Julian Assange was released from the Empire’s judicial farce in British courts, because day after day, week after week, year after year, hundreds of thousands of people around the globe mobilized to decry the imprisonment of the most important journalist of our generation. Without this mobilization, Julian would not be free.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/you-saved-julian-assange?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios
Given Assange is the last living journalist, it was hoped we could put him on public display like the last dodo or Tasmanian tiger so people could point and say “Oh, so that’s what journalists looked like?” and “Wow, I didn’t think they were so human-like!” However, it was feared Assange could scare people by yelling the truth that they’re brainwashed fucking idiots who need to stop automatically believing everything they’re told!
14 years for disclosing: The trove of more than 700,000 documents included diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts such as a 2007 video of a U.S. Apache helicopter firing at suspected insurgents in Iraq, killing a dozen people including two Reuters news staff. That video was released in 2010.
celebrate Julian #Assange and his groundbreaking work to reveal the truth about the powers of the world in their pursuit of maintaining and expanding their brutal hegemony.
The British High Court of Justice specifically denied The Dissenter Newsletter access to the May 20 hearing in WikiLeaks founder #JulianAssange’s extradition case.
a harbinger of a decrepit justice system that, subservient to state and corporate power, is designed to strip us of our rights by judicial fiat.
Julian did not commit a crime. He is not a spy. He did not purloin classified documents. He did what we all do, although he did it in a far more important way. He published voluminous material, leaked to him by Chelsea Manning, which exposed U.S. war crimes, lies, corruption, torture and assassinations. He ripped back the veil to expose the murderous machinery of the U.S. empire.
#PublishingIsntACrime #FreeJulianAssangeNOW #StopTargetedKillingAndDisapearingPoetsAndJournalistAndTheirFamilies
War crimes are kids crying in the freezing rain because they can’t find any family. War crimes are snipers picking off patients through hospital windows. War crimes are moms starving to death very slowly under a grave of rubble because no one can rescue them. War crimes are little girls with blown-out eyes from being run over by a tank while she slept in her bed.
And who showed us all this? Journalists. Journalists documenting war crimes.
If the US succeeds in extraditing Assange today, they will set a precedent that any journalist anywhere in the world can be snatched up and taken to the US and locked away for the rest of their lives just for embarrassing the US with evidence of their war crimes.
#StopTargetedKillingAndDisapearingPoetsAndJournalistAndTheirFamilies #FreeJulianAssangeNOW #PublishingIsntACrime
Chirs Hedges for The Chris Hedges Report on Substack- He made public the killing of nearly 700 civilians who had approached too closely to U.S. convoys and checkpoints, including pregnant women, the blind and deaf, and at least 30 children.
He made public the more than 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians and the torture and abuse of some 800 men and boys, aged between 14 to 89, at Guantánamo Bay detention camp.
He exposed that Obama, Hillary Clinton and the CIA backed the June 2009 military coup in Honduras that overthrew the democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya, replacing him with a murderous and corrupt military regime.
He revealed that the United States secretly launched missile, bomb and drone attacks on Yemen, killing scores of civilians.
No other contemporary journalist has come close to matching his revelations.
Julian is the first. We are next.
#NarativeManagement: Meanwhile Musk allows the platform to be used by Israeli officials who routinely express explicitly #genocidal ideations on the platform, and then actually do the thing they’re calling for.
That’s right kids: actual genocide is not genocide — the real genocide is saying words that make Amy Schumer feel uncomfortable.
#CRTisHistory: “Teaching creationism or any of its offshoots, such as intelligent design, in Texas’ public schools is unlawful, because creationism is not based in fact,” Chris Line, an attorney with the Freedom from Religion Foundation, said Friday. “Courts have routinely found that such teachings are religious, despite many new and imaginative labels given to the alternatives.”
#PublishingIsntACrime
https://alaska-native-news.com/texas-officials-reject-textbooks-over-climate-science/70924
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists/
#Criminalizingdissent: Israel is illegally operating a secret nationwide campus spying operation within the United States, acting as covert foreign agents. Among the many victims was Hatem Bazian, a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley.
#PublishingIsntACrime: The United States called it a #genocide and crimes against humanity.
The parallels between Myanmar in 2017 and what is now happening in Gaza are striking, but the divergent international response has been baffling.
The well-oiled military propaganda machine, obstructed voices of reason. To even use the word Rohingya – let alone discussing the links between decades-long oppression and contemporary violence – drew ire and protests.
#ReformTheMedia #CrimesAgainstHumanity #RuleOfLaw
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2023/11/13/Myanmar-Gaza-humanitarian-resistance
#FabulousFailure #Clinton: What antiterrorist purpose is served by destroying the building and then removing the records of the Ministry of Education, the Ramallah Municipality, the Central Bureau of Statistics, various institutes specializing in civil rights, health, and economic development, hospitals, and radio and television stations? Isn’t it clear that Sharon is bent not only on “breaking” the Palestinians but on trying to #eliminate them as a people with national institutions? In such a context of disparity and asymmetrical power, it seems deranged to keep asking the Palestinians, who have neither army, nor air force, nor tanks, nor defenses of any kind, nor functioning leadership, to “renounce” violence and to require no comparable limitation on Israel’s actions - Edward Said, FROM OSLO TO IRAQ AND THE ROAD MAP, first Vintage Books edition, 2005. Chapter 28 (2002).
https://africasacountry.com/2023/11/arming-oppression
#PublishingIsntACrime: This is not Paramount’s first rodeo in stifling negative press. Earlier this year, the company filed a formal suit against the Mail and Guardian, following the publication of an article, “The arms dealer behind the African mission to Ukraine,” which described Ichikowitz and Paramount Group’s involvement in dubious weaponry deals with Russian, Ugandan, Congolese, and other actors.
#PublishingIsntACrime: Israel, in its present war on Gaza, with children making up more than 40% of the more than 11,000 people killed to date, would surely like to mimic the extraordinary U.S. ability to hide its brutality. But despite Israel’s efforts to impose a media blackout, the massacre is taking place in a small, enclosed, densely-populated urban area, often called an open-air prison, where the world can see a great deal more than usual of how it impacts real people.
Israel has killed a record number of journalists in Gaza, and this appears to be a deliberate strategy, as when U.S. forces targeted journalists in Iraq.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/16/israeli-war-crimes-and-propaganda-follow-us-blueprint/
Journalist Mohammad Abu Hattab was killed in an Israeli strike on his home in the #southern Gaza Strip on Thursday along with 11 members of his family, including his wife, son and brother. Abu Hattab was a reporter for Palestine TV. His last on-air report was about deadly Israeli airstrikes in and around his neighborhood in #khanyounis.
#PublishingIsntACrime #stiflefreespeech #CriminalizingDissent #CopCity #StandingRock
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/24/julian-assange-letter-congress/
#PublishingIsntACrime: charges against Assange are part of an alarming global trend of increasing attacks against the press, including in the U.S. “The bottom line is that journalism is not a crime”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/australian-mps-free-assange
#BusinessAsUsual when #lawmakers have to plead for the release of an award winning #journalist languishing in jail for exposing #carbonbomb #warcriminals #BushCheneyBlair’s #civiliankillings while they intone garbage about #911
#PublishingIsntACrime #FreeJulianAssangeNOW #PentagonIsTheLargestEmitter #WhiteFaceBlackFuel #KhashoggiMoment
In her interview with Amy, Ravi explains that her #arrest is just one example in a country that’s effectively #criminalizingDissent. Indian officials have raided #nonprofits that oppose the country’s #coalmines, blocked #environmental websites, and criminally charged #journalists covering the 2021 farmer #protests.
#TragedyOfEnclosure #WhoseHiStory #PriveledgeWitness #defundthepolice #PublishingIsntACrime #criminalinjustice
