Ghosting: Julian Assange (2014)

> He said that Tim Geithner, the US secretary of the Treasury, had been asked to look into ways to hinder companies that would profit from subversive organisations.

Media freedom is being eroded small steps at the time by those in power. Big changes never happen overnight in order to keep the uninformed public under the illusion that things are all good. A lot will have to get worse before the public wakes up. It'll be too late then.

This piece is a disturbing study of some of Assange's mental pathologies. As a sympathetic party and partially informed observer, I greatly enjoyed reading O'Hagan's writing about Assange's outlook and concerns. I laughed; I cringed; I would read it again.