{"id":60968,"date":"2021-12-16T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60968"},"modified":"2021-12-16T07:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:37:27","slug":"the-assange-issue-is-not-complicated-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60968","title":{"rendered":"The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title long unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-assange-issue-is-not-complicated?fbclid=IwAR2Fbu85vwHE3FnUSA1Rd1Z1TgnI5o5bOoM3QqdLxR6KjOPwEFicDXGKYwE\">The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"available-content \">\n<div class=\"body markup\">\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 image2-677-728\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe822ebe5-fb8a-4a48-a990-c84a6bbb3587_1080x677.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-default\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe822ebe5-fb8a-4a48-a990-c84a6bbb3587_1080x677.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"677\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e822ebe5-fb8a-4a48-a990-c84a6bbb3587_1080x677.png&quot;,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:677,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1634879,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-assange-issue-is-not-complicated\" rel=\"\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"soundcloud-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1178015731&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;The Assange issue is not actually complicated. The most powerful government in the world is trying to extradite a journalist and try him under the Espionage Act for exposing its war crimes. It is that simple. This isn't some super complex subject that you defer to the experts on.\\n\\nReading by Tim Foley.&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/i1.sndcdn.com\/artworks-wlYUWgrr8yWLaZ5U-UW6F2Q-t500x500.jpg&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone&quot;,&quot;author_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue&quot;,&quot;targetUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-assange-issue-is-not-complicated&quot;}\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?auto_play=false&amp;buying=false&amp;liking=false&amp;download=false&amp;sharing=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_playcount=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;hide_related=true&amp;visual=false&amp;start_track=0&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1178015731\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and yet you still get pseudoleft pundits acting like you&#8217;re some kind of weird freak for expecting them to oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>The Assange issue is not actually complicated. The most powerful government in the world is trying to extradite a journalist and try him under the Espionage Act for exposing its war crimes. It is that simple. This isn&#8217;t some super complex subject that you defer to the experts on.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the things that&#8217;s so frustrating about this case. It&#8217;s such a blatant abuse of government power that virtually everyone would normally be ideologically opposed to it, but because there&#8217;s been so much media spin on it for so long people don&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t imprison journalists for exposing the truth. I mean, like, duh. This should really be such a mainstream issue that fringey types like myself would see no need to focus on it, and if the media environment wasn&#8217;t being so despicably manipulated it would be.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>China is far, far better than the US. That doesn&#8217;t mean China is awesome, it just means the US is far, far worse than anyone else in terms of tyranny and destructiveness. Working to destroy any population which disobeys you anywhere in the world makes you worse than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason nobody seems to recognize this in the west is because the US has such phenomenally excellent global narrative control. If it didn&#8217;t, the entire world would&#8217;ve laughed when the butchers of the Middle East started pretending to care about Muslims in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and yet you still [&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":[17039,2001,14545,29490],"class_list":["post-60968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-julian-assange","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968","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=60968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60969,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968\/revisions\/60969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}