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As an Australian I will never forgive successive governments in this often feeble country for not going to bat for (supporting) Julian Assange. Yes, we have a selection of parliamentarians who have made their point of view clear as to the need we have to show some maturity and discard our grovelling subservience to the now disrespected Unites States with AUKUS now being the possible vehicle for WWIII.

One can't help noticing, yet again, that this will not be in the US geography but once again a long way away from any likely US mainland fallout from a war which, if located off the coast of the USA would at least have some of the realistic population concerned about their safety. Perhaps thinking differently about the totally feeble-minded Biden and his Neocon entourage, now in the thousands as he does their bidding and as always, supported by his military/industrial buddies, making a big dollar off all the US-generated hype. That's what it is all about, surely. Money, power, hegemony.

The effort made by Julian has been the only real example of truth in any writing on the US-initiated wars he addressed, the crimes committed by America and the general attitudes of NATO, US henchmen as they have become, one and all. Just observe the comments from those NATO countries, dancing to the US tune of lies and more lies and putting themselves at risk should they take a foolish action, in error or on purpose by creating a climate which requires Russia to respond. forcefully. It is easy to make a mistake. One Ukrainian mistake killed hundreds. Remember Malaysian Flight MH17, when Ukraine shot down an airliner? No, it wasn't Russia. As Secretary of State, John Kerry said (just once and never repeated it) "we know where the missile was fired from" (or similar).

Yes, we know you do.Keeping that detail a secret was just another lie, now the order of every day in the West.

Journalists have lost people's respect throughout the world and the compliance by media owners to submit to the dictates of the US is just one more example of the frightening state of the truth in the world today.

WWII showed us the effectiveness of the likes of Joseph Goebbels in controlling the thinking of the masses in Germany. This is now well overshadowed by the Western Media under instructions from the US secret army, the CIA, found under any rock in any country of their choosing where dirty deeds are the order of the day.

As well the double standards of organisations like The Guardian in being a user of Julian's material for so long and then, after his show trial arrest, showing that their loyalty to him as a source of the truth for so long was not worthy of any loyalty at all. Their behaviour stands condemned by all.

And so it is still today.

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JH Hatch's avatar

If they're not on the Ukrainian and US State Department's mutual hit list (funded by the US tax payer) well, you can't trust their reporting.

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