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A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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You wouldn\u2019t know it from any western mass media reporting as of this writing, but musician Roger Waters is about to perform the iconic Pink Floyd song \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d<\/a> in front of the office of British Home Secretary Priti Patel in order to draw attention to the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, billionaire Richard Branson staged a \u201cLive Aid\u201d-stye concert in Colombia near the Venezuela border with the purported goal of helping the Venezuelan people. In reality the stunt was nothing other than a ploy to advance the entirely false narratives<\/a> that President Maduro was blockading bridges and turning away all foreign aid, and the funds raised ended up being embezzled<\/a>by the Trump-backed regime change opposition group led by US puppet Juan Guaido<\/a>. The British mass media, however, went absolutely bananas over the story. Each<\/a> word<\/a> in<\/a> this<\/a> sentence<\/a> is<\/a>hyperlinked<\/a> to<\/a> a<\/a> different<\/a> story<\/a> about<\/a> the<\/a> concert<\/a> from<\/a> mass<\/a> media<\/a> outlets<\/a> in<\/a> the<\/a> UK<\/a> alone<\/a>. And that was a concert on the other side of the planet, while the Assange event is happening right in London, in front of the office of a prominent British official, featuring one of the greatest British rock musicians of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This discrepancy tells you everything you need to know about the so-called \u201cfree press\u201d in western society, and indeed about western society itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This discrepancy tells you everything you need to know about the so-called \u201cfree press\u201d in western society, and indeed about western society itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident You wouldn\u2019t know it from any western mass media reporting as of this writing, but musician Roger Waters is about to perform the iconic Pink Floyd song \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d in front of the office of British Home Secretary Priti Patel in order to […]<\/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":[17039,338,2001,655,26660,2080,851],"class_list":["post-48180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-freedom","tag-julian-assange","tag-propaganda","tag-roger-waters","tag-united-kingdom","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48180","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=48180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48181,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48180\/revisions\/48181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}