A first-hand report on the making of “Collateral Murder” by The New Yorker’s reporter Raffi Khatchadourian, with a wide-ranging backgrounder on Assange and Wikileaks.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian#ixzz19n1GUouS
- “He had come to understand the defining human struggle not as left versus right, or faith versus reason, but as individual versus institution. As a student of Kafka, Koestler, and Solzhenitsyn, he believed that truth, creativity, love, and compassion are corrupted by institutional hierarchies, and by “patronage networks”—one of his favourite expressions—that contort the human spirit.”
