Originally shared by E Walker
"The persecution of Assange is part of a broad assault against anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist news organizations.... The ruling elites no longer have a counterargument to their critics. They have resorted to cruder forms of control. These include censorship, slander and character assassination (which in the case of Assange has sadly been successful), blacklisting, financial strangulation, intimidation, imprisonment under the Espionage Act and branding critics and dissidents as agents of a foreign power and purveyors of fake news... We indirectly bankrolled the re-election campaign of Russia’s buffoonish Boris Yeltsin to the tune of $2.5 billion.- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges
https://unac.notowar.net/2018/07/22/the-war-on-julian-assange-is-a-war-on-press-freedom/
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