The UK’s Decision to Extradite Assange Shows Why The US/UK’s Freedom Lectures Are a Farce By Gleen Greenwald Staff

[Manuel Tavares]

The UK’s Decision to Extradite Assange Shows Why The US/UK’s Freedom Lectures Are a Farce
By Gleen Greenwald Staff
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-uks-decision-to-extradite-assange.html

People protest with t-shirts and easter eggs at Largo di Torre
Argentina to demand Julian Assange's freedom against
extradition, on April 11, 2022 in Rome, Italy.
(Photo by Simona Granati - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

The eleven-year persecution of Julian Assange was extended and escalated on Friday morning. The British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, approved the US’s extradition request to send Julian Assange to Virginia to stand trial on eighteen felony charges under the 1917 Espionage Act and other statutes in connection with the 2010 publication by WikiLeaks of thousands of documents showing widespread corruption, deceit, and war crimes by American and British authorities along with their close dictatorial allies in the Middle East.

This decision is unsurprising — it has been obvious for years that the US and UK are determined to destroy Assange as punishment for his journalism exposing their crimes — yet it nonetheless further highlights the utter sham of American and British sermons about freedom, democracy and a free press. Those performative self-glorifying spectacles are constantly deployed to justify these two countries’ interference in and attacks on other nations, and to allow their citizens to feel a sense of superiority about the nature of their governments. After all, if the US and UK stand for freedom and against tyranny, who could possibly oppose their wars and interventions in the name of advancing such lofty goals and noble values?+++
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