How Julian Assange Exposes The Tentacles Of White Empire
First he showed us with leaks. Now he’s showing us with his life
An Australian citizen was chased out of Sweden, and sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He was spied on in there, eventually dragged out, and jailed in the UK. Now he’s being extradited to the United States. His crime? Reporting on the war crimes of the United States, the heirs to White Empire. Assange’s biggest expose of that empire’s existence and malevolence was not his reporting. It is the ruin they have made of his life. His human sacrifice.
As his predecessor, the Vietnam War whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said to an incredulous Politico:
Ellsberg contended America still runs a “covert empire” around the world, embodied in the U.S. domination of NATO. He believes Washington deliberately provoked Vladimir Putin into invading Ukraine by pushing its seat of power eastward toward Russia’s borders; that the mainstream media is “complicit” in allowing the government to keep secrets it has no right to withhold; and that any notion Americans are ever the “good guys” abroad “has always been false.”
Why does Politico (sponsored by Lockheed Martin) put “covert empire” in scare quotes? What do they think the CIA is doing? Why does America have 750 military…
