Julian Assange and the slow stupefaction of the state

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09 December 2010Wikileaks has taken on the USA with the intention of slowing its communications lifeblood "until it falls, stupefied", writes Jonathan Holmes in The Drum.

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WikiLeaks: It's the media story that just grows and grows. Quite apart from the leaked cables themselves, which have dominated the global headlines for days, there's the irresistibly cryptic Julian Assange, his murky sex life in Sweden, and the decision of the British beak to bang him in the slammer.

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