x Rafael Poch: The same media that profited
by publishing Assange's revelations, such as 'El PaÃs', today contribute to the
harassment
After six years of confinement, incommunicado and isolated, the empire takes its toll.
In early April, Joseph Di Salvo, deputy commander of the South Command (Southcom) of the US Army, visited Quito. The subject of his visit was the negotiation for the reopening of an American military base in Ecuador. The previous president, Rafael Correa, closed it and his successor, Lenin Moreno, wanted to restore the traditional vassalage to Washington: "to strengthen the security relations between both countries."
In 2012 the Correa government was very courageous in providing political asylum to Julian Assange at his embassy in London. The founder of Wikileaks committed the crime of documenting some of the US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Later revealed the pucherazos of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA to burst the campaign of Bernie Sanders in the primaries of the presidential of 2016.
Assange, who along with Snowden have led to one of the biggest worldwide discredits in the US to document the existence of Big Brother and identify its criminal global operation, immediately became an enemy of the empire to eliminate.
From the very beginning of the scandal, the documents of the Pentagon reveal
the purpose of discrediting these heroes of our time and turning them into
villains. They managed to get Snowden to take refuge in Russia, they presented
Assange as a rapist in a fabricated Swedish case that finally collapsed in May
2017, and they claimed that Russia was the great reporting provider for
Wikileaks, in order to relocate all that courageous dissent in the ideological
picture of the cold war after the European states refused to grant him asylum.
Persecuted for eight years, Assange has been in a small room on the floor of the Ecuadorian embassy in London for six years, lacking sunlight, with serious damage to his health, stalked by the intelligence services that control all his movements and visits, and they know even the most intimate detail of their existence there inside.
If all that was hard, the same day of General Di Salvo's visit to Quito, Ecuador announced that it cut all Assange's Internet and telephone communications, as well as all his visits except for his lawyers and those of the food supply. The danger in Assange is extreme.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says his punishment is a "priority," CIA director Mike Pompeo calls Wikileaks a "hostile nongovernmental intelligence service," former vice president Joe Biden called him "cyber-terrorist." "And in memory is the exclamation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton," could not we just kill him with a drone? "(Can't we just drone this guy?").
In May, Correa announced that Assange's days were numbered because the new president "will kick him out of the embassy under the least pressure from the US." On Monday, the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, MarÃa Fernanda Espinosa, confirmed in New York that the blockade of communications to Assange will be maintained. The next day Espinosa was elected president of the UN General Assembly with the blessing of the United States.
The same media that began publishing the revelations of Assange and his network, from The Guardian, to El PaÃs and Le Monde, through Der Spiegel, today contribute to the harassment and denigration of the character. The vassalage to the order of the empire is general and complete. What can the protest rally held in London on the 19th to do to mark the sixth anniversary of its cruel and narrow asylum? Despite all the rhetoric about "civil society," the disproportion of means and forces between David and Goliath had seldom been so gigantic.
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