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
5 - ‘Putin’s Bitch’
Following
the ABC broadcast, Ferguson’s executive producer, Sally Neighbour,
re-tweeted the following: “Assange is Putin’s bitch. We all
know it!”
The
slander, since deleted, was even used as a link to the ABC interview
captioned ‘Assange is Putins (sic) b****. We all know it!’
In the
years I have known Julian Assange, I have watched a vituperative
personal campaign try to stop him and WikiLeaks. It has been a
frontal assault on whistleblowing, on free speech and free
journalism, all of which are now under sustained attack from
governments and corporate Internet controllers.
The
first serious attacks on Assange came from the Guardian, which, like
a spurned lover, turned on its besieged former source, having hugely
profited from WikiLeaks’ disclosures. With not a penny going to
Assange or WikiLeaks, a Guardian book led to a lucrative Hollywood
movie deal. Assange was portrayed as “callous” and a “damaged
personality.”
It was
as if a rampant jealousy could not accept that his remarkable
achievements stood in marked contrast to that of his detractors in
the “mainstream” media. It is like watching the guardians of the
status quo, regardless of age, struggling to silence real dissent and
prevent the emergence of the new and hopeful.
Today,
Assange remains a political refugee from the war-making dark state of
which Donald Trump is a caricature and Hillary Clinton the
embodiment. His resilience and courage are astonishing. Unlike him,
his tormentors are cowards.
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