{"id":45366,"date":"2019-04-14T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45366"},"modified":"2019-04-14T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T14:34:46","slug":"chomsky-arrest-of-assange-is-scandalous-and-highlights-shocking-extraterritorial-reach-of-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45366","title":{"rendered":"Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is \u201cScandalous\u201d and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2019\/4\/12\/chomsky_arrest_of_assange_is_scandalous\">Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is \u201cScandalous\u201d and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of U.S.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/noam_chomsky\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author. He is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more than 50 years.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are vowing to fight his possible extradition to the United States following his arrest in London, when British police forcibly removed Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he had taken asylum for almost seven years. On Thursday night, Democracy Now!&#8217;s Amy Goodman spoke to Noam Chomsky about Assange&#8217;s arrest, WikiLeaks and American power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AMY&nbsp;GOODMAN:<\/strong>&nbsp;This is&nbsp;<em>Democracy Now!<\/em>&nbsp;I\u2019m Amy Goodman in Boston, as we sit down with Noam Chomsky for a public conversation. I asked him about the arrest of Julian Assange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>NOAM&nbsp;CHOMSKY:<\/strong>&nbsp;Well, the Assange arrest is scandalous in several respects. One of them is just the effort of governments\u2014and it\u2019s not just the U.S. government. The British are cooperating. Ecuador, of course, is now cooperating. Sweden, before, had cooperated. The efforts to silence a journalist who was producing materials that people in power didn\u2019t want the rascal multitude to know about\u2014OK?\u2014that\u2019s basically what happened. WikiLeaks was producing things that people ought to know about those in power. People in power don\u2019t like that, so therefore we have to silence it. OK? This is the kind of thing, the kind of scandal, that takes place, unfortunately, over and over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is \u201cScandalous\u201d and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Noam Chomskyworld-renowned political dissident, linguist and author. He is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more than 50 years. 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