Australia’s
public broadcasting network gave Hillary Clinton an open mike to
defame WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange as “a tool of Russian
intelligence” without giving him a chance to respond.
by
John Pilger
Part
1
On Oct.
16, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired an interview with
Hillary Clinton: one of many to promote her score-settling book about
why she was not elected President of the United States.
In The
New York Times, there was a striking photograph of a female reporter
consoling Clinton, having just interviewed her. The lost leader was,
above all, “absolutely a feminist.” The thousands of women’s
lives this “feminist” destroyed while in government — Libya,
Syria, Honduras — were of no interest. Wading through the Clinton
book, What Happened, is an unpleasant experience, like a stomach
upset. Smears and tears. Threats and enemies. “They” (voters)
were brainwashed and herded against her by the odious Donald Trump in
cahoots with sinister Slavs sent from the great darkness known as
Russia, assisted by an Australian “nihilist,” Julian Assange.
In New
York magazine, Rebecca Trainster wrote that Clinton was finally
“expressing some righteous anger.” It was even hard for
her to smile: “so hard that the muscles in her face ache.”
Surely, she concluded, “if we allowed women’s resentments the
same bearing we allow men’s grudges, America would be forced to
reckon with the fact that all these angry women might just have a
point.”
Drivel
such as this, trivializing women’s struggles, marks the media
hagiographies of Hillary Clinton. Her political extremism and
warmongering are of no consequence. Her problem, wrote Trainster, was
a “damaging infatuation with the email story.” The truth,
in other words.
The
leaked emails of Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, revealed
a direct connection between Clinton and the foundation and funding of
organized jihadism in the Middle East and Islamic State (known as
ISIS, ISIL or Daesh). The ultimate source of most Islamic terrorism,
Saudi Arabia, was central to her career.
One
email, in 2014, sent by Clinton to Podesta soon after she stepped
down as U.S. Secretary of State, discloses that Islamic State is
funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Clinton accepted
huge donations from both governments for the Clinton Foundation.
As
Secretary of State, she approved the world’s biggest ever arms sale
to her benefactors in Saudi Arabia, worth more than $80 billion.
Thanks to her, U.S. arms sales to the world – for use in stricken
countries like Yemen – doubled.
This was
revealed by WikiLeaks and published by The New York Times. No one
doubts the emails are authentic. The subsequent campaign to smear
WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, as “agents of
Russia,” has grown into a spectacular fantasy known as
“Russiagate.” The “plot” is said to have been signed off on
by Vladimir Putin himself. There is not a shred of public evidence.
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