The 'slow motion execution' of Julian Assange w/Craig Murray | The Chris Hedges Report
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- As Julian Assange continues to fight extradition to the United States to face prosecution under the Espionage Act, a growing chorus of voices is rising to demand an end to his persecution. Hounded by US law enforcement and its allies for more than a decade, Assange has been stripped of all personal and civil liberties for the crime of exposing the extent of US atrocities during the War on Terror. In the intervening years, it's become nakedly apparent that the intent of the US government is not only to silence Assange in particular, but to send a message to whistleblowers and journalists everywhere on the consequences of speaking truth to power. Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who was fired for exposing the CIA's use of torture in the country, joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss what Julian Assange's fight means for all of us.
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Free all whistleblowers and truthers ✊ Jail the war criminals ✊
#emnau🙏🏼💪🌴🥥🤲
@@madfoxcityemnau6414transportation 🙄.
You're right. But there's nobody to jail the war criminals and they won't jail themselves.
If Trump is so against the deep state why didn't pardon Assange? Instead pardoned useless rappers
I TOTALLY AGREE
Journalism is not a crime. #FreeAssange
Yes it is, I note, only when it's fighting the power. 😂 LETS GO #RNN❤
Journalism is a word with vague umbrellas
Crime is a statement of one wrongdoing another.
Shalom
Hum ... beg to disagree.
Per " Interactive Media Bias Chart" "The Real News" is "Strong Left" Biased. Looking to comments . I can see Why . The video Title " Slow motion execution ". Strong LEFT. by
"Ad Fontes Media" ratings. 😮
Now this makes sense as to the comments.
How can we stop this? It is CRIME from the very top. The Judge ITSELF is corrupt!
Rewarded for lies, punishd for the truth. What a world we live now.
The fake "democratic" world, that was concocted in the USA to support global US hegemony.
Absolutely true! What a World we live in!!
That is about it. Thank God I never had children.
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What happens to J.Assange is so utterly cruel. No words to express this injustice.
Snowden.
@@CARLIN4737 yes, Snowden. He too is the victim of this vindictive system.
He has brought everything on himself, by delaying justice.
@@gribbler1695 i hope you respond to dissident journalists from other countries currently residing in the west with the same glibness. I guess Jamal Khashoggi should have not delayed justice for so long, he should have faced the music and get flushed down the toilet years earlier. What Assange did was not a crime in any of the jurisdictions he was in at the time. He is not a US citizen and the US is not the world police. I hope you will still say the same thing after a US journalist gets extradited to China from the UK, for giving accurate information on a hypothetical war the chinese wage abroad.
@@CARLIN4737 Snowden I s a psyops and the reason you have no online privacy today
The persecution of Julian Assange is the worst case against humanity to occur in my lifetime 😱
Just say NO❗ to censorship and muzzles ❗
Julian Stella Gabriel Max
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Reunite this family now ❗
Rest in peace Daniel Ellsberg 🙏
Journalism case. Dropping bombs on kids swimming on a river in Syria. Where the U S in involved in an unlawful invasion of a sovereign state?
Julian reported on worse & embarrassed the powers that be in the US & other countries!
“Exposing the truth in an empire of lies, is a crime”
Not only the US though. Try it in China, Russia or Iran.
@@angusyates828 I’ll judge the tyrants I know to be guilty first and worry about the tyrants beyond our borders later
But how can tyrants at home not be so in a world filled with such?@@ryanhansen4294
Freedom of speech and press now ✊
BAHAHAHAHAHA "freedom," yeah right.
I TOTALLY AGREE
Shame on every politian n' lawyer who lets this continue.
disappointed
That's why they are there.
Journalism is not a crime ✊
It is when the government are notsees.
Typo, I think you meant: notc😂🙏🏼💪
Apparently it is if you expose inconvenient truths which threaten the power of the privileged.
He conspired to crack a Pentagon network.
This is critical reporting, thank you. The American people must know the true suffering being forced upon Julian.
Most people turn their backs on the truth.
Agree look at the Palestinians and what is being done to them by Israel
Yes horrible hatred
You should also make yourself aware of the persecution of Craig Murray.
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I don't think "National Security" should be used to protect unethical and illegal activities.
Legally it cannot be allowed, it is illegal to use the classification system to suppress information of criminality and wrongdoing. What I always wondered, deliberately classify materials in evidence of crime, how is the criminality associated with the crime proven? In NSA v Jewel a very similar conundrum was forwarded by the appellate court which denied the plaintiffs, in essence the government claimed the plaintiffs had no standing, and without evidence of harm the case could not reach the standing requirement. The problem as I see it is the government is allowed to "hide" evidence, criminal or otherwise, in any case it deems appropriate and cannot be made to reply to a motion of discovery.
A M E N. Well said
Terrifying...the stuff of nightmares. Thank you for laying bear the grotesque truth behind all the lies.
Craig Murray, I envy you as you have been tested at the crucible and did not flinch or were cowed --so unlike many of our U.S. journalists and government guardians of 'freedom'.
FREE ASSANGE NOW ✊
Free Assange, Assange MUST be freed
Love for the people always anytime all the time
Such an important show. With sadness and ugliness of ‘the system’ laid bare here, it’s heartening to know that good people like these are out there shed light on its injustices.
So hard to take the ongoing continuation of us injustice at home and abroad.
Take care peeps, the road is long. For all the stories you know hundreds and thousand and millions suffer under the boot. The fight for justice is never ending.
"Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems."
The
Michael Brooks
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Fellow earthlings
what about the jan 6th political prisoners, not as bad a julian vut sone of them recieved 2 decade rulings... terrible times when America is now fascist
@@matthewharrison8940 insane
Very good interview and it is welcome to learn that Craig is still well alive, plus activist. I learned of him back during the 2000s and it definitely made for very appreciable reporting. Julian must be freed soon. There is no arguable cause for not releasing him and returning him to his home. It is surprising that Craig was imprisoned. Wow, these govts are in lunacy.
I don't understand. What is America so afraid of. Don't we always tell children, Not to be afraid of the Truth 😮
It's paying the price of spawning the CIA
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And had to teach our kids how to punch out bullies once and for all...they don't respond to "love" or " forgiveness". They know the game, and we all just have to, in whatever way, make them suffer consequences fair n square
Thank you, Craig & Chris.
Yesssss so calming to know w the actual f is going on. 🙏🏼💪🙏🏼💪
Grim and cold & uppercrusters killing at an ever increasing rate while silencing a man who should be with his family
Wow! Real cruel and unusual punishment!
Where is the Australian government and why aren’t they protesting this injustice? He’s an Australian citizen who’s not broken any laws. This is a terribly bad joke.
Prime Minister Albanese has repeatedly called for the charges against Assange to be dropped and Assange released.
@@jamesmorrow1646 The US nuclear submarine deal is too valuable to give up. Albanese should stick it. What does Australia need with nuclear submarines anyway?
@@jamesmorrow1646 he can ‘call’ all day but what is he doing about it or demanding be done? Zip!
@@elsonck2523The didgeredoos won't be enuf. If NEEDED.
@@carlywright5127 In case the US starts a war with China. Buggers.
ASSANGE IS A HERO
Much appreciated to you both #PressFreedom
It's outrageous beyond belief I can't believe the world stands for this and British participation reprehensible. Watch the latest 2part conversation with Assange's spouse,& Chris Hedges
Love you both. Let’s get JA out.
One has to remember, not only did Assange tell of hideos illegality in US military misbehaviour, he created a mechanism for whistleblowing which actively protected whistleblowers. So not only did he embarras the US, their military and security services, he provided a means to continue to provide openness and an anti-corruption platform which is such a threat to the corrupt that he had to be silenced by any means, including killing him, which is known to have been considered and may yet still occur.
The US & UK does not have _"due process of the law."_
What they have is the *doo-doo* process of the law.
The U S is under British law now.
It has always been the case that a small minority makes the laws the majority lives under. This case seems like a brutal reminder of this archaic fact. It is quite obviously not a case but a demonstration of power.
Yep...and all dressed up and masked as 'Democracy`.....the reality is, that the rich powerful western elites, have all the power, gained by building many clever mechanisms that enable them to keep and hide their power, these are tools ensringed in law, that protect them all no matter what.... Democracy is a sham, its just a word, we have been convinced that we live in western democracies by these corrupt 'mobs`...when they get challenged by whistle blowers such as Snowden, Assange, Dr David Kelly and many more, they move quickly using all their legal powers, including the agencies, media etc and they shut down the truths...they are acting like the very goverments, people, regimes , their common enemies , eg Russia, China who they claim use these very tactics, they call them out as being evil and dangerous..but they are using the very tactics of 'state control` that is communism and fascism...but have the cheek to claim the moral high ground ..using the word 'democracy`, a word the West hyjacked from the english language and weaponised as good v`s evil.....
Thank you so much for covering and thank you to anyone donating. Make no mistake, what they are doing to Assange, they can and will do to any of us. Free Julian Assange Now! Journalism Is Not A Crime!
Free Julian Assange!!
Assange justice is our justice
Craig Murray ✊
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Canadian politicians support these injustices 😢
WEF
This is necessary and it should not be if we did not have such evil working in the Courts World-wide particularly in the UK and AMERICA for POLITICAL AGENDAS NOT for TRUTH and JUSTICE
You have a bunch of crooks in power who are not in prison. Not long to go though.
How is it possible for any free citizens allow this to happen?
Because firstly they are oblivious of it, secondly if they are aware of it they regard Assange has some traitorous spy and thirdly because...what can we do about it?
By doing nothing and preferring ignorance. And a dose of fear for themselves.
Freedom of speech dosnt mean freedom to divulge state secrets?
lmao, free?! People have no idea how bad it's about to get, a lot of of us are going to be in internment camps in Western countries within 5-10 years.
I think we're fkd.
All of the good will and respect of other nations which the US enjoyed for decades was , In my opinion, largely due to a free press and a vibrant functioning democracy. Those days are clearly gone.
This is disgusting, to us in Australia.. treating our Australian hero Julian Assange...It makes us all sick in the stomach.
The US and Britain lost the Australian people.
And the Australian Government has lost this Australian. Their silence is deafening! They just do what their puppet masters dictate.
So why exactly is Australian government silent?
Might that be because you've surrendered your guns and thus the options to overthrow the tyrannical government?
THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FOR STANDING UP AGAINST SUCH HIDEOUS INJUSTICE
I had no idea that Assange's extradition hearing is being run like this.
Not forgetting that his crime was publicising war crimes.
I had hoped that UK ancient justice system was more independent.
No, his crime was conspiring to crack a Pentagon network.
We need a vision of a new society to make it a reality.
The whole thing is simply dragging out until he dies, mentally incapacitated
Thank you so much for this brilliant interview. JA has most definitely been made a martyr!
Chris Hedges ✊
Merci beaucoup pour votre vidéo.
In order to even approximate the role of an Ethical Journalist today one must become an activist and be willing to pay that price. History will view these heroes in the proper light if we manage to survive Climate Emergency with a civilization intact.
Climate emergency?
Thank you Craig and Chris. Keep on fighting the good fight.
How much evil can a human being hold within to cause this suffering to Julian A. and the world?
Obama
We are all Julian.
We are all being slowly executed, so slowly that we don't see what's happening.
I am not Julian, so I am exempt !
Yes, I don't think people understand the dynamics in motion with respect to Julian. The U.S. government is full throatily announcing individual liberty, the right to speak, cannot be abided if that speech is embarrassing, troublesome, or worse--the truth. But is also saying that due process and the laws of the U.S. and the international community only have authority to be adjudicate or resolved when the U.S. deems it worthy, and only by the United States.
I agree👍 and let's not forget that a transparency in government model is part of a freedom from tyranny failsafe. @@strezztechnoid
I would like to make non-Scottish viewers of this video aware of two things:
1) Alex Salmond was CORRECTLY acquitted of every one the trumped-up charges which were levelled against him at the instigation of his successor as First Minister of Scotland, the abhorrent Nicola Sturgeon.
In Scotland, a jury consists of fifteen people. In Salmond's case, the majority of the jury were female. They acquitted him on every single charge.
2) Craig Murray was WRONGLY imprisoned for simply reporting the proceedings of the Salmond trial, mostly drawn from previously published open sources.
There was NO JURY for his trial. His fate was decided solely by a judge.
In other news, Sturgeon had appointed the senior judge in Scotland to her Cabinet.
Alberta, Canada free Julian Assange. Laws are so corrupt today. Thank you for your coverage.
#FreeAssange
*Julian has been railroaded by the English judiciary.*
Swedish too.
USA and CIA
UK is under the US thumb. Like an aging parent who's nasty child has power of attorney, power over their life.
And The American Judiciary Too Sister!!!
@@marionmarcetic7287 So true, with the Swedish Kooperation.
The US system love, get out of the UK.
This is horrible. I am gang stalked. Most people can’t believe or imagine gang stalking is real or what it is. But what Julian is going through is worse. I feel badly for him. Part of me thinks he’s super man, he can take it. But I’ve thought the same of myself until I was gang stalked. And then having breakdowns, thinking of any way to end my life, I can’t imagine what Julian is going through.
Stay away from the gang. We say prayers for your safety and security and divine protection.
Yikes. Who was gang stalking you?
Interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr! He said he'd pardon Assange if he gets into office . The viewers of Real News Network need to know he's running. They need to know what the DNC is doing.
If folks are watching and/or subscribing to The Real News they probably already know about both RFK Jr and what the DNC is doing.
He's Un-Electable
He will never be elected.
That doesn't necessarily matter Its more about doing something to motivate more of the masses@@EspionageCourt
@@EspionageCourtexplain the bullshit
FREE ASSANGE NOW !!!
Julian Stella Gabriel Max
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Reunite this family now ❗
Thank you for this Great Interview
Thank you Craig, your courage and honour is what morr men should take note of .
Thank you so much for your imense important work. Always an eye opener,a sad one I have to admit. I feel for Julian and for the humans in inhumane imprisoned conditions, especially in Gitmo.
oh my Hod have you read or seen the artwork of one of the men in Gitmo?
Yes,awesome,but I don´t know his name,he was on Democracy now and told his story. He´s the one ,who said Ron D.S. was there,when he was forcefed.@@matthewharrison8940
Thank-You to everyone donating. I would donate right now but I’m having legal issues with the apartment manager who is continuously discriminating against all the disabled people and trying to evict and terrorize all of us. She is a far-right ex-prison guard and her husband is an ex-cop and they’re shady.
Well that's pretty loaded, I'd like to hear the other side of this story.
As they say in Texas, "nothing a bullet couldn't fix".
Will you name the apt ? I hope they get what they deserve. I'm sorry your going thru this
@@lonnasmith8382Thank-You.
Well that opens up a legal can of worms on them. I would seek advocacy groups to represent your interests.
I have to say there's nothing more chastening than a proper sitdown with a member of the Evilist Empire Ever telling us 'bout ourselves. No, nothing. GbLESS JA and Fam❤🤲🙏🏼✊️
Journalism in the public interest, freedom of speech, holding governments to account ...
Free Julian Assange! Tell the Truth!
So disgusting how they get away with this.. innocent man suffering for their false laws
I agree with Hedges' comparison of our moribund 'democracy' with the late Roman Republic. These are not reassuring times.
What's said is this is all about telling on the real criminals. I wish we could all come together in defense of Jillian's bull..... case. People keep forgetting about him. I haven't, they've already took half his life
Not all Superheroes wear capes. Bravo Gentlemen, we are immensely grateful for EVERYTHING that you do for righteousness and freedom. Thank-you both very much.
Free Assange and me!
Free Julian Assange ❤❤
If someone made an intelligent cómic cartoon with Julian's treatment since he was persecuted it will probably be a success in box office and audience awareness
10:00 - "There is almost no pretence of due process".
That's intentional. There is exactly as much pretence of due process as they need to get away with all this without getting into trouble with the media and on the international level, after factoring in all the pressure that is going on there behind the scenes. Apart from that, they want it to be obviously arbitrary, obviously unjust and obviously cruel for maximal deterrence of others who might be looking for effective ways to hold the powerful to account. Which is of course the most dangerous.
It's the same as with torture. Torturing regimes always hide and deny their atrocities only just to the point that they can get away with them. But never more than that, as they want it to be generally known so it works as a deterrent against anyone threatening their power.
Free Julian Assange✌🙏
I have been a lawyer for 33 years and I am convinced that England turned Julian Assange into a diplomatic asset to extort commercial advantages from the USA. This explains why the Court did not recognize any of his rights.
Human beings have rights; things and people that have been reified like Assange cannot demand due process of law.
The illegal undue process used in the Assange case is a characteristic of the state of excesses and exception. The English Judiciary did nothing more than create a simulacrum, as the outcome of the process (the handing over of Assange to the Americans) had already been decided since he was unduly caged in the Embassy of the country that gave him political asylum. The very violation of the right to asylum is proof of the excesses and exceptions that England used to serve its diplomatic partner and extort advantages from it.
The history of the Weimar Republic satisfactorily proves that a democratic constitutional system cannot endure for long when it is exceptionally left aside whenever an authority (Adolf Hitler in Germany, the English Court in the Assange case) believes it is necessary. Therefore, it is not just press freedom that will be destroyed by Assange's martyrdom.
It's an excellent theory, and I applaud your efforts in making sense of this ludicrous situation. It's a lot simpler than that. He still has secrets that could collapse civil society, and they assume he is reckless enough to publish them. They underestimate his intelligence and his humanity. The truth is awful. Don't Look Up
Yes, I don't see how people have missed this. Not understanding the extrajudicial exercise of state power and international law without accountability, Assange's lawyers have no chance at anything resembling fair play let alone a fair hearing or trial. This is a one way street, downhill, with grease and oil spread on the surface road--and there are no brakes.
Not only was Julian under the umbrella of political asylum, he was made an Ecuadorian citizen. When the British police decided to breach the embassy, claiming permission from Ecuadorian authorities, they also crossed the border of Ecuador to snag Julian. The Ecuadorian government was essentially demonstrating that Ecuadorian citizens could not rely on their government to represent their interest within the context of basic human rights, but any rights of all Ecuadorians. Not a peep, word, or strongly worded letter made light of this and you can see more of the same given that the Swede taken into custody in Ecuador for merely being associated with Assange. Every aspect of this case; the way and manner that charges were brought and from where, nation state cutouts for CIA/FBI in Sweden and Iceland playing judicial footsie with the UK and US government, and the judicial officers sworn to honor the procedural rules and uphold UK law proved themselves miserable shills to U.S. marching orders.
@@strezztechnoid You're absolutely right. National and international laws attribute rights to all human beings without any exception or distinction. States have a duty to distribute justice without dehumanizing defendants. In general, they did this, but sometimes they just try to keep up appearances so as not to destroy the perception that there is legal security. But in the Assange case, this did not even happen. England just crushes him like he's a bug. Assange's situation is one of absolute legal uncertainty: he has no rights, no one should believe that Justice will grant him any rights and the English judicial authorities are happy to act publicly as if they were executioners carrying out a punishment that had already been decided in the basements of a planetary dictatorship. Who will be the next victim of this rights grinding machine to persecute and destroy innocent people? If the English justice system did all this to a world-renowned man who became the publisher who supplied material to the main newspapers on the planet, what will it not do to ordinary people?
@@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 This is so demoralizing, but I will not stop making the case that the west has lost the narrative and its individual authority or collective actions are witnessed. I am afraid that if the U.S. takes Julian, the first stop, Gitmo.
The failure of the U.S. to realize using rubber hose diplomacy is an act speaking loudly of its ethical, moral, and legal principles, are fiction.
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Black Budget that even Congress cannot get or see
Free Assange! He is a true MODERN HERO!
If he is extradited the American people need to take to the streets to protest against our government for our own freedom of speech and press!!!😢
If we don't act united we will all lose our freedom and liberty😂
Millions done hust that to avoid the Iraq war..It changed nothing.
Correct. We have stopped buying English products because that was the opportunity lost by corrupt
If any member of staff of Belmarsh Prison had any humanity in them, Julian Assange could probably be free. They are all, from the Governor to the cooks and janitors are responsible for this man's life. I doubt that they all really believe that he should be there at all! How can they live with themselve, knowing what's being done to him, knowing he has a wife and children who are growing up without their father?! How can these people be so disgustingly inhumane? They, each and everyone of them are aiding and abetting the slow and deliberate murder by the Government of Julian Assange!!!
And how many days/hours do you expect he would survive if he weren't under the close watch of those guards? His only hope for survival now is an invitation from the Russian government.
@@eaudedogue erm... he's DYING under that close watch!
You're a credit to Scotland Craig. Thanks for everything you've done for our country.
Julian Assange should receive the Nobel Peace price each year.
10 years of ever-increasing torture....setting an example of what happens if you try to get truth out.
Excellent discussion Gentlemen
Shalom
I'd like to get more information about Craig Murray's imprisonment, it's the first time I heard of it and it's outragious. Yet another example of the UK's increasingly draconian legal system.
Craig has a blog with many posts about the lead up, case and aftermath. It was about his reporting on the Alex Salmond sexual misconduct case (which Alex was acquitted of), Craig was found guilty of 'Jigsaw Identification' of anonymous accusers of Alex Salmond.
This post has a rather long description of what happened. Actually links tend to stop comments getting through. Try searching for 'Defence Fund Appeal - United Nations Human Rights Committee'
DAH this has existed because of the monarchy and City of London.
Inns of court and the federal reserve.
#FreePublisherAssange #NoExtradition #DontShootTheMessenger
End the fascism, BUST HIM OUT!
My heart aches for Julian and his family / friends. Such evil pervades the judicial system and they have NO conscience.
i am life long truth seeker. julian assange is a pillar of journalism and i love him for it. ive been disgusted about his treatment and gonzalo lira as well. love yall
Free Julian Assange. Anything else is unacceptable.
FREE ASSANGE.
Thank you
One of the True Patriots of A Free World
He simply believed 'freedom of information' as truth being available to share!
Where is the rule of law? Obviously NOT when it is inconveniently exposing wrong doers !
Is it possible that by appointing Assange as a diplomat, conferring Diplomatic Immunity, that the Australian Government could order his immediate release to the Australian Embassy and his transfer to Australia?
A fascinating interview! Such an interesting and absorbing account of courage and resolve. Thanks.
Free Assange!
The system works.
As designed…
Thankyou both for your tireless support for Julian. UK US colonial playbook "why hire a barrister when the govt can buy a judge".
Julien Assange is a political prisoner of the USA.
How is conspiring to crack a Pentagon network political?
These notes just show our helplessness “when it’s time”....
So true. If we are not in the streets with sit downs, nothing will happen for Julian's freedom.
Thanks for this important interview David and Chris. Brave men both.