‘A transparent and an objective journalist media’

In 2016 the citizens of the United States of America witnessed the rapid downfall of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the rise of Donald Trump as their new ‘Mr. President’, succeeding Democrat Barrack Obama. During that time a number of political scientists claimed that ‘the United States of America’s presidential elections were Russia-influenced’ and that the KGB was responsible for the leakage of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee’s emails; which were said to have been the cause for the decline of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

As the story goes, the Russian government rigged the elections to bring Donald Trump to power, essentially using him as a puppet for Russia. This was quite a logical explanation because at that time the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was in the process of investigating the Special Counsel investigation,1 plunging into the deep waters of the Russian intelligence. According to FBI, Russia possessed some negative intelligence regarding Donald Trump at its disposal. However, the truth of the matter is that the leakage of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee’s emails, for which KGB had been blamed, was in fact carried out by a journalist media which calls itself ‘transparent and objective’. This journalist media goes by the name of Wikileaks.

Wikileaks is the creation of the Australian Internet activist and hacker (some people might call him an online marauder), Julian Assange. Since its inception in 2006, Wikileaks has leaked numerous national confidential documents concerning that particular nation’s politics. When asked what goal Wikileaks was trying to reach, they said that it was “to bring important news and information to the public … One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth.” According to an inside source, Julian Assange “wants to promote open-source governance in the world”.

The activities of Julian Assange in the past twelve years have not been in harmony with the philosophy which Wikileaks was meant to project. The contradiction starkly stands out when the documents leaked by Wikileaks are studied. Though Julian Assange talks about ‘promoting open-source governance’, more than eighty percent of the national documents leaked by Wikileaks are against the United States of America (a country which is already quite open concerning its elections) and the other twenty percent of the leaks target the remaining countries. Following this, it is interesting that in countries like China and Russia (according to popular hearsay), elections are quietly rigged without public’s knowledge. Wikileaks, however, has almost never targeted these countries. Moreover, most of Julian Assange’s followers are people from such regions where the rigging of elections is rampant.

It is pretty clear that the 2016 United States presidential elections’ rigging which was mentioned in the first paragraph was planned beforehand and the Democratic National Committee’s emails were leaked with a political agenda; supposedly a plan from which Julian Assange would benefit: destroy Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. It is speculated that the sole factor supporting this notion was a press conference held by Hillary Clinton before the elections. Supposedly, in the conference she conceded that she wanted Julian Assange dead, and that if she became the President of the United States, she would have Julian Assange assassinated. The theory (a strong theory, in fact) is that Julian Assange simply wanted to save himself by bringing Hillary Clinton down. That brings us to the second point: is Wikileaks really ‘a transparent and an objective journalist media’ as it claims?

It is easier to leak information against the government in the United States than it is in Russia or China, but is that the only reason why eighty percent of the national confidential documents leaked by Wikileaks United States-affiliated? When Julian Assange was asked this question, he said that he ‘does not have the resources to translate Russian and Chinese documents into English’ and publish them. However, an inside source from Wikileaks reported that what it seemed like was that Julian Assange loathed the United States as he believed that the country dominated the world in all aspects. Apparently, he said that he wanted decentralisation of power and currently most of the power in the world rested in the hands of the United States. The American nation dominates the Internet (the basic language of the Internet is English and all the six online financial transaction giants are US-based), world politics (United States has meddled with 81 elections worldwide since 1950). What motivates Julian Assange to target the United States are all these factors, resulting in the United States’ domination of the world.

Thus, concluding from the preceding paragraphs, it would be safe to say that the claim of Wikileaks being ‘a transparent and an objective journalist media’ is not an absolute reality.