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Re: The call for Julian Assange || The WikiLeaks Manifesto - We all should read it
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nullius
on 03/07/2022, 22:00:06 UTC
⭐ Merited by Cnut237 (2) ,JayJuanGee (1)
I can do no better here than to quote the conclusions of indefatigable Glenn Greenwald:

The UK's Decision to Extradite Assange Shows Why The US/UK's Freedom Lectures Are a Farce
The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years. It is also a shining monument to the fraud of American and British self-depictions.
Jun 17 [2022]



[...read it all!...]

Free speech and press freedoms do not exist in reality in the U.S. or the UK. They are merely rhetorical instruments to propagandize their domestic population and justify and ennoble the various wars and other forms of subversion they constantly wage in other countries in the name of upholding values they themselves do not support. The Julian Assange persecution is a great personal tragedy, a political travesty and a grave danger to basic civic freedoms. But it is also a bright and enduring monument to the fraud and deceit that lies at the heart of these two governments' depictions of who and what they are.