CounterVortex Episode 31: Julian Assange: agent of fascism by Bill Weinberg

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.

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