The Latest On The Prosecution & Attempted Extradition of Julian Assange
In Brief
- The Facts:Glenn Greenwald, Jennifer Robinson, who represents Assange legally, and Washington Post reporter Margaret Sullivan have a discussion about the persecution of Julian Assange.
- Reflect On:Why do people like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden face such a harsh backlash from Governments? If governments and elite corporations aren't doing anything wrong, what do they have to hide? Why are the censoring so much information?
The
amount of censorship of information on our planet at the moment is
staggering. To be honest, the
censorship along with the manipulation of
peoples perception with regards to global events really took off prior
to the cold war. Our world was full of propaganda then, and it’s full of
propaganda now. Only today, we have seen the emergence of an Orwellian
type “fact checker” that’s going around the internet and social media
deleting any evidence and information that seems to contradict
mainstream media narratives.
The deletion, censorship and ‘flagging’
of information is unprecedented, and when it comes to the coronavirus
specifically, social media giants are now hinting to the idea that they
will censor, flag or even ban information that does not come directly
from the World Health Organization (WHO) or government health
authorities. One of the latest examples comes from Vimeo, they deleted a
documentary called “trustWHO” which explores the influence that the
pharmaceutical industry, among others, has on the WHO. You can read more
about that here.
If you’re interested in Wikileaks documents exposing the same type of
corruption within the WHO, you can access those links within another
article I recently published, here.
When it comes to Julian Assange, most of
the world knows why they hunted him, and why he’s been treated the way
he’s been treated and tortured
in prison. The same goes for people like Edward Snowden, it’s because
they expose lies, corruption, deceit, immoral and unethical actions that
their own governments, as well as governments around the world have
participated in. He exposed these characteristics that seem to
represents the backbone of the Western military alliance and the
American empire. He exposed, in the words of John F. Hylan, former Mayor
of New York City, the “real menace of the Republic”, the “invisible
government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our
cities, states and nation.” He exposed the ones “who virtually run the
United States government for their own selfish purposes.” (source)(source)
Transparency is what Julian Assange is
all about, and the American empire, more so the global empire, has been
desperate to keep its secrets and prosecute anyone or anything that
threatens this transparency.In order for this empire to justify the
invasion and infiltration of other countries, it must attempt to justify
their actions, creating an “enemy” on the other side. Wikileaks exposed
the US government, and other government connections to terrorist
organizations, creating them, funding them and even arming them. That’s
just one of many examples.
Here’s an article
I wrote regarding award winning Australian Mark Davis who explains the
smear campaign mainstream media is using against Assange. Journalist
Greg Bean compares his work to the time that the printing press was
invented, putting ‘information’ in the hands of the people, right where
it should be.
Right now, mainstream media is giving no
attention to Assange, and when they do, they simply smear him in an
attempt to sway public opinion about him, and justify the immoral and
unethical actions they are taking against him, and journalism as whole.
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Do we really live on a planet right now
where those who expose truth, expose corporate corruption, and those who
want what’s best for the world and want to change the world, are locked
away, murdered, silenced, censored, and thrown in jail?
The good news is, when something like
this happens it only makes things more and more obvious. Julian Assange
and Wikileaks were never a threat to national security. That’s simply
the excuse to lock him up. Today, national security is used as an
umbrella term to classify information that exposes wrongdoings of the
global elite, or information that threaten their interests. The type of
information that Assange exposes, and media outlets are exposing in
several different fields, from politics to health, has huge implications
for the world, and huge implications and potential to shift human
consciousness because it assists in many people having a large
perception shift about the world we are living in, and what we choose to
accept.
Despite all of the Orwellian type of
measures and action against information and people like Julian Assange,
it’s simply a sign that we are making progress and indeed moving
forward. The world is waking up. At the end of the day, we are the ones
who accept the systems that surround humanity. Collectively we are
choosing it, and collectively we accept it, but collectively we are no
longer accepting it, and collectively we are changing it. And the more
censorship happens, and figures like Julian Assange are persecuted, the
more we wake up and collectively see that something else is going on
here.
In the fourth episode of The Intercept’s
weekly show, host Glenn Greenwald focuses on the case and prosecution
of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Glenn talks to human rights lawyer
Jennifer Robinson, who represents Assange, and Washington Post media
columnist Margaret Sullivan, who is an outspoken and consistent defender
of press freedom. It’s a great discussion for those who are interested.
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