'The public should have governments
too afraid of them to keep secrets from them; instead here we are
begging the most powerful government in the world to please not imprison
a journalist because he arguably did not break the rules that that
government made for itself.'
By Caitlin Johnstone: The Kafkaesque extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, with each frustrating day making it clearer than the day before that what we are watching is nothing other than a staged performance by the US and UK governments to explain why it’s okay for powerful governments to jail journalists who expose inconvenient truths about them.