Julian Assange's Father & Brother Speak Out on His Jailing, Press Freedom & New Documentary "Ithaka"

[Uncle Joe]

We continue our coverage of the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by looking at the imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been jailed for exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. One video released by WikiLeaks showed a U.S. helicopter gunship in Baghdad slaughtering a dozen civilians, including a Reuters journalist. Assange has been held in London's Belmarsh prison since 2019 as he fights the U.S. campaign to extradite him to face espionage charges. If convicted, the publisher faces as much as 175 years behind bars. His legal fight is documented in the new film Ithaka that centers on Assange's father John Shipton, who has been crisscrossing the globe to raise awareness of the case and the danger it poses to press freedoms. We speak with Shipton, as well as filmmaker Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's brother and a producer of the documentary.

[we can do it]

1. Fuck Assange and while we're at it fuck Snowden.

[JohnSJ]

3. +++. Assange went out of his way to get trump elected. Again, Democracy Now, which also pushed

stories blaming the U.S. for Russia invading Ukraine, is showing their unwavering bias.

Maybe they will have Glenn Greenwald on again blaming Democrats for mccarthyism tactics.

[The Magistrate]

2. Foreign Intelligence Assets Do Time, Sir

Whether that is what he commenced as, it is certainly how he wound up. He actively cooperated with Russian efforts to put Trump in office. You could plant him headfirst in a swamp and I wouldn't turn a hair.


"We've all our little lists, of those who'd never be missed."

[Gaugamela]

4. That's not what he's being charged with. He's being persecuted for telling

the truth about American war crimes in Iraq. Maybe if Bush and Cheney were rotting in some high security prison somewhere one could rationalize this. But they’re not.

This is just American exceptionalism enforcing its droit du seigneur to fuck whom it pleaseth.

Reporters without Borders, PEN International, ARTICLE19, the International Federation of Journalists, and the National Union of Journalists are among the 40 rights groups who have signed on to the letter, initiated by the Courage Foundation, a whistleblower support network which campaigns for Mr Assange’s freedom and the public’s right to know.

https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/over-40-rights-groups-call-on-uk-to-free-julian-assange.html

[sdfernando]

5. Produced by his brother and centers on his father....

no bias there!