So nothing happened.
Yeah, no shit. What did you expect? The US to go “oh sorry, we’ll stop existing now”? The US empire won’t crumble after one embarrassing video. You can’t make the claim Assange/Wikileaks is a US asset just because their leaks didn’t lead to the collapse of the US or significant change.
It ties his mom. A kid hardly has influence on what parents do.
It is also not my goal to conclusively prove or even allege that Assange is a federal asset. Rather, I think there are enough worrying questions that should be made known more broadly
Please don’t do this. This is a right-wing tactic: “I’m not making any claims, I’m just asking questions.”
At the same time, the two leaks were not entirely damaging to the US government.
“Collateral murder” absolutely was damaging to the US government. It showed the callous disregard the US military had for (non-white) human life and it put them under a lot of scrutiny. It also helped a lot of “fence-sitters” take a side opposing the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The murderers were never prosecuted.
Because that’s US policy. Not prosecuting them was also a bad look for US govt.
Wikileaks, however, was never formed to build credibility around damaging the US or the West in general; it was purposely founded to go after the enemies of the US government.
What? This claim needs arguments.
confined to a small room in the Ecuadorian embassy with no possibilities of ever leaving — a golden prison.
“A golden prison.” lmao. As someone who has experienced prison, his freedom taken away, you can lock a person up in a 5-star resort for 10 years and I guarantee you that person will go crazy, experience negative mental and physical effects. When criminals commit crime, they expect and are ready for the consequences, Assange never expected to be prosecuted by thr US never having stepped foot on US soil.
I think Assange’s release signals a new chapter for Wikileaks
I assume part of the plea deal is that Assange will not engage in any similar activities that landed him in trouble the first time. And even if it wasn’t, if I were Assange, I’d probably take a loooooong break from it all and spend time with my family.
There is also a part I didn’t write into the article about how when he was a teen in the 70s his mom dated a cult leader for a few years who had some ties to MK Ultra edit: dated a cult member when Assange was very young,
How is that Assange’s fault?
Based and anarchistpilled.
They’re really pushing the narrative that “Russia wants to conquer all of Ukraine” so that when that doesn’t happen they can claim victory.
the military triumph of reaching the EU’s borders
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania are all EU countries that border Russia.
If the Tiananmen massacre never happened, then why do I hate China? checkmate commies!
My cat’s (official) name is “Bear”. Checkmate.
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But at what cost?
“shadow economy”
I like how they think that an economy in which the US isn’t dominant is a “shadow” one.
I hope so. After starting so many civil wars in other countries around the globe, it’s their turn.
1.75 million acre-feet of water
American units are so silly. “Yes, I’d like a foot of water, please.”
For liberals/capitalists in the West, “sweatshops” are what exists in “the third world”, if such a factory exists in the West, then it is a “factory with poor working conditions”, e.g. Amazon warehouses, Tyson chicken processing plants, and so on. The difference is in the perceived essence, a sweatshop will forever be a sweatshop, while a factory with poor working conditions can always improve those conditions to become a factory with good working conditions.
Yes, racism (negative perception of other countries) is the underlying cause of it.
Ohh, Elara .ws… now it clicked. I was wondering why the domain sounded familiar.
Cool, thanks. Didn’t know there’s a searxng instance, also.
Yeah, as soon as I posted, funny how that works.
edit: down again
Ukraine is losing, despite their copestrikes.
But you did? How are we discussing it if it’s not in the article?