AmeriKKKa's Persecution of Julian Assange

America’s persecution of Julian Assange has everything to do with Yemen ▪ The US feels enraged by any revelation of what it really know or does, by any alternative source of information. Such threats to its control of the news agenda must be suppressed where possible. ▪ WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson says Julian Assange's arrest is a 'dark day for journalism' by Patrick Cockburn Friday 31 May 2019 I was in Kabul a decade ago when WikiLeaks released a massive tranche of US government documents about the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen. On the day of the release, I was arranging by phone to meet an American official for an unattributable briefing. I told him in the course of our conversation what I had just learned from the news wires. He was intensely interested and asked me what was known about the degree of classification of the files. When I told him, he said in a relieved tone: “No real secrets, then. ' When we met later in my hotel I asked him why he was so dismissive of the revelations that were causing such uproar in the world. He explained that the US government was not so naive that it did not realise that making these documents available to such a wide range of civilian and military officials meant that they were likely to leak. Any information really damaging to US security had been weeded out. In any case, he said: “We are not going to learn the biggest secrets from WikiLeaks because these have already been leaked by the White House, Pentagon or State Department.” I found his argument persuasive and later wrote a piece saying that the WikiLeaks secrets were not all that secret. However, it was the friendly US official and I who were being naive, forgetting that the real purpose of state secrecy is to enable governments to establish their own self-interested and often mendacious version of the truth by the careful selection of “facts” to be passed on to the public. They feel enraged by any revelation of what they really know, or by any alternative source of information. Such threats to their control of the news agenda must be suppressed where possible and, where not, those responsible must be pursued and punished. We have had two good examples of the lengths to which a government – in this case that of the US – will go to protect its own tainted version of events. The first is the charging of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for leaking 750,000 confidential military and diplomatic documents in 2010. The second example has happened in the last few days. The international media may not have always covered itself in glory in the war in Yemen, but there are brave journalists and news organisations who have done just that. One of them is Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry who, along with Maggie Michael and Nariman El-Mofty, is part of an Associated Press (AP) team that won the international reporting Pulitzer prize this year for superb on-the-ground coverage of the war in Yemen. Their stories included revelations about the US drone strikes in Yemen and about the prisons maintained there by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The US government clearly did not like this type of critical journalism. When the Pulitzer was awarded last Tuesday in New York, Zikry was not there because he had been denied a visa to enter the US. There is no longer a US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, but two months ago he made his way to the US embassy in Cairo, Egypt, where his visa application, though fully supported by AP and many other prestigious institutions, was rejected. After AP had exerted further pressure, Zikry made a second application for a visa and this time he was seen by a counsellor at the embassy. He reports himself as asking: “Does the US embassy think that a Yemeni investigative journalist doing reporting for AP is a terrorist? Are you saying I am a terrorist?” The counsellor said that they would “work” on his visa or, in other words, ask the powers-that-be in Washington what to do. “So, I waited and waited – and waited,” he says. “And, until now I heard nothing from them.” Of course, Washington is fully capable of waiving any prohibition on the granting of a visa to a Yemeni in a case like this, but it chose not to. Can what Assange and WikiLeaks did in 2010 be compared with what Zikry and AP did in 2019? Some commentators, to their shame, claim that the pursuit of Assange, and his current imprisonment pending possible extradition to the US or Sweden, has nothing to with freedom of expression. In fact, he was doing what every journalist ought to do and doing it very successfully. Take Yemen as an example of this. It is a story of great current significance because in recent days senior US officials have denounced Iran for allegedly directing and arming the Houthi rebels who are fighting Saudi and UAE-backed forces. Action by these supposed Iranian proxies could be a casus belli in the confrontation between the US and Iran. Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, says that Iran has provided the Houthis “with the missile system, the hardware, the military capability” that they have acquired. John Bolton, the national security adviser, said on Wednesday that Iran risked a “very strong response” from the US for, among other things, drone attacks by the Houthis on Saudi Arabia for which he holds the Iranians responsible. These accusations, by the US, Saudi Arabia and whoever is their Yemeni ally of the day that the Houthis are stooges of Iran armed with Iranian-supplied weapons, have a long history. But what do we know about what Washington really thinks of these allegations which have not changed much over the years? This is where Wikileaks comes to the rescue. The US embassy in Sanaa may be closed today, but it was open on 9 December 2009 when Stephen Seche, the US ambassador, sent a detailed report to the State Department titled: “Who are the Houthis? How are they fighting?” Citing numerous sources, it says that the Houthis “obtain their weapons from the Yemeni black market” and by corrupt deals with government military commanders. A senior Yemeni intelligence officer is quoted as saying: “The Iranians are not arming the Houthis. The weapons they use are Yemeni.” Another senior official says that the anti-Houthi military “covers up its failures by saying that the weapons [of the Houthis] come from Iran.” Yemeni experts on the conflict say that Houthi arms acquisition today has likewise little to do with Iran. Yemen has always had a flourishing arms black market in which weapons, large and small, can be obtained in almost any quantity if the money is right. Anti-Houthi forces, copiously supplied by Saudi Arabia and UAE, are happy to profit by selling weapons to the Houthis or anybody else. In an earlier period, the embassy study cites “sensitive reporting” – presumably the CIA or another intelligence organisation – as saying that extremists from Somalia, who wanted Katyusha rockets, had simply crossed the Red Sea and bought them in the Yemeni black market. Revealing important information about the Yemen war – in which at least 70,000 people have been killed – is the reason why the US government is persecuting both Assange and Zikry. The defiant Yemeni journalist says that “one of the key reasons why this land is so impoverished in that tragic condition it has reached today is the US administration’s mass punishment of Yemen”. This is demonstrably true, but doubtless somebody in Washington considers it a secret. ■ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/julian-assange-us-authorities-wikileaks-secrets-yemen-iran-saudi-arabia-a8938786.html .

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Settlers = palestinian jew colonisers APARTHEID ZONIST-MAFIA STYLE. ■ ■ ■ JOIN BDS TODAY : The zionist-mafia ... sell nothing to them, buy nothing from them. ■ ■ ■ In case YOU missed the History Channel documentary, the Palestinian jews like to style themselves as Israelites / Israelis. Modern jews are as close to ancient hebrews as modern Syrians are to ancient Syrians ... sure there are DNA commonalities but many repeated invasions and intermarriages and wholesale exterminations have VASTLY DILUTED the original racial and ethnic traits. There was a racist murderous blood-thirsty hebrew-israelite colony-kingdom called Israel that existed around 3000 years ago, between 1047 BC and 930 BC, just 117 years., but it descended / degenerated into a murderous bloody civil war in which hebrews slaughtered hebrews, eventually leading to 2 colonies-kingdoms, one in the north called Israel, and one in the south called Judah, in 933 BC. The god of the heebs was nowhere to be found. In 722 BC, just 110 years later (during which time the two hebrew colonies-kingdoms constantly fought each other, leading to both of them weakening militarily & economically and having low populations), the massive superpower of the time, the Assyrian Empire, in the form of SARGON II (Sargon the Great), destroyed the colony-kingdom of Israel in the north, completely EXTERMINATING 10 of the 14 heeb tribes, slaughtering over a million heebs, and DEPORTED the small numbers of survivors of the remaining 4 heeb tribes throughout the massive Assyrian Empire, one of history's very first example of total wholesale ethnic cleansing AND internal deportation / internal resettlement / forced expulsion / forced transfer. Again Jehofuck / Yahweh the god of the heebs was nowhere to be found. Sargon proved that (the god of) money and (the god of) military power were the ONLY TWO GODS that really exist. Sargon had a massive hatred of the god of the heebs and the extermination of 10 heeb tribes greatly satisfied him. The great emperor gloated over his victory, of the victory of his god over Jehofuck / Yahweh the god of the heebs, and the gory details of this near-extermination / holocaust were recorded by his scribes, and these have survived and have been excavated by archeologists. That was the end of the hebrews' so-called Israel, or an area where the CONFEDERATION of the hebrew tribes lived. In 585 BC the next superpower, the Babylonians, in the form of King Nebuchadnezzar the Great, eliminated the remaining heeb colony-kingdom in the south, Judah, in an invasion that completely destroyed the hebrews' capital city of Jerusalem, and their massive temple once and for all, reduced the temple's so-called Holy of Holies (sanctum sanctorum) into a toilet for an elite branch of Babylonian troops and horses, and the small number of heebs that were still alive were carried off as slaves to the capital city of Babylonia (in today's Iraq). Again the god of the heebs Jehofuck / Yahweh was nowhere to be found. The great king's massive victory and the near-extermination of the heebs was recorded by his historians and scribes and these have also been excavated and are visible for all to see at the British Museum in London and museums in Iraq. From 1047 BC to 585 BC, for around 500 years, the MONOTHEISTIC hebrews had been OCCUPYING, COLONIZING, and TERRORIZING the land of CANAAN-PHILISTYA and mass-murdering the non-hebrew POLYTHEISTIC Cannanites and Philistines, the ancient ancestors of today's Palestinians. This was nothing less than MASS ETHNIC CLEANSING at a religious level, and was nothing less than a HOLOCAUST of the NATIVE Canaanite-Philistine population by the monotheistic hebrew confederation, a holocaust the jews and the zionist-mafia of TODAY never bother to talk about, discuss, debate, air, or publish. Lesson 1 and Propaganda 101 : exterminate your enemies yet project yourself as the victim, which is what the Jewish Bible is all about, one of the greatest propaganda feats/pieces in world history. The destruction of BOTH Israel and Judah was Karma. Yeah, KARMA IS A BITCH. Not until 1948 would there be another so-called Israel, more than 2,500 years after the events of 585 BC. Who created so-called Israel in 1948? No it was NOT Jehofuck / Yahweh, the mythical fairy god of the jews-hebrews ... he NEVER EXISTED, just like Thor, Odin, and Loki never existed, just like Apollo, Athena, Zeus, and Hera never existed, just like Baal, Ishtar, and other Mid-East deities never existed, just like Shiva, Hanuman, Kali, Durga, Rama, Mithra, or Indra never existed. The earliest linear pictographs of Jehofuck / Yahweh, rudimentary linear depictions on clay tablets found by Jordanian archeologists in the 1930s, show a figure that looks like a horned goat, leading to speculation among archaeologists & historians that Jehofuck / Yahweh was the hebrew version of the ancient Greek god of wine, sexuality, immorality, and debauchery, Dionysos. Other archaeologists and historians refer to Jehofuck's / Yahweh''s earliest pictograph depictions as Baphomet (SEE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE). What is clear is that Jehofuck / Yahweh was a minor God of War in the ancient Canaanite pantheon of deities that included Baal and Ishtar and hundreds of other gods. According to archeological & historical records of the Middle East, Jehofuck / Yahweh was elevated, suddenly out of the blue, from a minor Canaanite god, around 2,000 BC (4,000 years ago), to the one and only god of the newly founded / newly-created hebrew tribes / hebrew tribal confederation around 1,500 BC or about 3,500 years ago. So if Jehofuck / Yahweh did not create a new hebrew colony in 1948, who did? The British Empire, in the human form of Lord Balfour, created the new hebrew COLONY in 1948. .