Weekly article 3

I personally believe people should know what their government and all governments are doing the good and the bad. Julian Assange does not only try and make our government transparent but also governments around the world. If the former Soviets could have seen this while they were under Stalin the citizens good have found some way to assonate Stalin, millions lives could have been saved. I believe Russia and China will both know this information with or without wiki leaks. Just as I’m sure we have information on them. However I did not agree that the soldiers were acting like the war was a video game. To me it looked like they were trying to defend themselves. If people can see what is going on then they can know the true costs of war. I don’t believe a government will kill him because if they do this will give more fire to his cause. One thing I’m concerned about is that wiki leaks will become controlled by a nation and the country will use the great power as a weapon to turn a countries’ people against it. I think countries such as Japan would feel ashamed if they knew what happened in World War two with the Chinese. The mass killings by the Japanese to the Chinese should be learned more about in school. I feel this is one of the biggest world issues and one I have not learned much about, or discussed in school. It may be that we don’t focus enough on Eastern history in our textbooks. I would understand doing a little bit more Western than Easter because we live in a Western civilization. However we cannot only study one of 20 chapters on Easter civilizations. I understand teachers have limited time, but we only get to learn about social studies for three years. I mention this because we need to see more of what Eastern civilizations did right, such as China which I consider the greatest civilization in history. We should know the good the bad and the awful about them as well. I think we don’t focus on the East for two reasons one to make us seem better and two to not offend Eastern people. More transparency would give us a much more accurate look at history so we can see the good and bad about all nations around the world. For example may Malaysians actually invent a large portion of what the Chinese claim to have invented, China could get away with this by using its power. I don’t see any other way to make history true than to have a wiki leaks. This way the future will know who everyone really is. I can see why it is controversial I may have a new opinion it the future. I would like to look more into it. I can see how there are good points for both sides. After all though I’m sure someone else has witnessed the shootings we saw in class and would use this to recruit any way.