Home Title Index Topic Index Sources Directory News Releases Sources Calendar

Crucifying Julian Assange

Hedges, Chris
http://countercurrents.org/2018/11/14/crucifying-julian-assange/

Publisher:  Countercurrents
Date Written:  14/11/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.

Abstract: 
--

Excerpt:

Assange was once feted and courted by some of the largest media organizations in the world, including The New York Times and The Guardian, for the information he possessed. But once his trove of material documenting U.S. war crimes, much of it provided by Chelsea Manning, was published by these media outlets he was pushed aside and demonized. A leaked Pentagon document prepared by the Cyber Counterintelligence Assessments Branch dated March 8, 2008, exposed a black propaganda campaign to discredit WikiLeaks and Assange. The document said the smear campaign should seek to destroy the "feeling of trust" that is WikiLeaks' "center of gravity" and blacken Assange's reputation. It largely has worked.

Sources-journalists use the sources website to find you


AlterLinks
c/o Sources


© 2023.