_____ (2021-12-26). On Contact: Slow-Motion Execution Of Julian Assange. popularresistance.org On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the torture of Julian Assange with his father, John Shipton. | Julian Assange committed the empire's greatest sin — he exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption, and innumerable war crimes. Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Labour, Trump or Biden — it does not matter. The goons who oversee the empire sing from the same satanic songbook. Empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.

_____ (2021-12-26). For Third Year, Committee To Protect Journalists Excludes Assange From Jailed Journalist Index. popularresistance.org A record number of journalists are imprisoned throughout the world, according to the annual prison index released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). But that number excludes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. | CPJ, which is based in New York, opposes the United States Justice Department's prosecution against Assange. However, for the third year, the press freedom organization declined to classify him as a jailed journalist. | In the organization's press release on the 2021 index, it states, "No journalists were jailed in North America at the time of the census deadline." That may be true, but it obscu…

_____ (2021-12-25). Maturity Is Realizing That Propaganda Isn't Something That Only Happens to Other People. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | What I find interesting is that it's not just coming from complete mainstream normies; a lot of the pushback I'm getting comes from people who've succeeded in seeing through other western propaganda narratives on fronts like Russia, Syria, or Julian Assange. They're just as brainwashed about China as any uncritical consumer of TV news, but because they get their information from people like Tucker Carlson and other so-called "right-populists" who have disputed those other narratives, they assume they are safe from mass media indoctrination. | And a liberal who gets their information from Th…

Maha Hilal (2021-12-25). Guantánamo Film Ignores the War on Terror's Ongoing Tangible Harms. truthout.org "There is no them, there is only us," says filmmaker Alex Gibney reflecting on the story of Abu Zubaydah, a torture victim and Guantánamo prisoner who is the focus of his HBO documentary, The Forever Prisoner. Expanding on this, he poses a challenge: "If we believe in that idea, how can we imprison a man without charge for the remainder of his life — not for what he did to us, but for what we did to him?" In this statement made at the conclusion of the documentary, Gibney explicitly notes that the…