The treatment of Julian Assange is an all-out assault on press freedom. That should concern the press and you’d think it would fly to Assange’s defense. That hasn’t happened, and in fact it’s gone the other way. The press is endorsing the persecution of one of its own. From Finian Cunningham at strategic-culture.org:
Distinguished independent journalists Dave Lindorff and Ron Ridenour gave their takes in this interview with Finian Cunningham.
The Australian government is finally responding to growing public protests to get Julian Assange freed from his British torture dungeon.
Distinguished independent journalists Dave Lindorff and Ron Ridenour gave their takes in this interview with Finian Cunningham.
As the world marks World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the most appropriate result would be the immediate release of Julian Assange. It is a travesty to ‘celebrate’ this day while he is incarcerated.
Australian-born Assange has been arbitrarily detained in Britain for 11 years over a baseless sex case that has been thrown out years ago. But the British government acting as a henchman for the United States has held Assange in solitary confinement for over four years awaiting extradition to the United States. In the U.S., he faces charges of spying and computer hacking that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison.
Julian Assange is being persecuted because he exposed the U.S. and British war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and countless other forms of corruption by Washington and its lackey Western allies. Assange is being buried under concrete walls because he expo
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