What's happening with Julian Assange is heart-breaking. He's a hero, just like Edward Snowden. Government secrets are kept, not to protect 'national security' as commonly claimed, but rather to protect political and corporate interests. After all, the United States is evidently run by a small group of corporations. These corporations have a huge influence when it comes to dictating government policy, and they do not like those who disclose their secrets. For years, Wikileaks has been leaking documents that've exposed major corruption within multiple governments, including the United States and basically the entire western military alliance.

They've exposed that our world operates very differently than how it's been presented, and they've never had to retract a single story. They exposed the invisible government, or "the real menace of Republic," a term coined by John F. Hylan, former Mayor of New York City. Hylan has said that the "invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation." He exposes the ones "who virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes."  (source)

Transparency is what Julian Assange is all about, and the American empire and even the global empire have been desperately trying to keep their secrets and prosecute anyone or anything that threatens their secrecy. That's what this is all about. And they proved that with Chelsea Manning.

It's not just people like Assange who are being demonized and hunted, it's alternative media as well. The war on 'fake news' that's been happening for the last little while has resulted in alternative media outlets being labeled as 'fake', even if they're presenting credible information and sources. Any media outlet who even questions a controversial issue has been labeled as 'wrong' or 'fake.'

What is happening to Assange is extremely unjust, and should serve as a massive 'wake up' call for anyone who isn't already 'awake.' Truth and free press threaten the ability of the global elite to continue their cycle of creating problems and then proposing solutions in order to achieve their desired outcome. Some of the biggest leaks WikiLeaks has made were when they revealed the connections between terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda and ISIS to the western military alliance, and more specifically to the US government. Current presidential candidate and Congresswoman at the time, Tulsi Gabbard, even introduced a bill to stop this from happening.

We saw arms deals and the funding/support of terrorist organizations that the US claimed to be fighting against. This is a great example of how the global elite funds and creates a problem in order to justify a desired outcome (in this case it was heightened national security measures back home to protect people from 'the war on terror' and justify their infiltration of another country for ulterior motives).

I could go deeper into this, but the bottom line is that the arrest of Julian Assange comes at the hands of the criminals around the globe he was exposing, and it's ironic that they are using their power and influence over mainstream media to portray Assange as the one who needs to be put behind bars.