This is a video version of my article, OP-ED: If Ecuador Withdraws Support And Protection From Julian Assange, It Will Be A Tragedy originally published with Disobedient Media. Both the article and this video are my own intellectual property.
Please donate if you can, to Julian Assange's Legal Defense Fund.
Suzie Dawson's masterpiece, Being Julian Assange is a must-read and extremely useful in conversations with people who have bought false media narratives about Assange and Wikileaks. Archived version available here, and provided explicitly because Suzie's sites are often taken down/censored
Excerpt from the article:
"As the list of powerful enemies of WikiLeaks has grown lengthy, the crowd of mainstream journalists willing to speak out on behalf of Julian Assange has become shorter by the year. This is in part thanks to the “whole-of-government” attempts to destroy WikiLeaks, both overtly and covertly, through tangible attacks and attacks on the character of WikiLeaks’ Editor-In-Chief.
For that reason, Ecuador’s support for Assange is more critical now than it has ever been. At the beginning of Julian’s stay in the embassy, he was visited by many well-known public figures who would stand for his life to be protected. That group has sadly been shortened, both through the propagation of false media narratives about him and by unfortunate, untimely deaths.
If Assange continues to be isolated from the outside world, or in the worst-case scenario loses asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the loss to investigative journalism will impact the entire planet. Corrupt politicians, warmongers, technocrats and intelligence agencies will breathe a loud sigh of relief. The light that WikiLeaks shines on the corrupt plutocracy will be irrevocably dimmed. Powers and interests behind the architecture of global war will operate in secret without fear of exposure.
Dangerously inept intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, would continue to operate outside the purview of public vision. We would have lost an important public voice warning us of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Whistleblowers may be less likely to turn to somewhere that their anonymity will be 100% secured and protected, as we have seen in WikiLeaks’ actions towards alleged sources such as Chelsea Manning. WikiLeaks’ protection and advocacy on behalf of its sources is absolutely unmatched."
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Thank you!
People like Assange and Edward Snowden are personal heroes of mine. They sacrificed everything in order to expose very ugly truths that exist in this world. It's nice to see what some might call rogue journalists such as yourself supporting the flow of the real, honest to God truth, not just the BS propaganda spewed by the mainstream media who are mere puppets being controlled by dark and powerful forces within government, corporate america, and the banking cabal.
I'm happy to see people such as you coming to the steemit platform and I know the rewards can be very small and maybe disappointing right now but hopefully that will change. This is the kind of thing that needs to be hitting the trending page but unfortunately a lot of the big players on this platform are too busy enriching themselves and their friends to notice that they could use the power they now hold to bring important information like this into the spotlight in the steemit world.
Please keep doing what you're doing here, we need all the independent journalists we can get who are bringing up critical issues such as this piece about Julian Assange. I hope that eventually you and others like you will eventually get more recognition and rewards for what you're doing here.
Thank you so much! I have a lot of hope and faith in Steemit as a platform, in the overall fight against censorship thanks to saving indie media's work in blockchain. Thank you for the encouragement and support, I really appreciate it!!
Great :) what motivated you to do this videos?
Julian Assange's loss of communication with the outside world.
Great i like it too