As the first decade of this century comes to a close the media is busy choosing the best and worst events of the bygone decade. The worst happened first in the person of George W Bush as a US President inebriated with power, with his madness culminating, among other barbarities, in the totally avoidable Iraq war and hanging of Saddam Hussein.
As though to counterveil the American presidential orgies the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks was founded recently by Julian Assange; and in a short span of time it has made many world leaders, in particular in the US to run for cover.
Predictably Assange is being hounded by those who have much to lose; and of all we know he may even be eliminated. But what he has ingeniously, assiduously and courageously built up as fundamental and foundational to expose global bluff by the high and mighty will live on as his legacy. The world will not be the same again, though it may take years for Wikileaks to stabilise.
As the new year dawns there is hope for newfound optimism in the politics of power and governance across the world.