Cablegate. Julian Assange: Man of the Year (he has signaled that our democracies are not democracies at all, but instead power structures disguised as such.) - Death&Taxes mag. Dec 7, 2010 Julian Assange is the Man of the Year.
Without a doubt, Julian Assange has been one of the most exciting, reviled and infamous characters to surface in 2010. As the founder of WikiLeaks, he has signaled that our democracies are not democracies at all, but instead power structures disguised as such. WikiLeaks and Assange exploded into the public consciousness in late July when the site leaked 90,000 pages of classified information about the war in Afghanistan. WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange. The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic.
The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place.