{"id":60974,"date":"2021-12-16T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60974"},"modified":"2021-12-16T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:36:03","slug":"the-assange-case-explained-simply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60974","title":{"rendered":"The Assange Case Explained Simply"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/12\/16\/the-assange-case-explained-simply\/https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/12\/16\/the-assange-case-explained-simply\/\">The Assange Case Explained Simply<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10890\" class=\"post-10890 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-assange tag-journalism tag-media tag-propaganda tag-wikileaks\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-5.png?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-5.png 1092w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-5-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-5-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-5-1024x601.png 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1092\" height=\"641\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-assange-case-explained-simply\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1178625934&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common reasons I hear from people on their reluctance to wade into the Assange debate is that they don\u2019t understand it. It looks like a complicated issue to them, so they leave it to the experts.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the complexity of this case is a complete illusion. It\u2019s very, very simple. It only looks complicated because many years of media distortion have made it appear so.<\/p>\n<p>The US government is trying to extradite a journalist and prosecute him under the Espionage Act for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/06\/15\/revisiting-the-case-of-julian-assange-and-the-reality-of-the-rule-of-law\/\">exposing its war crimes<\/a>, with the long-term goal of normalizing this practice.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the whole entire thing. So simple you can sum it up in a single sentence. In a single breath. The most powerful government on earth setting a legal precedent which would allow it to extradite any journalist anywhere in the world for exposing its malfeasance would unquestionably have a massive chilling effect on journalism everywhere in precisely the area where press scrutiny is most sorely needed. It\u2019s not any more complex or nuanced than that.<\/p>\n<p>The Assange issue is simple. What makes it seem complicated is the lies people have been fed by the media class whose job is to manipulate the public into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPazn1XNDQI\">consenting<\/a>\u00a0to the agendas of the US power alliance and its war machine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player fluidvids-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPazn1XNDQI?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Because of this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/debunking-all-the-assange-smears-a549fd677cac\">mass-scale smear campaign<\/a>, you will be told that Assange is \u201cnot a journalist\u201d and should therefore not be defended as such. This is first of all objectively false; providing the public with factual information about the powerful which helps them understand their world better is the thing that journalism is, which is why Assange has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlickRubicon\/status\/1470955136100880386\">received many awards<\/a> for journalism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assange Case Explained Simply Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 One of the most common reasons I hear from people on their reluctance to wade into the Assange debate is that they don\u2019t understand it. It looks like a complicated issue to them, so they leave it to the experts. In reality, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-60974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974","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=60974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60975,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974\/revisions\/60975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}