In The
Western World Truth Is An Endangered Species:
Come To Its Support
By Paul
Craig Roberts
June
11, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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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 elite.
Whistleblowers are prosecuted and imprisoned
despite their protection by federal statue. The
US Department of Justice is a Department of
Injustice. It has been a long time since any
justice flowed from the DOJ.
The
total corruption of the print and TV media led
to the rise of Intermet media such as Wikileaks,
led by Julian Assange, a prisoner since 2012.
Assange
is an Australian and Ecuadorian citizen. He is
not an American citizen. Yet US politicians and
media claim that he is guilty of treason because
he published official documents leaked to
Wikileaks that prove the duplicity and
criminality of the US government.
It is
strickly impossible for a non-citizen to be
guilty of treason. It is strickly impossible
under the US Constitution for the reporting of
facts to be spying. The function of the media is
to expose and to hold accountable the
government. This function is no longer performed
by the Western print and TV media.
Washington wants revenge and is determined to
get it. If Assange were as corrupt at the New
York Times, Washington Post, CNN, National
Public Radio, MSNBC, etc., he would have
reported the leaker to Washington, not published
the information, and retired as a
multi-millionaire with Washington’s thanks.
However, unfortunately for Assange, he had
integrity.
Integrity today in the Western world has no
value. You cannot find integrity in the
government, in the global corporations, in the
universities and schools, and most certainly not
in the media.
After
leaving Assange, an Australian citizen, to
Washington’s mercy since 2012, belated pro-Assange
protests in Australia forced the US vassal state
to come to Assange’s aid before the new corrupt
president of Ecuador sells him to Washington for
muilti-millons of dollars by revoking his
asylum.
When
the story was printed in the Sydney Morning
Herald, the incompetent or brainwashed, or
bought-and-paid-for journalist, Nick Miller,
wrote:
“Assange entered the embassy on June 19, 2012,
after he had exhausted his appeals against an
extradition order to go to Sweden to face rape
and sexual assault allegations.
Swedish authorities have since closed their
investigation, saying it couldn’t continue
without Assange’s presence in their country.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/australian-officials-spotted-in-mysterious-assange-visit-20180608-p4zk7w.html
Nick
Miller has committed libel, whether from his
ignorance or from pay.
There
was no extradition order from Sweden for Assange
to be returned to Sweden “to face rape and
sexual assault allegations.” No such charges
were issued by the Swedish prosecutorial office,
and no such charges were made by the women
involved.
The
case had already been closed by the Swedish
prosecutorial office, and the two women who
willingly shared their beds with Assange did not
press any charges. The Swedish female
prosecutor, who many suspect reopened the closed
case at the urging of Washington, wrote in the
extradition request that she only wanted Assange
for questioning.
Normally, extraditions are not granted for
questioning. There has to be actual criminal
charges, and there were no such charges against
Assange. However, under pressure from
Washington, a corrupt UK court granted, perhaps
for the first time in history, extradition for
questioning.
Assange’s attorneys understood that if Assange
left his embassy refuge and travelled to Sweden
to be questioned, there was nothing to prevent
Sweden from turning him over to Washington to be
tortured, as Washington does, into confession of
some crime.
Consequently, Assange’s attorneys told the
Swedish female prosecutor, a person who seems
shortchanged on integrity, that Assange would be
available for questioning in his place of
refuge. The prosecutor, showing her hand,
refused to question Assange in the Ecuadorian
embassy in London. After refusing for many
months while the presstitutes blackened
Assange’s repution as a “rapist who was escaping
justice,” the sort of ignorant nonsense that
Nick Miller writes, the prosecutor consented to
go to London to interview Assange.
As
nothing incriminating emerged from the
questioning and as neither of the women claimed
that they were raped, the female
prosecutorclosed the case for the second time.
But the corrupt British would not release
Assange. They claimed that he was wanted for
jumping bail, an argument that made no sense as
the charge for his arrest had been dismissed.
But Washington insisted, and British “justice”
again served Washington instead of justice.
The
basis of the political assault on Assange came
from the concern of one of his willing sex
partners that he had not used a condom. With
everyone worried crazy about HIV and Aids, the
woman inquired at a Swedish public office if
Assange could be required to take a HIV/Aids
test. Assange, not realizing his vulnerability,
apparently refused the test, and thus opened
himself to a controversy that Washington
immediately took advantage of.
It is safe for rock stars to have groupies, but
not for truth-tellers.
If you
understand the extreme extent to which the US
government has gone, riding roughshod over many
laws and traditions, to destroy Assange, perhaps
you can understand the threats that the very few
of us who have the education, experience, and
integrity to tell you the truth live under.
When I
write an article, it does not inform me. I
already know. When I inform you, I am doing so
at my risk. I am not going to take this risk if
readers do not support this website. I do this
for you. If it is not important to you, I have
no need to do it.
You
need to
support truth-tellers
as we are a disappearing breed under constant
assault.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/donate/
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