Listen to a reading of this article: After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the US-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let's do it anyway; the barrel's right here, and I really hate these particular fish.
Russian MP suggests swapping WSJ reporter for Assange
The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich and the WikiLeaks publisher are both facing espionage charges.
If Moscow decides on a prisoner swap involving Evan Gershkovich, it should ask for Julian Assange’s release from a British dungeon, Russian State Duma Deputy Sergey Obuhkov said on Friday...Russian authorities detained Gershkovich in Ekaterinburg on March 30, saying they caught him “red-handed” in an act of espionage. A Lefortovo court has ordered the Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal to remain in custody for two months. He is appealing the decision and will face the judges again on April 18.
"Journalism is NOT a crime," but being an narcissistic, ego-inflated a**hole of paid-off politician-puppet trying to cover up the heinous war crimes the US committed/still commits IS a crime. We all know who should be in jail--and it isn't Julian Assange. I can't wait to see Mitchell, Schumer and the lot of them behind bars.
Thank you for subjecting yourself to the noxious utterances and written statements of our US swamp creatures, so that I can kinda sorta keep up without needing constant anger management counseling. Also, thank you for not giving the WSJ ‘reporter’ the benefit of the doubt. On the basis of the information that has finally been declassified in recent years, it is hard to imagine that any mainstream so called ‘journalist’ is not also a CIA asset, if he is reporting from any country the DC Blob regards as an enemy. If the guy detained in Russia is not such an asset, he is, historically, a rare exception.
How else can the two sides of Wall Street corporate capital "parties" slide back and forth over the same concocted sham issues and not overheat from the friction forces inherent in fiction vs reality?
“…. You don't get to say "journalism is not a crime" while literally working to criminalize journalism. Those positions are mutually exclusive. Pick one….”
Except he doesn’t have to.
The media themselves give the US a free pass on hypocrisy on this subject and pretty much every subject, including supporting dictatorships, imprisonment and persecution of own citizens, barbarism like the death penalty, refusal to subject own soldiers to the jurisdiction of the ICC, nuclear weapons policy, policy on use of depleted uranium weapons - everything.
And so does the public in the colonial countries.
So perhaps we move on from pointing out hypocrisy, to dissecting what it is about these societies that makes them so malevolently hypocritical.
We obviously believe journalism is a crime If a Western journalist tells the truth about our crimes against innocent populations whose governments have never threatened us. Otherwise, it never is.
The neo-4H club of the USA. Hubris, Humbuggery, Hypocrisy and Horseshxt.
The pledge of the real 4H club is nobly -My head to clearer thinking, My ; heart to greater loyalty, My ; hands to larger service, My ; health to better living,
I am no apologist for Russian Intelligence agencies but these western aligned 'activist, bloggers and journalists' that are poking around in countries bordering Russia, have a habit of being involved with regime change NGOs. Remember Roman Pratasevich arrested in Belarus in 2021 with his dubious links to the Azov Nazis, a couple of months after the failed 'colour revolution' protests.
Russian MP suggests swapping WSJ reporter for Assange
The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich and the WikiLeaks publisher are both facing espionage charges.
If Moscow decides on a prisoner swap involving Evan Gershkovich, it should ask for Julian Assange’s release from a British dungeon, Russian State Duma Deputy Sergey Obuhkov said on Friday...Russian authorities detained Gershkovich in Ekaterinburg on March 30, saying they caught him “red-handed” in an act of espionage. A Lefortovo court has ordered the Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal to remain in custody for two months. He is appealing the decision and will face the judges again on April 18.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/russian-mp-suggests-swapping-wsj-reporter-for-assange/
If DC were ever to say something that wasn't hypocritical I would be astonished.
"Journalism is NOT a crime," but being an narcissistic, ego-inflated a**hole of paid-off politician-puppet trying to cover up the heinous war crimes the US committed/still commits IS a crime. We all know who should be in jail--and it isn't Julian Assange. I can't wait to see Mitchell, Schumer and the lot of them behind bars.
#FreeAssangeNOW
Thank you for subjecting yourself to the noxious utterances and written statements of our US swamp creatures, so that I can kinda sorta keep up without needing constant anger management counseling. Also, thank you for not giving the WSJ ‘reporter’ the benefit of the doubt. On the basis of the information that has finally been declassified in recent years, it is hard to imagine that any mainstream so called ‘journalist’ is not also a CIA asset, if he is reporting from any country the DC Blob regards as an enemy. If the guy detained in Russia is not such an asset, he is, historically, a rare exception.
That the US government so howls about the arrest of Gershkovich leads me to wonder whether the Russians caught him dead to rights.
At this point I just assume any official US government statement is a lie...
I KNEW Caitlin that you will discuss this hypocrisy! As always, THANK YOU! This official BS needs to be spelled out all the time!
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of duopoly government.
How else can the two sides of Wall Street corporate capital "parties" slide back and forth over the same concocted sham issues and not overheat from the friction forces inherent in fiction vs reality?
Everything you say about the swamp is justified.
Perhaps of interest to those wondering what Gershkovich was actually doing in Ekaterinaburg: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/journalist-spy-or-cyber-front-warrior.html#more
I've also seen mention that Gershkovich was traveling on an Israeli passport. Which would be interesting if true.
“…. You don't get to say "journalism is not a crime" while literally working to criminalize journalism. Those positions are mutually exclusive. Pick one….”
Except he doesn’t have to.
The media themselves give the US a free pass on hypocrisy on this subject and pretty much every subject, including supporting dictatorships, imprisonment and persecution of own citizens, barbarism like the death penalty, refusal to subject own soldiers to the jurisdiction of the ICC, nuclear weapons policy, policy on use of depleted uranium weapons - everything.
And so does the public in the colonial countries.
So perhaps we move on from pointing out hypocrisy, to dissecting what it is about these societies that makes them so malevolently hypocritical.
We obviously believe journalism is a crime If a Western journalist tells the truth about our crimes against innocent populations whose governments have never threatened us. Otherwise, it never is.
Thank you !!! Free Assange !!
State-of-the-art Doublethink! Hardly a surprise coming from those with forked tongues in the very centre of the global snake oil marketplace.
The neo-4H club of the USA. Hubris, Humbuggery, Hypocrisy and Horseshxt.
The pledge of the real 4H club is nobly -My head to clearer thinking, My ; heart to greater loyalty, My ; hands to larger service, My ; health to better living,
No irony there, nooo.
I am no apologist for Russian Intelligence agencies but these western aligned 'activist, bloggers and journalists' that are poking around in countries bordering Russia, have a habit of being involved with regime change NGOs. Remember Roman Pratasevich arrested in Belarus in 2021 with his dubious links to the Azov Nazis, a couple of months after the failed 'colour revolution' protests.