{"id":36026,"date":"2018-07-18T06:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36026"},"modified":"2018-07-18T06:59:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:59:24","slug":"the-war-on-assange-is-a-war-on-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36026","title":{"rendered":"The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped<\/a> in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion and arrest, is astonishing. The extradition of the publisher\u2014the maniacal goal of the U.S. government\u2014would set a legal precedent that would criminalize any journalistic oversight or investigation of the corporate state. It would turn leaks and whistleblowing into treason. It would shroud in total secrecy the actions of the ruling global elites. If Assange is extradited to the United States and sentenced, The New York Times, The Washington Post and every other media organization, no matter how tepid their coverage of the corporate state, would be subject to the same draconian censorship. Under the precedent set, Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court would enthusiastically uphold the arrest and imprisonment of any publisher, editor or reporter in the name of national security.<\/p>\n

There are growing signs that the Ecuadorean government of Len\u00edn Moreno is preparing to evict Assange<\/a> and turn him over to British police. Moreno and his foreign minister, Jos\u00e9 Valencia, have confirmed they are in negotiations with the British government to \u201cresolve\u201d the fate of Assange. Moreno, who will visit Britain in a few weeks, calls Assange an \u201cinherited problem\u201d and \u201ca stone in the shoe\u201d and has referred to him as a \u201chacker.\u201d It appears that\u00a0under a Moreno government Assange is no longer welcome in Ecuador. His only hope now is safe passage to his native Australia or another country willing to give him asylum.<\/p>\n

\u201cEcuador has been looking for a solution to this problem,\u201d Valencia commented on television. \u201cThe refuge is not forever, you cannot expect it to last for years without us reviewing this situation, including because this violates the rights of the refugee.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom Mr. Fish \/ Truthdig The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion […]<\/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":[9035,2239,2001,1494,938,8738],"class_list":["post-36026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-julian-assange","tag-press","tag-press-freedom","tag-truthdig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026","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=36026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36027,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026\/revisions\/36027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}