The US government has hounded Julian Assange since WikiLeaks first revealed the extent of US war crimes in 2010. In the process of persecuting Assange, the federal government has used every tool at its disposal and even pushed beyond the boundaries that supposedly restrict state power in defense of civil liberties. One of the most insidious tactics is the use of the Espionage Act, which had not been used for against whistleblowers and journalists for almost a century before Assange’s case. In the first of a two-part conversation, lawyer and human rights defender Stella Assange, spouse of Julian Assange, joins Chris Hedges for a look at the vast and vicious campaign by the US to silence Julian Assange, and what it all portends for our democracy.

Stella Assange’s Substack: https://stellaassangeofficial.substack.com

Click here to watch Part 2: https://youtu.be/5S0vQ0aEul4

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39 thoughts on “Julian Assange and the end of American Democracy w/Chris Hedges & Stella Assange (Part 1)”
  1. This is all in an attempt to prevent the dissemination of information related to not only the layer we were seeing, but a layer under that ! Any threat to the "business as usual" of the military/corporate/banking/social engineering" criminal mafioso cabal chimera. The deeper level the parasitic, predatory, vampiric mostly tax payer funded faction that does not acknowledge any civil laws, governments, treaties, conventions, republics, political or religious groups, political parties, constitutions and is running a playbook without any oversight. These sub human freaks just had to destroy Assange as a warning to anyone willing to expose their modus operendi !

  2. When Stella visited the Pope in Vatican City almost all the Italian MSM ignored the fact. They censored it. Same thing happened with the war in Ukraine – – when the Pope asks for a cease fire or says that NATO expansion to the East is the root cause of this war, they pretend they don't hear it and therefore don't report it.

  3. Julian Assange is a hero, we live in such a corrupt world that the man who exposed the war criminals is the one who faces consequences.

  4. I think it just keeps breaking like The DNC is chipping away at obsidian and it can be difficult to tell what took you so long to be flaked off by them hammering their own contingency. No one is better as self-immolation– all the better to gaslight with, my pretty. Can you imagine it may have taken some until Trump Russia Collusion and the 17 Intelligence Agencies? I thought people would have trouble juggling the concept of HRC as a warmonger Secretary of State and this is how it washes out? The Syrian gas hoax is still scandalous to bring up.

  5. 'America', the US part…never was democratic in reality, but it's the US foot-in-the-door propaganda pitch that the government uses to take over the world- as they feel they can. It's a charade. Any country that allows fat cats, big money corps and rich jewish outfits like AIPAC to influence the voters, besides the fact of illegal, actual bribes to congressmen, cannot claim to be democratic. It's BS!Amazing is the fact that inside the US there is hardly anyone complaining about the obvious.

  6. Very interesting. He says we are passive and this complicit, and I kinda agree but what do you want? People don't vote. What can we do? Demonstrate? That's shut down pretty quickly.

    Then you start moaning about Palestine and you lose most of your audience because we're not all as ignorant as you think.

  7. We Iranian Women strongly Support Julian Assange, We Love Him🍃❤️🍃

    Free Iran from brutal regime💪✌️

  8. Julian Assange You're A Real HERO FOR HUMANITY!!!🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🗽‼️

  9. Why don’t the public “get it”? was the question aptly raised.
    because we have been so skillfully seduced and lied to by powers that have perfected the art of double talk and engaging stage persona.😢

  10. Deceit.is.a.curse.of.the.mind..can.we.live.without.it.Mabey.if.life.is.simple.and.our.ego..desire.controlled..World.problem..question.

  11. It's kinda obvious…Assange broke out the truth.
    But the fact hes still imprisoned means: the truth doesn't matter anymore…telling the truth will have you imprisoned if it doesn't suit the people who are in control.
    Dont listen to what they say, watch what they do.

  12. It's only the end of democracy if "The People" don't act. However, the level of apathy and/or cowardice is mind-numbing. Imagine if our forefathers lacked the courage and initiative to act. We'd all be subjects of the Crown. In any event, we will soon be fully managed and controlled, without freedom, as they are in the very countries we have traditionally criticized.

  13. Democracy has been gone a long time ago and its demise for the states started right away. The States also destroyed all chances for democracy for many of the countries in the Americas.

  14. The big mistake was to jail Assange. The US citizens benefit from journalism like this. What Jullian did was TELL THE TRUTH.. Democray won't end, it will change into what it was meant to be. Those "asleep" like the MEGA will have a dark time ahead… No land grabes go unnoticed….

  15. When he says "black propaganda campaign",I wonder if he has seen the literal insanity of those kids jumping on cars shooting ak 47s.I can send links of the kids in my town going outside their rivals mothers house with them. Ick!we need more police!

  16. Democracy is just recruitment for criminals and violently entitled boys called politicians. Democracy, Marxism, Capitalism and Religion have failed in Afrika, they all have a legacy of expoitation, colonialism and slavery. A new model of human management is needed on this Earth.

  17. Yes, get rid of democracy. It's never worked in the history of humanity. Hence the reason that America was formed as a Constitutional Republic!!

  18. デーモンとは、民主主義。穢多人種迎合主義の事です。 もう早急に、解党する事なのです。 黒人迎合主義。部落迎合主義は、終焉する事なのです。

  19. We have no constitutional government. It is a corporation. Since 1871 under Organic Act of 1871. Not positive but since 2933 we have been under War Powers Act. It was suspended, hence war after war, incl drug, domestic violence, etc. The employees of government knows, most of them. It is about making ALL of us criminals. We r chattel.

  20. @Schaeffer Cox from Alaska and is a political prisoner in the "Communications Management Unit" in Terra Haute Indiana. This is, incredibley worse than SuperMax. The US is a truly terrorist nation.

  21. For all the Trump supporter's who seem to have been blindsided, or choose to forget-Mr. Trump wanted Assange brought back to the U.S. to face charges, and I've never heard him change his mind: Trump wants to ‘make an example’ of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, court told

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/24/europe/assange-extradition-hearing-intl-gbr/index.html

    Trump administration targeting 'enemy of America' Julian Assange, court told

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/24/julian-assange-hearing-journalism-is-no-excuse-for-breaking-law

  22. I believe Julian is the most important political prisoner on the planet. If we lose the freedom of journalism, we will lose everything.

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