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10 Dec, 13 tweets, 4 min read
As Fascism Casts Off Its Disguises

"The way journalists who offend the powerful are dealt with by the US government and the way they are dealt with by the Saudi monarchy differ only in terms of speed and messiness."
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This ruling which allows the US to continue working to extradite a journalist for exposing US war crimes comes on the final day of Washington's so-called "Summit for Democracy", where the US Secretary of State made this grandiose show about press freedom:
This ruling also comes on UN Human Rights Day.
ndtv.com/world-news/hum…
This ruling comes on the same day as two journalists formally received the Nobel Peace Prizes they'd been rewarded and demanded protections for journalists in their acceptance speech.
aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/1…
This ruling comes as the US government pledges hundreds of millions of dollars in support for "independent media" around the world.
consortiumnews.com/2021/12/09/can…
This ruling comes after it was revealed that the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and assassinate Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy after the 2017 Vault 7 releases embarrassed the agency.
consortiumnews.com/2021/09/30/pom…
This ruling comes after it was revealed that CIA proxies spied on Assange and his lawyers at the Ecuadorian embassy, thereby making a fair trial in the United States impossible.
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/24/ass…
This ruling comes after it was revealed that the US prosecution relied on false testimony from a diagnosed sociopath and convicted child molester.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/assange-pros…
This ruling comes after recent investigative reports on civilian-slaughtering US airstrikes reminded us why it's so important for the press to be able to conduct critical natsec journalism on the most powerful military force ever assembled.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/us-coverup-o…
The facts are in and the case is closed: the US and its allies do not care about press freedoms beyond the extent that they can be used to conduct propaganda.
The way journalists who offend the powerful are dealt with by the US government and the way they are dealt with by the Saudi monarchy differ only in terms of speed and messiness.
The masks are crumbling. Even when he is silenced, immobilized, locked up and hidden from public view, Julian Assange continues to shine a light on the abusive mechanisms of power. He is arguably exposing them more now than ever before.
As fascism casts off its disguises, it becomes more and more important to highlight the hypocrisy, fraudulence and depravity of the people who rule our world.

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6 Dec
I keep seeing this claim in conspiracy circles that these dangerous escalations against Russia and China are a hoax being staged to distract people from the "Covid scam", which is among the dumbest theories I've ever heard about anything. Just seriously sloppy thinking. Come on.
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