Thread by @ggreenwald

Good morning. The US and UK are indefinitely imprisoning one of the most consequential journalists of our generation in a high-security prison for exposing their crimes and, more so, for reporting critically on Hillary Clinton. Most US/UK journalists are indifferent to supportive

I spoke to @jimmy_dore for 30 minutes about the severe injustice of the Assange prosecution, the lies told by NBC and CNN's @Acosta to justify it, and especially the tepid indifference on parts of the left (at best) to this case. Here's why, in 2 parts:

Since the end of WW2, vehement opposition to the Deep State -- the US security services: CIA, FBI, NSA --was foundational to left-wing politics. Now they barely care about that at all, and thus don't value Assange's heroic work, because those agencies were allies against Trump:

It's revealing - and encouraging - that the most vehement voices in Assange's defense are anti-establishment voices on the right and left. Tucker went on a multi-episode crusade for his pardon. Chomsky, Ellsberg, @CiroGomes, Corbyn have as well. Yesterday, Lula & Dilma spoke out.

I've been mentioning @Acosta because of how repellent it is that he depicted himself in a book as some sort of brave, endangered dissident-journalist when Assange is actually that.

But I never knew Acosta *defended* Assange's prosecution until @jimmy_dore showed me the video:

While leaders from around the world on both the anti-establishment left and right vehemently denounce the Biden DOJ's ongoing attempt to keep Assange in prison, there are 2 notable exceptions on the US left who have said nothing about the court "victory" ordering him extradited:

When the prosecution of Assange had an anti-Trump angle, media outlets were able to get some Dems to tepidly speak out. But now that it's the Biden DOJ aggressively trying to keep Assange in prison, the silence is as deafening as it is predictable:

theintercept.com/2019/05/24/jul…

Add these leading Australian officials to the long list of world leaders who are condemning the Biden Administration for its ongoing persecution of Assange and demanding Assange's release. Hopefully some figures on the US left can find their voice soon:

https://twitter.com/MaryKostakidis/status/1470493886334263296

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https://twitter.com/GreenPartyUS/status/1469480914975703050

The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Jones, is a right-wing politician. It's really worth reading his emphatic comments opposing Assange's extradition to the US, along with Liberal MP Bridget Archer, who demanded Assange's immediate release:

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

I finally found someone who has been a national leader of the Democratic Party at some point over the last decade willing to speak up and emphatically condemn the Biden Administration for the gravest attack on press freedom in years:

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1470446562845229058

The French Left weighs in strongly (cc: @AOC, @BernieSanders)

"A day of mourning" -- former Ecuadorian President Rafeal Correa, who bravely defied US/UK threats to grant Assange asylum, knowing the US would do anything to nab him and put him in a cage for life.

The difference between this & the US Left is stunning:

https://twitter.com/MashiRafael/status/1469261909761347584

There's a strong politics around the world that realizes that the US Deep State -- CIA, NSA, FBI -- are grave menaces to everything decent, and views fighting against them as heroic.

Then there's the establishment wings of the US Dem Party & GOP & UK establishment liberalism.