JFK warned the citizenry about an announced need for increased security that would be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. Today, this is known as national security, and its a term used to justify unethical and enormous amounts of secrecy that do not protect the public, but protect those in power and their corporate, financial and political interests. Theodor Roosevelt said that, JFK warned the citizenry about an announced need for increased security that would be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. Today, this is known as national security, and its a term used to justify unethical and enormous amounts of secrecy that do not protect the public, but protect those in power and their corporate, financial and political interests.
This is exactly what Julian Assange did, and many others have and are doing, like independent alternative media outlets.
Transparency is what Julian Assange was all about, and the American empire, or more so the global empire, has been desperate to keep its secrets and prosecute anyone or anything that threatens their secrecy. Thats what this is all about. And they proved that with Chelsea Manning.
Its not just people like Assange who are being demonized and hunted, its alternative media as well. The war on fake news thats been happening for the last little while has forced alternative media outlets that are presenting credible information to be deemed as fake. Any media outlet who even questions a controversial issue has been made out to be wrong or fake. Who has been hired to do this work? One example is news browser extension NewsGuard, which promises to help readers pick out fake news. However, NewsGuard is funded and run by individuals tied to the CFR, Atlantic Council, and other prominent elite figures.
Below is a tweet from Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker John Pilger, who made comments last month that shed some light on how Assange is being treated.
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