Assange confronting the costs of being a whistleblower

The whistleblowers are among our last remaining checks on the contemptuous ease with which those who control the information seek to manipulate the rest of us.

Julian Assange, whose court hearing on a U.S. extradition request began on Monday at Woolwich crown court in east London, is facing 175 years in jail if Britain delivers him into American hands.Photograph courtesy of Cancillería del Ecuador via Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 26, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The cost of being a whistleblower is going up. When Daniel Ellberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the U.S. government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war, he was arrested and tried, b...

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