{"id":24211,"date":"2017-06-23T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24211"},"modified":"2017-06-23T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:35:27","slug":"the-price-that-julian-assange-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24211","title":{"rendered":"The Price that Julian Assange Pays"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/06\/21\/the-price-that-julian-assange-pays\/\">The Price that Julian Assange Pays<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>People who challenge power are often viewed by their supporters as more icons than human beings thus missing the personal costs of their actions, a reality that Julian Assange\u2019s mother revealed to Randy Credico and Dennis J Bernstein.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>June 19 marked the fifth full year that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spent at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was given asylum against the threat of arrest from a Swedish prosecutor pursuing a sex-abuse investigation (since dropped) and possible extradition to the United States for a potential espionage charge related to publication of U.S. secrets.<\/p>\n<p>To gain insights into what this long ordeal has meant to Assange, an Australian native,\u00a0Randy Credico of WBAI\u2019s \u201cOn the Fly\u201d and Dennis Bernstein of \u201cFlashpoints\u201d on Pacifica Radio interviewed Assange\u2019s mother, Christine Assange. The interview also explored the deep history that led her son to found Wikileaks and to challenge the enormous powers of the U.S. and British governments by exposing the truth about their dangerous, deadly and often illegal policies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1980\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/assange_face0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/assange_face0.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/assange_face0.jpg 191w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/assange_face0-150x150.jpg 150w\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Randy Credico:\u00a0I guess I should begin by asking, how long has it been since you\u2019ve seen your son Julian?<\/p>\n<p>Christine Assange: A number of years, but we communicate.<\/p>\n<p>RC: Yes, you communicate, but it\u2019s not the same, so far away. It must be difficult. I mean he\u2019s not in prison, but it may as well be prison. I know for a mother to be separated from her son like this, it must be grueling, and a difficult row to hoe on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Price that Julian Assange Pays People who challenge power are often viewed by their supporters as more icons than human beings thus missing the personal costs of their actions, a reality that Julian Assange\u2019s mother revealed to Randy Credico and Dennis J Bernstein. June 19 marked the fifth full year that Wikileaks founder Julian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6963,12938,8739,2001,15420],"class_list":["post-24211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-dennis-j-bernstein","tag-ecuador","tag-julian-assange","tag-randy-credico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24212,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions\/24212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}