In The Western World Truth Is An Endangered Species

The US government’s persecution of Julian Assange represents the departure from truth of the government as well as the media that enables it.

Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves after greeting supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, May 19, 2017 (AP/Frank Augstein)

Nowhere in the Western world is truth respected. Even universities are imposing censorship and speech control. Governments are shutting down, and will eventually criminalize, all explanations that differ from official ones. The Western world no longer has a print and TV media. In its place, there is a propaganda ministry for the ruling

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Senate Bill Targets WikiLeaks, Russia, Independent Press and the First Amendment

With the Russian meddling narrative serving as pretext, the U.S. Senate, embracing the “Pompeo Doctrine,” is moving to stifle and criminalize WikiLeaks and, by extension, any such “dangerous,” transparency-providing entities that threaten to cast doubt upon Washington’s “official stories.”

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing Congress to label WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” having adopted that very position in the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) it approved last month. The terminology used in the bill originates from a speech given in April by CIA director Mike Pompeo, who called the

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Assange: WikiLeaks Will Publish Enough Emails To Indict Clinton

The WikiLeaks founder is no fan of Hillary Clinton, telling a reporter that ‘she’s pushed for prosecution of WikiLeaks’ and ‘has a long history of being a lethal war hawk.’

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center, accompanied by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, left, speaks at a rally.

MINNEAPOLIS --- As WikiLeaks prepares to publish more of Hillary Clinton’s emails, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, suggested they show Clinton violated the law. “We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton,” Assange told Robert Peston, host of the ITV News program “Peston on Sunday” on June

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Assange: Google Heavily Integrated With The US Establishment

US tech giant Google is heavily integrated with the US establishment and is allying with the US exceptionalism campaign, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
GoogleWeb

As much as 80 percent of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) budget is privatized, demonstrating the merger between Washington and corporate organizations, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday. A video link up with Julian Assange, journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, at the session, End of the Monopoly: The Open

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New WikiLeaks Release Exposes ‘Most Highly Classified’ NSA Spy Ops

Among the NSA’s targets was UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. “If the Secretary General can be targeted without consequence then everyone from world leader to street sweeper is at risk,” says Julian Assange

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
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New documents published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday reveal more of the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) spying operations on foreign leaders, including its interception of climate talks between UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The cables, some of which are marked "Top Secret" and which WikiLeaks says are the

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Julian Assange Claims Total Vindication With UN Panel Ruling

The 44-year-old computer hacker’s lawyers said he must be allowed to walk free immediately and given protection from possible extradition to the United States.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
A figure depicts Julian Assange on a cross on top of a supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a vigil outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

LONDON  — A United Nations human rights panel has sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his long-running battle with Swedish and British authorities, saying he should be allowed to walk free immediately and compensated for the years he has lost. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which falls under the offices of the U.N.

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