Why is Biden Prosecuting Assange for Telling the Truth about Afghanistan?
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Julian Assange warned the public that the goal in Afghanistan "is to have an endless war, not a successful war."

Two of us, Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky, testified for Assange at his extradition hearing last year. In Ellsberg’s words then, the WikiLeaks publications that Assange is being charged for are “amongst the most important truthful revelations of hidden criminal state behavior that have been made public in U.S. history.” The American public “needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      To me, I try to stay some what hopeful:

      Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there’s enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, “It doesn’t look good at all. Doesn’t look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever.” That’s hope. I’m a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope. -Cornel West

      Here ae more quotes, if you are interested: Source where I found the one above.

      https://www.azquotes.com/author/15512-Cornel_West

      Need to take the wins where we can,

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.orgOP
      41·
      1 year ago

      I tend to somewhat stay hopeful:

      Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there’s enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, “It doesn’t look good at all. Doesn’t look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever.” That’s hope. I’m a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope. -Cornel West

      Take the wins with the losses.

      Coming together to learn and teach, like we do on social media, by talking and interacting with people of different views and backgrounds.

      This is a more hopeful than ignoring or name calling people we do not agree with.