The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange made known the immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional actions of the U.S. government so that we now know that the government is lying to the people in a grand scale. For this he should be heralded as a watchdog for accountable government, not denounced as a “commie who hates America,” says the leading political economist, …
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What Julian Assange did was make known the immoral, illegal and unconstitutional actions of the government
Occasionally I note that conservatives are ineffective defenders of liberty. The primary reason is that they confuse America with the government. The government is not America. As our Founding Fathers understood, government is our enemy. They attempted to restrain our enemy with the Constitution and the separation of its powers. In effect, America is the Constitution, and the government’s …
Read More »The American Hegemony is over due to sweeping technological changes in warfare, business and finance
American political, economic, and military global hegemony—sustained by America’s past economic productivity, the dollar’s reserve status, and the reliance on forward-deployed American military power—is over. In a new world shaped by sweeping technological change in warfare, business and finance, it’s not just the end of the much exaggerated “unipolar moment.” The American Hegemony: The tectonic plates of the international …
Read More »Julian Assange: The end of free speech and critical journalism in the West
Freedom of speech is a natural right, it is also expressly protected by the Constitution. “I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) It wasn’t until 1969 that the Supreme Court’s modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the …
Read More »The purpose of Persecuting Julian Assange was to intimidate journalists to not pursue Critical Journalism that questions Power
Assange is now free, but the American media is more imprisoned than ever, says leading political economist, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, chairman of The Institute for Political Economy, former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and author, in this interview with Larry Sparano. Quoted from the interview: One of the purposes of what was done to Julian Assange …
Read More »Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Investigative Journalism
By allowing the US government to compel Julian Assange to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, America has condemned itself to be a land where telling the truth is a crime. The Criminalization of Critical Journalism: Assange is guilty of no crime. It is the United States government which operates in violation of the law and, …
Read More »Julian Assange freed after 12 years, returning to Australia
In an age of Orwellian political censorship and strong totalitarian traits in the West, the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was freed on the 24th of June, 2024 in a daring move to end his humiliating years in Belmarch maximum security Prison in the UK. His wife, Stella Assange tells the sad story that documents the degeneration of classical liberties …
Read More »An ally of the dispossessed, John Pilger dedicated his life to telling their stories and awoke the world to the greatest injustices
The remarkably resilient truth seeker, journalist and film maker, John Pilger has left us. He died in London December 30th, 2023, reports Consortium News. “A consistent ally of the dispossessed, John dedicated his life to telling their stories and awoke the world to the greatest injustices. He showed great empathy for the weak and was unflinching with the powerful. …
Read More »The Suppression of Free Speech Has Close to Majority Support in America
Almost every minute of every day I see overwhelming evidence of America’s collapse as a free country. Elon Musk conducted a poll on whether Twitter should allow President Trump to use the social media platform. The Suppression of Free Speech: Fifteen million people responded. 51.8% of the respondents said “yes,” but almost an equal number 48.2% said “no.” In other …
Read More »Julian Assange: Media Groups, including New York Times urge US to drop charges
New York Times Comes to the Defense of Julian Assange: Through a joint letter The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El Pais asked the United States to drop the Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange because it undermines press freedom. Twelve years ago, those American and European media released excerpts of the revelations obtained …
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