Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, the Biden administration has announced its intention to continue those efforts.
Another excellent and informative piece from Ms Johnstone. This situation presents the Left in the USA and UK with a dilemma: how do they reconcile their adoration of Joe Biden with this? I suspect that we'll see a lot less activism on Mr Assange's behalf than we did when it was so easy to blame the persecution on Trump. I hope I'm wrong and that Mr Assange is freed soon.
This piece is tripe - not that I have come to expect anything less from Ms. Johnstone. Stealing government secret correspondence, spraying it all over the floor and telling people to knock themselves out to find government secrets is not journalism. In many ways, it is the opposite of journalism. Philip Graham said journalism is the first draft of history. This is the first shitstain of history. Contextless, insightless, and distracting those like Ms. Johnstone from seeing what the hell is actually going on. Julian Assange is not worth this kind of - well, I was going to say “attention” but it’s actually hero worship not unlike what the right is doing with our orange former president.
"Nothing about this has changed." Beg to differ, Caitlin. Everything has changed. No speech that contradicts official narratives will be tolerated. They'll attack the highest profile first, like Assange. After they punish Assange, they'll work their way down the list until they get commenters like me.
When Trump was president, there was a certain balance of power between him and the US intelligence agencies. Now it’s full alignment of thinking and interest in all corridors of the government. We’re going to war and my bet is with Russia or Iran.
Another excellent and informative piece from Ms Johnstone. This situation presents the Left in the USA and UK with a dilemma: how do they reconcile their adoration of Joe Biden with this? I suspect that we'll see a lot less activism on Mr Assange's behalf than we did when it was so easy to blame the persecution on Trump. I hope I'm wrong and that Mr Assange is freed soon.
Fascist Empire.
This piece is tripe - not that I have come to expect anything less from Ms. Johnstone. Stealing government secret correspondence, spraying it all over the floor and telling people to knock themselves out to find government secrets is not journalism. In many ways, it is the opposite of journalism. Philip Graham said journalism is the first draft of history. This is the first shitstain of history. Contextless, insightless, and distracting those like Ms. Johnstone from seeing what the hell is actually going on. Julian Assange is not worth this kind of - well, I was going to say “attention” but it’s actually hero worship not unlike what the right is doing with our orange former president.
"Nothing about this has changed." Beg to differ, Caitlin. Everything has changed. No speech that contradicts official narratives will be tolerated. They'll attack the highest profile first, like Assange. After they punish Assange, they'll work their way down the list until they get commenters like me.
When Trump was president, there was a certain balance of power between him and the US intelligence agencies. Now it’s full alignment of thinking and interest in all corridors of the government. We’re going to war and my bet is with Russia or Iran.