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Jun 8 • 6 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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The moment of truth is arriving for Julian Assange and the Biden DOJ, as he just lost one of his last UK appeals and is closer to US soil than ever.

Plus: @aaronjmate on the joint Ukraine/FBI effort to censor journalists.

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It will never stop being amazing how much US journalists love to posture and denounce the attacks on press freedoms from faraway foreign governments, all while their own government is about to to put on trial for espionage this generation's most accomplished journalist. Image
Nobody in the Bad Countries™ thinks: "we're persecuting journalists because we hate a free press."

They use all the same justifications the Biden DOJ and US journalists invoke to justify Assange's prosecution: he's really a spy, a traitor, a national security threat, etc.
In 2019, I wrote a WashPost op-ed warning that the template for the Assange prosecution would endanger all journalists everywhere.

In 2020, Brazil tried prosecuting me for our investigative exposés using theories copied from Assange's indictment.

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
Every press freedom and civil liberties group in the west -- every one, from @amnesty to @RSF_en to @ACLU and @pressfreedom -- oppose Assange's prosecution on the ground it threatens press freedom.

Only the US and UK support it:

nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/…
We'll examine the implications of Assange's imminent extradition to the US to stand trial in Virginia on espionage charges, and talk to @aaronjmate about his latest #TwitterFiles scoop on the joint Ukraine/FBI censorship effort. Starting now:

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Jun 10
Brazil's Justice Minister @FlavioDino -- responding to a request from a Brazilian Jewish group to ban Roger Waters from entering Brazil to perform -- says federal police will monitor all of his shows and he'll "be arrested" if he wears "a Nazi uniform":

oglobo.globo.com/blogs/lauro-ja…
That Waters is glorifying Nazism is one of the worst, most bad faith bullshit claims I've seen. "The Wall" has been performed for decades as a satire of a deranged fascist leader. It's anti-fascist.

But these nuances don't matter in a censorship state where art is controlled. ImageImage
The obvious reality is that Waters is one of the world's most prominent critics of Israel and the US/NATO role in the war in Ukraine.

That's fine: you can hate him for those views. But having him criminally prosecuted in multiple countries on the ground he's a Nazi is fascism.
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Jun 9
Before knowing Trump was indicted under the Espionage Act of 1917, we devoted last night's @SystemUpdate_ to the corrupted history of this law and why it's highly repressive.

It was in the context of Assange and Obama's attack on whistleblowers, but this applies to Trump:👇
Also: the 2019-20 investigative exposés we did in Brazil -- very popular among the left but which led to attempts to prosecute me -- proved how the establishment, fearful Lula would win, concocted criminal charges against him to make him ineligible.

theguardian.com/world/2019/jul…
The US establishment hated and feared Trump from the start, largely due to the instability he poses to its hegemony. CIA/FBI concocted a bullshit scandal to sink his campaign and presidency, and now are desperately trying to make him ineligible.

Look to Brazil for how it works. Image
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Jun 8
That @BillKristol - the worst, most destructive, and most pathological warmongering disinformation agent of the last 3 decades - is the one who speaks on behalf of the liberal establishment about who deserves to be in good standing speaks volumes about the liberal establishment:
The same for Kristol's warmongering neocon comrade @AnneAppleaum. She has lied to support every US war for 2 decades. The @TheAtlantic sponsors her panels on "fighting disinformation," and the GuardianUS treats her as the expert on disinformation.

It's so vital to see that those who claim the mantle of "disinformation expert" - always now funded by billionaires Pierre Omidyar, Soros and Laurene Jobs - are the most aggressive liars in the country.

It's the world's biggest scam that *these* are the Guardians of Truth. Image
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Jun 6
NYT Glossary:

"Misinformation": words spoken by a critic of the Democratic Party establishment

"Right-wing": one who is a critic of the Democratic Party establishment

Of course corporate outlets will attack all Biden opponents, but this NYT hit piece on RFK Jr. is just dumb: ImageImage
Indeed. How dare RFK Jr. characterize Joe Biden -- someone who has vehemently supported every US war for decades, was a key Senate advocate of the war in Iraq, and is flooding Ukraine with advanced weapons -- of being a "warmonger."

Why, this is "misinformation"! Censor it! Image
Corporate media reads from the same script.

Opponents of the Dem Party establishment are "disinformation" agents, conspiracy theorists, white supremacists and/or Kremlin propagandists. That's what those terms now effectively mean.

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Jun 4
At the pandemic's start, there were 2 competing theories for COVID's origin:

1) The Chinese have such filthy, primitive food markets where the virus jumped to humans;

2) A leak from US-funded research at the Wuhan lab.

Somehow: theory (2), not (1), was branded racist. ImageImage
At the start, top virologists/epidemiologists wrote to Fauci to say COVID was likely from a lab leak, not natural.

Within a week, Fauci - who funded that research - imposed a consensus that a lab leak was "debunked," and Big Tech censored any debate:

rumble.com/v2b6gvg--syste…
It was only when the Biden Admin said it had doubts that debate was allowed. Now, the Energy Dept's most elite scientific team (and FBI) says lab leak was most likely.

Fauci so clearly acted to protect himself by deceiving the public. So little interest now in finding out. ImageImage
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Jun 4
That Democrats' most popular TV personality (Maddow) and one of their most popular Congressmembers (Jamie Raskin) were the keynote speakers and honorees of a conference sponsored by arms dealers (Lockheed) is the opposite of surprising.

This simply is the Democratic Party:
This snide comment from Maddow is so revealing about corporate media employees.

Maddow is the queen of enriching herself by spreading false, deranged CIA conspiracy theories.

Yet she snidely mocks independent journalism with her $30m/year contract:

Who is Maddow to mock anyone? She fed her crazed #Resistance audience with such unhinged CIA lies that even the WPost denounced her for it.

She's never broken a story in her life. But she thinks she's superior because Comcast showers her a $2.5m wire transfer each month: ImageImageImageImage
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