I wonder how many journalists have already held back from reporting things they know in their heart a Free Press should be reporting, thinking “After what they’ve done to Julian Assange maybe I better not.” Authoritarianism doesn’t just land on people, it creeps toward us slowly
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Julian Assange and Russia have worked together at least since 2012 when he appeared regularly on air for Russian television. There is little debate that RT is Vladimir Putin's principal propaganda organ. baltimoresun.com/opinion/rea…

Assange helped sabotage U.S. election, remember?

I read Jonathan David Farley’s commentary and was struck by his obviously intentional omissions concerning Julian Assange’s complicity with the Russian assault on the American electoral…

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He is not being prosecuted for any of that. He is being prosecuted for revealing atrocities and war crimes committed by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ed Schulz appeared regularly on RT. He a traitor too?

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That is your opinion and conjecture. I never said he was a traitor per se. Technically a "traitor" is a US citizen giving aid and comfort to a nation to whom we have declared war. Even that thief on a power-trip Snowden, isn't guilty of treason. law.cornell.edu/wex/treason#…
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Thank you Marianne