CounterVortex Episode 31: Julian Assange: agent of fascism by Bill Weinberg published on 2019-04-14T16:18:15Z In Episode 31 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg documents the ugly far-right politics of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, and how the 2010 document dump risked the lives dissidents under authoritarian regimes in places like Zimbabwe -- and may have constituted outright collaboration with the repressive dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. An objective reading of the circumstances around the 2016 Wikileaks dump of Democratic Party e-mails reveals Assange as a Kremlin asset and Trump collaborator, an active agent in a Russian-lubricated effort to throw the US elections -- part of Putin's grander design to impose a fascist world order. Weinberg also notes that the ACLU and Committee to Protect Journalists have issued statements warning that the charges against Assange may pose a threat to press freedom. But he argues that even if we must protest his prosecution, we should do so while refraining from glorifying Assange -- and, indeed, while forthrightly repudiating him as a dangerous political enemy of all progressive values. Listen on SoundCloud, and support our podcast via Patreon. Production by Chris Rywalt We are asking listeners to donate just $1 per episode via Patreon. A total of $30 per episode would cover our costs for engineering and producing. We are currently up to $20. https://www.patreon.com/countervortex New episodes will be produced every two weeks. We need your support. Genre News & Politics Comment by Bill Weinberg @irfan-rainy: That is one standard of measurement. Not the only one. Has the United States unilaterally annexed a piece of a neighboring country in recent years? Russia has twice as many troops in Syria as the US (some 4,000 to 2,000), and has exacted oil concessions form Assad as the price of military support. If you do not recognize this as imperialism, it is because you don't want to. https://countervortex.org/node/15958 2019-04-21T00:27:15Z Comment by Bill Weinberg @irfan-rainy: Nobody has disputed that Hillary was a disgusting candidate. In fact, I said exactly that. Did you actually LISTEN? That is 100% irrelevant to the question of whether Assange was helping Puitin. As far as I'm concerned, the case that he was doing so is practically irrefutable. 2019-04-21T00:20:42Z Comment by Irfan Rainy Bill ??? Come on now ! Assange was helping Putin ?? Hilary was a disgusting candidate and it showed ! She self destructed through her arrogance/dictatorial ways !! The whole world knows that. 2019-04-20T22:11:23Z Comment by Irfan Rainy so first point i quote re collaborating imperial governments ' Russia no less than the US' ?? So Russia has soldiers on 800 bases in 80 countries does it ??? 2019-04-20T21:59:01Z