attacks the powerless on behalf of the powerful - Assange - [PEACE]
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Mon Nov 5 01:30:27 PST 2018
Johnstone: What Empire Loyalists Are Really Saying When
They Bash Julian Assange
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-03/johnstone-what-empire-loyalists-are-really-saying-when-they-bash-julian-assange
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,
Wired has just published what might be the single most brazenly
dishonest and manipulative piece of down-punching empire smut that
I have ever read. An article by Virginia Heffernan titled “The Real
Houseguest of the Ecuadorian Embassy” revolves around the outright
lie that Julian Assange is suing the Ecuadorian government because
he doesn’t feel like cleaning up after his cat and maintaining
basic hygiene in the embassy he’s been confined to since 2012. In
reality, the legal case arose from the fact that despite being
granted political asylum for his journalism, Assange has for months
been cut off from the world and forbidden to practice journalism by
the new government of Ecuador, and would remain unable to practice
journalism under the new conditions Quito recently imposed upon
him.
… Heffernan claims falsely that Assange is “wanted on various
criminal charges”; Assange has not been charged with anything.
Heffernan claims falsely that Assange “has been closely linked to
the Kremlin and Russian president Vladimir Putin”; this is just
objectively false with no evidence backing it up whatsoever.
Heffernan claims falsely that “the distinct possibility has
surfaced that during his embassy tenure Assange communicated with
Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s consigliere, via magic decoder rings or
the internet”; there’s no evidence that Stone had any “back
channel” with WikiLeaks, and the information he notoriously
amplified was already public. Heffernan claims falsely that
WikiLeaks is “Russia-aligned”; another assertion for which there is
zero evidence and much evidence to the contrary.
…
There is no more despicable, sniveling waste of space on this
earth than someone who attacks the powerless on behalf of the
powerful while calling themselves a journalist.
Amen‼
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