US criticism of Wikileaks is scandalous

The US's criticism of the Wikileaks revelations highlights the country's desire to restrict freedom of information, the left-liberal daily Dnevnik concludes: "There is nothing scandalous in the reports. After all we all know more or less how things work, and have done for some time now. The scandal lies elsewhere. When it became clear that the archives had been opened the US State Department began to threaten that the publishing of the cables would destroy the world order. Barack Obama painted an apocalyptic scenario in which people would die as a result of the online publications, alliances would be shattered and a global chaos would be the result. ... It's a scandal that liberal capitalism has to be protected by a ban on freedom of information and global censorship."

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