Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Dec 17, 2018 • 22 tweets • 6 min read

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

"Anyone who offends the US-centralized empire will find themselves subject to a trial by media, and the media are owned by the same plutocratic class which owns the empire."
#WikiLeaks #FreeAssange
medium.com/@caityjohnston…

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh

　

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

More from @caitoz

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Feb 21

The Media's Odd Double Standard On Evidence Required For Claims Of An Impending Attack

When claims begin emerging of an imminent attack by a US ally, the media suddenly remember their journalistic training to note that these claims are "without evidence".
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-medias-o…

I've highlighted a key repeating phrase we've been seeing in a few quotes to help you spot the difference between the way the western media cover unevidenced claims about a future attack by Moscow and unevidenced claims about a future attack by Kyiv:

See if you can spot the difference between the above examples and the way CBS News reports an anonymous government official's claim that Putin has ordered the invasion of Ukraine to proceed:

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Feb 21

Replies have highlighted the fact that this recording is in fact the calling song of the Indies short-tailed cricket, which was established as the origin of the "Havana Syndrome" noise in *2019*. Listen for yourself; it's an exact match: orthsoc.org/sina/492a.htm

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1495560469884686338

This is not some fringe esoteric information. It was reported in The New York Times. Anyone doing a basic Google search on this story while preparing this 60 Minutes special would have encountered it.
nytimes.com/2019/01/04/sci…

https://twitter.com/dvergano/status/1495608413912510466?s=20&t=dseQD0out-wYa5MMmSbXiA

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Feb 20

NYT suddenly remembers to put this disclaimer on unproven claims about an imminent large-scale attack.

This is happening throughout all MSM; claims made about an attack by Ukraine are made "without evidence", but when evidence-free claims are made about an attack by Russia it's just "government sources say" and "based on intelligence".
theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…

nbcnews.com/news/world/eas…

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Feb 19

It's not that the US elects incompetent leaders who make bad decisions that kill millions of people with warfare, it's that the global US empire is held together with military violence and the threat thereof. It's an intrinsically evil institution and you should always oppose it.

It's not that the US government has *done evil*, it's that the US government *is itself evil*. The very way it has set itself up to operate in the world necessarily means it must exert endless violence and oppression to keep populations functioning in its interests. That's evil.

The Mafia hasn't happened to make bad decisions throughout its history that resulted in the unfortunate demise of certain individuals, it's an institution explicitly set up to reap profits by exerting and threatening violent force. The US empire is exactly the same. Same evil.

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Feb 19

Anyone who talks about the Ukraine crisis like it's just Putin being evil while ignoring the actions of the US and NATO which got us here is a disinformation agent.

This is really and truly as deep as most western analysis of this situation goes:

It should really be common sense by now that when the entire western political/media class starts screaming that a government is acting like an evil supervillain you're probably being propagandized. But most people are swallowing it hook, line and sinker.
fair.org/home/what-you-…

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Feb 18

The onus is not on anyone else to prove that US claims about Russian operations are false, the onus is on the US to prove that they are true. The burden of proof doesn't magically disappear just because some pundits and politicians said something in an assertive tone.

Example:

https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1494797904556572675?s=20&t=fSL4xmurQyQuC5V0CvvahA

Example:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1494774575883866119

Follow Us on Twitter!