PCR risks everything for the truth, e.g. re Assange

One of the things that keeps life worth living is the top-ranking government officials who have switched sides in the great war of bureaucrats against citizens. You know of Pat Buchanan, who was senior advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. You may be privileged to know of the great Texe Marrs, former Air Force officer who now exposes the "unmentionable" issues affecting us most. Then there's Paul Craig Roberts -- well, just check his resume here please!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts

By an odd coincidence, all three truth-heroes are Southerners, the latter two especially listenable in various great Youtube appearances etc. On Thursday Roberts' column took on the exciting latest chapter of the Julian Assange saga:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/08/16/ecuador-president-rafael-we-are-not-a-colony-correa-stands-up-to-the-jackbooted-british-gestapo/
Ecuador President Rafael “We Are Not A Colony” Correa Stands Up To The Jackbooted British Gestapo

The piece answers many questions hanging in midair about Assange and ringingly condemns Downing Street as an increasingly lawless partner in Washington's global crime spree. It is especially good to see somebody highlighting Ecuador's moral courage in the Assange affair. As a student of different countries and their merits or lack of any) I've seen that country's name in print many times, always positively.

Truth seekers everywhere must rejoice that an otherwise obscure Latin American country is making headlines this way; how to explain it is a delicious challenge in an age when as far as the eye can see, every country seems to either fall to the Anglo-American power mafia's wrecking ball (Afghanistn, Iraq, Libya ad infinitum) or throw its own  citizens over to please UK/US (tax havens accepting mandates toward total transparency and treason).

Latin America seemed a hellhole of tyranny and chaos for most of my life, but now seems to be putting the "first world" to shame in most ways that count, insofar as those countries have room for any choice in the matter. Where trouble still exists, it's often because of the USA's insane drug policies or because others are aping other USA foibles and follies.

In expat terms, one of the few negatives normally cited about Ecuador is its relatively high (bad) rating for political corruption. In this one case, though, it trumps them all.

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