Friday, October 11, 2019

254 FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK

Julian Assange seven years asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy is over and his extradition to the United States is eminent. Assange is an Australian citizen, not an American! Yet some US politicians and the mainstream western corporate media claim him guilty of treason, because he published official classified documents leaked to Wikileaks, revealing appalling American war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world.  Assange has done only what every investigate journalist and editor is expected to do:i.e  revealing the truth! It is strictly impossible under the US Constitution  for reporting of facts to be spying. The function of the media is to expose and to hold  accountable the government.. Sadly this function is no longer performed by our ever more insouciant and compliant western news outlets. Free speech the  corner stone of  true democracy. no  longer exist and we should all be extremely concerned.
Press 18/4/'19