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Title: Julian Assange
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Aug 11, 2023 09:20 pm
https://youtu.be/HGOMg_TmFSU

We see that Trumps appointees (Pompea) we’re trying to get Assauge and Biden has done nothing to help matters.


Title: Re: Julian Assauge; Marianne Williamson calls out the lies of the U.S.
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Aug 11, 2023 09:26 pm
https://youtu.be/M8-eBSkWcnk

Trump indicted Assuage. Biden does nothing, carrying on his views. Marianne calls out the lies of the government. Very sober evaluation of the Americans knowledge and concern.


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: guest587 on Aug 11, 2023 10:43 pm
Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund described January 6 as a “cover-up” in a leaked interview with Tucker Carlson that Fox News refused to air, the National Pulse revealed.

https://banned.video/watch?id=64d67ccc3a4bee58427e32c2

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In never-before-seen footage that was withheld by Fox News, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that January 6th was a complete debacle and a “cover up.”

“Everything appears to be a cover up,” Sund tells Carlson in footage obtained by the National Pulse. “Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” he continued. “…but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes…“
https://www.infowars.com/posts/capitol-police-chief-challenged-j6-narrative-in-never-aired-tucker-carlson-interview/

It Was Pelosi: Former Capitol Police Chief Reveals 'Set Up' Behind January 6
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Perhaps most damning is Sund's claim that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to authorize the deployment of the National Guard at the Capitol despite Sund's pleas, and that federal agencies withheld information and warning signs of potential dangers prior to the riot.

"It doesn’t seem like people really want to get to the bottom of it," said Sund, adding "It really doesn’t. And it just gets worse. It gets worse from there."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-was-pelosi-former-capitol-police-chief-reveals-set-behind-january-6





Title: Re: calls out the lies of the U.S.
Post by: guest587 on Aug 11, 2023 11:03 pm
Just responding to this thread as a continuation of the words you used here,
"calling out the lies of the U.S."

"The problem is there are partisans littered throughout the legal system"
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Senator Rand Paul told Fox News Thursday that in the case of Anthony Fauci “I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer case of perjury in the history of government testimony, and I don’t say that lightly.”

Paul explained that Fauci “said adamantly that the government never funded this [coronavirus] gain-of-function research.”

“We now have the Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has admitted that the funding came from the NIH,” Paul continued, adding “We have the acting director [Lawrence] Tabak, of the NIH, admitting it in writing that it came from the NIH.”

Paul further noted that “the smoking gun… is Fauci in private saying the opposite of what he was saying in public when he was publicly telling me that absolutely, we do not fund gain-of-function research in China.”

“He says privately we are suspicious that the virus has been manipulated and we are suspicious because we know they are doing gain-of-function research. He then goes on to describe the research, and it’s exactly the research that the NIH funded,” the Senator urged.

“The problem is there are partisans littered throughout the legal system, and people are seeing this. You don’t get prosecuted if you’re a Democrat under this administration, no matter what you do,” Paul warned.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/rand-paul-no-clearer-case-of-perjury-in-the-history-of-government-testimony-than-fauci/
Ain't that the truth?


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: guest587 on Aug 13, 2023 03:38 am
Sen. Ron Johnson says COVID was intentionally released by an elite group of people who want to take control of peoples lives.
https://banned.video/watch?id=64d804e53a4bee5842dec5dd

The woman ask why couldn't people know there were alternatives to treat COVID? The truth is there were, and it was vilified. Propaganda efforts helped manipulate public opinion. Doctors and Pharmacists were threatened they'd lose their license if they prescribed Ivermectin. HCQ was also vilified. Dr. Zelenko was vilified even though he came up with the Zelenko protocol, a proven method used to treat COVID. Why??? Because the experimental clot shot injections would have never been approved if there were cheaper remedies made available.

(https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=710,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/145/163/884/original/b24cb0f4cd46fe8b.jpeg)


Title: Re: calls out the lies of the U.S.
Post by: guest587 on Aug 18, 2023 07:25 pm
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The CIA is being sued over helping the Joe Biden campaign in 2020 unleash the so-called "Dirty 51" letter through which a list of former intelligence officials sought to interfere in the election by describing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal as Russian disinformation.

The fact is that authorities knew at the time the letter was released that the information from the laptop was accurate.

"The Deep State CIA, it seems, engaged in election interference and a political operation against the American people to help Joe Biden and hurt Trump,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And now the CIA is ignoring FOIA law to cover up its role in the scandal, censoring and suppressing the Hunter Biden/Joe Biden laptop story just before the presidential election."
https://www.wnd.com/2023/08/cia-sued-helping-biden-campaign-unleash-dirty-51-letter-interfere-election/



Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: guest587 on Aug 31, 2023 04:46 am
Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund described January 6 as a “cover-up” in a leaked interview with Tucker Carlson that Fox News refused to air, the National Pulse revealed.

https://banned.video/watch?id=64d67ccc3a4bee58427e32c2

Quote
In never-before-seen footage that was withheld by Fox News, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that January 6th was a complete debacle and a “cover up.”

“Everything appears to be a cover up,” Sund tells Carlson in footage obtained by the National Pulse. “Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” he continued. “…but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes…“
https://www.infowars.com/posts/capitol-police-chief-challenged-j6-narrative-in-never-aired-tucker-carlson-interview/

It Was Pelosi: Former Capitol Police Chief Reveals 'Set Up' Behind January 6
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Perhaps most damning is Sund's claim that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to authorize the deployment of the National Guard at the Capitol despite Sund's pleas, and that federal agencies withheld information and warning signs of potential dangers prior to the riot.

"It doesn’t seem like people really want to get to the bottom of it," said Sund, adding "It really doesn’t. And it just gets worse. It gets worse from there."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-was-pelosi-former-capitol-police-chief-reveals-set-behind-january-6





"We at Revolver News are proud to have oriented the national discussion of January 6 to include a critical focus on the likely role of provocateurs and government actors in what is now appropriately termed the “Fedsurrection.” The smoking guns of this Fedsurrection remain the curious case of Ray Epps and the clear cover-up job and hoax associated with the so-called January 6 Pipe Bombs.

Apart from Ray Epps and the Pipe Bomb, however, we have reported on the actions of other key players in January 6th whose behavior warrants extreme suspicion. For instance, there is the bizarre case of an as of yet unindicted, unidentified man known to researchers as #Fencecutterbulwark."

https://revolver.news/2023/08/undercover-cop-caught-cutting-fences-new-jan-6-evidence-intensifies-suspicions-surrounding-key-fedsurrection-player/


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Aug 31, 2023 12:44 pm
Eric;

I fail to see any correlation between your last five posts here and the topic of the thread, which is ‘Julian Assuage’. Your last 5 posts here were primarily about the insurrection of the United States government and looking at your posts on this thread I saw no mention of Julian Assuage, who was not involved in the insurrection of the United States government. In fact he was in prison at the time in another country.

Since these posts are all in an undesignated area for them and the information appears to be incorrect as well, I have created a new thread addressing the assertions you have provided above.

I appreciate your understanding on this matter. You are also welcome to respond at;

Dear Members,

I want you to check out "Correction of members points" on Spiritual Portal. To view it, please click this link:

http://spiritualportal.net/index.php?topic=8708.0

A comment has also been added regarding this topic:
Correction of a members points

Thanks,
Jitendra Hydonus


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: guest587 on Aug 31, 2023 02:55 pm
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Just responding to this thread as a continuation of the words you used here,
"calling out the lies of the U.S."

This picture may share a similar predicament to that of Julian Assange and similarly the subjects discussed herein-

(https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=710,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/146/741/787/original/582fb96f43340f0b.jpeg)

And of course,

(https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=710,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/146/753/368/original/4ba3e06484dcce1d.jpeg)



Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Aug 31, 2023 05:42 pm
Quote
Just responding to this thread as a continuation of the words you used here,
"calling out the lies of the U.S."

This picture may share a similar predicament to that of Julian Assange and similarly the subjects discussed herein-

(https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=710,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/146/741/787/original/582fb96f43340f0b.jpeg)

And of course,

(https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=710,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/146/753/368/original/4ba3e06484dcce1d.jpeg)


Eric; Although I quite often agree with you, even on some political matters, there are times I also disagree. At these times of respectably disagreement, it does not help to say something was a quote of something you think I said without that quote in its entirety. As an example; I myself did not make any such quote that you provided above ( in this post ) with the word ‘quote’ as though I had said it. Please provide such statements.

I will say this though; both Daniel Elsberg and Mariam Williamson have provided a lot of evidence in the interview above that shows the government was involved with lies. But you put up ‘so called lies ‘ involved with the Jan 6 insurrection. Those lies were not the same as what Williamson and Ellsberg discussed above. In fact the lies you have brought into this thread are lies that the Trump supporters attempted to claim about the election results and the overthrow of our government. A different matter and topic to be separated from this one.


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: guest587 on Aug 31, 2023 10:18 pm
Hi Steve, I think you're confused on this quoting issue. I was quoting my own words from a few replies up. Separately. It's okay you disagree Brother. I clearly disagree with some of your views, but I do not feel the need to correct you or your beliefs. I do not feel the need to defend my own either. I will continue to share topics of interest, and provide plenty of content on this forum. Some content people will agree with, some content people will disagree with. It's that simple.

I haven't much to say, am feeling really good right now. If it pleases you to add something more, by all means:



:)


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Sep 01, 2023 11:31 am
Hi Steve, I think you're confused on this quoting issue. I was quoting my own words from a few replies up. Separately. It's okay you disagree Brother. I clearly disagree with some of your views, but I do not feel the need to correct you or your beliefs. I do not feel the need to defend my own either. I will continue to share topics of interest, and provide plenty of content on this forum. Some content people will agree with, some content people will disagree with. It's that simple.

I haven't much to say, am feeling really good right now. If it pleases you to add something more, by all means:



:)

Interesting take on events friend. And I’m feeling good also! Perhaps 🤔 you can explain this…..

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Just responding to this thread as a continuation of the words you used here,
"calling out the lies of the U.S."

Notice you used the word ‘you’.




Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: guest587 on Sep 01, 2023 02:50 pm
Yes... Because I was, "adding on" as a "continuation" to the title you've written in your second post-

'...calls out the lies of the US'

Here is the full title, "you" have written out-

Re: Julian Assauge; Marianne Williamson calls out the lies of the U.S.

I did not include the full title because I was adding separate but similar discussion... Do you get it? As in, those are the words that stood out to me- so I was responding to that, and in the end... Much of what I share is indeed relatable to the OT (original topic)- but if it is not... So what? Do our conversations always follow linearly your order of operations? No...

Sometimes people say something and conversations go in other directions. Though it is quite a skill to help redirect others back and show how it all relates. Julian Assange is calling out not just lies but criminal activity perpetuated by our own. Clinton is heavily involved with the Wikileaks scandal, and do you remember all that crap about her emails?

Do you also remember when they said Ivermectin was not good for treating COVID? Not only was that a lie, but our own institutions behavior was criminal. Where are the Julian Assange's of today?

There are people leaking information and blowing whistles that are vilified by our institutions and government. And the stories I have decided to share I find to be of a similar nature to the subject presented by you.

To me, this is not a matter of quoting you out of context. You are not being accused and I am adding additional content. Again... a continuation or- "piggybacking" off choice words.

....???


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Sep 01, 2023 03:17 pm
Yes... Because I was, "adding on" as a "continuation" to the title you've written in your second post-

'...calls out the lies of the US'

Here is the full title, "you" have written out-

Re: Julian Assauge; Marianne Williamson calls out the lies of the U.S.

I did not include the full title because I was adding separate but similar discussion... Do you get it? As in, those are the words that stood out to me- so I was responding to that, and in the end... Much of what I share is indeed relatable to the OT (original topic)- but if it is not... So what? Do our conversations always follow linearly your order of operations? No...

Sometimes people say something and conversations go in other directions. Though it is quite a skill to help redirect others back and show how it all relates. Julian Assange is calling out not just lies but criminal activity perpetuated by our own. Clinton is heavily involved with the Wikileaks scandal, and do you remember all that crap about her emails?

Do you also remember when they said Ivermectin was not good for treating COVID? Not only was that a lie, but our own institutions behavior was criminal. Where are the Julian Assange's of today?

There are people leaking information and blowing whistles that are vilified by our institutions and government. And the stories I have decided to share I find to be of a similar nature to the subject presented by you.

To me, this is not a matter of quoting you out of context. You are not being accused and I am adding additional content. Again... a continuation or- "piggybacking" off choice words.

....???

I thought someone may be interested in Mariam Williamson and her calling out the government. That’s why I used the title above; Julian Assauge; Marianne Williamson calls out the lies of the U.S.

So you see it is not about me and my views. I’m exploring the candidates in this thread Eric. That is why your inserts were confusing to me. Let us find out who Mariam Williston is, I’ve already heard your views on other topics you’ve presented above. Thanks


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: guest587 on Sep 01, 2023 04:08 pm
Okay Steve 👌

And if I post something you've already heard, you can also choose not to respond.

I can't guarantee I won't address or re-address issues I find interesting.

Doing so is not an attack on your character either.


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Sep 01, 2023 07:33 pm
Okay Steve 👌

And if I post something you've already heard, you can also choose not to respond.

I can't guarantee I won't address or re-address issues I find interesting.

Doing so is not an attack on your character either.


I don’t recall ever having the impression that you have attacked my character Eric. I also am not aware of doing that to you. Yet we are here to gain awareness and support in becoming better spiritual aspirants.

I see you as a lover of God and a practicer of spiritual disciplines, that is attempting to help others in their spiritual unfoldment while receptive to learning yourself. I know that Marianne Williamson is a pastor and wrote several books. I haven’t seen a spiritual leader also involved in politics in our nation, so I went to see her. I think Robert Kennedy has a lot of experience at legal matters and appears to have taken a life long commitment to helping the middle class and breaking down obstacles among people.

Marianne Williamson has also taken a strong stand about the economic disparities in the United States. I have just started taking an interest in Marianne. I saw her in Detroit and asked her a question about are government coverups and she did say that there are still many good people in this country, and mentioned that Julian Assauge should be pardoned. She has written many spiritual self help books and was noticed by Oprah, which helped catapult her to national fame. I am aware of her because she had huge crowds of people attending her church services.

As you know conventional Christianity has never really impressed me. Yet I have found isolated cases in for instance ‘Episcopal’, ‘Unity’ and other more tolerant Christian groups that even have some meditation. Both my Mother and and Father were involved quite a bit with Christian churches and my physical family had strong interests in the Christian community. Although being a minister in itself is no sign of spirituality we’ve had ministers in the recent family tree. And there are also some Christian friends that I’ve been blessed to have in life. So I’m now also interested in her and her journey through life and what she offers to the world.



Title: Re: Julian Assange
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Feb 20, 2024 10:19 am
https://www.aol.com/wikileaks-founder-assange-starts-final-051804387.html

Assange faces final legal battle to avoid getting extradited to the U.S.


Title: Re: Julian Assange
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on May 21, 2024 09:25 am
First I would like to address an issue this site has on ‘guests’ hacking into our site. Members are invited to our site, so called ‘anonymous guests’ are not. We have no idea 🤷‍♂️ who they are or the purpose of their intrusions since they were not invited, nor have they registered as members here.

LONDON (AP) — The host of a news conference about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition fight wryly welcomed journalists last week to the “millionth” press briefing on his court case.

Deborah Bonetti, director of the Foreign Press Association, was only half joking. Assange’s legal saga has dragged on for well over a decade but it could come to an end in the U.K. as soon as Monday.

Assange faces a hearing in London's High Court that could end with him being sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, or provide him another chance to appeal his extradition.

The outcome will depend on how much weight judges give to reassurances U.S. officials have provided that Assange's rights won't be trampled if he goes on trial.

Here's a look at the case:

WHAT ASSANGE IS CHARGED WITH

Assange, 52, an Australian computer expert, has been indicted in the U.S. on 18 charges over Wikileaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010.

Prosecutors say he conspired with U.S. army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer and release secret diplomatic cables and military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He faces 17 counts of espionage and one charge of computer misuse. If convicted, his lawyers say he could receive a prison term of up to 175 years, though American authorities have said any sentence is likely to be much lower.

Assange and his supporters argue he acted as a journalist to expose U.S. military wrongdoing and is protected under press freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Among the files published by WikiLeaks was video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack by American forces in Baghdad that killed 11 people, including two Reuters journalists.

“Julian has been indicted for receiving, possessing and communicating information to the public of evidence of war crimes committed by the U.S. government,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “Reporting a crime is never a crime.”

U.S. lawyers say Assange is guilty of trying to hack the Pentagon computer and that WikiLeaks’ publications created a “grave and imminent risk” to U.S. intelligence sources in Afghanistan and Iraq.

WHY THE CASE HAS DRAGGED ON SO LONG

While the U.S. criminal case against Assange was only unsealed in 2019, his freedom has been restricted for a dozen years.

Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012 and was granted political asylum after courts in England ruled he should be extradited to Sweden as part of a rape investigation in the Scandinavian country.

He was arrested by British police after Ecuador’s government withdrew his asylum status in 2019 and then jailed for skipping bail when he first took shelter inside the embassy.

Although Sweden eventually dropped its sex crimes investigation because so much time had elapsed, Assange has remained in London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison while the extradition battle with the U.S. continues.

His wife said his mental and physical health have deteriorated behind bars.

“He’s fighting to survive and that’s a daily battle,” she said.

A judge in London initially blocked Assange’s transfer to the U.S. in 2021 on the grounds he was likely to kill himself if held in harsh American prison conditions.

But subsequent courts cleared the way for the move after U.S. authorities provided assurances he wouldn’t experience the severe treatment that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk.

The British government authorized Assange's extradition in 2022.

WHAT THE LATEST HEARING IS ABOUT

Assange's lawyers raised nine grounds for appeal at a hearing in February, including the allegation that his prosecution is political.

The court accepted three of his arguments, issuing a provisional ruling in March that said Assange could take his case to the Court of Appeal unless the U.S. guaranteed he would not face the death penalty if extradited and would have the same free speech protections as a U.S. citizen.

The U.S. provided those reassurances three weeks later, though his supporters are skeptical.

Stella Assange said the “so-called assurances” were made up of “weasel words.”

WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said the judges had asked if Assange could rely on First Amendment protections.

“It should be an easy yes or no question,” Hrafnsson said. “The answer was, ‘He can seek to rely on First Amendment protections.’ That is a ‘no.’ So the only rational decision on Monday is for the judges to come out and say, ‘This is not good enough.’ Anything else is a judicial scandal.”

THE POSSIBLE OUTCOMES

If Assange prevails, it would set the stage for an appeal process likely to further drag out the case.

If an appeal is rejected, his legal team plans to ask the European Court of Human Rights to intervene. But his supporters fear Assange could possibly be transferred before the court in Strasbourg, France, could halt his removal.

“Julian is just one decision away from being extradited,” his wife said.

Assange, who hopes to be in court Monday, has been encouraged by the work others have done in the political fight to free him, his wife said.

If he loses in court, he still may have another shot at freedom.

President Joe Biden said last month that he was considering a request from Australia to drop the case and let Assange return to his home country.

Officials have no other details but Stella Assange said it was “a good sign” and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the comment was encouraging.


https://www.aol.com/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-facing-065837812.html


Title: Re: Julian Assauge
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Jun 25, 2024 02:35 am
Assange was indicted during former President Donald Trump's administration over WikiLeaks' mass release of secret U.S. documents, which were leaked by Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. military intelligence analyst who was also prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

We see that Trumps appointees (Pompea) we’re trying to get Assauge and Biden has done nothing to help matters.

U.S. prosecutors filed criminal paperwork against Assange, 52, that is typically a preliminary step before a plea deal. It outlines a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to filings in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

Quote
Just responding to this thread as a continuation of the words you used here,
"calling out the lies of the U.S."

This picture may share a similar predicament to that of Julian Assange and similarly the subjects discussed herein-

(https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=710,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/146/741/787/original/582fb96f43340f0b.jpeg)

And of course,




https://www.aol.com/wikileaks-assange-expected-plead-guilty-231008917.html

https://apple.news/AXX0NZRLkTEaA6CnYAq4d0Q


Title: Re: Julian Assange
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Jun 27, 2024 08:30 pm
https://apple.news/AUpxsnQbmR-6DlGYSI4LWPA

Julian Assange free!

But his wife, Stella Assange, on Thursday offered a glimpse of how her husband is planning to return to normal life, as she appealed to the public to give him space to “rest and recover.”

“He is just savoring freedom for the first time in 14 years,” she said. “Julian plans to swim in the ocean every day. He plans to sleep in a real bed, he plans to taste real food, and he plans to enjoy his freedom.”


Title: Re: Julian Assange
Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Jun 29, 2024 01:25 pm
Weboflife; this is in recognition of your country the so called ‘criminals’ of the British Empire, where a great journalist has shown his beautiful colors to the world. We should take an example here in the land of the cult of clones. This article is so important-from the Guardian-that I included it again under Julian Assuage,who has endured humiliation at the hands of the U.S. government, who are indeed the real guilty ones, causing this whole saga:  That is if the truth be told. Because there would be no such story to tell if it were not for the guilty ones that created it. But truth seems a fading quality now, and is not a priority of the government of the United Clones of Ameridictators.

Julian Assange is finally free – but what does his case mean for the media?

in-chief   Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief
 
On Wednesday, Julian Assange walked free. After 12 years of confinement, the WikiLeaks founder accepted a deal to plead guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence information.

Reporters from our Guardian Australia team and foreign affairs correspondent Helen Davidson were at the centre of a whirlwind 24 hours during which Assange was released from jail, appeared at a courthouse in the remote US outpost of Saipan and returned to Australia a free man. Helen’s dispatch from the courtroom captured the emotional intensity of the moment when Assange’s 14-year legal saga came to an abrupt end.

As our editorial made clear, Assange should never have been charged with espionage. And while it is clearly good news that he has been released, the charge for which he pleaded guilty is alarming for those invested in the cause of press freedom.

The WikiLeaks trove, published in collaboration with news outlets including the Guardian, revealed appalling abuses by the US and other governments: abuses that would not otherwise have been exposed, and for which no one has been held liable. The act under which Assange was charged allows no defence in the public interest. This theoretically means that future US administrations – including a potential Donald Trump White House – could use the result of the Assange case as encouragement to pursue the press.

The years since Assange first entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London have not been good for press freedom. Journalists are in physical and legal peril across the world. This week, we published several other stories about threats to the press. They included an investigation, in collaboration with other media groups and Forbidden Stories, into the deaths of more than 100 journalists in Gaza since the war began.

We also covered the beginning of the closed-door trial of the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich, who is accused by Russia of spying, charges that he, his employer and the US government have described as politically motivated. And, in India, the novelist Arundhati Roy, an outspoken critic of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, is being prosecuted under anti-terrorism legislation for comments made about Kashmir in 2010. Amrit Dhillon reported on a letter signed by more than 200 academics, activists and journalists protesting against the decision.

With the far right on the rise, and the spectre of a Trump presidency on the horizon after the alarming TV debate with Joe Biden on Thursday night, things could get worse for the free press. It’s vital we stand up for it.