{"id":51503,"date":"2020-03-01T07:11:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T12:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51503"},"modified":"2020-03-01T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T12:11:41","slug":"assange-extradition-can-a-french-touch-pierce-a-neo-orwellian-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51503","title":{"rendered":"ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2020\/02\/27\/assange-extradition-can-a-french-touch-pierce-a-neo-orwellian-farce\/\">ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By offering asylum to the persecuted publisher of\u00a0<em>WikiLeaks<\/em>, France\u2019s Macron would enhance his status in myriad European latitudes and all across the Global South, writes Pepe Escobar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I<\/strong>t\u2019s quite fitting that the \u2013 imperially pre-determined \u2013 judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As chronicled by the painful, searing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;of Ambassador Craig Murray, what\u2019s taking place in Woolwich Crown Court is a sub-Orwellian farce with Conradian overtones: the horror\u2026the horror\u2026, remixed for the Raging Twenties. The heart of our moral darkness is not in the Congo: it\u2019s in a dingy courtroom attached to a prison, presided by a lowly imperial lackey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one of Michel Onfray\u2019s books published last year,&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Th%C3%A9orie-dictature-French-Michel-ONFRAY-ebook\/dp\/B07QGXMXY7\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Theorie+de+la+Dictature+Michel+Onfray&amp;qid=1582738286&amp;sr=8-1\">Theorie de la Dictature<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;(Robert Laffont) \u2013 the top dissident, politically incorrect French philosopher starts exactly from Orwell to examine the key features of a new-look dictatorship. He tracks seven paths of destruction: to destroy freedom, impoverish language, abolish truth, suppress history, deny nature, propagate hate, and aspire to empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Michel_Onfray_2009_2-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44232\"\/><figcaption>Michel Onfray in 2009.\u00a0(Alexandre L\u00f3pez, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To destroy freedom, Onfray stresses, power needs to assure perpetual surveillance; ruin personal life; suppress solitude; make opinion uniform and denounce thought crimes. That sounds like the road map for the United States government\u2019s persecution of Assange.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other paths, as in impoverishing language, include practicing newspeak; using double language; destroying words; oralizing language; speaking a single language; and suppressing the classics. That sounds like the modus operandi of the ruling classes in the Hegemon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To abolish truth, power must teach ideology; instrumentalize the press; propagate fake news; and produce reality. To propagate hate, power, among other instruments, must create an enemy; foment wars; and psychiatrize critical thinking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce? By offering asylum to the persecuted publisher of\u00a0WikiLeaks, France\u2019s Macron would enhance his status in myriad European latitudes and all across the Global South, writes Pepe Escobar. It\u2019s quite fitting that the \u2013 imperially pre-determined \u2013 judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out [&hellip;]<\/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":[6963,23377,1211,2001,4076],"class_list":["post-51503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-extradition","tag-george-orwell","tag-julian-assange","tag-pepe-escobar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51503","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=51503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51504,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51503\/revisions\/51504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}