{"id":403294,"date":"2019-04-18T01:25:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/julian-assange-and-the-agenda-for-global-war\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T01:25:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:25:26","slug":"julian-assange-and-the-agenda-for-global-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/julian-assange-and-the-agenda-for-global-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange and the Agenda for Global War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/04\/the-prosecution-of-julian-assange-is-a-threat-to-journalists-everywhere\/supporters-of-julian-assange-gather-outside-westminster-court-after-assanges-arrest-photo-by-wiktor-szymanowicz-for-afp-nurphoto-e1555271701228\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91243\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/supporters-of-julian-assange-gather-outside-westminster-court-after-assanges-arrest.-photo-by-wiktor-szymanowicz-for-afp-nurphoto-e1555271701228-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-91243\" \/><\/a>For almost a decade Washington has sought to silence, jail and eliminate the world\u2019s most prominent investigative journalist, Julian Assange (JA) and his team of co-workers at WikiLeaks (WL).<\/p>\n<p>            Never has the mass media been so thoroughly discredited by official documents which directly contradict the official propaganda, mouthed by political leaders and parroted by \u2018leading\u2019 journalists.<\/p>\n<p>            Washington is particularly intent on capturing JA because his revelations have had a particularly powerful impact on the US public, political critics, the alternative media and human rights groups in turning them against US wars in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>            We will proceed by discussing what JA and WL accomplished and why the particular \u2018cutting edge\u2019 of their reportage disturbed the government.<\/p>\n<p>            We will then discus the \u2018ongoing\u2019 conflicts and the failure of the White House to score a decisive victory, as factors which has led Washington to intensify its efforts to make JA an \u2018example\u2019 to other journalists \u2013 demanding that they should \u2018shape up\u2019 or pay the consequences including imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context for Whistleblowing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            By the end of a decade of war, opposition to the US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan had spread to sectors of the military and civilian establishment. Documents were leaked and critics were encouraged to hand over reports revealing war crimes and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/04\/julian-assange-and-the-agenda-for-global-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost a decade Washington has sought to silence, jail and eliminate the world\u2019s most prominent investigative journalist, Julian Assange (JA) and his team of co-workers at WikiLeaks (WL). Never has the mass media been so thoroughly discredited by official documents which directly contradict the official propaganda, mouthed by political leaders and parroted by \u2018leading\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}