It is really hard to know who to look up to in these days of a collapsing civilization based on Greed.

Julian Assange, Ed Snowden, Scott Ritter, Michael Hudson, Richard Wolff.

Folks also need to pay attention to the NED (National Endowment for Democracy). It is a US funded NGO that in turn funds other NGOs all over the world. It does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly.

While the CIA payments may have ended in 1974, the NED payments are still on-going. A brief web search will find the NED hosts the Dalai Lama quite often.