the Kremlin to get dirt on their opponent, then-Republican candidate Donald Trump (and, of course, visa versa).

Collusion was rampant. But for the corporate media, that was conveniently ignored, unless it served a sensationalist, establishment narrative.

To suggest it is an “agent of the Kremlin” is, at least in my view, to reject everything that organization has done prior to 2008. In large part, they were some of the George W. Bush Administration’s most ardent critics.

But selective amnesia is kind of the modus operandi of corporate media interested solely in profits. Look at the people fired, rejected or “released” by mainstream media outlets:

Jesse Ventura

Chris Hedges

Ed Schultz

Larry King

And Others.

Now, you’ll rightly point out, all of the people I have mentioned have changed employers. In this case, from their previous mainstream media employer to the admittedly-Kremlin-owned Russia Today News Channel. That appears to be the only network that will presumably let them speak their mind. Hence what all of these renegade news people were fired for in the first place.

A tough sell it is indeed for me to suggest that people who were let go from the mainstream media. This for speaking their mind, would suddenly take up employment – presumably for far less money – just to sell out. Jesse Ventura was paid millions to sit at home by MSNBC. This after, like many on this list, standing up against the disgusting Iraq War 2.0 and other US government transgressions.

Would RT also speak out against the Kremlin? Some, like comedian and commentator Lee Camp, already have.

But let me be crystal clear: Wikileaks is NOT the problem.

Every empire needs an enemy. Conveniently one that doesn’t cooperate with US government, global corporate, financial sector and CIA foreign policy.

During the Dubya Administration, Wikileaks was their mortal enemy, releasing documents which proved that plans to invade Iraq began before 9/11, as well as their plan to “suspend the Constitution,” among other nefarious activities.

Did Russia attempt to rig the 2016 US Presidential Elections? Gerrymandering and the attacks on Affirmative Action laws have done a decent enough job of that in the first place.

How many black people or Latinos were denied the right to vote last November because their names were unlawfully placed on a blacklist? This was well documented by The Guardian. Well, can’t do anything about that now. Remember the 2000 Election?

Russia doesn’t need to rig an election that is already rigged.

In any case, America itself has been guilty on countless occasions with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency of stealing elections overseas for the benefit of global corporations. Banana Republics, anyone? Moving on…. Seriously?

The Trump Administration has been guilty of its own moral and ethical transgressions over the course of the past year. Well-documented has this been. Including attempting and succeeding in one-upping Bush 2.0 on the undermining of voting rights of minorities.

But that puts the blame squarely upon the two leading combatants in the 2016 Presidential Election and their campaigns.

Not with an organization releasing documented evidence of their illegal and immoral behaviour.

Corruption has gone on with empires since the beginning of time.

But thanks to Wikileaks and the internet, we have the possibility of a more informed public who have the ability to sift through the BS and come to educated conclusions about what is going on in the world around them.