[Peace-discuss] British judge right not to extradite Assange...for the wrong reason...

[Mildred O'brien]

Well not necessarily wrong reason but, as establishment Brits typically equivocate to avoid facing complicity with the wrong reasons, Assange's right as a journalist was not exonerated by the judge's ruling.  Not that prison in the U.K. is any better but at least, temporarily, he's not facing a firing squad in the U.S., home of the brave and land of the First Amendment--when you have the right friends and color of money.      mo'b
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From: David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
To: J.B. Nicholson <jbn at forestfield.org>
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Sent: Sat, Jan 2, 2021 8:13 pm
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] In defen,  se of proper priorities and against virtue signalling: "foul language" is less important than fighting for Medicare for All and fighting against war

I don't think it's funding related. I think it's Portland related.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 8:45 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

David Green wrote:
> It's an interesting development that Jeffrey St. Clair of Counterpunch
> despises Dore. Unfortunately consistent with CP becoming an ideologically
> lousy website, exposed by Trump era derangement.


That's really sad; I remember when CP was much better and Jeffrey St. Clair's 
politics were properly ordered -- not being distracted by personalities and focusing 
more on issues instead.

Is that shift funding-related? Is CP looking for funding from some outlet like the 
Ford Foundation (which funds Democracy Now and helps explain its sharp shift from 
exposing war motivations and debunking neocon lies to promoting war and repeating 
neocon lies[1]) or some other neolib/neocon-friendly source so that CP can continue?


[1] See Russiagate coverage and alleged Douma "gas attack" coverage as a couple of 
examples. These happen to be among the chief reasons Aaron Maté cited for leaving 
Democracy Now. He would go on to win an Izzy award for his Russiagate exposés and 
Maté has said on Jimmy Dore's show that Dore called out the Douma scam before Maté did.
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