Interesting facts that the US main stream is down playing in the Wikileaks Scandal

Drug use, homosexuality, and treachery; these are just some of the interesting facts that the US main stream is down playing in its coverage of the State Department cables given to Wikileaks by a depressed, gay, and self medicating young soldier serving in Iraq.

According a recent Guardian news article;

But who is Bradley Manning, and what motivated him?

Some insight into what drives him can be gleaned from the online chat he had from Iraq with a former hacker in which he talked about how he felt that no one had ever noticed him in life.

"[I'm] regularly ignored except when I had something essential then it was back to 'bring me coffee, then sweep the floor'," he told a fellow hacker who asked what he would do if his cover was blown during an online chat shortly after he is alleged to have sent the files to WikiLeaks. "[I] felt like I was an abused work horse."

Manning even added an "emoticon" of a crying face :'(.

"I've been so isolated so long," he went on, adding he was "self-medicating like crazy". "I just wanted to be nice, and live a normal life … but events kept forcing me to figure out ways to survive … smart enough to know whats going on, but helpless to do anything … no one took any notice of me."

Haven’t heard about those titillating facts associated with the Wikileaks scandal? It is probably due to the fact that a story involving anti-depressant drugs and homosexuality would not be a story Obama and White House Press Secretary Gibbs would want published during a time when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is being debated. Afraid it will derail any chance of the Obama administration winning even the smallest of political victories, the drug use and homosexuality of young Army PFC Manning have been quietly suppressed. Remember the story of Gibbs standing up for the White House Press Corps during the recent Presidential trip to India? It looks like Mr. Gibbs has called in his marker. Just another tragic example of how close the press and the government are in America.

By following the same script that the news media followed during the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal in 2004, the media is again focusing on the actions of lower level individuals like Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. Not focusing attention on the actions of high-level policy makers in the American government and the institutions of the national security state like the Pentagon and the CIA, conveniently allow the American public to avoid any responsibility or accountability. Instead of focusing their wrath on the individual actions of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the press is allowing high-level policy leaders continue to pursue a war in Afghanistan that cannot be won, while in the process bankrupting the American country both financially and morally.

Ranging from Americans who love to drive huge gas guzzling SUVs running on imported oil from despotic regimes like Saudi Arabia, to the drug use by Ivy League college students that enables narco terrorism along the US Mexico border and the opium trade in Afghanistan, the press conveniently allows a wide range of American to avoid any responsibility. As anthropologist Laura Nader noted in her 1969 essay entitled, “Up the Anthropologist”, the study of social systems is often directed downwards, at those less powerful in a society rather than those in power. By focusing on the low-level actions of individual soldiers, the media hinders the American public from beginning to question the more substantive constitutional and moral implications of a country in perpetual state of war.

The recent story of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman publicly declaring that the New York Times be investigated for releasing the Wikileaks documents, should be getting even the most fervent NRA card holding Republican concerned at how deeply militarism and secrecy has infected the American republic. Instead of trying to score political brownie points with Connecticut defense like Sikorsky Aircraft, Pratt and Whitney and Electric Boat, who all have a vested interest in maintaining perpetual war and conflict around the world, perhaps Senator Lieberman should look into why a corrupt Afghan leader was allowed to embezzle $ 50 million dollars out of his worn torn country.

Although America is mired in a never ending recession (at least for people who are unemployed) trapped in a perpetual war siege like mentality, and going bankrupt, all people talk about is sports, their iPhones, and what they are buying each other for Christmas.

It is so ass backwards in America, that even with all the unemployment in the country, the TV is filled with shows about people working or watching rich people live their lives getting plastic surgery and other daily drama.

Maybe more Americans should put down the remote control and begin to read a few books about the true condition of their "great" country. American voters distracted long enough from their self obsessed lives and the corporate mass media news anchors, which did not ask serious questions during the last election, politicians were more than happy not to tell them the true condition of their country.