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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0088CC" vlink="#0088CC"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#DDDDDD'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Caitlin Johnstone posted: "In some refreshingly good news about Julian Assange, WikiLeaks is reporting that its founder has finally been moved out of solitary confinement to a different wing in Belmarsh Prison where he can have normal social interactions with 40 other inmates. T" <o:p></o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;max-width: 1024px;min-width: 320px'><tr><td style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#43A4D0'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#EFEFEF;border:none;border-bottom:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt'><tr><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.05in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px!important;margin:20px!important'><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#464646;font-weight:normal'>New post on </span><strong><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#464646'>Caitlin Johnstone</span></strong><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#464646;font-weight:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2></td><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0088CC;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img width=32 height=32 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5D34F.7170E980" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0088CC'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2"><span style='color:#2585B2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=50 height=50 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5D34F.7170E980" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/25/belmarsh-prison-inmates-prove-more-ethical-than-entire-western-empire/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Belmarsh Prison Inmates Prove More Ethical Than Entire Western Empire</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#888888'>by <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Caitlin Johnstone</span></u></a> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;max-width: 560px'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>In some refreshingly good news about Julian Assange, WikiLeaks is reporting that its founder has finally been moved out of solitary confinement to a different wing in Belmarsh Prison where he can have normal social interactions with 40 other inmates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>This fantastic news lifts a huge weight from the chests of those of us who've been protesting <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/05/31/the-un-torture-report-on-assange-is-an-indictment-of-our-entire-society/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Assange's cruel and unusual treatment</span></u></a> at the hands of an international alliance of governments bent on making a draconian public example of a journalist whose publications exposed US war crimes. Solitary confinement <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/almost-addicted/201801/solitary-confinement-torture-pure-and-simple"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>is a form of torture</span></u></a>, and a UN Special Rapporteur <a href="https://medium.com/@njmelzer/state-responsibility-for-the-torture-of-julian-assange-40935ea5d7c3"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>has confirmed</span></u></a> that Assange shows clear symptoms that he is <a href="https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>a victim of psychological torture</span></u></a> caused by his persecution from coordinated efforts by <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/03/tort-j03.html"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Washington, London, Stockholm, Canberra and Quito</span></u></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>So what caused this shift in Assange's treatment? Did the powerful empire-like alliance loosely centralized around the United States suddenly come to its senses and realize that torturing journalists for telling the truth is the sort of tyrannical abuse that it accuses other governments of perpetrating? Did officials in the British government bow to public pressure from the pro-Assange demonstrations which have been taking place in London month after month and have some faint flickerings of conscience? Did Belmarsh Prison authorities come to their senses after <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/16/100-doctors-demand-julian-assange-receive-safe-passage-australian-hospital-it-too"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>more than a hundred doctors warned</span></u></a> that their cruelty was killing the award-winning publisher?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Why no. As it turns out, Assange was in fact rescued from the cruelty of this globe-sprawling empire by the concerted protests of high-security prison inmates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 12.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Prisoners' revolt and pressure from legal team and campaigners forces Belmarsh to move Assange out of solitary. WikiLeaks statement: <a href="https://t.co/9Af9y3zC93"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>pic.twitter.com/9Af9y3zC93</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>— Don't Extradite Assange (@DEAcampaign) <a href="https://twitter.com/DEAcampaign/status/1220708757702877186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>January 24, 2020</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>“In a dramatic climbdown, authorities at Belmarsh Prison have moved Julian Assange from solitary confinement in the medical wing and relocated him to an area with other inmates," <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/julian-assange-moved-out-of-solitary-confinement-after-fellow-prisoners-revolt-against-his-mistreatment/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>said</span></u></a> WikiLeaks Ambassador Joseph Farrell in <a href="https://twitter.com/DEAcampaign/status/1220708757702877186"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>a statement</span></u></a> today. "The move is a huge victory for Assange’s legal team and for campaigners who have been insisting for weeks that the prison authorities must end the punitive treatment of Assange.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>"But the decision to relocate Assange is also a massive victory of prisoners in Belmarsh," Farrell added. "A group of inmates have petitioned the prison governor on three occasions, insisting that the treatment of Assange was unjust and unfair. After meetings between prisoners, lawyers and the Belmarsh authorities, Assange was moved to a different prison wing — albeit one with only 40 inmates.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Belmarsh is a <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/15/julian-assanges-nightmarish-future/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>notoriously harsh maximum-security prison</span></u></a> full of violent offenders and prisoners convicted under anti-terrorism laws, one of many reasons that Assange supporters have so vigorously opposed his confinement there. What does it tell you about the society you are living in that this population has a superior moral compass to the people who are actually running things?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>For years I've been arguing with Democratic Party-aligned liberals on one side saying that Assange is a Russian agent who deserves to be tortured, and a bunch of Trump-aligned right wingers on the other side saying their president is extraditing Assange for the good of the world. These are the two mainstream views on Assange within the western empire today. And a group of Belmarsh prisoners just proved themselves infinitely more ethical than any of them. They have a better sense of right and wrong than those running the empire, and they have a better sense of right and wrong than the propagandized apologists for that empire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 12.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>UN Special Rapporteur on torture: “In 20 years..I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law”<a href="https://t.co/UMGegjYrBS"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>https://t.co/UMGegjYrBS</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1134385305673445376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>May 31, 2019</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Not that this should surprise us. This group of Belmarsh prisoners demonstrated their moral superiority to the mainstream public not because prison inmates are on average inherently better people than those on the outside, but because they were confronted with the reality of Assange's situation instead of mainlining mass media propaganda about Assange. They were dealing with reality rather than narrative, so they addressed that reality. And they did so admirably.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>The <a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/debunking-all-the-assange-smears-a549fd677cac"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>smear campaign that has been conducted against Assange</span></u></a> by the political/media class has distorted public perception of his plight so severely that there are far more people seeing his case through a distorted understanding than there are people who actually understand what's happening to him. We saw this illustrated very clearly when the aforementioned UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/01/un-special-rapporteur-on-torture-exposes-anti-assange-smear-campaign/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>admitted frankly</span></u></a> that before going to investigate Assange's case for himself he'd been propagandized by this same smear campaign as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>"When I was first approached by his defense team seeking protection from my mandate in December last year, I was reluctant to do so, because, me too, I had been affected by this prejudice that I had absorbed through all these public narratives spread in the media over the years," Melzer told <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Democracy Now</span></em> in an <a href="https://youtu.be/ErW1taJEPrs"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>interview last year</span></u></a>. "And only when I scratched the surface a little bit, I saw how little foundation there was to back this up and how much fabrication and manipulation there is in this case. So I encourage everybody to really look below the surface in this case.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Inmates of Belmarsh prison had a superior understanding of Assange's plight because they wouldn't have been affected by these narratives. They would simply have seen what's right in front of them, with their own eyes: a nonviolent prisoner being caged in solitary confinement 23 hours a day for no discernible reason.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>You couldn't ask for a clearer example of the difference between fact and narrative than this. <a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/society-is-made-of-narrative-realizing-this-is-awakening-from-the-matrix-787c7e2539ae"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. 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