Listen to a reading of this article: After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the US-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let's do it anyway; the barrel's right here, and I really hate these particular fish.
Russian MP suggests swapping WSJ reporter for Assange
The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich and the WikiLeaks publisher are both facing espionage charges.
If Moscow decides on a prisoner swap involving Evan Gershkovich, it should ask for Julian Assange’s release from a British dungeon, Russian State Duma Deputy Sergey Obuhkov said on Friday...Russian authorities detained Gershkovich in Ekaterinburg on March 30, saying they caught him “red-handed” in an act of espionage. A Lefortovo court has ordered the Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal to remain in custody for two months. He is appealing the decision and will face the judges again on April 18.
Did I misunderstand your comment? I just took another look and think it was hypercritical whereas I thought you were serious... if so.. I'm sorry and I agree.
According to the WSJ article about Gershkovich (https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-security-service-detains-wall-street-journal-reporter-cbfbd505), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented 363 journalists held worldwide. In that WSJ article, CPJ President Jodie Ginsburg says, “CPJ is deeply concerned by the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. This is the latest in a long line of attempts by Russia to use national security laws to silence reporting.”
I checked the CPJ website, which allows a search of where the “363 journalists” are held in the world. I searched for any journalists who might be held in the UK. The search returned “0 Journalists Imprisoned in UK.”
Ah, I think not. Wouldn't that be a very loud statement , Assange is guilty or at the very least give the u.s. gov. exactly what they want, the elections were stolen?
With all due respect my friend, this is tripe. Assange IS guilty—of exactly what they say he is—being an amazing, brave and honest journalist. Just as Snowden IS guilty of exposing the US security state. Anyone not guilty in an upside down age such as this is not doing their job as a citizen. Besides, I rather be guilty and free than innocent and dying in a medieval justice system such as the UK/US.
The problem with this, nothing would stop the u.s. from taking Assange, even during a war. A very public trial would work however that is not what u.s. unjustice system has planned. Secret court conviction. I had thought Trump would have pardoned Assange as a middle finger to the Democant's and Republicant's. Strange Trump did nothing for all the heroes.
Thank you once again for yet another example of US hypocrisy, alive and well every day of the week.
Even worse that that, if that is possible, is the lack of action by the Australian political puppets in the shape of Albanese, Wong and Marles, the Toothless Trio. One thing you can say by way of a credit to the US Neocons is that Daniel Ellsberg and Chelsea Manning are free to walk the street and not wasting away in an English prison, or an American prison either.
HYPOCRISY is the name of the game. One shouldn’t forget all the other players in this disgraceful affair….Swedish government lies, The Guardian and their 'double dealing’, Ecuadorian cooporation, The British criminal system and its show trial, the criminal CIA, Trump the terrible, all at the behest of the failing US empire, crumbling away day by day as the dollar is discarded for other trading currencies, (two more today), advocates for ongoing wars, living in the past. A has-been.
And as for the two Israeli stooges, the doddering Schumer and McConnell, the last of a dying breed of US politicians, many of whom were respected thirty years ago, but no more. Not even respected in their own country.
"Journalism is NOT a crime," but being an narcissistic, ego-inflated a**hole of paid-off politician-puppet trying to cover up the heinous war crimes the US committed/still commits IS a crime. We all know who should be in jail--and it isn't Julian Assange. I can't wait to see Mitchell, Schumer and the lot of them behind bars.
The likes of Chuck Schumer, House Majority Leader has not missed a single opportunity to diminish Palestine in his career nor missed every vote in the affirmative for support in every way possible for Israel. There is not an opportunity he has missed in his career. Schumer is also one of the most powerful elected officials in the world, as Caitlin has said today, however, "puffing and posing as brave defenders of press freedoms after having actively facilitated their government's attempts to destroy those very press freedoms”.
A statement from Schumer spells it out somewhat differently, on examination. "Neither WikiLeaks, NOR IT’S ORIGINAL SOURCE FOR THESE MATERIALS should be spared in any way from the fullest prosecution possible under the law," Schumer said this in 2010.
Original source? Chelsea Manning? Where are you, Chelsea. Are you free, enjoying life, walking the streets of your USA, the criminal hypocrisy capital of the world?
Are you free, Chelsea? Yes, she is (and she should be, too), as is that worthy, highly respected American from the Pentagon Papers disclosures, Daniel Ellsberg. Julian Assange? Where is he?
The question is clearly, is Schumer really an American citizen / politican? Let see a statement from someone who should have known, Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel…..”there are no English, French, German or American Jews only Jews living in England, France, Germany and America."
Based on this a so-called foreigner (perhaps dual passport holder as well) is US House Majority leader in 2023? Schumer the Schemer who contributed to Assange’s plight but not a murmur on similar actions against Americans?
What about another 1950’s-like Un-American Activities purge in 2023. Not communism this time but 'Eretz Israel' stooging.
Thank you for subjecting yourself to the noxious utterances and written statements of our US swamp creatures, so that I can kinda sorta keep up without needing constant anger management counseling. Also, thank you for not giving the WSJ ‘reporter’ the benefit of the doubt. On the basis of the information that has finally been declassified in recent years, it is hard to imagine that any mainstream so called ‘journalist’ is not also a CIA asset, if he is reporting from any country the DC Blob regards as an enemy. If the guy detained in Russia is not such an asset, he is, historically, a rare exception.
How else can the two sides of Wall Street corporate capital "parties" slide back and forth over the same concocted sham issues and not overheat from the friction forces inherent in fiction vs reality?
“…. You don't get to say "journalism is not a crime" while literally working to criminalize journalism. Those positions are mutually exclusive. Pick one….”
Except he doesn’t have to.
The media themselves give the US a free pass on hypocrisy on this subject and pretty much every subject, including supporting dictatorships, imprisonment and persecution of own citizens, barbarism like the death penalty, refusal to subject own soldiers to the jurisdiction of the ICC, nuclear weapons policy, policy on use of depleted uranium weapons - everything.
And so does the public in the colonial countries.
So perhaps we move on from pointing out hypocrisy, to dissecting what it is about these societies that makes them so malevolently hypocritical.
We obviously believe journalism is a crime If a Western journalist tells the truth about our crimes against innocent populations whose governments have never threatened us. Otherwise, it never is.
The neo-4H club of the USA. Hubris, Humbuggery, Hypocrisy and Horseshxt.
The pledge of the real 4H club is nobly -My head to clearer thinking, My ; heart to greater loyalty, My ; hands to larger service, My ; health to better living,
I am no apologist for Russian Intelligence agencies but these western aligned 'activist, bloggers and journalists' that are poking around in countries bordering Russia, have a habit of being involved with regime change NGOs. Remember Roman Pratasevich arrested in Belarus in 2021 with his dubious links to the Azov Nazis, a couple of months after the failed 'colour revolution' protests.
Russian MP suggests swapping WSJ reporter for Assange
The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich and the WikiLeaks publisher are both facing espionage charges.
If Moscow decides on a prisoner swap involving Evan Gershkovich, it should ask for Julian Assange’s release from a British dungeon, Russian State Duma Deputy Sergey Obuhkov said on Friday...Russian authorities detained Gershkovich in Ekaterinburg on March 30, saying they caught him “red-handed” in an act of espionage. A Lefortovo court has ordered the Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal to remain in custody for two months. He is appealing the decision and will face the judges again on April 18.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/russian-mp-suggests-swapping-wsj-reporter-for-assange/
Not a chance. "We don't negotiate with terrorists." Give or sell them weapons, yes. Negotiate, no.
What makes you think the US doesn't act like terrorists?
The USA doesn't negotiate with itself.
Did I misunderstand your comment? I just took another look and think it was hypercritical whereas I thought you were serious... if so.. I'm sorry and I agree.
According to the WSJ article about Gershkovich (https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-security-service-detains-wall-street-journal-reporter-cbfbd505), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented 363 journalists held worldwide. In that WSJ article, CPJ President Jodie Ginsburg says, “CPJ is deeply concerned by the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. This is the latest in a long line of attempts by Russia to use national security laws to silence reporting.”
I checked the CPJ website, which allows a search of where the “363 journalists” are held in the world. I searched for any journalists who might be held in the UK. The search returned “0 Journalists Imprisoned in UK.”
Omygod, I hope they do this. Not only for Julian, but for once again showing our piles of rotting shit how to govern.
Ah, I think not. Wouldn't that be a very loud statement , Assange is guilty or at the very least give the u.s. gov. exactly what they want, the elections were stolen?
With all due respect my friend, this is tripe. Assange IS guilty—of exactly what they say he is—being an amazing, brave and honest journalist. Just as Snowden IS guilty of exposing the US security state. Anyone not guilty in an upside down age such as this is not doing their job as a citizen. Besides, I rather be guilty and free than innocent and dying in a medieval justice system such as the UK/US.
I do see your point with how Snowden moved on. I yield to your better judgement : )
🤭
The problem with this, nothing would stop the u.s. from taking Assange, even during a war. A very public trial would work however that is not what u.s. unjustice system has planned. Secret court conviction. I had thought Trump would have pardoned Assange as a middle finger to the Democant's and Republicant's. Strange Trump did nothing for all the heroes.
I was hoping that too but a friend disabused me of my foolishness by saying, Honey, he’s not a rebel, he’s just a grifter and con man. Boy howdy.
No more than talking with a terrorist to secure release of a hostage.
If DC were ever to say something that wasn't hypocritical I would be astonished.
Thank you once again for yet another example of US hypocrisy, alive and well every day of the week.
Even worse that that, if that is possible, is the lack of action by the Australian political puppets in the shape of Albanese, Wong and Marles, the Toothless Trio. One thing you can say by way of a credit to the US Neocons is that Daniel Ellsberg and Chelsea Manning are free to walk the street and not wasting away in an English prison, or an American prison either.
HYPOCRISY is the name of the game. One shouldn’t forget all the other players in this disgraceful affair….Swedish government lies, The Guardian and their 'double dealing’, Ecuadorian cooporation, The British criminal system and its show trial, the criminal CIA, Trump the terrible, all at the behest of the failing US empire, crumbling away day by day as the dollar is discarded for other trading currencies, (two more today), advocates for ongoing wars, living in the past. A has-been.
And as for the two Israeli stooges, the doddering Schumer and McConnell, the last of a dying breed of US politicians, many of whom were respected thirty years ago, but no more. Not even respected in their own country.
Netanyahu's knaves, jumping at his every command.
Funny , sad and profoundly true all in one sentence. : ) : (
"Journalism is NOT a crime," but being an narcissistic, ego-inflated a**hole of paid-off politician-puppet trying to cover up the heinous war crimes the US committed/still commits IS a crime. We all know who should be in jail--and it isn't Julian Assange. I can't wait to see Mitchell, Schumer and the lot of them behind bars.
#FreeAssangeNOW
The likes of Chuck Schumer, House Majority Leader has not missed a single opportunity to diminish Palestine in his career nor missed every vote in the affirmative for support in every way possible for Israel. There is not an opportunity he has missed in his career. Schumer is also one of the most powerful elected officials in the world, as Caitlin has said today, however, "puffing and posing as brave defenders of press freedoms after having actively facilitated their government's attempts to destroy those very press freedoms”.
A statement from Schumer spells it out somewhat differently, on examination. "Neither WikiLeaks, NOR IT’S ORIGINAL SOURCE FOR THESE MATERIALS should be spared in any way from the fullest prosecution possible under the law," Schumer said this in 2010.
Original source? Chelsea Manning? Where are you, Chelsea. Are you free, enjoying life, walking the streets of your USA, the criminal hypocrisy capital of the world?
Are you free, Chelsea? Yes, she is (and she should be, too), as is that worthy, highly respected American from the Pentagon Papers disclosures, Daniel Ellsberg. Julian Assange? Where is he?
The question is clearly, is Schumer really an American citizen / politican? Let see a statement from someone who should have known, Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel…..”there are no English, French, German or American Jews only Jews living in England, France, Germany and America."
Based on this a so-called foreigner (perhaps dual passport holder as well) is US House Majority leader in 2023? Schumer the Schemer who contributed to Assange’s plight but not a murmur on similar actions against Americans?
What about another 1950’s-like Un-American Activities purge in 2023. Not communism this time but 'Eretz Israel' stooging.
Thank you for subjecting yourself to the noxious utterances and written statements of our US swamp creatures, so that I can kinda sorta keep up without needing constant anger management counseling. Also, thank you for not giving the WSJ ‘reporter’ the benefit of the doubt. On the basis of the information that has finally been declassified in recent years, it is hard to imagine that any mainstream so called ‘journalist’ is not also a CIA asset, if he is reporting from any country the DC Blob regards as an enemy. If the guy detained in Russia is not such an asset, he is, historically, a rare exception.
"so that I can kinda sorta keep up without needing constant anger management counseling" -- same
Me too!
That the US government so howls about the arrest of Gershkovich leads me to wonder whether the Russians caught him dead to rights.
Probably. If this Gershkovich guy were just an ordinary journalist, they'd never lift a finger to help him. Logically that makes him a spook then.
Spooks are people too??
The USA doesn't care much about him. He works for the Wall Street Journal, that's what matters.
At this point I just assume any official US government statement is a lie...
I KNEW Caitlin that you will discuss this hypocrisy! As always, THANK YOU! This official BS needs to be spelled out all the time!
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of duopoly government.
How else can the two sides of Wall Street corporate capital "parties" slide back and forth over the same concocted sham issues and not overheat from the friction forces inherent in fiction vs reality?
Everything you say about the swamp is justified.
Perhaps of interest to those wondering what Gershkovich was actually doing in Ekaterinaburg: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/journalist-spy-or-cyber-front-warrior.html#more
I've also seen mention that Gershkovich was traveling on an Israeli passport. Which would be interesting if true.
Thanks
“…. You don't get to say "journalism is not a crime" while literally working to criminalize journalism. Those positions are mutually exclusive. Pick one….”
Except he doesn’t have to.
The media themselves give the US a free pass on hypocrisy on this subject and pretty much every subject, including supporting dictatorships, imprisonment and persecution of own citizens, barbarism like the death penalty, refusal to subject own soldiers to the jurisdiction of the ICC, nuclear weapons policy, policy on use of depleted uranium weapons - everything.
And so does the public in the colonial countries.
So perhaps we move on from pointing out hypocrisy, to dissecting what it is about these societies that makes them so malevolently hypocritical.
We obviously believe journalism is a crime If a Western journalist tells the truth about our crimes against innocent populations whose governments have never threatened us. Otherwise, it never is.
Thank you !!! Free Assange !!
State-of-the-art Doublethink! Hardly a surprise coming from those with forked tongues in the very centre of the global snake oil marketplace.
The neo-4H club of the USA. Hubris, Humbuggery, Hypocrisy and Horseshxt.
The pledge of the real 4H club is nobly -My head to clearer thinking, My ; heart to greater loyalty, My ; hands to larger service, My ; health to better living,
No irony there, nooo.
I am no apologist for Russian Intelligence agencies but these western aligned 'activist, bloggers and journalists' that are poking around in countries bordering Russia, have a habit of being involved with regime change NGOs. Remember Roman Pratasevich arrested in Belarus in 2021 with his dubious links to the Azov Nazis, a couple of months after the failed 'colour revolution' protests.