Wikileaks

This is more profound than politicians and diplomats realise. It is also a very good thing. The information revolution requires that those in authority keep those who put them there truthfully informed about what is really going on. The age of suppressed democracy, when people were influenced by a perception of events which would have altered had they known the truth, has gone for good. This will make democracy stronger, although it may well require a different style of politician and a different style of government. Clearly countries governed by less open systems are less affected, but even they will find secrets laid bare, if their governance requires modern technology. If it does not they will be left behind anyway.

The wild declaration by standard bearers of the American Right that Wikileaks is a terrorist organization is abject drivel. What Wikileaks does is to make it much more difficult to be duplicitous in governance and in international affairs. That cannot be bad.