Re: What America wants, America gets? Archived Message
Posted by margo on June 15, 2019, 7:41 am, in reply to "Re: What America wants, America gets?"
Addressing smears. Example of countering mis- and disinformation: Caitlin Johnstone has listed many examples in her article Debunking All The Assange Smears @jaraparilla spells out examples: eg "He skipped bail" No, he didn't. He sought asylum - which has now been totally validated by proof a long-sealed US indictment. A lengthy UN investigation confirmed it. "He endangered lives" Actually, he opposed aggressive warmongers committing atrocities around the world which endangered civilian lives "He's not a journalist" What part of 'holding power to account' is not part of a democratic Fourth Estate journalist's remit? In fact, he put journalists to shame by exposing more truths than they ever did and truly held power to account by bravely sticking his neck out and putting himself on the line. Re Manning: @jaraparilla "As Kevin Gosztola notes, the US case rests on "the contrived theory that Manning worked for Assange, as if she was an insider or spy that Wikileaks turned against the US government". But Manning's own statements prove this false. That's why she's in jail.* ------ - - - *Not only is she in jail until the court order runs out next year, she's under a novel new American punishment of financial ruin that runs parallel with detention (something the rest of the world might decide to copy): she's fined a punitive rate for every day she fails to deliver what the state wants to hear.
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- No full extradition hearing until next year - margo June 14, 2019, 11:35 am
- Re: No full extradition hearing until next year - dovetailjoint June 14, 2019, 11:55 am
- How many weeks left on his sentence, 49 1/2? - Keith-264 June 14, 2019, 12:36 pm
- Sky News Report - George Brennan June 14, 2019, 12:58 pm
- Re: No full extradition hearing until next year - margo June 14, 2019, 12:58 pm
- PEN International and English PEN speak out against US extradition (nm) - margo June 14, 2019, 2:16 pm
- Daily Mirror's "stay in jail for EIGHT MONTHS" ?! - Poster123 June 14, 2019, 3:21 pm
- Re: No full extradition hearing until next year - John Monro June 14, 2019, 10:03 pm
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