I can think of no other American journalist who has reported on Julian Assange as forcefully as Chris Hedges has for years. This fact has always troubled me: "Julian, an Australian citizen, is being charged under the U.S. Espionage Act although he did not engage in espionage and was not based in the U.S when he was sent the leaked docume…
I can think of no other American journalist who has reported on Julian Assange as forcefully as Chris Hedges has for years. This fact has always troubled me: "Julian, an Australian citizen, is being charged under the U.S. Espionage Act although he did not engage in espionage and was not based in the U.S when he was sent the leaked documents."
I wrote a piece recently in which I contrasted how Trump is being treated under the Espionage Act with how Assange has been persecuted: "It’s in Trump’s DNA to push back against all authority and rail against all constraints. Lesser mortals facing similar charges under the Espionage Act have received swift and severe punishment. Just to draw a contrast, Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, who isn’t even a US citizen, has been charged under the Espionage Act and had his life destroyed."
The Rule of Law is always arbitrary. It's simply another tool, like great wealth, of the powerful.
I can think of no other American journalist who has reported on Julian Assange as forcefully as Chris Hedges has for years. This fact has always troubled me: "Julian, an Australian citizen, is being charged under the U.S. Espionage Act although he did not engage in espionage and was not based in the U.S when he was sent the leaked documents."
I wrote a piece recently in which I contrasted how Trump is being treated under the Espionage Act with how Assange has been persecuted: "It’s in Trump’s DNA to push back against all authority and rail against all constraints. Lesser mortals facing similar charges under the Espionage Act have received swift and severe punishment. Just to draw a contrast, Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, who isn’t even a US citizen, has been charged under the Espionage Act and had his life destroyed."
The Rule of Law is always arbitrary. It's simply another tool, like great wealth, of the powerful.