{"id":48395,"date":"2019-09-11T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48395"},"modified":"2019-09-11T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:00:21","slug":"is-orwells-ministry-of-truth-alivewhy-dont-we-hear-much-about-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48395","title":{"rendered":"Is Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth Alive?Why Don\u2019t We Hear Much About Julian Assange?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth Alive?Why Don\u2019t We Hear Much About Julian Assange?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Orwell\u2019s dystopian fiction 1984<\/em>, the government\u2019s mission through the Ministry of Truth<\/a> is to supply its people with news, entertainment, books, films, plays and songs, packed with the information it<\/em> wants the people to know. It constructs lies to fit the narrative it wishes to establish and sets about rewriting historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have we slept walked our way into 1984 <\/em>with the curious witchhunt of Julian Assange?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the time Wikileaks published Collateral Murder<\/a> in 2010, exposing the slaying of Iraqi civilians at the hands of merciless US Apache<\/a> soldiers, in what became the biggest news story of its time, the United States has wanted Julian Assange silenced and forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has lived in a state of confinement since May 2010 when he was arrested and jailed in the United Kingdom, lived under house arrest for a further 18 months in England and then sought political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy from June 2012 .Yet many people think Assange was in a position where he could simply walk free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has there been a well crafted smear campaign <\/a>to dehumanise Assange and coax the public into forgetting him? How else could he have been detained within two tiny rooms devoid of sunlight for more than six years without public commentary and concern? The apparent dismantling of Assange\u2019s character and disinformation has been thorough. Most people do not know the specifics of his case, but \u201cbelieve\u201d he is an arrogant rapist and an ungrateful, badly behaved houseguest, smearing faeces on the embassy walls and being cruel to his cat. These disputed claims are now so well accepted it\u2019s inconceivable that they could actually be lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth Alive?Why Don\u2019t We Hear Much About Julian Assange? In Orwell\u2019s dystopian fiction 1984, the government\u2019s mission through the Ministry of Truth is to supply its people with news, entertainment, books, films, plays and songs, packed with the information it wants the people to know. It constructs lies to fit the narrative it wishes to establish […]<\/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":[1212,1211,27144,27143,1655,1426,880],"class_list":["post-48395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-george-orwell","tag-government-narrative","tag-michelle-wood","tag-ministry-of-truth","tag-misinformation","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48395","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=48395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48396,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48395\/revisions\/48396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}