Forum Post: Julian Assange interviews Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali
Posted 11 years ago on July 8, 2012, 10:12 a.m. EST by struggleforfreedom80
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Seen it. Excellent. Assange is a hero. He has sacrificed so much for the freedom of the press, for govt transparency, For the concept of informing the electorate.
We all owe him a debt of gratitude. And much more
Thanx for posting
Peace & Solidarity.
lol
Ask PFC Manning who the REAL hero is!!!
Manning is also a hero. Not mutually exclusive from my perspective.
no, I don't suppose it would be
I'll fly over to Australia to discuss the matter before visiting Bangladeshi
yes, JA & co have been very courageous.
You've maybe seen this one as well, but if not, check this one out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn5y659VI7Q
Democracy Now is really an excellent news organization.
Solidarity to you too :)
As a reminder as to why we're here & what OWS is about (for 'most' of us on this forum!) - please see :
at spes non fracta ...
yeah Democracy now had a Nice piece on Woody Guthries 100 birthday,
Thanx
Thanx for your good post and link and which I'd watched when broadcast. To follow, I append :
"The Hero Becomes the Hunted", by Lawrence Davidson ; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31707.htm &
"How Julian Assange's Private Life Helped Conceal the Real Triumph of WikiLeaks : http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-how-julian-assanges-private-life-helped-conceal-the-real-triumph-of-wikileaks-7901737.html - "Without the access to the US secret cables, the world would have no insight into how their governments behave", by Patrick Cockburn.
fiat lex ...
"Without the access to the US secret cables, the world would have no insight into how their governments behave", by Patrick Cockburn.
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Good interview - plenty of food for thought.
Agreed. Excellent interview with good analysis.
And they do not over do the analysis - they make points and observations while talking about what is going on in the world and let you ( us ) see the connections and/or disconnects.
Agreed. It's really good to see Assange setting up an interview/talk with these two great activists.
Yes - absolutely.
Talking about issues of the day - today - today's issues.
Providing places to look at - situations to look at - questions to ask your self - questions to forward to others.
This is how awareness is nurtured.
Julian Assange for president!
Hehe. Yeah, that'd be cool. However I have a better idea: How about a free sustainable, decentralized, solidaric society with democracy built from below and no leaders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxYth0ktPsY&feature=plcp
http://struggleforfreedom.blogg.no/1320873951_the_society_we_should.html
Now that's the society we should strive for :)
hey,this is good post,I wounder how the media and money would play in such system
Institutions, including media, would be controlled democratically by the participants - the ones working in the institution in cooperation with the community etc. Same goes for wealth and resourses in general. A participatory democracy in which people actually are in control of their own life and work.
Please, also check out my "Occupy your Workplace" video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jRy5ZIYZok&feature=plcp
I wounder What would say, the right wing like Libertarian/tea party to this system where goverment does not involve?
The libertarian right wants total private tyranny, so Anarcho-Syndicalism would not appeal to them at all. To my understanding the TP and LP are not in favor of seeking to abolish state and government. They just want to weaken it, making more way for the private tyrannies - the corporations and the financial elite - to rule the society.
The only way to weaken those s&p 500 corporation by community-wealth.org I will be posted you link to my social media
I like this view of Assange:
"Like other anti-American cranks on the planet, Assange holds firm in his warped faith that the U.S. is the leading source of global evil. The roots of this religion run deep, beginning with 18th century European aristocrats who despised the American Revolution. The anti-Americanism of Nazis, communists, tribalists, anarchists and now militant Islamists all rehash the same tropes, with their semi-schizoid baseline being the U.S. is simultaneously a vast authoritarian conspiracy and a heterogeneous menagerie of infidel-cowboy-capitalist idiots who dogmatically resist enlightened social policies.
Assange argues his revelations will force this conglomerate American monster to become more secretive and authoritarian. Limiting access to information, in order to stop future leaks, will reduce the monster's secretive and authoritarian effectiveness. The monster's "security state" will dumb down, and --here's the moment of religious rapture in Assange's prophecy -- this will increase global justice.
Assange also links this shackling of America to creating peace. Don't snicker too long. There are a lot of tenured gray-haired profs with ponytails who teach this dreck at notable universities and get paid for it.
Assange understands media grandstanding, but he doesn't understand people and certainly doesn't understand how American diplomats contribute to maintaining peace."
Maintaining peace? You mean making apologies after a quarter of a century of meddling that saw hundreds of thousands of people persecuted, tortured, and murdered?
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp
Iranian Revolution of 1979, would not permit any public funeral or other expression of mourning for Mossadegh.
In a speech delivered in March 2000 by Madeleine Albright (then secretary of state ), the U.S. government finally acknowledged what it had done to the Iranian people and to democracy in Iraq:
Not surprisingly, Albright’s “apology” fell on many deaf ears in Iran. While Iranians certainly have not forgotten the U.S. government’s support of Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War during the 1980s, including its furnishing Saddam with weapons of mass destruction to use against the Iranian people, the root of Iranian anger lies with the anti-democracy foreign policy of the U.S. government, by which U.S. officials ousted the Iranian people’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, from office in 1953.
Iran 1953 and support for SH is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a long list of supporting brutal dictators, owerthrowing democratic regimes, staging coups etc etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhAe7N4F9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flvLfSSR1d4&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcDNCkVmXQM
Oh, and for "71353933" and all other ranters, this does not make me (or Michael Moore, or Harold Pinter or Noam Chomsky) anti-american in any way. There's a big difference between hating america and the american people, and strongly criticising the policies of the US government.
This is just mindless right-wing ranting, packed with strawmen. Instead of quoting someone, wouldn't it be better if you a) stated your own opinions, and b) presented reasonable counter arguments to what Assange has actually said?
Good video (like the radical dream team), also wound up watching another Assange interview with occupiers, good stuff !
Great interview. Everyone should watch it.
"Evidence of a US Judicial Vendetta Against WikiLeaks Activists Mounts - Iceland's government warns MP not to visit the US, which tried to hack her Twitter account : Julian Assange has legitimate fears", by Birgitta Jónsdóttir : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/03/evidence-us-judicial-vendetta-wikileaks-activists-mounts .
e tenebris ...
Very interesting. Thanks.
Please also see : "US May Execute Assange if it Gets Him – former NSA official 'After 9/11 NSA had secret deal with White House' : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31807.htm .
amor vincit omnia ...
Thanks, :)
Good article - in it she says I don't know why they went after a member of Iceland's parliament.
I DO - because Iceland went after their criminal bankers and the USA has not. Iceland is on a good road to recovery and the USA is not.
Spread it around, my friend :)