Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY [LINK | Article]
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
role of reading indictments to the German leaders on trial
served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, investigating Krupp
wrote several books about his war experiences including an account of the capitalist victor trials
was awarded the Bronze Star by the US government 1948
promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1950 (retroactive from 1948)
1950 & 1951, stood for the Conservative Party
career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959
Neave - campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's leadership of Conseratives bid
1975, Thatcher elected leader
Neave rewarded with post as head of Thatcher private office
/ then appointed Shadow Sec. of State, Northern Ireland
/ & poised to take equivalent cabinet position at time of assassination, in the event of 1979 Conservatives win
Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who had extended the policy of Ulsterisation
Neave - author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution in Northern Ireland
+ concentrating on local government reform instead
this * integrationist policy * abandoned hastily by successor
information from an intelligence agent 'Lee Tracey', claiming Neave had met Tracey, to recruit Tracey to team of intel & security specialists who would ensure politician Tony Benn "was stopped" - ie. alleged assassination of Tony Benn if Labour elected
/ second meeting planned but Neave was killed before meeting took place
MAGNETIC CAR BOMB, fitted with ball-bearing tilt switch, exploded under his new vehicle
at 2:58 pm, as he drove out of PALACE OF WESTMINSTER carpark
/ serious leg injuries - died in hospital without regaining consciousness
INCALCULABLE LOSS TO THE BRITISH RULING CLASS
INLA issued a statement:
In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class.
Neave assassination x2 days after the vote of no confidence
brought down Callaghan's government (few weeks before the 1979 general election)
saw Conservative victory / Margaret Thatcher to power as PM
Neave's wife: subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon
following Neave assassination, INLA was declared illegal across UK
KEVIN CAHILL
Kevin Cahill
Kevin James Cahill
author and investigative journalist
1965 and served as a platoon commander
in: Aden, Bahrain, and Northern Ireland
1968, leaves army
University Ulster, BA Eng Lit.
worked as a systems analyst at Farrington Data, Rank Xerox, Glaxo Ltd, Gulf Oil UK
+ Singer & Friedlander merchant bank
/ finished his professional career in computers as a project manager at International Computers Limited
1979 he became a full-time journalist
part-time Research Assistant to Paddy (now Lord) Ashdown in the House of Commons
+ various other
/ advised many politicians
investigative journalist, Kevin Cahill
claimed Neave assassination was an inside job
Neave killed by MI6 agents working with CIA
/ Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in intel establishment for corruption
Cahill wrote:
prior to Neave assassination in 1979, Conservative MP Airey Neave
on verge of a massive overhaul of the security services
possibly merger of MI5 & MI6
due to belief in corruption in security services
Cahill suggested link between assassination of Neave
& Sir Richard Sykes murder
+ attempted murder of: Christopher Tugendhat, 1980
Cahill claims Neave would have been head of the combined security services
+ Sykes (foreign ops) and Tugendhat (home ops) as his deputies
HOUSE OF COMMONS - nobody would talk, says Cahill
"everyone knew" the story behind Neave's death but that no one could talk about it in detail because it would have been too dangerous
Cahill claims security staff did not believe INLA murdered Neave but that it was an "inside job"
FORCED FEDERALISATION
Kevin Cahill book: Trade Wars (1987)
most important historical fact in the book - note in 1954 by a British Civil Servant
(T. W. Garvey, later Sir T. W. Garvey)
INDICATING UK had,
because of the 'special relationship' with USA:
1. "the Loan, the lion's share of MARSHALL AID"
2. "comparative immunity from FORCIBLE FEDERALISATION ..."
Wikipedia: "No historian has been able to explain what 'forcible federalisation' was"
COMMENT: likely the NATO & EUROPEAN UNION capitalist federalisation & the capitalist promotion of dispossession of European peoples, promoted as 'humanitarian' benevolence of capitalism, in what is a push for 'globalisation' of ruling capitalist power - a capitalist-ruled world slave state
Interesting Capitalist History
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
It was a business world defined by globalization and growing interdependency. But it's not international trade circa 2000. As HBS professor Geoffrey Jones points out, the "global economy" first emerged in the 1870s.
London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing information and contacts about investment opportunities worldwide. — Geoffrey Jones
Kevin Cahill book: Who Owns the World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership (2006)
Queen Elizabeth II is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth's surface
/ more than any other individual or nation
/ 6,600 million acres in 32 countries
/ Crown is never separate from the individual who holds it
all territories owned by the Crown,
including Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom,
the governments (on behalf of the people) of those countries DO NOT own the land of the country
but may administer it on behalf of its owner, HM Elizabeth II
/ all forms of land possession in those territories are based, formally and in law, on the Crown's superior ownership
Land Registry in places like the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia cannot register land ownership, only tenure
/ freehold and leasehold are defined in law as forms of tenure, not ownership
USA = only major country in which ownership of land was clearly defined as belonging to the citizens who had paid for it
USA federal govt owns one-third of the land of nation
as a landowner on a legal par with any other landowner and without a superior right to any land other than that endorsed on deeds as the property of the US federal govt
'eminent domain' - gives right of govt federal authorities & bodies to acquire privately owned land for public purposes
ENOCH POWELL
Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist
claimed in an interview with The Guardian, 1984
that Americans had killed:
1. Airey Neave
2. Lord Mountbatten
3. Robert Bradford MP
said: evidence came from a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
said (1986): Neave assassinated by "MI6 and their friends"
Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK
Americans feared that this process, if implemented, would be irreversible
Enoch Powell claimed;
Neave assassination
intended to make the British govt adopt a policy more acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO
wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard
Don't Blame the Masses Published on Saturday, August 06, 2016 by The Boston Globe
by Stephen Kinzer
Whether or not the world is in an unusually bad state these days, it certainly seems so. Even Americans, famous for our lack of interest in world affairs, now closely follow news from far away. Much of it is frightening.
Terror attacks are claiming innocent lives around the world. Syria is being torn apart. China and Russia boldly pursue their national interests and defy American dictates.Turkish democracy is evaporating.Iran and Saudi Arabia are at each other’s throats.Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on interminably. The European Union is staggering, with Britain quitting and others perhaps to follow. Meanwhile, several European countries are drifting toward right-wing authoritarianism. Donald Trump’s campaign threatens to take the United States in the same direction.
This is the opposite of what many Americans expected. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 set off a wave of triumphalism in the West. Americans welcomed the “end of history” and presumed that all countries would quickly adopt political and economic systems like ours. There was to be a “peace dividend” as tranquility settled over the globe. People would become more prosperous. Nations would cooperate. All would gratefully submit to America’s will.
Those were delusions. The world has gone in precisely the opposite direction, toward tribalism and conflict. We are now paying the price for grave misjudgments.
The first was our misunderstanding of the Soviet collapse. It was a Soviet failure, but we interpreted it as an epochal American victory. That led us to believe that in a post-Cold War world, American power would grow, turning us into a global hegemon that other countries would happily follow. This was never realistic.
Moments of change require adaptation, but the United States is not good at adapting. We are used to being in charge. This blinded us to the reality that as other countries began rising, our relative power would inevitably decline.Rather than shifting to a less assertive and more cooperative foreign policy, we continued to insist that America must reign supreme. When we declared that we would not tolerate the emergence of another “peer power,” we expected that other countries would blithely obey. Instead they ignore us.We interpret this as defiance and seek to punish the offenders. That has greatly intensified tensions between the United States and the countries we are told to consider our chief adversaries, Russia and China.
The ideological conflict of the Cold War was so intense that when it ended, Americans assumed tranquility would follow. In fact, the Cold War was simply a temporary phenomenon that masked centuries-old political, social, cultural, and religious conflicts. Nationalism and tribalism, which began shaping the world long before Communism was invented, have reemerged rather than fading away.
Our wrongheaded reaction to the end of the Cold War was America’s first major contribution to today’s global turmoil. The next was our decision to invade Iraq. That invasion continues to shape the world. The recent surge in Islamist terror is one of its long-term results.So are the refugee flows that have destabilized Europe and contributed to the rise of extremist political movements there. It is an object lesson in the long-term effects of intervening in faraway lands — a lesson we still seem not to have learned.
Because we interpreted the end of the Cold War as the ultimate vindication of America’s economic system, we intensified our push toward the next level of capitalism, called globalization. It was presented as a project that would benefit everyone. Instead it has turned out to be a nightmare for many working people. Thanks to “disruption” and the “global supply chain,” many American workers who could once support families with secure, decent-paying jobs must now hope they can be hired as greeters at Walmart. Meanwhile, a handful of super-rich financiers manipulate our political system to cement their hold on the nation’s wealth.
Our leaders told us that the end of the Cold War would make America more powerful than ever, that we had to invade Iraq because Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction, and that deregulating our economy and signing trade deals would improve the lives of ordinary people. We cannot be surprised that as the scope of those deceptions became clear, people would become angry.
American elites are hardly the only ones who have cynically misled their people. The same happened in Europe.“Ever closer union” was another product of the dopey optimism that infected the West in the 1990s. It ignored the evident fact that most Europeans, like most people everywhere, feel loyalty to their own nation or group, and that this loyalty is not easily transferrable to diffuse and distant conglomerations. The EU has been run largely for the benefit of the business class. Ordinary Europeans have come to realize this, and it has angered them. The same anger is enveloping countries from Egypt and Nigeria to Brazil and Venezuela.
In our complex modern age, the interdependent world does not run smoothly by itself. It requires farsighted leadership that takes the fate of ordinary people seriously and favors diplomacy over coercive force. Blaming the masses for stupidly supporting demagogic politicians is mistaken. People quite reasonably resent what their leaders have done to them over the last quarter century. They demand something different, whatever it is. That is the central cause of the new world disorder.
Stephen Kinzer is a former New York Times reporter and the author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006) and Reset Middle East: Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey,Iran (2011). www.stephenkinzer.com
WHEREVER Europeans are invaded, raped, gang-raped, brutalised, home invaded, surrounded by foreign settlements, carjacked, murdered, vilified, dispossessed, politically suppressed, persecuted and prosecuted: it is by the ruling capitalists and their bureaucrats, who rob Europeans of their heritage, aided by the capitalist-owned media and capitalist-sponsored, self-serving, lying, Western intelligentsia.
CAPITALISM that exploits, divests and endangers all Europeans, assisted by capitalist-sponsored and disseminated FALSE IDEOLOGIES of: 'liberalism', 'progressivism', 'democracy' (that is rule by capitalists and their economists), and the illusion of 'individual liberty'; in conjunction with a sustained campaign of promoting entirelyfraudulent and dangerous 'universalism' of universal 'human rights' conferred on alien, competing interests by capitalism (versus the preservation and primacy of inalienable rights and heritage of Europeans, that is being criminally transferred to invaders)
CAPITALIST-ENDORSED and capitalist-sponsored false ideologies are evangelised and enforced by the obedient, well-trained dogsof the capitalists: the capitalist co-opted left-wing political parties, co-opted trade unions, and co-opted capitalist-sponsored 'progressive' interests groups), that comprise key components of a sustained decades-long top down and street level capitalist-sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies, that has grossly undermined vital interests and existential needs of all Europeans.
Ordinary Americans may well be famous for lack of interest in world affairs, but the American oligarchs and conglomerates are certainly not disinterested or hands-off: they have been violating the affairs of millions of people around the world, whose governments they have undermined, installed or deposed and whose countries they have bombed — when the American capitalists, the CIA, and American foundations are not otherwise bankrolling and organising political and social unrest in foreign nations, that are targeted for American capitalist take-down that benefits the bank accounts and investment returns of the American ruling elite.
Whatever is 'frightening' in the world today, America, it's Western capitalist allies and it's Wahhabi allies supporting Islamic radicalism and tearing down nations in the Middle East and Africa, can take 'credit'.
The statement:
"China and Russia boldly pursue their national interests and defy American dictates"
is annoying to read.
Of course, China and Russia will pursue their national interests. Why wouldn't they, and who are the American ruling oligarchy to seek to interfere with the sovereignty and national self-determination of the multitudes that comprise the nations of Russia and China.
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the bet is that Turkey was always a CIA-MI6 capitalist puppet and, as the capitalists are not fussed whether their puppets are dictators or not, it is a good guess that Turkey was never what passes itself off as 'democracy' in the West (ie socially liberal mayhem, propaganda, suppression, unions working against working class interests, and the ruling capitalists in control, no matter who is elected, while the people of nations of these so-called 'democracies' are hostage to a program of third world invasion). Compared to that, give me Turkey any day. The bet is Turkey isn't implementing a program of genocide against the Turkish people. Yes, they're brutal to rebelling out-groups; but they're protecting interest of Turks as a people.
What Turkey may now be doing is regaining some of its independence from US-Anglo capitalist control, which the US-Anglo capitalists are displeased with; which would probably explain the attempted CIA coup in Turkey? Either that, or this whole Turkey thing is a fake, to ensure that the ruling party's grip on control of Turkey is solid, and the US-Anglo capitalists are party to this ruse.
The reference to "right-wing authoritarianism' is ridiculous. Today, any white, or European, political organisation that stands even remotely by white, European, traditions or social norms, or lobbies for policy that is actually in the interests (for a change) of the people that comprise any white, European nation, is labelled 'right-wing'. 'Authoritarian' is a nice new twist, though.
Trump is then drawn into this, as if Trump is the next Hitler (as the corporate media propaganda screams), but Trump is simply an American capitalist that wants what Israel has and what endangered white America wants: a wall to keep the infiltrators out.
Oh, and he is, ostensibly, an isolationist ... which could pose problems for Wall Street warmongers.
Trump is infinitely a better choice than the unindicted criminal Hillary Clinton, but at the end of the day, if Trump is elected, Trump will be guided by advisors and by the demands of a 'democracy' that is in fact an oligarchy, so electing Trump is not vastly different to electing Hillary Clinton. But, on the bright side, Trump hasn't got form destroying other nations, being a psychopath thrilled by the murder of Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, or of getting ambassadors killed (to name just a few of Hillary Clinton's electoral selling points).
I reject this picture that's being painted:
There was to be a “peace dividend” as tranquillity settled over the globe. People would become more prosperous. Nations would cooperate.
Capitalists aren't dreamers; they're cold-hearted and greedy planners, devoid of sentimentality or delusions about a capitalist peace-and-prosperity nirvana emerging on the planet.
But, yes, they most certainly would have anticipated that American power would grow and they most certainly aim to make their profit-making interests paramount, as they work towards global hegemony: that serves them and only them.
Nationalism and what is referred to as 'tribalism' (ie. belonging to one's own racial and cultural group) is not something undesirable that has 're-emerged': it is belonging to a tribe of people (a nation, a cohesive social group bound by heritage and history, and often a group bound by blood). It is something that has been suppressed in Europeans (whites), to the detriment of Europeans, who have been exploited and divested of their nations by capitalists implementing a program of population replacement by invasion; and this is a CRIME that is being committed by capitalists against the people of all European nations. Europeans have legitimate and inalienable rights to identity and integrity (be it spacial, biological or social etc), and the legitimate right to pursue what is in the interests of European peoples (versus European and American capitalists).
Refugee flows are not merely flows of migrants from Iraq: the US-led capitalists have destroyed or otherwise helped to destroy a series of Middle-Eastern and African countries. But, whatever the case in that regard, it is not incumbent on European peoples to take the hit and to destroy European societies, no matter what the capitalist owned media and the capitalist sponsored intelligentsia may preach.
The destruction of European societies, destruction of European social order, and the destruction of European nations as nations, is a long-standing capitalist agenda implemented per US-Anglo capitalist clear intent to neutralise the future potential for resistance to (and independence of) Europeans from international capitalist rule, following the CAPITALIST defeat of Germany in 1945. This agenda has also been methodically implemented by European Union capitalists, under the banner of the European Union and its earlier incarnation; and it is an agenda that has been implemented by all European-settled, US-Anglo capitalist controlled, colonies.
The reference to "extremist political movements" is ridiculous: Europeans, wherever they are, have a right to self-determination and a right to preservation of European interests and European societies, and it is absolutely imperative for the shrinking European demographic worldwide to ensure that the interests of Europeans are not only protected, but also firmly advanced, since such interests have been systemically grossly undermined over the passage of decades of self-annihilating sleep-walking into the deliberately laid snare of what the capitalist thieves call 'diversity' — which is, in fact, capitalist implemented path towhite genocide, that is a trap precisely because the longer the program of invasion (in the capitalist PR-spun guise of 'diversity') is permitted to continue, the more impossible it is to remedy without major civil upheaval and war.
The capitalist push for 'globalisation' is merely a push for US-Anglo led capitalist global hegemony, and it has absolutely nothing to do with 'benefiting everyone', and certainly would not have been envisaged in those terms by nation destroying greedy capitalists and currency speculators.
The reference to "dopey optimism" infecting the West in the 1990s is ridiculous. If any 'optimism' was displayed, it was propaganda as a ruse, to con the working classes out of their heritage, as capitalists edged closer to divesting Europeans and destroying European nations. The co-opted unions and 'left' parties that do not support working-class European (white) interests aided the capitalist thieves, making them accomplices to the robbery of the heritage of Europeans.
Don't blame the masses because the masses do not have a choice, even when they vote for those that pose an 'alternative'; because there really is no alternative. Whoever is elected of the mainstream political parties, is much the same proposition as those that are destroying European societies worldwide.
Today's capitalist or capitalist serving politicians that are painted as 'right-wing', 'authoritarian' or a threat to 'democracy' (ie to what is hostile rule by oligarchy), are no such thing in reality. Voting for them is merely the lesser of two evils and merely forestalling slightly the inevitable destruction of one's nation and people, by capitalism, unless the capitalists are stopped by war or revolution.
Reclamation of European heritage and significant change can only be manifested by revolution. But I don't see a revolution any time soon. So say goodbye to Europe and say goodbye to the European people, in this lifetime.
THEFT OF HERITAGE
WHEREVER Europeans are invaded, raped, gang-raped, brutalised, home invaded, surrounded by foreign settlements, carjacked, murdered, vilified, dispossessed, politically suppressed, persecuted and prosecuted: it is by the ruling capitalists and their bureaucrats, who rob Europeans of their heritage, aided by the capitalist-owned media and capitalist-sponsored, self-serving, lying, Western intelligentsia.
CAPITALISM that exploits, divests and endangers all Europeans, assisted by capitalist-sponsored and disseminated FALSE IDEOLOGIES of: 'liberalism', 'progressivism', 'democracy' (that is rule by capitalists and their economists), and the illusion of 'individual liberty'; in conjunction with a sustained campaign of promoting entirelyfraudulent and dangerous 'universalism' of universal 'human rights' conferred on alien, competing interests by capitalism (versus the preservation and primacy of inalienable rights and heritage of Europeans, that is being criminally transferred to invaders)
CAPITALIST-ENDORSED and capitalist-sponsored false ideologies are evangelised and enforced by the obedient, well-trained dogsof the capitalists: the capitalist co-opted left-wing political parties, co-opted trade unions, and co-opted capitalist-sponsored 'progressive' interests groups), that comprise key components of a sustained decades-long top down and street level capitalist-sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies, that has grossly undermined vital interests and existential needs of all Europeans.
Despite 4 years trapped in embassy, Assange says WikiLeaks has “very big year” ahead
At NYC event, Assange said WikiLeaks has big new leaks, and warned a Hillary Clinton presidency "means endless war"
Ben Norton
June 19, 2016 marked the fourth year that Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of whistleblowing journalism organization WikiLeaks, has been trapped in the Ecuadoran embassy in London.
Several events were organized this week in cities throughout Europe, Latin America and the U.S. to commemorate this anniversary, and to bring attention to the escalating war on whistleblowers and journalists.
Assange spoke via videostream at an event in New York City on Wednesday (video below).
He stressed in his message that he has been effectively detained by the U.K. for five and a half years, even though he has never been charged with a crime.
In February, the U.N. ruled that Assange is being arbitrarily and illegally detained, and is due compensation for the “different forms of deprivation of liberty.”
Despite the hardship, nevertheless, Assange was excited about the months ahead. “It’s going to be a very big year for WikiLeaks,” he said.
Assange implored the audience to “get ready to gather around” in order “to protect our ability to be publishing.” “It will be very necessary in the coming months,” the WikiLeaks editor stressed.
Many of the upcoming releases, he said, concern Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“I’ve come to know Hillary quite well,” Assange joked. WikiLeaks has released thousands of Clinton’s emails, and he has read many of them.
“She is an extremely ambitious liberal interventionist hawk,” he explained. This is, of course, no surprise, he added, but the extreme degree of her belligerence is often not understood.
Clinton “was the leading figure behind the destruction of Libya,” he said, echoing comments he said in an interview with Salon in February.
“If Hillary Clinton gets into office, it means endless war,” Assange warned. “We are in fact already, under Obama, in endless war, but I think it will significantly ramp up under Hillary Clinton.”
And “with a Democratic president in office, there is no strong Democratic opposition” to these policies, he noted.
Assange added that, at the end of the day, the differences between Clinton and her opponent, presidential candidate Donald Trump, will not have a big impact on the U.S. empire.
“I’m not sure it makes much difference which president” is in office, he said. Rather, the roughly 3,000 people appointed by the president are those who control how the U.S. empire operates. And the people whom Clinton chooses to surround herself with are hawkish liberal interventionists themselves.
Of those who work under her, Assange said, Clinton demands “total sucking up” and constant flattery. She “surrounds herself with people who don’t really challenge her.”
It’s “a liberal interventionist who surrounds herself with liberal interventionists,” he described it, citing figures like Anne-Marie Slaughter, another so-calledhumanitarian interventionist.
The New York Times, which endorsed Clinton for president, pointed out that she is even more hawkish than her Republican rivals. The U.S. newspaper of record described her as “the last true hawk left in the race.”
A digital Library of Alexandria
Assange was joined at the event by a panel of renowned journalists and activists, including Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, Democracy Now founder Amy Goodman, The Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, among others.
Amy Goodman, who moderated the discussion, said it is amazing that, despite the sanctions, assassination threats and effective imprisonment Assange has endured for years, WikiLeaks remains strong.
“How have you kept WikiLeaks going?” she asked.
“I don’t know,” Assange joked in reply. He said it has only been possible thanks to the help he has gotten from the WikiLeaks staff and from people throughout the world.
Assange added that he has had many “false friends,” who have betrayed him or were cowardly and timid in time of need. But he also thanked those who have supported WikiLeaks’ work.
Besides, if he weren’t doing it, someone would take his place and continue the work, Assange argued.
Goodman followed up, asking him what he is proudest of. Assange said it is simply keeping Wikileaks alive.
“We have built a grand project, in some ways a grand dream,” he said, likening it to a contemporary digital Library of Alexandria.
WikiLeaks has actually now published more documents while Assange has been detained than it did before. “And we have not fired a single person,” he added.
Assange also spoke highly of The Intercept, the publication co-founded by Jeremy Scahill and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who worked with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
“It’s use it or lose it,” Assange told Scahill, expressing support The Intercept’s work.
The media
Assange had pretty harsh words for the rest of the media.
He noted that the Pentagon has 20,000 people involved in public relations. The defense department writes thousands of propaganda stories each year “that they give away for free to the press.”
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks’ documents have largely been ignored by the English-language press, although they are much more frequently cited in the international media, Assange said.
“We’re happy to accept the ‘bad boy’ label,” he joked.
“We are completely beyond the pale as far as a lot of the mainstream” press goes, Assange continued. But “we perceive those outlets to be beyond the pale” too.
“They destroy history; they contain it in themselves; they privatize it.”
“History does not belong to journalists; history does not belong to a media organization,” he argued.
Assange added, “history does also not belong to whistleblowers,” even though they can be “the most important part” in helping to create it.
“History belongs to human civilization to understand in order to better itself,” he stressed.
The U.S. government
The WikiLeaks editor vociferously challenged the U.S. government’s claim that his organization’s work has harmed national security.
“It’s all rubbish; it’s just all garbage,” Assange said. “The information that we have published has never led” to anyone facing violence.
The government has tried “desperately” to find a single case of a U.S. official being harmed, he noted, but has come up with nothing.
In a lighter moment, Assange also noted that, while he has major problems with the U.S. government, the U.S. “does have some good things going for it.”
He said he quite likes U.S.culture, and applauded the country’s enormous diversity.
“London is a city-state” on the other hand, he lamented; it’s an “inbred system.”
When asked about the June 23 vote on Brexit, the referendum on whether the U.K. should leave the E.U., Assange said it might not be so bad to do so.
He noted the E.U. frequently acts “in service of transnational capital.” He read from a 2008 cable released by Wikileaks in which William Hague, then shadow foreign secretary for the Conservative Party and later first secretary of state and foreign secretary, stressed that any prime minister inevitably “learns of the essential nature of the relationship with America.”
“We want a pro-American regime. We need it. The world needs it,” Hague said.
Assange also criticized Sweden, noting that, while it is sometimes applauded for its social democratic government, it is one of the world’s largest per capita exporter of arms, and the only country that does rendition on its own people.
Aaron Schwartz
Someone in the audience asked about electronic activist Aaron Schwartz. Assange said he had empathized a lot with Schwartz, and understood the pain he went through.
The government’s harsh crackdown on Schwartz, after he made millions of documents and scholarly articles freely available on the internet, ultimately led to his suicide.
“Aaron Schwartz was largely the victim of the crackdown against WikiLeaks,” Assange said.
Assange recalled being afraid of speaking with Schwartz during the government’s investigation, because “there was such intense focus on me,” and he didn’t want to bring it to Schwartz. Assange said he regrets that now.
Civil rights activists have spoken of how the effect of COINTELPRO, grand juries and FBI investigations was to “atomize people,” Assange noted. “There can be terrible side effects of that.”
“An unusual power”
Assange remains optimistic, however. He even managed to find a silver lining in his unfortunate situation.
“There are some consolations to being an accused person and detained unlawfully,” Assange said.
People who are accused develop “an unusual power” — and, he added, “there is no more severe accusation than being accused by a superpower.”
Two Swedes Renditioned To The US, Possibly To Death Penalty, In Secrecy And Without Lawyers’ Knowledge
Process of Law – Henrik Alexandersson
Mid-November, two Swedish citizens with Somali origins were renditioned from Djibouti to a prison in the United States of America.
According to the US, they are hardened terrorists.According to other people, they tried to leave the terrorist-branded organization al-Shabaab. What’s true there is unclear. But that’s not the point that makes us interested in the story.
An representative of United States Intelligence Services is reported to have told the two Swedes that “We’re waiting for permission from Swedish authorities to take you to the United States”. This is something that the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs first didn’t want to be associated with, and later declines any and all forms of comment.
Here, we have a natural and special interest, as the two men are Swedish citizens. Are they suspected of committing an act which carries criminal penalties in Sweden – and if so, should they not be indicted and prosecuted in Sweden?Or has the Swedish government given the USA a carte blanche to “take care of” two Swedish citizens in the name of the war on terror – and if so, on what grounds? (Further, the suspicions concern acts committed in Somalia, where the US doesn’t have jurisdiction.)
Suspicions of terror or not – the process of law must be respected, and international law followed. The government has no right to throw people into dark dungeons without a proper trial. We have a right to demand some form of damn order here.
This affair has a distinct image of not having respected due process. This image is further strengthened by the fact that the two Swedes’ lawyers and relatives were kept in the dark for several weeks about what had already happened.
If Sweden has agreed to rendition two people – Swedish citizens or not – to the United States of America within the context of what’s known as extraordinary renditions, this affair goes far beyond the questions about the formal due process. In such a case, it’s necessary to ask how much the Swedish governments’ promises are worth, when they promise to not extradite people to countries where they risk torture or death. This is a question that’s current and relevant in other cases, for example, regarding the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
This affair smells really bad…
Read More: Washington Post [in English], Svenska Dagbladet [in Swedish].
UPDATE: The lawyer of the two Swedes was informed of the rendition on December 7, about three weeks after the fact. When the lawyer was informed, and only then, were relatives informed. This has eerie similarities with banana-republic “disappearances”.