Julian Assange Is The Greatest Journalist Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-04-05 at 23:58:04 )

Julian Assange Is The Greatest Journalist Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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It is funny how former Israeli PM Ehud Barak just deleted a tweet admitting that Israel has nuclear weapons at the same time The Washington Post reports that United States allies have a "do not talk about Nord Stream" policy because of the answers it would turn up. There are so many open secrets that everyone knows but is not allowed to acknowledge publicly.

The worlds most famous journalist was just deprived of a visit from Reporters Without Borders because the British prison he is being kept in "received intelligence that they are journalists," and yet all we ever hear about is how Russia and China mistreat journalists. Julian Assange is the worlds greatest and most famous journalist and he is in prison solely for the crime of doing good journalism, but sure, let us all spend our time shaking our fists at far away "authoritarian regimes" for imprisoning journalists.

This morning Rsf_inter was barred from an already approved prison visit. Prison officers told them "The prison has received intelligence that they are journalists" and took them off the visit without prior warning.-Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (Stella_Assange) April 4, 2023

Mr. Julian Assange is not only the worlds greatest living journalist, he is the greatest journalist who has ever lived. There is really no valid argument against this. Seriously, name me a superior journalist. You can not.

Mr. Julian Assange began his journalism career by revolutionizing source protection for the digital age, then proceeded to break some of the biggest stories of the century. There is no one who can hold a candle to him, living or dead.

And now he is in a maximum security prison, solely and exclusively because he was better at doing the best kind of journalism than anyone else in the world. That is the kind of civilization you live in. The kind that imprisons the best journalist of all time for doing journalism.

You will never convince me it is an organic phenomenon that the population always splits itself into two equal oppositional political factions which always leaves them in a deadlock unable to get anything done, and it always deadlocks in a way that benefits the rich and powerful.

The CCP has arrested a woman for "insulting" President Xi Jinping on the Chinese social media site Weibo. She will have to stand trial for calling Xi "filth" and will receive a massive fine if convicted.

Just kidding it is not China, Xi and Weibo, it is France, Macron and Facebook.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) April 3, 2023

People who spend their time freaking out about China are the single dumbest group I interact with online.

Not necessarily the nastiest or the most aggressive, but definitely the dumbest. They will believe pretty much anything said by anyone, no matter how ridiculous, as long as it is critical of China.

The instant they see literally any negative claim about China from literally anyone, all their critical faculties go right out the window and they turn into a bunch of foam-brained imbeciles. Probably the most well-known out of innumerable possible examples was when Jordan Peterson shared a BDSM "milking" video because some disinformation account had implied that it documented abuses by the Chinese government.

This dynamic seems to have its roots in the generations-long portrayal of the Chinese as a mysterious, inscrutable race whose culture is nothing like ours. That is the only explanation I can think of for why westerners ascribe motives and agendas to their government that make no sense at all.

Once you stop thinking of a nationality as normal human beings with hopes and dreams who love their families and want to get by just like you, you can believe anything is true about their motives and goals, because you have turned them into space aliens or evil orcs in your mind.

If you believe Chinese people are human beings more or less like yourself with similar motivations, then you are able to quickly recognize bullshit claims about their motives and behavior because they make no sense from a normal human perspective. Without that view, you are lost.

The other day someone I was arguing with online just casually referred to the Chinese as "insect-like", comparing them to an ants nest. Once you have dehumanized an entire nation like that, you have sedated all your critical thinking abilities into a coma. You have crippled your mind.

Another reason why people with anti-China hysteria are the single dumbest group I interact with online is that they are constantly being fed moronic bullshit like this:

"China is preparing to kill Americans and we have to prepare to defend ourselves. The Defense Department is making slow preparations to oppose China"-CPAC board member Gordon G Chang on FoxBusiness-CPAC (CPAC) April 3, 2023

They are constantly having brain poison like this mainlined right into their skulls by empire propagandists like Gordon Chang.

"China is preparing to kill Americans and we have to prepare to defend ourselves." You mean China is preparing to defend itself from completely undisguised military encirclement and potential United States intervention in an inter-Chinese conflict? A conflict on the other side of the planet from the United States? A conflict which you, Gordon Chang, would not be fighting in?

F-cking idiot.

Western media figures should think VERY hard about whether they want to promote the idea that propagandists are legitimate targets.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) April 3, 2023

The 2016 United States presidential election changed everything.

Not because Donald Trump himself changed things significantly (he did not), but because the western media formed a consensus at that point that it is their solemn duty to help the United States government win an information war against Russia.

A consensus quickly formed that it was wrong for the media to report on the 2016 WikiLeaks releases, which were alleged to have come from Russian hackers (though still not proven to this day).

In that decision the last rays of real journalism in the mainstream media were quashed. Once all mainstream journalists accepted that it is their job not to report true facts about the powerful but to advance the information interests of their government and-or prefered political party, it was over. The last glimmer of life in a truth-based society was snuffed out.

We have seen this on full display since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with "journalists" uncritically reporting unevidenced government claims, ignoring important questions like the Ukrainian death toll, even accepting the United States governments admission that it is using them to circulate lies in an information war.

It could have gone the opposite way. The media could have seized on the corruption exposed in the WikiLeaks documents to spark an invigorated charge to investigate United States government malfeasance. Instead it was used to hide, forgive, and facilitate United States government malfeasance!!

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