CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The people pretending to care about these allegations do not care about rape, and they do not care about women. I recently had my Twitter privileges suspended by someone who called me a “rape apologist” for not automatically subscribing to the “believe all women” meme in the case of a known CIA target, and, when I informed him that I myself am a rape victim, this man called me a liar. I went off on him, and he reported me. This man has never cared about rape or women, and it’s entirely likely that he’s done things to women that push the same boundaries on sexual consent he’s accusing Assange of doing, or worse.
LIBERAL BETRAYALS
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—You can be absolutely certain that Russia won’t be interfering to re-elect Trump because Trump has proven to be the most hawkish president against Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, by a very wide margin. For all his rhetoric about “getting along with Russia”, Trump has greatly escalated tensions with the nuclear superpower by staging a coup in Venezuela, implementing a Nuclear Posture Review with a much more aggressive stance against Russia, withdrawing from the INF treaty, bombing and illegally occupying Syria, arming Ukraine, and many, many other hawkish actions taken against the interests of the Russian Federation which his predecessor Obama never dared to take.
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Assange Sentenced 50 Weeks For Bogus Bail Charge
22 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The US charge accompanying Assange’s extradition request is even more bogus than the bail charge; a re-interpretation of standard journalistic practices like source protection to create a charge which the Obama administration declined to prosecute based on the same evidence for fear of endangering press freedoms. Assange is charged with “conspiring” to help Chelsea Manning avoid detection while leaking evidence of US war crimes and malfeasance, which is something any investigative journalist who publishes leaks would do.
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Interviewed by Jimmy Dore, Aaron Maté pushes back against liberals and the MSNBC corral because he does not want to see people looking for alternatives to Trump believe such people (and what they shill for, the Democrats) are a genuine resistance to what he represents, in fact quite the opposite. “Liberals represent the limits of permissible, within-the-system criticism,” he reminds us, as Chomsky himself once noted. “Since these people are warmongers, and pretty much sign off on what the establishment wants, it’s important to expose them for what they are. They are not real challenges to Trump, they are not real progressives…they are really propagandists, for their own selfish reasons.” Maté and Jimmy Dore basically unmask Rachel Maddow as yet another conspiracy theorist, but of the worst and most mendacious sort.
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GLEN FORD—Asked why purported “progressives” insist on expressing their personal dislike for Julian Assange, noted author Maximillian Forte, a professor of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, said some are angry because they blame Wikileaks’ publication of embarrassing emails for Hillary Clinton’s presidential defeat. Others simply call Assange a “traitor,” said Maximillian. “I suppose they don’t know that he’s not actually an American citizen.”