The extradition trial of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange got underway at Woolwich Crown Court in London today. Assange, 48, is wanted by the U.S. government on 18 charges of hacking and breaches of the Espionage Act, specifically for the publication of evidence leaked by Pvt. Chelsea Manning that detailed evidence of American war crimes in the Middle East. If found guilty he faces up to 175 years in prison. The prosecution, led by James Lewis, Q.C., began by reading out a damning statement from five leading media organizations, The Guardian, The New York Times, El País, Der Spiegel and Le Monde, all of whom had partnered with Wikileaks, gratefully publishing the group’s revelations but now condemned them, helping his prosecution.
Poster Comment:
Mike Rivero: Please remember; nothing ever published by Wikileaks, has ever been proven to have been wrong, or a lie.
IF the prosecution is successful here, it will mean we have truly come to the end of independent American journalism, and that all we can expect from a monied-protecting infrastructure, coupled with the US military industrial complex, are more lies out of the presstitute media, aimed at intensifying and keeping current US-enabled global wars going, through which to expropriate other countries' raw materials, and creating new fronts through which this country will be fighting more wars for resources.