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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

Julian Assange reported FACTS. The US government does not want people to know the truth about very much. That is why we still don't have access to the truth about the JFK assassination (1963), the MLK and RFK assassinations (1968), the entire Vietnam debacle, etc.

I won't even mention the Afghanistan debacle. The US invaded Iraq under totally fabricated pretenses ("weapons of mass destruction"). Of course, numbers range all over the place, but the death toll was estimated in the 186,901 – 210,296 range as of 2023 (source: The Iraq Body Count Project), and the costs as high as $2.89 trillion (source: Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs). Don't citizens (i.e., taxpayers) and the world have the right to know what our leaders have done with our money? Which is the greater crime: to invade a nation under false pretenses at immense costs, or to publish valid information about what happened?

One can only imagine Assange's state of mind. The stress has surely taken its toll...

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todd smith's avatar

The Kafkaesque incarceration of Assange was an indictment of "Western values," as well as the Western media establishment that not only did not rise to Assange's defense, but in many cases supported the State's groundless case against him. The harassment of independent journalists continues with the recent arrest of Richard Medhurst at Heathrow AP, again on baseless grounds (Section 12, or the "Support" section of the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act is hopelessly vague). At least Assange is out of Belmarsh, where he never should have been in the first place.

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