From Press Freedom To Prison Systems, Everything Assange Touches Gets Illuminated by Caitlin Johnstone

Assange probably never set out on this journey with the goal of calling attention to the abuses of the US prison system as his foremost priority, but, as is so often the case with anything his journey touches, those abuses keep getting pulled into the light of public awareness anyway. His case is now no longer just about press freedom, US war crimes, corrupt governments collaborating to stomp out inconvenient truth tellers, and the malfeasance of US alphabet agencies, but about the abusive nature of the US prison system as well.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/from-press-freedom-to-prison-systems