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Julian Assange: A Fight We Must Not Lose
Hedges, Chris
http://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/09/chris-hedges-julian-assange-a-fight-we-must-not-lose/Date Written: 2023-05-09 Publisher: Consortium News Year Published: 2023 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24883 The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. Abstract: - Excerpt: The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British, Swedish and U.S. governments are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite, will be masked from the public. They presage a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary confinement. They presage an Orwellian dystopia where news is replaced with propaganda, trivia and entertainment. The legal lynching of Julian, I fear, marks the official beginning of the corporate totalitarianism that will define our lives. Subject Headings |