If Wars Can Be Started By Lies,

It Is The Role Of Good Journalism To Take On Powerful Abusers, And When Powerful Abusers Are Taken On, There's Always A Bad Reaction. So We See That Controversy, And We Believe That Is A Good Thing To Engage In.

One Of The Hopeful Things That I've Discovered Is That Nearly Every War That Has Started In The Past 50 Years Has Been A Result Of Media Lies. The Media Could've Stopped It If They Had Searched Deep Enough; If They Hadn't Reprinted Government Propaganda They Could've Stopped It.

Wikileaks Is A Mechanism To Maximize The Flow Of Information To Maximize The Amount Of Action Leading To Just Reform.

The West Has Fiscalised Its Basic Power Relationships Through A Web Of Contracts, Loans, Shareholdings, Bank Holdings And So On. In Such An Environment It Is Easy For Speech To Be "free" Because A Change In Political Will Rarely Leads To Any Change In These Basic Instruments. Western Speech, As Something That Rarely Has Any Effect On Power, Is, Like Badgers And Birds, Free.

People Love Wikileaks When It Is Exposing Corruption In Their Opponents. People Oppose Wikileaks When It Is Exposing Corruption Or Dangerous Behavior In Themselves.