Old man of the Left, John Pilger, is always of good value. In the extract below, he makes the compelling case that all Julian Assange did was expose the corruption of the US system. It was something proper journalism should have done. But, even Trump, who benefitted from Wikileaks material in his 2016 election bid, did nothing to save Assange. Australia was quite prepared to let the international sharks eat him. It is shocking stuff, which shows how rotten the system is, but I think we all knew that anyway.