The Assange Persecution Is Western Savagery At Its Most Transparent
"The prosecution has established as one of their grounds for appeal the claim that they can offer 'assurances' that they would not inflict some of their most brutal measures upon him."
What's ridiculous about these "assurances", apart from the obvious, is that within its own legal argument the US government reserves the right to reverse those assurances at any time and impose SAMs or maximum security imprisonment upon Assange if it deems them necessary.
As Amnesty International explains:
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The Democratic Party is doing exactly what anyone who knows anything predicted it would do when they reclaimed the White House and the Senate and it's going to be rad watching American liberals learn exactly zero lessons from it.
So the most crucial human rights case of our time is proceeding without the person on trial being present either on person or on video, because he is too unwell as a result of his incarceration. #AssangeCase#Assange
Absolutely fucking criminal that Assange won't be allowed to attend his own hearing and will have to follow via video link. He previously had a lot of trouble hearing the proceedings while he was there, and the audio tech at these hearings has been consistently awful.
Also as @khrafnsson notes it will mean he can't confer in person with his lawyers, which he was doing when he was able to attend live. That's his legal right and they're depriving him of it.
This is UNBELIEVABLY sleazy. This claim, designed to paint China as racist, was debunked in real time by @DanielDumbrill and others and its source deleted their tweet. Daily Mail cites THE DEBUNKED SOURCE for this article but doesn't provide a link because the claim is withdrawn.
No it doesn't, that's just some dumb nonsense libertarians started saying a few years ago. Capitalism means what the Marxists who invented the term have been saying it means since the 1800s: the owners of the means of production exploiting workers.
Even those who support capitalism understand this distinction if they've done a tiny bit of research outside their doofy partisan echo chambers. You don't get to just change the definition of words to defend your belief system, that's not a thing. investopedia.com/terms/c/capita…
The most significant political moment in the US since 9/11 and its aftermath was when liberal institutions decided that Trump's 2016 election wasn't a failure of status quo politics but a failure of information control. All the other bullshit since then has followed from this.
This was when the belief among mainstream journalists became widespread that internet censorship is needed and that it is their duty to manipulate public opinion. Another 2016 WikiLeaks drop in 2020 would never have been reported on, as evidenced by the Hunter laptop scandal.
Now we're seeing an increasing homogenization of online information as the media class cheers on censorship in the name of fighting Russia, white supremacism, Covid misinformation, and in the name of protecting US elections, etc, while the media acts weirder and weirder.