I beg to differ on one key point: The meisters of western power couldn't give a bean how many people object to their criminal mechanizations against Julian Assange or any one else.
The Democratic party decided to cut him loose to make themselves look good on television tomorrow night.
I can't argue with that! Outcomes outweigh whatever the motivations of the authorities may have been, and we're all feeling very, very relieved and happy at this outcome. Welcome home, Julian!
Thank you so much Chris your report sums up the horrific injustices Julian Assange has suffered and the mafia type attacks and control the U S has done to him, the United States should be ashamed of itself on the one hand proclaiming a free press and on the other denying free press to Assange and almost killing him with persecution!, my hat is off to all who fought against this travesty of injustice! Thanks to all!!!
Thank you, Chris, for you constant voice for justice for Julian and for all people who are oppressed. We need a general strike to break the hold of the oppressor. We need to stop the wheels of cash we pump into a broken system that benefits those who take care of themselves only.
Yes, a general strike is the most effective. When we go out on the streets and then go back to work, it allows the amoral corporate/government powers to continue to grow. And Paul DuNard: yes, we must look after one another. The combination or refusing to work for the corporations and working for one another. I believe there is power in this combination. And we should start now, in little ways, in any way we can. Step out of the system and love and care for those around us.
We hope you enjoyed your 12 year visit to the UK, which the current leader of the UK Labour Party helped facilitate, with hospitality from the current Conservative government. We hope you were pleased with your marriage to you bride in the corridor of a top security prison, regretting that we are just too righteous to let anyone who doesn’t value the sanctity of US military helicopter gunships’ pilots’ privacy get married in the chapel in that venerated institution, one in which you were nevertheless lucky enough to make it onto the list of celebrity prisoners without even having to stand trial. The Prison Governor, the Prison Doctor and the former Home Secretary, none of whom could attend their diplomatically mandated meeting with the former UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer, send their best wishes by proxy, and probably marked the occasion of your plea bargain by dropping a memento of your visit in the water under the Tower bridge, possibly a PRESS tabard. You may see them on the beach now that you’re home in Australia, and being polite people, they may answer the question you’ve been asking for twelve years and more: Why do journalists go to jail for telling the truth?
No one will hear us scream unless lots of us scream and don't stop screaming and don't support corporations, and speak the truth. If enough of us keep up the fight, things will change. It may not be in my lifetime. But change: one way or another is inevitable. And if we keep at it, the chances for future generations are better.
And in the case that it gets worse, we can say we tried.
This ticks all the boxes so we need to keep at it.
Dear Chris Hedges, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, et. al. --- I sent this comment to "these 'TIMES' they are a-changing", the NYT, (but not in a good way) I am sending this to you to fully express that "You Ain't No Press" that I will ever read:
"Sorry I got you folks at the 'TIMES' all mixed up, with all the column titles that you've had to change this morning (or mourning), eh?"
I know what's coming down on you guys, with all that LONG GAME stuff caused by the Julian Assange revelation, but that's not what I'm dealing with now after the Revolutionary BOMB that Julian built-up against what little you did for journalism --- and went off today.
BTW, I'm only asking "these 'TIMES' they are a-changing" (and not in a good way), whether you know about the fiasco of letting the U.S. Army --- rather than the U.S. Navy being in charge of the planned (or 'fixed') deal of initially building the GAZA pier scam.
Hell, Capt Joel G. Stewart (Commodore, Naval Beach Group One (NBG 1) --- should have been in Command of landing food the correct and compassionate way.
A Navy CB Command, with anchoring 3 or 4 U.S. Navy Destroyers out in front of the pier could have easily calmed the waves and landed MEGA food relief to genocidal effect, with 'no sweat', EH?
And the back-up plan could have simply been to let the Destroyers fire up the asses of Nutanyahu's 'crime gang' ----- just as LBJ should have shot their GD asses to hell, as gutless LBJ should have done all the way back in '67 when the Jews fired on the U.S. Liberty!
You've obviously misunderstood what good actually is --- if you ever did.
I reckon Julian will need at least a year to recuperate with his family. And there may well be medical bills that we cannot yet know about. I am hoping we can set up a pension fund for Julian, is that not the least the 'free' World owes him. So come on folks. A few more bucks, there's a lot of us. Who can organise us Chris? Perhaps George Galloway has the connections best wishes Dr Jo East Anglia
I believe, that our lesson regarding the vicious, barbaric, and the inexcusable state crimes against humanity that crosshaired Julian Assange for the last 14 years, teaches us, the American 99%, whom are not above the law, whether such is corrupt, anticonstitucional, totalitarian, full of terror and torture. or a burning fire of Hell we now see daily as it unfolds before our very eyes in Gaza, is that we have now learned, and we now know and we now understand, that we American 99% now stand in a tested and routinized jeopardy that we might refer to as the U.S Government’s Assange Nonstop Crosshair Herd Animal Administration of the said American 99%. Don’t think it wont or can’t happen. It’s ready happening. Our only hope and our humanity, both depend solely and totally on each other.
I sincerely wish for a reply. Thanks again for your decades of deeply principled and courageous work.
Allan Fix
just now
Agreed, absolutely: “The corporate state must be destroyed if we are to restore our open society and save our planet.” Chris: what do we do? You are a miraculous and utterly necessary prophet of doom, but: What do we do? Get out in the street? That’s it? Necessary but not sufficient. More practical advice, if any exists? *Please*? …Thank you so very much for your indispensable perspective.
Agreed, absolutely: “The corporate state must be destroyed if we are to restore our open society and save our planet.” Chris: what do we do? You are a miraculous and utterly necessary prophet of doom, but: What do we do? Get out in the street? That’s it? Necessary but not sufficient. More practical advice, if any exists? *Please*? …Thank you so very much for your indispensable perspective.
I wrote this tune Tell Me Why for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. Given the nature of the subject matter, I did not anticipate widespread recognition or attention. However, I committed myself fully to the project and collaborated with some of the finest jazz musicians to enhance my storytelling. If you wish, see the link below:
I beg to differ on one key point: The meisters of western power couldn't give a bean how many people object to their criminal mechanizations against Julian Assange or any one else.
The Democratic party decided to cut him loose to make themselves look good on television tomorrow night.
Good. Even with a self-serving reason, it happened. We have to be grateful.
I can't argue with that! Outcomes outweigh whatever the motivations of the authorities may have been, and we're all feeling very, very relieved and happy at this outcome. Welcome home, Julian!
You are probably correct on this point.....
"If you're not cynical by now, it probably means you've consumed too much Nutrasweet."
- Frank Zappa
Thank you so much Chris your report sums up the horrific injustices Julian Assange has suffered and the mafia type attacks and control the U S has done to him, the United States should be ashamed of itself on the one hand proclaiming a free press and on the other denying free press to Assange and almost killing him with persecution!, my hat is off to all who fought against this travesty of injustice! Thanks to all!!!
I am so grateful to you, Chris Hedges❣️
Thank you, Chris Hedges, for your efforts in exposing actions that, while not illegal due to the influence over the courts, are certainly immoral.
Thank you, Chris, for you constant voice for justice for Julian and for all people who are oppressed. We need a general strike to break the hold of the oppressor. We need to stop the wheels of cash we pump into a broken system that benefits those who take care of themselves only.
Yes, a general strike is the most effective. When we go out on the streets and then go back to work, it allows the amoral corporate/government powers to continue to grow. And Paul DuNard: yes, we must look after one another. The combination or refusing to work for the corporations and working for one another. I believe there is power in this combination. And we should start now, in little ways, in any way we can. Step out of the system and love and care for those around us.
Dear Julian,
We hope you enjoyed your 12 year visit to the UK, which the current leader of the UK Labour Party helped facilitate, with hospitality from the current Conservative government. We hope you were pleased with your marriage to you bride in the corridor of a top security prison, regretting that we are just too righteous to let anyone who doesn’t value the sanctity of US military helicopter gunships’ pilots’ privacy get married in the chapel in that venerated institution, one in which you were nevertheless lucky enough to make it onto the list of celebrity prisoners without even having to stand trial. The Prison Governor, the Prison Doctor and the former Home Secretary, none of whom could attend their diplomatically mandated meeting with the former UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer, send their best wishes by proxy, and probably marked the occasion of your plea bargain by dropping a memento of your visit in the water under the Tower bridge, possibly a PRESS tabard. You may see them on the beach now that you’re home in Australia, and being polite people, they may answer the question you’ve been asking for twelve years and more: Why do journalists go to jail for telling the truth?
If they can do this to a distinguished scholar and journalist like Assange, think what they can do to the peanut gallery.
P.S. No one will hear us scream.
No one will hear us scream unless lots of us scream and don't stop screaming and don't support corporations, and speak the truth. If enough of us keep up the fight, things will change. It may not be in my lifetime. But change: one way or another is inevitable. And if we keep at it, the chances for future generations are better.
And in the case that it gets worse, we can say we tried.
This ticks all the boxes so we need to keep at it.
Dear Chris Hedges, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, et. al. --- I sent this comment to "these 'TIMES' they are a-changing", the NYT, (but not in a good way) I am sending this to you to fully express that "You Ain't No Press" that I will ever read:
"Sorry I got you folks at the 'TIMES' all mixed up, with all the column titles that you've had to change this morning (or mourning), eh?"
I know what's coming down on you guys, with all that LONG GAME stuff caused by the Julian Assange revelation, but that's not what I'm dealing with now after the Revolutionary BOMB that Julian built-up against what little you did for journalism --- and went off today.
BTW, I'm only asking "these 'TIMES' they are a-changing" (and not in a good way), whether you know about the fiasco of letting the U.S. Army --- rather than the U.S. Navy being in charge of the planned (or 'fixed') deal of initially building the GAZA pier scam.
Hell, Capt Joel G. Stewart (Commodore, Naval Beach Group One (NBG 1) --- should have been in Command of landing food the correct and compassionate way.
A Navy CB Command, with anchoring 3 or 4 U.S. Navy Destroyers out in front of the pier could have easily calmed the waves and landed MEGA food relief to genocidal effect, with 'no sweat', EH?
And the back-up plan could have simply been to let the Destroyers fire up the asses of Nutanyahu's 'crime gang' ----- just as LBJ should have shot their GD asses to hell, as gutless LBJ should have done all the way back in '67 when the Jews fired on the U.S. Liberty!
You've obviously misunderstood what good actually is --- if you ever did.
I'm not waiting for my comment to appear. Bye.
I reckon Julian will need at least a year to recuperate with his family. And there may well be medical bills that we cannot yet know about. I am hoping we can set up a pension fund for Julian, is that not the least the 'free' World owes him. So come on folks. A few more bucks, there's a lot of us. Who can organise us Chris? Perhaps George Galloway has the connections best wishes Dr Jo East Anglia
A place to give support for Julian Assange:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/free-julian-assange#start
Please let me know how I can support Julian’s recovery!
I believe, that our lesson regarding the vicious, barbaric, and the inexcusable state crimes against humanity that crosshaired Julian Assange for the last 14 years, teaches us, the American 99%, whom are not above the law, whether such is corrupt, anticonstitucional, totalitarian, full of terror and torture. or a burning fire of Hell we now see daily as it unfolds before our very eyes in Gaza, is that we have now learned, and we now know and we now understand, that we American 99% now stand in a tested and routinized jeopardy that we might refer to as the U.S Government’s Assange Nonstop Crosshair Herd Animal Administration of the said American 99%. Don’t think it wont or can’t happen. It’s ready happening. Our only hope and our humanity, both depend solely and totally on each other.
I feel that you, Chris, are the one who saved Julian. I think you probably have the most respected voice in journalism today. All the best!
He's free for the moment.
I sincerely wish for a reply. Thanks again for your decades of deeply principled and courageous work.
Allan Fix
just now
Agreed, absolutely: “The corporate state must be destroyed if we are to restore our open society and save our planet.” Chris: what do we do? You are a miraculous and utterly necessary prophet of doom, but: What do we do? Get out in the street? That’s it? Necessary but not sufficient. More practical advice, if any exists? *Please*? …Thank you so very much for your indispensable perspective.
Agreed, absolutely: “The corporate state must be destroyed if we are to restore our open society and save our planet.” Chris: what do we do? You are a miraculous and utterly necessary prophet of doom, but: What do we do? Get out in the street? That’s it? Necessary but not sufficient. More practical advice, if any exists? *Please*? …Thank you so very much for your indispensable perspective.
I wrote this tune Tell Me Why for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. Given the nature of the subject matter, I did not anticipate widespread recognition or attention. However, I committed myself fully to the project and collaborated with some of the finest jazz musicians to enhance my storytelling. If you wish, see the link below:
https://youtu.be/nIYnQNWXnNc?si=CBiPwFQTqhUh0k-9