Chris Hedges: The War on Assange is a War on Press Freedom
The silence of the press, whose own fate is inextricably intertwined, regarding the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is deafening.
The silence of the press, whose own fate is inextricably intertwined, regarding the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is deafening.
Published almost 2 years ago, in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s shattering defeat by the least popular, dangerously unqualified presidential candidate in U.S. history — a loss that Hillary and the DNC refused to own, immediately diverting all the blame to Russia and James Comey while relentlessly cultivating the narrative of Trump/Putin collusion and “Russian meddling” to suppress and discredit the damning revelations within the WikiLeaks emails of the DNC rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders — Craig Murray gives his firsthand account debunking anonymous CIA claims pushing the Russiagate collusion narrative.
After 19 months of a “frustrating as hell’ probe, the Senate Intelligence Committee has found “no factual evidence” of the Trump campaign colluding with Moscow, the chairman, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), says.
WikiLeaks has just been served …with a tweet.
A limited immunity deal, which might have temporarily freed the WikiLeaks founder from exile in a London embassy, fell apart with distrust on both sides.
According to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who visited Julian Assange at the London Ecuadorian embassy in August 2017, the WikiLeaks founder possesses physical evidence proving Russia did not hack the DNC. Assange has consistently held that the emails were leaked by an insider for the past 2 years.
On Monday, November 1, 2016, a roughly 4-minute long video began to circulate around social media and on YouTube, in which stunning revelations were revealed in regard to the recent dramatic unfolding of events only a week prior to Election Day, upon which Americans are scheduled to cast their ballots in what is possibly the most heated and controversial presidential election the country has ever known.
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