Blinken Rejects Australia's Calls to Drop Case Against Julian Assange
Blinken Rejects Australia's Calls to Drop Case Against Julian Assange
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday rejected Australian concerns about WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, who faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the US and convicted for exposing US war crimes. Blinken was in Australia with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Aus...
Weak spineless politicians. The correct answer is free Julian Assange and any other Australian journalists subject to political persecution by USA with 48 hours or:
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impose a 25% tax on any goods/services purchased from USA which runs a huge trade surplus with USA.
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all Americans working at Pine Gap spy facility will be deported and all access to Pine Gap information will be cut off.
Then every 48 hours Assange remains imprisoned, announce another round of punative damages.
While Wong says the Australian government wants the case against Assange to be brought to an end, it has not impacted ties between the US-Australia. After signing the AUKUS military pact that will eventually allow Canberra to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, the US and Australia continue to increase military cooperation.
After two days of talks in Australia, the two sides announced the US would expand its military presence in the country by sending more submarines, adding regular rotations of US Army watercraft, and collaborating on joint missile production. The US expansion in Australia is part of its military buildup to prepare for a future war with China.
Australia has loyally fought every war at America's side since WWII. That cannot continue if America persecutes Australian journalists.
The fact that basically a news organization exposing the US war crimes is the one that's getting in trouble and not the other way around. I can't believe more people aren't concerned or worried about this. The propaganda medium machine has really worked its claws into people.
This is another example of how the US has actually regressed.
In the 60s and 70s, journalists were protected even when they embarrassed the United States, more or less. This was the height of the cold war, yet there was more consideration for the principles of journalism than there are now.