attacks the powerless on behalf of the powerful - Assange - [PEACE]

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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 â??The Real
  Houseguest of the Ecuadorian Embassyâ?? revolves around the outright
  lie that Julian Assange is suing the Ecuadorian government because
  he doesnâ??t feel like cleaning up after his cat and maintaining
  basic hygiene in the embassy heâ??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.

  â?¦ Heffernan claims falsely that Assange is â??wanted on various
  criminal chargesâ??; Assange has not been charged with anything.
  Heffernan claims falsely that Assange â??has been closely linked to
  the Kremlin and Russian president Vladimir Putinâ??; this is just
  objectively false with no evidence backing it up whatsoever.
  Heffernan claims falsely that â??the distinct possibility has
  surfaced that during his embassy tenure Assange communicated with
  Roger Stone, Donald Trumpâ??s consigliere, via magic decoder rings or
  the internetâ??; thereâ??s no evidence that Stone had any â??back
  channelâ?? with WikiLeaks, and the information he notoriously
  amplified was already public. Heffernan claims falsely that
  WikiLeaks is â??Russia-alignedâ??; another assertion for which there is
  zero evidence and much evidence to the contrary.

  â?¦
  
  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.


Amenâ?¼