AssangeDefenseCT

Assange Defense CT Twitter account for Connecticut-based supporters working to free Julian from unjust prosecution, to protect press freedom & our democracy!

[AssangeDefenseCT @AssangeDefCT]

Our energetiized group from @AssangeDefCT stood with @AssangeActionDC, @codepink and @WIFP yesterday. We stood in support of bi-partisan MPs & US Congressman joining PM Albanese is calling for Assange’s freedom @AlboMP @POTUS @JoeBiden

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

My thoughts on Biden dropping out:

Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a Teleprompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, his billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was their creature – he has been in federal office for 47 years - from start to finish. He was used as a foil to defeat Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries and was anointed as the candidate in 2024 in a Soviet-style primary campaign. The billionaire class will now anoint someone else. Democratic Party voters are stage props in this political farce. Donald Trump, unlike Kamala Harris or any other apparatchik the billionaire class selects as a presidential candidate, has a genuine and committed base, however fascistic.

In Hitler and the Germans, the political philosopher Eric Vogelin dismisses the idea that Hitler — gifted in oratory and political opportunism but poorly educated and vulgar — mesmerized and seduced the German people. The Germans, he writes, supported Hitler and the “grotesque, marginal figures” surrounding him because he embodied the pathologies of a diseased society, one beset by economic collapse and hopelessness. Voegelin defines stupidity as a “loss of reality.” The loss of reality means a “stupid” person cannot “rightly orient his action in the world, in which he lives.” The demagogue, who is always an idiote, is not a freak or social mutation. The demagogue expresses the society’s zeitgeist.

Biden and the Democratic Party are responsible for this zeitgeist. They orchestrated the deindustrialization of the United States, ensuring that 30 million workers lost their jobs in mass layoffs. As I write in America, The Farewell Tour, this assault on the working class created a crisis that forced the ruling elites to devise a new political paradigm. Trumpeted by a compliant media, this paradigm shifted its focus from the common good to race, crime and law and order. Biden was at the epicenter of this paradigm shift. Those undergoing profound economic and political change were told that their suffering stemmed not from rampant militarism and corporate greed but from a threat to national integrity. The old consensus that buttressed New Deal programs and the welfare state was attacked as enabling criminal Black youth, “welfare queens” and other alleged social parasites. This opened the door to a faux populism, begun by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, which supposedly championed family values, traditional morality, individual autonomy, law and order, the Christian faith and the return to a mythical past, at least for white Americans. The Democratic Party, especially under Bill Clinton and Biden, became largely indistinguishable from the establishment Republican Party to which it is now allied.

The Democratic Party refuses to accept its responsibility for the capture of democratic institutions by a rapacious oligarchy, the grotesque social inequality, the cruelty of predatory corporations and an unchecked militarism. The Democrats will anoint another amoral politician, probably Harris, to use as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties. The Democrats, tools of Wall Street, gave us Trump, and the 74 million people who voted for him in 2020. They look set to give us Trump again. God help us.

[AssangeDefenseCT @AssangeDefCT]

@sabreenaGS No words for the inhumanity.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I have never wanted to scream more in my life… wth!
Yesterday Meta and now MS

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: Delta Airlines fired the young flight attendant because he was wearing a badge with the Palestinian flag

Americans are losing their jobs due to the power and control of the Zionists.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

This is an incredible exchange.

Jill Stein is the only person who deserves your vote.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

a Zionist fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the genocidal Israeli occupation, and is applauded by the audience. Here's Galloway's response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end:

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

Home.

[Freed Assange - #FreeAssange @FreeAssangeNews]

LIVE | 26/06/2024 | 8am BST | Youtube

Join us as we bring you coverage throughout the morning of Julian’s arrival in Australia as well as reactions, interviews and expert analysis with regards to how events have unfolded and what this means for press freedom moving forward.

Keep your eyes on our social media channels for links to the livestream

#FreedomFlight

[StandWithAssangeNY @AssangeNY]

BREAKING: Mark the date. Julian's trial will begin on July 9, earlier than what many thought.
https://t.co/BXiJTrsqwb

[AssangeDefenseCT @AssangeDefCT]

@Shizznaty @caitoz “Believe all women” is not the same as believe state propaganda for which not a scintilla of evidence has been produced, to justify exterminating another population. Weaponizing female victimization to advance a genocide isn’t the same. Keep up.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Israeli officers have sodomized Palestinian prisoners to death at Sde Teiman desert concentration camp, after kidnapping them in Gaza

According to a leaked UN report, one prisoner said interrogators “made me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,” and said another detainee “died after they put the electric stick up” his anus

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If you can’t see what’s happening in the US right now to protect Israel — the systematic assault on our basic rights of free speech and academic freedom — it’s because you don’t want to see it:

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Front page of @WSJ confirming, as politely as possible, that Biden's apparent decline is real—and serious.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Heard this one before?

Birx says this strain of bird flu is so dangerous that nobody knows they have it unless they get a PCR test.

Also, she proposes testing every cow in the United States, because we can’t tell they have it either.

How about if the govt quits making viruses?

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

Why the hell is AIPAC writing bills for Congress? Why is a FOREIGN AGENT writing bills for the United States? 🤨

[Matt Ó B @MattOBranain]

Great moment: Kids are learning about #Assange on TikTok! Is this why they wanna ban it?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

For the last eight months people have been expressing frustration and confusion about the reluctance of celebrities to use their immense platforms to speak out against the US-backed slaughter in Gaza. But it’s not really a mystery why this happens: celebrities are reluctant to criticize the US-centralized empire because they benefit from it directly.

It’s actually a very important aspect of imperial narrative control how all of our society’s largest and most influential voices are intimately dependent on the political status quo upon which the empire is built. Fame and fortune come as a result of being elevated by the wealthy owners of media production platforms like film studios, record labels, TV and news media, and those extremely wealthy people have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo upon which their wealth is premised. Those who are threatening to the status quo are therefore not elevated to celebrity status, and the ones who get rich and famous either (A) understand this acutely or (B) are too shallow and vapid to have any interest in rocking the imperial boat.

Nobody becomes a superstar all on their own; it requires an extensively collaborative relationship with many individuals, and many of the most important of these are in positions of great wealth and power and have no desire to see socialism or anti-imperialism threaten their kingdoms by gaining a foothold in the political realities of their nation. This creates an impressively thorough gatekeeping system which filters out any clear-eyed rebels who might otherwise shine their way to the top.

Of course the filtration system isn’t perfect; sometimes someone sneaks through, or, more likely, is waved through and then has a political awakening after achieving stardom. But for every Susan Sarandon and Roger Waters there are a hundred enthusiastic celebrity supporters of the status quo, and a thousand others who just stay silent on all matters of real importance.

Just making someone a multimillionaire and giving them a cushy lifestyle is enough to make them loyal to the political status quo of the land. The mere fact that the empire is capitalist and allows the wealthy to live like gods ensures that most people who ascend to stardom will be heavily biased in favor of the system which allows for that lifestyle, and everything they say publicly will reflect this. This gives the empire a massive propaganda bullhorn which creates an information landscape where all the biggest voices speak as though the system is working perfectly, and the voices of all the ordinary people whose experience tells them otherwise are drowned out.

When Macklemore rapped about how “the music industry’s quiet, complicit in their platform of silence” about Gaza, he asked, “What happened to the artist? What d’you got to say?” And this is the answer. What happened to the most influential artists is that they stand too much to gain from supporting the status quo politics of the empire, and stand too much to lose by opposing it.

And that’s why the mainstream “artists” of today are so artless. How much depth and profundity can you express if you’re compartmentalizing away from reality like that? How authentic and meaningful can your art be while you are duty bound to help preserve the status quo of a mind-controlled dystopia where everything is fraudulent and meaningless?

Everything that draws human beings to art in the first place needs to be sacrificed to retain celebrity status��— truthfulness, sincerity, rebelliousness, sensuality, inspiration, aliveness. That wild connection with something mysterious and strangely sexy which crackles just below the surface of everything.

All that needs to be flushed down the toilet to become a celebrity guardian of the information interests of the globe-spanning US-centralized empire. You’ll live like a king, but you’ll also have to sacrifice everything inside you that makes life worth living.

We are ruled by weird, phony freaks in Washington and Virginia who collaborate with weird, phony freaks at the top of the corporate world, and their rule is enforced by weird, phony freaks in New York and Los Angeles who use their celebrity status to help create an artificial mainstream culture that is mindless, heartless, soulless, and completely uninterested in the emergence of a healthy world.

That is why celebrities are silent on Gaza today.

[Beatrice Fihn @BeaFihn]

This is legally binding for Israel. If they do not comply with this order, it is clear that any arms transfer to Israel is illegal.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

You've got to hand it to the Friends of the Rules Based International Order. Having rubbished the #ICJ as a "foreign court" (despite being members of it) today in the House they slaughtered the #ICC as "unhelpful" "wrong" and covered in the "stench" of "moral equivalence" as between the Palestinian resistance and "democratic" #Israel The Court has "no jurisdiction" you see, because Israel doesn't recognise it. Yet they supported the same Court's action against #Russia even though they don't recognise it either! Their rules based order is a farce, lipstick on the pig of brute force, double standards and vomit-inducing levels of hypocrisy. #Gaza has been the graveyard of many. But the deaths include the last ragged remnants of Western moral authority.