{"id":40943,"date":"2018-11-26T07:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40943"},"modified":"2018-11-26T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:59:28","slug":"newsweek-employed-spy-explains-to-us-why-assange-should-be-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40943","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek-Employed Spy Explains To Us Why Assange Should Be Prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsweek-Employed Spy Explains To Us Why Assange Should Be Prosecuted<\/a><\/h3>\n
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So it turns out it\u2019s really really important for powerful people to be able to lie to us with impunity, you guys. I know this because an actual, literal spy told me that that\u2019s what I\u2019m meant to believe in an article published by Newsweek<\/em><\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

If you were wondering how long it would take the imperial propagandists to ramp up their efforts to explain to us why it is good for the Trump administration to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after we learned that sealed charges<\/a> have been brought against him by the United States government, the answer is eight days. If you were wondering which of those propagandists would step forward and aggressively attempt to do so, the answer is\u00a0Naveed Jamali.<\/p>\n

To be clear, I do not use the word \u201cpropagandist\u201d to refer to a mass media employee whose reliable track record of establishment sycophancy has propelled him to the upper echelons of influence within platforms owned by plutocrats who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, as I often mean when I use that word. When I say that Jamali is a propagandist, I mean he is a current member of the United States intelligence community telling Newsweek<\/em>\u2018s readers that it is to society\u2019s benefit for the US government to pursue a longstanding agenda of the US intelligence community in imprisoning Julian Assange.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is not reporting, this is not journalism and Assange is not a journalist providing analysis or investigative reporting\u2014 this is the hocking of stolen secrets,\u00a0with no regard for the very real damage their disclosure does.\u201d My latest for @<\/span>Newsweek<\/span><\/a> https:\/\/www.<\/span>newsweek.com\/prosecuting-assange-essential-restoring-our-national-security-1229856\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prosecuting Assange is essential for restoring our national security | Opinion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wikileaks and Assange are an affront to any journalist who genuinely seeks to shed light on truth and to provide unbiased coverage.<\/p>\n

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Newsweek-Employed Spy Explains To Us Why Assange Should Be Prosecuted So it turns out it\u2019s really really important for powerful people to be able to lie to us with impunity, you guys. I know this because an actual, literal spy told me that that\u2019s what I\u2019m meant to believe in an article published by Newsweek […]<\/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":[17039,23214,2001,1455,23213,14570,655,827,843,880],"class_list":["post-40943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-foreign-policy-research-institute","tag-julian-assange","tag-national-security","tag-naveed-jamali","tag-newsweek","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states","tag-us-government","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40943","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=40943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40944,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40943\/revisions\/40944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}