Julian Assange Is A Planetary Hero

The Observer reports that emails released by WikiLeaks reveal a brazen spin campaign to subvert Bernie Sanders and promote Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries by none other than the great New York Times. Not just by one Times writer, but by many, like their regular contributor and CNBC correspondent John Harwood, who was found routinely conversing with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in a way the Observer article says makes him look like "more of a Clinton surrogate than a journalist." Regular hit pieces were published on Sanders by multiple writers, and there's evidence that the Clinton campaign fed the Times news articles to "break."

"Times contributor and CNBC correspondent John Harwood regularly conversed with Podesta through email, offering congratulations and praise that made him appear as more of a Clinton surrogate than a journalist."

This pervades all echelons of corporate media, from David Seaman getting fired by Huffington Post for talking about Clinton's health, to the DNC chair emailing the NBC News political director to silence the co-host of Morning Joe, to an MSNBC intelligence analyst going on a frantic 37-post Twitter rant claiming with exactly zero evidence that WikiLeaks had altered its documents and is working with Russia. From the bottom to the top, nobody's telling the truth. Even as they keep slowly sowing the seeds for an all-out war with Russia, the top story of the day is still what a creepy tax-evading pervert Donald Trump is.

Hence WikiLeaks.

Julian Assange is a planetary hero. Calling him an international hero is an understatement, since circulating nuggets of truth could help rescue us from institutional ecocide and the very real possibility of a world war with a nuclear superpower. As Assange himself so brilliantly stated, if wars can be started with lies, peace can be started with truth. It is no exaggeration to say that the odds of survival for every species on earth are increased by what he's doing.

Corporate media created WikiLeaks by creating a truth vacuum that needed to be filled. If the press was doing its job instead of kowtowing to the agendas of western plutocrats, Assange would be off happily making an honest living as a web developer or something and playing with his kids this weekend.

But he's not. Whatever his motives, Julian Assange decided to dedicate his life and talents to the task of rescuing our planet in a way that nobody else was willing or able to do. He's been holed up in a tiny embassy for years with nothing but internet access and his honor, sowing seeds of truth that he may never even live to reap the fruits of, to our benefit and his detriment. And now he and his organization are being attacked as liars and enemies, despite their 10-year record of perfectly vetted sources.

I personally refuse to let one of the most important things happening in the world today go without recognition and appreciation, and I refuse to sit idly by while the voice of the oligarchs, once known as the press, uses its power to slander and discredit a man who has been placed in the absurd position of having to fight world governments so that their own nations can have access to truth.

If you're like me, you can help. WikiLeaks has asked for help fighting the media smear campaign against their organization, and to use the hashtags #defendWL and #IamtheWLTaskForce to help spread the word. Help fight disinformation and spread the truth about Assange and WikiLeaks, because if we don't do it, nobody else will.

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