Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal

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  • Опубликовано: 28 май 2023
  • Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky joined others earlier this year calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for over four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States. If he is extradited, tried and convicted, Assange faces up to 175 years in jail for violating the U.S. Espionage Act for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in January was organized by the Progressive International and the Wau Holland Foundation. We spend the hour airing excerpts.
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  • @blackcrust330
    @blackcrust330 Год назад +381

    Whistle-blowers must be protected, not incarcerated.

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 Год назад +11

      All acts of courage MUST be severely punished so that cowardice becomes the norm.

    • @BigFatHeretic
      @BigFatHeretic Год назад +10

      @@paulheydarian1281 I hope you’re only trolling just for fun! But in case you’re serious, I gave your comment a thumbs down!!!

    • @user-mn8ul9bf2g
      @user-mn8ul9bf2g Год назад +14

      @@BigFatHeretic For lacking any sense of sarcasm, I give your comment thumbs down.

    • @tonidimitrova6078
      @tonidimitrova6078 Год назад

      Whistle blowers are always harshly punished in this country. Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden , we even dare to demand to prosecute foreign nationals who have never set foot in America, like Assange. Extraordinary rendition is what we call the way we usually deal with inconvenient people, drone bombing, abductions, there's no limit to the illegal means we go after truth tellers

    • @tonidimitrova6078
      @tonidimitrova6078 Год назад +10

      ​@@paulheydarian1281 it's sarcasm for us but a common practice among those in power. The tantrum Obama and Biden threw over Snowden escaping, oh my...

  • @chinookvalley
    @chinookvalley Год назад +413

    I live in a small rural town of southern Colorado. We have an overwhelming number of disabled veterans (VIetnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, name it...) who are physically and mentally handicapped for life. Facing the truth is difficult. How many of these men and women should NEVER have been in a war, over lies? Truth matters.

    • @patricederambuteau826
      @patricederambuteau826 Год назад +37

      I am fully in Line with you. A great sympathy with all thé victimes of liés.

    • @radams2403
      @radams2403 Год назад +33

      It's a crime what these people have been subjected to. Incredibly sad state of affairs.

    • @matilda4406
      @matilda4406 Год назад +22

      Indeed, not an honor nor for country, nor county.

    • @markantrobus8782
      @markantrobus8782 Год назад +32

      A documentary film on your town's veteran population should be made.

    • @mariecarton8611
      @mariecarton8611 Год назад +28

      @@markantrobus8782 now that is an absolute necessity. These veterans need to be given a platform to air their needs and grievances not to mention a roof over their heads.

  • @johansen2bfree
    @johansen2bfree Год назад +7

    Julian Assange's crime? Truth. Free him, and award him the Pulitzer Prize.

  • @257rani
    @257rani Год назад +8

    Telling The Truth is Not a Crime. Journalism is not a Crime ❤Free Him Now ❤

  • @harriet4564
    @harriet4564 Год назад +572

    Exposing war crimes and telling truth and doing journalism should NOT be a crime, it should be praised! FREE HERO JULIAN ASSANGE!!!!!

    • @dorisaffissio1649
      @dorisaffissio1649 Год назад

      Assange is no hero. He is a coward hanging out in the Ecuadorian embassy, and now a London jail. Face a jury or re locate to Moscow like Snowdon did.

    • @vivalaleta
      @vivalaleta Год назад

      @@dorisaffissio1649 Ridiculous. Assange is ten times the prize Snowdon was. You saw what happened as soon as our corrupt government got permission to enter the embassy. Assange knew the enormous target on his back. He had no choice.

    • @curtrice6060
      @curtrice6060 Год назад +24

      Please free Julian. 🤗😁🤗👍

    • @SOS-ct9mv
      @SOS-ct9mv Год назад

      What about his financial dealings with Jeffery Epstein? Feel free to google.

    • @ChrisHarding-lk3jj
      @ChrisHarding-lk3jj Год назад +3

      The fact is Julian Assange conspired with Bradley Manning to crack a password and Bradley Manning provided the password hash to Julian in an attempt to crack that password. If Julian Assange didn't work with Bradley Manning to crack the password there would be no crime.
      Julian Assange is going to spend probably the rest of his life in prison at the Florence ADX supermax. If he is lucky he will find himself a good prison husband to spend the rest of his life with.

  • @veteranscannabisadvocacygr5401
    @veteranscannabisadvocacygr5401 Год назад +172

    ✨🌎🇺🇸 FREE JULIAN ASSANGE IMMEDIATELY ‼️📡🌎

    • @seebarnes6588
      @seebarnes6588 Год назад

      They can't they know they can't. He'd expose what happened to Seth :(

    • @diorocks5858
      @diorocks5858 Год назад

      why he is an irresponsible self entitled prick

    • @katarinaprokovich6287
      @katarinaprokovich6287 Год назад

      Julien Assange doit être libéré de suite, il n'a tué personne, et nous sommes en démocratie à ce qu'il paraît, il n'a tué personne, et en Europe, France, des hommes qui tuent font moins d'années de prison que cet homme qui se fait détruire et tué mentalement et physiquement, c'est atroce, de plus il est isolé, la solitude fait du mal, beaucoup de mal, il a besoin de contact, c'est grave, c'est une honte, il faut le libérer immédiatement. La Russie devrait en parler et proposer à Julien Assange de l'accueillir pour être libre et en vie.

    • @leimsok7830
      @leimsok7830 Год назад

      ​@@seebarnes6588 •○○~~~~~~~~~~~~~~•~~~~\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\○○ p

  • @Bob-sb7sp
    @Bob-sb7sp Год назад +6

    Greetings vrom France: Excellent presentation and program 👏 👍 👌

  • @jennilevine6944
    @jennilevine6944 Год назад +5

    Thank you all for a true voice

  • @4623620
    @4623620 Год назад +155

    The question is: is making crimes public a crime in the US ?

    • @gallectee6032
      @gallectee6032 Год назад +54

      Yes it is. This is why Edward Snowden said this: "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."

    • @tonidimitrova6078
      @tonidimitrova6078 Год назад +16

      Yes. No doubt

    • @juliewake4585
      @juliewake4585 Год назад +14

      It seems so.

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад

      US taxpayers are the "neo-nazis"
      far-right douche-nozzles are just plain nazis.

    • @r3b3lvegan89
      @r3b3lvegan89 Год назад +8

      And he was rephrasing John Lennon and a couple other people anyway.

  • @panthera50
    @panthera50 Год назад +44

    FREE JULIAN ASSANGE !!!! ♥‼‼

  • @edensmith552
    @edensmith552 Год назад +6

    Free Julian Assagne please🙏
    When did telling the truth become a crime?
    Real criminals are in government positions whilst an honest journalist is locked and tortured in jail.
    This should not be so.

  • @russellnewton6660
    @russellnewton6660 Год назад +18

    I had the privilege to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak, here in Edinburgh Scotland. Vilified by the right wing press here In the U.K.

    • @gore1089
      @gore1089 Год назад +5

      Yes the corporate global media blames everything on the left. Bait and switch.
      The real left .
      Not puppet imposters like Boris Obama and Biden.

  • @beesplaining1882
    @beesplaining1882 Год назад +161

    Free Assange. Now, about those war crimes......we the people demand justice!

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад +9

      Accountability Party 2024
      no more lies. no more BS.

    • @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings
      @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings Год назад +1

      Mind Begs the Question:
      If Hitler succeeded because
      Judiciary allowed Evil Laws
      Authoritarians arrive on heels of
      Judiciary allowing Evil Laws,no?

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад

      @safiyaabdrahman5717
      US taxpayers paid a soldier to torture a child in GITMO.
      they are all guilty of collusion, at the very least.
      all taxpayers fund evil and they know it.
      they choose comfort over decency.

    • @beesplaining1882
      @beesplaining1882 Год назад +2

      @Safiya Abdrahman yes the soldier/s should be charged and the US officials who lied about it and actively covered it up. The US should publicly apologise and pay compensation to the innocent victims family. The buck stops with US leadership. Instead of justice, US leadership is persecuting the whistleblower, Assange.

    • @morninboy
      @morninboy Год назад +2

      Kissinger and Bush to the Hauge

  • @kerrypowell8602
    @kerrypowell8602 Год назад +61

    The great Jeremy Corbyn is a real leader ❤

    • @gore1089
      @gore1089 Год назад +4

      Yes the real left .
      Not puppet imposters like Boris Obama and Biden.

    • @mikehull5042
      @mikehull5042 Год назад

      Jeremy carbine talking about democracy when he supports the IRA terrorist organisation that murdered and murders innocent people. Yeah, what a man. What a joke

    • @psychologicalprojectionist
      @psychologicalprojectionist Год назад

      What does he lead?
      Has he got a dog?

  • @DavoidJohnson
    @DavoidJohnson Год назад +7

    Those who commit crimes against the people must be made to pay for their actions.

  • @ehemalssimehtt3739
    @ehemalssimehtt3739 Год назад +16

    ❤ Julian Assange & Noam Chomsky & Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn ❤

  • @HanfinitiativeFFM
    @HanfinitiativeFFM Год назад +132

    Free Assange now !

    • @eddyeroyal6024
      @eddyeroyal6024 Год назад +1

      He’s a traider an needs to stay there

    • @ukqwerty999
      @ukqwerty999 Год назад +1

      @@eddyeroyal6024 The people in the Apache helicopter gunship massacre disagree with you.

  • @petulaegharevba7780
    @petulaegharevba7780 Год назад +200

    We all have to keep fighting for truth. Free Julian Assange. Thank you truth tellers❤

    • @mansonnanson8294
      @mansonnanson8294 Год назад

      Or don't free him but at least jail the trump cancer. I can live with both of them in jail.

  • @montanagal6958
    @montanagal6958 Год назад +4

    People in our world are punished for telling the truth.

    • @nomennudum5270
      @nomennudum5270 Год назад

      ... and rewarded handsomely for the opposite.

  • @mybobalu2
    @mybobalu2 Год назад +9

    I'm glad they are doing this. I was beginning to wonder why we didn't hear more about what happened after the Embassy.

  • @madpatriot4608
    @madpatriot4608 Год назад +70

    In a world where exposing the evil deeds of government, hiding behind the espionage act is a crime,where is the accountability freedom and democracy in that

    • @Pbav8tor
      @Pbav8tor Год назад

      The irony is that Julien has been under duress for decades, and our former president stole and sold secrets and is not only free but running for president again.

    • @jo-annerichardson34
      @jo-annerichardson34 Год назад +4

      💯

    • @noellebazzi5618
      @noellebazzi5618 Год назад +2

      Who is the ones behind that Act? It was intended to abuse freedom?😢

  • @Tonsirton
    @Tonsirton Год назад +153

    "Well Spoken Mr Corbyn!!!🙏🙏🙏".

    • @andrewbclinton
      @andrewbclinton Год назад

      the racist, his party was found guilty of racism while he was in charge, he supports hamas the most racist terrorist group on the planet

  • @souadkabalan5659
    @souadkabalan5659 11 месяцев назад +3

    Isn’t it mind boggling how slowly they move towards correction as opposed to how quickly and wilfully they move towards destruction

  • @stephentrueman4843
    @stephentrueman4843 Год назад +7

    Remember watching this a few months ago, chills every time

  • @gallectee6032
    @gallectee6032 Год назад +129

    Thank you for focusing on this. By now it should be obvious who mainstream media represent.

    • @dorisaffissio1649
      @dorisaffissio1649 Год назад +6

      Let's give Assange an opportunity to interfere in the election of 2024.

    • @iainherridge6253
      @iainherridge6253 Год назад +6

      ​@@dorisaffissio1649why not, everyone else IS!

    • @RoyalEagle1960
      @RoyalEagle1960 Год назад

      @@dorisaffissio1649 You are using the C-I-A talking points spread by the lame stream media. He did amazing and heroic job exposing our government. How ignorant and naive one must be to ignore the facts of the matter 🤦‍♂️

    • @finalelement3296
      @finalelement3296 Год назад

      the reptillians?

    • @StarryGreen33
      @StarryGreen33 10 месяцев назад

      @@iainherridge6253 just repubs so far

  • @jasonbean2764
    @jasonbean2764 Год назад +207

    It's astonishing that the general press doesn't put more attention on this issue.

    • @paulwellman1030
      @paulwellman1030 Год назад

      Astonishing that they don't pay any attention to Seymour Hersh blowing the whistle on the greatest ecological, industrial terrorist act of our time... Biden the Nord Stream Bomber should be behind bars.

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you Год назад +15

      What are you, new here?

    • @bold810
      @bold810 Год назад +2

      No, it's not.
      We don't need daily updates on terrorists.

    • @ajl2232
      @ajl2232 Год назад +45

      @@bold810 He is not a terrorist. The terrorists are those he exposed for war crimes.

    • @pussiboos21t
      @pussiboos21t Год назад

      The 'general' press is right wing and owned by billionaires, they don't want the truth out there. They are part of the problem and when attacked will claim to be the free press which the main players most certainly are not.

  • @257rani
    @257rani Год назад +2

    Activists I agree with You and The Truth You Presented. Free Julian Assange Now and Send home to his Family ❤✊

  • @lisafrequency55
    @lisafrequency55 Год назад +2

    Thanks Amy for working to bring more awareness to the plight of Julian Assange.

  • @jimmorris4425
    @jimmorris4425 Год назад +308

    Thank you Democracy Now for continuing to reveal the truth.

    • @John-nz6jb
      @John-nz6jb Год назад

      😂. All 3 🇺🇸 State Department assets. All 3 CIA zionist assets along with Amy Bigpharma Gofundme Goodman .
      Typical media pap. 😂

    • @tmnt10000
      @tmnt10000 Год назад

      Leftist propaganda is now considered truth

    • @IreneCampos-tk2vd
      @IreneCampos-tk2vd Год назад +13

      Not always truth revealers. Around trump's time they sided with the Washington DC swamp.

    • @blokcomNativeFaces
      @blokcomNativeFaces Год назад +12

      CommiecratNow didn't tell you the controversy around Epstein and your Boy Chompsky.

    • @semiinthepassinglane
      @semiinthepassinglane Год назад +5

      Far from real journalism.

  • @MichaelThomas-ll1hw
    @MichaelThomas-ll1hw Год назад +44

    This is amazing. Thank you all for your hard work- you are the true heroes ❤️ ☮️ 🌎 🌍

  • @Hands2HealNow
    @Hands2HealNow Год назад +5

    Please Make it clear that no defense will be heard in court and the judge operates without an adversarial discussion.

  • @Duen207
    @Duen207 Год назад +23

    Thank You Julian Assange and all the heroes who fights for the truth! 🙏

  • @tonidimitrova6078
    @tonidimitrova6078 Год назад +26

    Democracy: when those who commit crimes live in wealth and respect while those who expose thier crimes languish in prisons

  • @maithanhnguyen1428
    @maithanhnguyen1428 Год назад +43

    Freedom for Julian Assange, please!
    Julian Assange is a hero, a defender of the weaks, not a criminal!
    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @ReturnOfTheJ.D.
    @ReturnOfTheJ.D. Год назад +11

    It's gotten to the point where it's so embarrassing for the United States internationally to keep pursuing this witch hunt that I'm not sure who I want Julian Assange to be freed for now - himself or the global reputation of the country persecuting him.

    • @MrJJ042804
      @MrJJ042804 8 месяцев назад

      The government doesn't care about the embarrassment, they want to suppress "any" whistleblowing, and Julian Assange's example is supposed to tell everyone who tries to expose government crimes will pay serious consequences!

  • @britastertern-gill4961
    @britastertern-gill4961 Год назад +3

    Justice for Julian

  • @landotter
    @landotter Год назад +123

    it may be an irony for some that democracy needs people like Assange, now more than ever.

    • @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings
      @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings Год назад +3

      Mind Begs the Question:
      To support and aid an Apartheid State
      Democratic,Fascist?

    • @ronalddunne3413
      @ronalddunne3413 Год назад +1

      @@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings USA is certainly NOT an "apartheid State" - unless the meaning of "apartheid" has somehow changed since the fall of the Nationalist government in South Afrika.

  • @nancyanderson5310
    @nancyanderson5310 Год назад +85

    Thank you, thank you , thank you. These disclosures must be incredible to many people. Having tracked the evolution of this inhuman man-made system since Vietnam, it is clear it is heading to a dead end. It is a privilege to hear voices of those still fighting for sanity and humanity. You are lights in a dark world. You are God’s blessing, helping all people keep their grip on truth. Thank you, thank you.

  • @ratnabahadurgurung9850
    @ratnabahadurgurung9850 Год назад +9

    Wishing you goodhealth and longevity prof.Chomsky sir.

  • @MohamadSaeidAH
    @MohamadSaeidAH 10 месяцев назад +3

    Justice and freedom for The brave Julian Assange

  • @mikeharvey9811
    @mikeharvey9811 Год назад +103

    Great people who stand firm on the side of truth. Wonderful speakers….Assange must be freed and compensated for years of wrongful imprisonment. Barb

  • @christopherbettridge5983
    @christopherbettridge5983 Год назад +27

    I watched the entire Belmarsh Tribunal when it was aired; I am very glad that I did. As a Canadian who came up in the Eighties and Nineties, I am very cognizant of the US influence on world affairs and how much power and influence the United States imposes just by existing in other countries within it's sphere of influence ( the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, the people of Central and South America know all too well what these mean; I grew up within a few hours of the American border in South-Western Ontario and for much of my early life I saw American television, news, the culture was so pervasive that the Canadian government had to pass legislation to combat it!) and I am not alone in my, shall we say, subconscious xenophobia amongst Canadians when it comes to American influence on the policies of other nations. I was very impressed by the courage of the supra-national speakers for Mr. Assange at the Belmarsh Tribunal for standing up for the rights of all those who see in the United States a fantastically vibrant and dynamic cultural and social identity and are not willing to allow the falsehood of the current historical narrative to define them, or allow free speech to become a commodity like so much else in capitalist systems; where if it's just the "free" part you're after, sometimes you get what you pay for. Free speech, in its genuine incarnation, sometimes costs us. Here we see individuals standing up for one who has and is still paying that cost

  • @billienova
    @billienova Год назад +3

    So thankful for Jeffery Sterling speaking out ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @anastasiamitsos5072
    @anastasiamitsos5072 Год назад +1

    Thank you for sharing!!!

  • @gitastudygroup1628
    @gitastudygroup1628 Год назад +182

    Thank you ‘Democracy Now’ for this episode 🙏

    • @farerolobos9382
      @farerolobos9382 Год назад

      Why thanking them for doing what they should have been doing systematically long ago while they we're feeding us with the Russiagate paranoia?

  • @jqiou5865
    @jqiou5865 Год назад +31

    Free Assange! Lock up Pompeo!

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад +6

      ....and Bolton, Biden, both Clintons, Trump, Bush *AND* Obama.
      for starters.

    • @noellebazzi5618
      @noellebazzi5618 Год назад +1

      All are evils

    • @AkerraNicholson
      @AkerraNicholson Год назад

      ​@@donHooligan YES!! & BILL GATES!! Big Tech & unfortunately now our own FBI

  • @WhaleCommunicators
    @WhaleCommunicators Год назад +1

    GREAT MEETING of Minds folks!!!
    Ben Wizner is a very smart and well spoken man. He makes simple words say volumes. I can see why he would be speaking for Julian Assange in all this
    Jeffrey Sterling - thank you for using your voice and singing your song out loud. You are my hero. A man of color who would not take this BS and who stood up and refused to be quiet. A great man who speaks very well for himself and for all of us. Bless You all the many years you walk this Earth!!!
    Margaret Kunstler . . . Go get em!!! You are great at what you do. You get people's attention - Very intelligent & sharp attorney protecting all our human rights.
    Democracy Now - standing ovation - GREAT JOB & show!!!
    And shame on the USA & our world for calling folks like this out for telling the truth in a world lead by LIARS

  • @vesnatodorovic1658
    @vesnatodorovic1658 Год назад +2

    Thank you Dan and special Suchitra telling the truth

  • @johnnicholas1488
    @johnnicholas1488 Год назад +52

    Bravo. Julian should receive amnesty and compensatory
    as well as punitive money damages by the taxpayers of
    the two faced United States.

    • @christinacraig4430
      @christinacraig4430 Год назад +1

      Those accusing him should pay not the tax payers we are glad he told the truth.

    • @ronalddunne3413
      @ronalddunne3413 Год назад +1

      @@christinacraig4430 Did he? Which "truth" did he tell, hmmm?

  • @annenunney9907
    @annenunney9907 Год назад +123

    Thank you Jeremy for always being on the side of truth ❤

  • @sueellerman7984
    @sueellerman7984 Год назад +17

    Thanks Democracy Now for this important post on Julian Assange, the "free" world owes this man a great debt. Let's keep up the noise! Free Speech; Free Press; Free Assange!

  • @markantrobus8782
    @markantrobus8782 Год назад +3

    The former head of the CIA and secretary of state said openly that the job of the intelligence services is to lie and kill.

  • @marygarrapa3537
    @marygarrapa3537 Год назад +44

    What can we say? One thing I will say Amy, is that you never let us down. Thank you.

    • @dsmith4140
      @dsmith4140 Год назад

      Down the sewer

    • @zacboyles1396
      @zacboyles1396 Год назад

      Spoken like someone with their eyes tightly closed and disposable masks twisted into ear plugs.

    • @mischevious
      @mischevious 11 месяцев назад

      DN lets you down every single day with their Ukraine coverage. You’re just too snowed over to know it.

  • @williamlay4236
    @williamlay4236 Год назад +49

    We need to protect the truth!

  • @Bob-sb7sp
    @Bob-sb7sp Год назад +1

    Greetings from France: Fantastic program, people and excellent presentation 👏 👍..finally..should be freed immediately 👏

  • @williamhenderson1692
    @williamhenderson1692 Год назад +2

    these people are true heroes. all possible support and thanks to them !

  • @Bisquick
    @Bisquick Год назад +73

    _"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started with truth"_ - Assange
    Just because I have this in the 'ol clipboard and it's in my opinion one of the great political speeches, here's Eugene Debs's statement to the court when tried/convicted under the very same espionage act that now persecutes Julian Assange in 1918, for merely speaking out against WWI (just a year after it was passed, revealing how intentional this use was from the beginning), reminding us why the courage embodied by folks like Assange, Snowden, Ellsberg, Daniel Hale, Manning, et al. (and all of you who speak and act in their imperative defense) is so important and I think also importantly clearly articulating the simple and necessary transformation of society that we must *_demand_* at this point:
    _Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free._
    _I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions_
    _Your Honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in a fundamental change-but if possible by peaceable and orderly means_
    _Standing here this morning, I recall my boyhood. At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison_
    _I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and the factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men._
    _In this country-the most favored beneath the bending skies-we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child-and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity_
    *_I believe, Your Honor, in common with all Socialists, that this nation ought to own and control its own industries. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned-that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all_*
    _I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence._
    _This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth._
    _There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order. They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night. They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time. The feel-they know, indeed-that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greatest social and economic change in history._
    _In that day we shall have the universal commonwealth-the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth_
    _Your Honor, I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice._
    _I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity. The people are awakening. In due time they will and must come to their own._
    _When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand. Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning._

    • @joshroolf1966
      @joshroolf1966 Год назад +9

      That's amazing and inspiring, thank you.💚🐾⛅

    • @matilda4406
      @matilda4406 Год назад +3

      Who wrote this ?

    • @georgefurman4371
      @georgefurman4371 Год назад +3

      Thank you for bringing us true history memory and the name and message of Eugene Debs. It is encouraging and reminds us of our socialist dream and duty for change. Thank you with all my heart.

    • @georgefurman4371
      @georgefurman4371 Год назад +1

      @@matilda4406 I hope Eugene Debs recovered his place in your history memory and working class identity.

    • @matilda4406
      @matilda4406 Год назад

      @@georgefurman4371 I just got to know him. Not one for political history, but I can tell you about religious history I wish was different

  • @Elizabeth-mp6tr
    @Elizabeth-mp6tr Год назад +30

    I didn't know the extent of this issue until listening to this documentary. Thank you for educating me.

    • @georgefurman4371
      @georgefurman4371 Год назад +1

      True history memory is a condition for freedom and peace. Is education.

  • @reforest4fertility
    @reforest4fertility Год назад +4

    Wow, ugh, gulp, actual journalism on trial. I never thought I'd see the day, sorta, when a mere reporter, like a piano player, being treated like a leaker, when he leaked nothing, only reported information with extremely high import. Such courage should be rewarded. Hopefully that will still come, when leaders & media are brought to their senses by us varied peoples everywhere.

  • @artoaco
    @artoaco Год назад +1

    Thank you all. Light destroys the darkness. Truth will win. We know it.🌼🌺🌸

  • @donald1576
    @donald1576 Год назад +79

    Julian Assange is every inch a hero. We should be making statues to him for what he did. His message should be being taught in college

    • @lizshephard2964
      @lizshephard2964 Год назад +2

      There is already a bronze statue of Assange in prominent display in a park in a European city - its in the film 'Ithaka' about Assange, shown recently on BBC2 in Britain.

    • @donald1576
      @donald1576 Год назад

      @@lizshephard2964 it's a start

    • @pablocaves
      @pablocaves Год назад

      M

  • @peterhixon371
    @peterhixon371 Год назад +3

    The really sad thing is that conferences such as this one will only ever be seen by the seekers of the truth.
    The mass of the population remain in a state of comparative oblivion and the politicians and media are, in general owned by a power that seeks to make us more ignorant and more subservient by their each and every action

  • @nefigaha
    @nefigaha Год назад +4

    Betty Metzger's synopsis of the FBI abuses during the Cointelpro era is chilling

  • @danatompkins4385
    @danatompkins4385 Год назад +37

    Free Julian!!!!! Now!!!!!

  • @jameswatson9641
    @jameswatson9641 Год назад +1

    I admire this gentleman Jeffery Sterling, i applaud his bravery and commitment to truth.

  • @FLAVCO
    @FLAVCO 11 месяцев назад +1

    These people restore my faith in Humanity. FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!!

  • @saveriofalcone66
    @saveriofalcone66 Год назад +20

    Thanks for publishing this we will spread.

  • @Ruth-mt8eq
    @Ruth-mt8eq Год назад +79

    Julian Assange an extraordinary, noble human being.
    He must go home to his lovely family.

    • @MarkMark
      @MarkMark Год назад

      His show on Russia Today was 🔥. 😂😂

  • @wiralle4039
    @wiralle4039 Год назад +2

    War is crime. Telling the truth is honorable.
    Only a criminal would see it differently.

  • @YahwehBYBYahweh
    @YahwehBYBYahweh Год назад +13

    Justice Can Not Be Real As Long as Evil Rulers and Evildoers are in charge of creating Evil Laws, and over the resources of this world.

  • @asleepawake3645
    @asleepawake3645 Год назад +159

    Journalists must absolutely be protected checking power. We need laws to offset the powerful

    • @dorisaffissio1649
      @dorisaffissio1649 Год назад

      Assange is not a journalist. Someone paid him. He is a coward for not facing the law, Manning did!

    • @pussiboos21t
      @pussiboos21t Год назад +7

      Unfortunatly it is the powerful who make and impliment the law ......

    • @tumeke4328
      @tumeke4328 Год назад +6

      Power & change is in the people

    • @gallectee6032
      @gallectee6032 Год назад +4

      @@tumeke4328 Easier said than done. It is effortless for them to divide us.

    • @tumeke4328
      @tumeke4328 Год назад +4

      @Gallectee the challenge starts with us my friend

  • @briangrigsby1842
    @briangrigsby1842 Год назад +54

    How much darker can we get as a nation?

    • @beesplaining1882
      @beesplaining1882 Год назад

      A war with China?

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад +6

      "You ain't seen nothin, yet. B-B-B-Baby you just ain't seen nothin, yet." -BTO

    • @hkiani6853
      @hkiani6853 Год назад

      Read the real history book and you still would not get to the depth of crimes against Humanity committed, by so called Western Democratic Countries.

    • @sandyconway4953
      @sandyconway4953 Год назад +1

      WHO r u

    • @uncle_Samssubjects
      @uncle_Samssubjects Год назад

      ​@@sandyconway4953 armed Biden crack porn and I don't care

  • @magnolian1923
    @magnolian1923 Год назад +1

    Free Julian Assange. Thank you

  • @johleby8048
    @johleby8048 Год назад +2

    Free Julian Assange. 🙏

  • @buddhistjehad82
    @buddhistjehad82 Год назад +57

    I stand with you guys . Salute to you all.

  • @PixelProlo
    @PixelProlo Год назад +15

    Thank you for sharing and hello from Northern Germany. Stay strong

    • @carinarilk89
      @carinarilk89 Год назад

      HABECK zufolge;
      Wer? Ach ja Assange!
      Deutschland und Amerika sind sich so ähnlich, was sage ich da! GANZ EUROPA Von der Leyen & Co

  • @warsakoon8968
    @warsakoon8968 Год назад +1

    Free Assange without any delay
    Good deeds beget good bad begets bad think again and discharge Assange further keeping in prison..

  • @blancaperez8251
    @blancaperez8251 Год назад +2

    FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW AND LET BE THE WINNER OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.

  • @SleepyOx2023
    @SleepyOx2023 Год назад +54

    Thanks for hosting this. We need more people who will defend morality in a world where the powerful corrupts. We all must disobey any laws that only support the powerful at the expense of the weak.

  • @murrayscott3513
    @murrayscott3513 Год назад +93

    Making the military elites look bad is fatal. The government sucks.

    • @solidaritytime3650
      @solidaritytime3650 Год назад +2

      Organize for revolution.
      Feed breakfast to school children.
      Help immigrants in your community get access to resources.
      Organize tenants in your neighborhood.
      Chain yourself to a Tree
      Blow up a pipeline.
      Everyone knows that the government has lost the mandate of The People. It's up to us to be ready with parallel horizontalized power when the shit hits the fan.

  • @billienova
    @billienova Год назад +1

    We desperately need your voices to call ☎️ our USG representatives demanding to protect our freedom of speech!!

  • @nadiawheeler4772
    @nadiawheeler4772 11 месяцев назад +1

    What is happening with our Democracy???
    Democracy is freedom of information...
    Freedom of speech...

  • @deeone5326
    @deeone5326 Год назад +8

    Thank you!❤❤❤

  • @jackdawes120
    @jackdawes120 Год назад +49

    Some wonderful contributions from all the speakers. My god! Who is listening in the White House?
    The maze of power is mind boggling.

    • @vivalaleta
      @vivalaleta Год назад +15

      Isn't it though? We are ruled by sociopaths.

    • @MrJJ042804
      @MrJJ042804 Год назад

      @@vivalaleta, and psychopaths, like Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger!

  • @patricederambuteau826
    @patricederambuteau826 Год назад +2

    This trial should be a topic for the journalists . It is not the case. What is your opinion ? Being a French, I would applaud if WE welcome Assange since he let us known that our Pesident was the victim of espionnage... It is a pity it was not thé case and I feel sad for m'y country.

  • @BorsosGabor2023
    @BorsosGabor2023 Год назад +1

    Free Assange! And the USA should apologize to him!

  • @dvoravithanovsky6902
    @dvoravithanovsky6902 Год назад +19

    Keep rebroadcasting these crucial voices of the true defenders of democracy

  • @schumannli5825
    @schumannli5825 Год назад +10

    The speakers are courageous to defend Julian. Up-hold justice!

  • @helentyrer3298
    @helentyrer3298 Год назад +2

    WE WANT THE TRUTH AND WHATS MORE WE DESERVE IT , ESPECIALLY WHERE CORRUPTION ,PROPAGANDA ,AND LIES GO ON WITH PEOPLE WE GIVE THE PRIVILEGE OF POWER TOO! Well said Jeremy 🌹And everyone else taking part ! FREE JULIAN ASSANGE 🌹

  • @livondiramerian6999
    @livondiramerian6999 Год назад +2

    Greed doesn't breed democracy, justice, love, kindness, compassion, naturalness, humanness, & happiness, it breeds destruction, hate, exploitation, & inhumanity.

  • @catherinejames2734
    @catherinejames2734 Год назад +63

    America already has . Just who does America think they are to do what they have to Assange. Then again , the UK did allow it, just as Australia did.

    • @iainherridge6253
      @iainherridge6253 Год назад

      Australian elite are renowned for hanging their citizens out to dry on the whim of their fascist overlords?

    • @jo-annerichardson34
      @jo-annerichardson34 Год назад +4

      💯

    • @carinarilk89
      @carinarilk89 Год назад +2

      TRUE! THE SWEDISCH TOO.😢

  • @gerardbiddle1808
    @gerardbiddle1808 Год назад +41

    Free Julian Assange and improve oversight protection of whistleblowers protection and to protect transparency in our democracy and the right of free speech. What are we to do with the Twitter portal back door currently surveilling us during the pandemic and even to this day?

  • @hrhtreeoflife4815
    @hrhtreeoflife4815 Год назад +1

    Q
    We've been saying
    "Free Julian Assange"
    For many years now. He is a gem.
    Q ❤️

  • @billienova
    @billienova Год назад +2

    Please 🙏🏼 everyone start calling presidents comment line and your local government representatives on Monday demanding they stop 🛑 all charges on Assange

  • @christinaulibarri4777
    @christinaulibarri4777 Год назад +26

    Thank you Ms. Goodman and Democracy Now for bringing this out and your commentary.

    • @tmnt10000
      @tmnt10000 Год назад

      Gotta love the leftist propaganda

    • @zacboyles1396
      @zacboyles1396 Год назад

      I too appreciate it however I might suggest a better name be:
      “Democracy Now or Later”
      “Democracy Later”
      “Democracy… …maybe Now”
      “Democracy but not with those people, okay they’re gone Now”

  • @patrickvanmeter2922
    @patrickvanmeter2922 Год назад +32

    These three people continue to keep up the good fight with no success. It appears no one in the US, England or Australia care about the truth.

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад

      the "allies" are the 4th reich

    • @Mmcermes
      @Mmcermes Год назад +4

      The US is in charge of 5 eye countries

  • @TowhidIslam
    @TowhidIslam Год назад +1

    Amy! you are a true brave soul.....may almighty bless you with strength and sound health. 💖

  • @sandrakisch3600
    @sandrakisch3600 Год назад +2

    What i find so incredible is so many government leaders should be charged with the espionage act. Their corruption is far worse. I pray that journalists everywhere be protected from government overreach.

  • @SpecialSP
    @SpecialSP Год назад +18

    Thank you for airing this, Amy. It's heartbreaking beyond description …

  • @reversingglobalwarming9431
    @reversingglobalwarming9431 Год назад +12

    FREE ASSANGE