Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal

Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky joined others earlier this year calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for over four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States. If he is extradited, tried and convicted, Assange faces up to 175 years in jail for violating the U.S. Espionage Act for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in January was organized by the Progressive International and the Wau Holland Foundation. We spend the hour airing excerpts.
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[@chinookvalley]

I live in a small rural town of southern Colorado. We have an overwhelming number of disabled veterans (VIetnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, name it...) who are physically and mentally handicapped for life. Facing the truth is difficult. How many of these men and women should NEVER have been in a war, over lies? Truth matters.

[@patricederambuteau826]

I am fully in Line with you. A great sympathy with all thé victimes of liés.

[@radams2403]

It's a crime what these people have been subjected to. Incredibly sad state of affairs.

[@matilda4406]

Indeed, not an honor nor for country, nor county.

[@markantrobus8782]

A documentary film on your town's veteran population should be made.

[@mariecarton8611]

@@markantrobus8782 now that is an absolute necessity. These veterans need to be given a platform to air their needs and grievances not to mention a roof over their heads.

[@blackcrust330]

Whistle-blowers must be protected, not incarcerated.

[@paulheydarian1281]

All acts of courage MUST be severely punished so that cowardice becomes the norm.

[@BigFatHeretic]

@@paulheydarian1281 I hope you’re only trolling just for fun! But in case you’re serious, I gave your comment a thumbs down!!!

[@user-mn8ul9bf2g]

@@BigFatHeretic For lacking any sense of sarcasm, I give your comment thumbs down.

[@tonidimitrova6078]

Whistle blowers are always harshly punished in this country. Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden , we even dare to demand to prosecute foreign nationals who have never set foot in America, like Assange. Extraordinary rendition is what we call the way we usually deal with inconvenient people, drone bombing, abductions, there's no limit to the illegal means we go after truth tellers

[@tonidimitrova6078]

​@@paulheydarian1281 it's sarcasm for us but a common practice among those in power. The tantrum Obama and Biden threw over Snowden escaping, oh my...

[@Bob-sb7sp]

Greetings vrom France: Excellent presentation and program 👏 👍 👌

[@johansen2bfree]

Julian Assange's crime? Truth. Free him, and award him the Pulitzer Prize.

[@veteranscannabisadvocacygr5401]

✨🌎🇺🇸 FREE JULIAN ASSANGE IMMEDIATELY ‼️📡🌎

[@seebarnes6588]

They can't they know they can't. He'd expose what happened to Seth :(

[@diorocks5858]

why he is an irresponsible self entitled prick

[@katarinaprokovich6287]

Julien Assange doit être libéré de suite, il n'a tué personne, et nous sommes en démocratie à ce qu'il paraît, il n'a tué personne, et en Europe, France, des hommes qui tuent font moins d'années de prison que cet homme qui se fait détruire et tué mentalement et physiquement, c'est atroce, de plus il est isolé, la solitude fait du mal, beaucoup de mal, il a besoin de contact, c'est grave, c'est une honte, il faut le libérer immédiatement. La Russie devrait en parler et proposer à Julien Assange de l'accueillir pour être libre et en vie.

[@leimsok7830]

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[@4623620]

The question is: is making crimes public a crime in the US ?

[@gallectee6032]

Yes it is. This is why Edward Snowden said this: "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."

[@tonidimitrova6078]

Yes. No doubt

[@juliewake4585]

It seems so.

[@donHooligan]

US taxpayers are the "neo-nazis" far-right douche-nozzles are just plain nazis.

[@r3b3lvegan89]

And he was rephrasing John Lennon and a couple other people anyway.

[@russellnewton6660]

I had the privilege to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak, here in Edinburgh Scotland. Vilified by the right wing press here In the U.K.

[@gore1089]

Yes the corporate global media blames everything on the left. Bait and switch. The real left . Not puppet imposters like Boris Obama and Biden.

[@jennilevine6944]

Thank you all for a true voice

[@harriet4564]

Exposing war crimes and telling truth and doing journalism should NOT be a crime, it should be praised! FREE HERO JULIAN ASSANGE!!!!!

[@dorisaffissio1649]

Assange is no hero. He is a coward hanging out in the Ecuadorian embassy, and now a London jail. Face a jury or re locate to Moscow like Snowdon did.

[@vivalaleta]

@@dorisaffissio1649 Ridiculous. Assange is ten times the prize Snowdon was. You saw what happened as soon as our corrupt government got permission to enter the embassy. Assange knew the enormous target on his back. He had no choice.

[@curtrice6060]

Please free Julian. 🤗😁🤗👍

[@SOS-ct9mv]

What about his financial dealings with Jeffery Epstein? Feel free to google.

[@ChrisHarding-lk3jj]

The fact is Julian Assange conspired with Bradley Manning to crack a password and Bradley Manning provided the password hash to Julian in an attempt to crack that password. If Julian Assange didn't work with Bradley Manning to crack the password there would be no crime. Julian Assange is going to spend probably the rest of his life in prison at the Florence ADX supermax. If he is lucky he will find himself a good prison husband to spend the rest of his life with.

[@HanfinitiativeFFM]

Free Assange now !

[@eddyeroyal6024]

He’s a traider an needs to stay there

[@ukqwerty999]

@@eddyeroyal6024 The people in the Apache helicopter gunship massacre disagree with you.

[@257rani]

Telling The Truth is Not a Crime. Journalism is not a Crime ❤Free Him Now ❤

[@edensmith552]

Free Julian Assagne please🙏 When did telling the truth become a crime? Real criminals are in government positions whilst an honest journalist is locked and tortured in jail. This should not be so.

[@panthera50]

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE !!!! ♥‼‼

[@beesplaining1882]

Free Assange. Now, about those war crimes......we the people demand justice!

[@donHooligan]

Accountability Party 2024 no more lies. no more BS.

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: If Hitler succeeded because Judiciary allowed Evil Laws Authoritarians arrive on heels of Judiciary allowing Evil Laws,no?

[@donHooligan]

@safiyaabdrahman5717 US taxpayers paid a soldier to torture a child in GITMO. they are all guilty of collusion, at the very least. all taxpayers fund evil and they know it. they choose comfort over decency.

[@beesplaining1882]

@Safiya Abdrahman yes the soldier/s should be charged and the US officials who lied about it and actively covered it up. The US should publicly apologise and pay compensation to the innocent victims family. The buck stops with US leadership. Instead of justice, US leadership is persecuting the whistleblower, Assange.

[@morninboy]

Kissinger and Bush to the Hauge

[@MohamadSaeidAH]

Justice and freedom for The brave Julian Assange

[@DavoidJohnson]

Those who commit crimes against the people must be made to pay for their actions.

[@petulaegharevba7780]

We all have to keep fighting for truth. Free Julian Assange. Thank you truth tellers❤

[@asshatslovejohnnydeppjohnn8377]

-Come over an see Johnny Depp pursuing Amber Heard with a blade as she begs him to stop, the recording played at the trial, transcribed and loudened

[@mansonnanson8294]

Or don't free him but at least jail the trump cancer. I can live with both of them in jail.

[@jimmorris4425]

Thank you Democracy Now for continuing to reveal the truth.

[@John-nz6jb]

😂. All 3 🇺🇸 State Department assets. All 3 CIA zionist assets along with Amy Bigpharma Gofundme Goodman . Typical media pap. 😂

[@tmnt10000]

Leftist propaganda is now considered truth

[@IreneCampos-tk2vd]

Not always truth revealers. Around trump's time they sided with the Washington DC swamp.

[@blokcomNativeFaces]

CommiecratNow didn't tell you the controversy around Epstein and your Boy Chompsky.

[@semiinthepassinglane]

Far from real journalism.

[@montanagal6958]

People in our world are punished for telling the truth.

[@nomennudum5270]

... and rewarded handsomely for the opposite.

[@souadkabalan5659]

Isn’t it mind boggling how slowly they move towards correction as opposed to how quickly and wilfully they move towards destruction

[@kerrypowell8602]

The great Jeremy Corbyn is a real leader ❤

[@gore1089]

Yes the real left . Not puppet imposters like Boris Obama and Biden.

[@mikehull5042]

Jeremy carbine talking about democracy when he supports the IRA terrorist organisation that murdered and murders innocent people. Yeah, what a man. What a joke

[@psychologicalprojectionist]

What does he lead? Has he got a dog?

[@Tonsirton]

"Well Spoken Mr Corbyn!!!🙏🙏🙏".

[@andrewbclinton]

the racist, his party was found guilty of racism while he was in charge, he supports hamas the most racist terrorist group on the planet

[@britastertern-gill4961]

Justice for Julian

[@257rani]

Activists I agree with You and The Truth You Presented. Free Julian Assange Now and Send home to his Family ❤✊

[@jasonbean2764]

It's astonishing that the general press doesn't put more attention on this issue.

[@paulwellman1030]

Astonishing that they don't pay any attention to Seymour Hersh blowing the whistle on the greatest ecological, industrial terrorist act of our time... Biden the Nord Stream Bomber should be behind bars.

[@ttacking_you]

What are you, new here?

[@bold810]

No, it's not. We don't need daily updates on terrorists.

[@ajl2232]

@@bold810 He is not a terrorist. The terrorists are those he exposed for war crimes.

[@pussiboos21t]

The 'general' press is right wing and owned by billionaires, they don't want the truth out there. They are part of the problem and when attacked will claim to be the free press which the main players most certainly are not.

[@Duen207]

Thank You Julian Assange and all the heroes who fights for the truth! 🙏

[@stephentrueman4843]

Remember watching this a few months ago, chills every time

[@lagosolarbros]

free Asange !!!

[@Ruth-mt8eq]

Julian Assange an extraordinary, noble human being. He must go home to his lovely family.

[@MarkMark]

His show on Russia Today was 🔥. 😂😂

[@lisafrequency55]

Thanks Amy for working to bring more awareness to the plight of Julian Assange.

[@mybobalu2]

I'm glad they are doing this. I was beginning to wonder why we didn't hear more about what happened after the Embassy.

[@johnnicholas1488]

Bravo. Julian should receive amnesty and compensatory as well as punitive money damages by the taxpayers of the two faced United States.

[@christinacraig4430]

Those accusing him should pay not the tax payers we are glad he told the truth.

[@ronalddunne3413]

@@christinacraig4430 Did he? Which "truth" did he tell, hmmm?

[@williamlay4236]

We need to protect the truth!

[@ReturnOfTheJ.D.]

It's gotten to the point where it's so embarrassing for the United States internationally to keep pursuing this witch hunt that I'm not sure who I want Julian Assange to be freed for now - himself or the global reputation of the country persecuting him.

[@MrJJ042804]

The government doesn't care about the embarrassment, they want to suppress "any" whistleblowing, and Julian Assange's example is supposed to tell everyone who tries to expose government crimes will pay serious consequences!

[@ehemalssimehtt3739]

❤ Julian Assange & Noam Chomsky & Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn ❤

[@reversingglobalwarming9431]

FREE ASSANGE

[@landotter]

it may be an irony for some that democracy needs people like Assange, now more than ever.

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: To support and aid an Apartheid State Democratic,Fascist?

[@ronalddunne3413]

@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings USA is certainly NOT an "apartheid State" - unless the meaning of "apartheid" has somehow changed since the fall of the Nationalist government in South Afrika.

[@markantrobus8782]

The former head of the CIA and secretary of state said openly that the job of the intelligence services is to lie and kill.

[@billienova]

So thankful for Jeffery Sterling speaking out ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@donald1576]

Julian Assange is every inch a hero. We should be making statues to him for what he did. His message should be being taught in college

[@lizshephard2964]

There is already a bronze statue of Assange in prominent display in a park in a European city - its in the film 'Ithaka' about Assange, shown recently on BBC2 in Britain.

[@donald1576]

@@lizshephard2964 it's a start

[@pablocaves]

M

[@danatompkins4385]

Free Julian!!!!! Now!!!!!

[@ratnabahadurgurung9850]

Wishing you goodhealth and longevity prof.Chomsky sir.

[@sueellerman7984]

Thanks Democracy Now for this important post on Julian Assange, the "free" world owes this man a great debt. Let's keep up the noise! Free Speech; Free Press; Free Assange!

[@gallectee6032]

Thank you for focusing on this. By now it should be obvious who mainstream media represent.

[@dorisaffissio1649]

Let's give Assange an opportunity to interfere in the election of 2024.

[@iainherridge6253]

​@@dorisaffissio1649why not, everyone else IS!

[@RoyalEagle1960]

@@dorisaffissio1649 You are using the C-I-A talking points spread by the lame stream media. He did amazing and heroic job exposing our government. How ignorant and naive one must be to ignore the facts of the matter 🤦‍♂️

[@finalelement3296]

the reptillians?

[@StarryGreen33]

@@iainherridge6253 just repubs so far

[@murrayscott3513]

Making the military elites look bad is fatal. The government sucks.

[@solidaritytime3650]

Organize for revolution. Feed breakfast to school children. Help immigrants in your community get access to resources. Organize tenants in your neighborhood. Chain yourself to a Tree Blow up a pipeline. Everyone knows that the government has lost the mandate of The People. It's up to us to be ready with parallel horizontalized power when the shit hits the fan.

[@WhaleCommunicators]

GREAT MEETING of Minds folks!!! Ben Wizner is a very smart and well spoken man. He makes simple words say volumes. I can see why he would be speaking for Julian Assange in all this Jeffrey Sterling - thank you for using your voice and singing your song out loud. You are my hero. A man of color who would not take this BS and who stood up and refused to be quiet. A great man who speaks very well for himself and for all of us. Bless You all the many years you walk this Earth!!! Margaret Kunstler . . . Go get em!!! You are great at what you do. You get people's attention - Very intelligent & sharp attorney protecting all our human rights. Democracy Now - standing ovation - GREAT JOB & show!!! And shame on the USA & our world for calling folks like this out for telling the truth in a world lead by LIARS

[@anastasiamitsos5072]

Thank you for sharing!!!

[@maithanhnguyen1428]

Freedom for Julian Assange, please! Julian Assange is a hero, a defender of the weaks, not a criminal! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@gothicpagan.666]

Those responsible for the military crimes have obviously been removed from their positions and prosecuted for what they have done.

[@Bob-sb7sp]

Greetings from France: Fantastic program, people and excellent presentation 👏 👍..finally..should be freed immediately 👏

[@jqiou5865]

Free Assange! Lock up Pompeo!

[@donHooligan]

....and Bolton, Biden, both Clintons, Trump, Bush *AND* Obama. for starters.

[@noellebazzi5618]

All are evils

[@AkerraNicholson]

​@@donHooligan YES!! & BILL GATES!! Big Tech & unfortunately now our own FBI

[@briangrigsby1842]

How much darker can we get as a nation?

[@beesplaining1882]

A war with China?

[@donHooligan]

"You ain't seen nothin, yet. B-B-B-Baby you just ain't seen nothin, yet." -BTO

[@hkiani6853]

Read the real history book and you still would not get to the depth of crimes against Humanity committed, by so called Western Democratic Countries.

[@sandyconway4953]

WHO r u

[@uncle_Samssubjects]

​@@sandyconway4953 armed Biden crack porn and I don't care

[@williamhenderson1692]

these people are true heroes. all possible support and thanks to them !

[@user-gy5qp9kf1n]

NOT CALLING BUT DEMANDING. I'm astounded that we're tolerating the persecution of this man for exposing the dirty work that is done on behalf of the people who have no knowledge of these crimes. Our government should not be behaving like this and now that they got caught they're upset!!! This reaction is unacceptable. FREE this man now.

[@AngelRodriguez-zt6nv]

Anti terrorism is worse than terrorism itself 🤷‍♂️

[@dorisaffissio1649]

Did all you MAGA folks forget that he published whatever Vladimir asked for. I didn't see anything about Donnie, did you?

[@bungledandbotched1771]

Very well put.

[@jhegre]

@@dorisaffissio1649 So you are attempting to troll?

[@donHooligan]

every taxpayer is responsible.

[@vickeyhoward8094]

TRUTH MUST BE FREE!!!!!!FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR EVERYONE!!! FREE THEM THAT WE MIGHT LEARN FROM THEM.

[@mikeharvey9811]

Great people who stand firm on the side of truth. Wonderful speakers….Assange must be freed and compensated for years of wrongful imprisonment. Barb

[@marygarrapa3537]

What can we say? One thing I will say Amy, is that you never let us down. Thank you.

[@dsmith4140]

Down the sewer

[@zacboyles1396]

Spoken like someone with their eyes tightly closed and disposable masks twisted into ear plugs.

[@mischevious]

DN lets you down every single day with their Ukraine coverage. You’re just too snowed over to know it.

[@reforest4fertility]

Wow, ugh, gulp, actual journalism on trial. I never thought I'd see the day, sorta, when a mere reporter, like a piano player, being treated like a leaker, when he leaked nothing, only reported information with extremely high import. Such courage should be rewarded. Hopefully that will still come, when leaders & media are brought to their senses by us varied peoples everywhere.

[@vesnatodorovic1658]

Thank you Dan and special Suchitra telling the truth

[@annenunney9907]

Thank you Jeremy for always being on the side of truth ❤

[@madpatriot4608]

In a world where exposing the evil deeds of government, hiding behind the espionage act is a crime,where is the accountability freedom and democracy in that

[@Pbav8tor]

The irony is that Julien has been under duress for decades, and our former president stole and sold secrets and is not only free but running for president again.

[@jo-annerichardson34]

💯

[@noellebazzi5618]

Who is the ones behind that Act? It was intended to abuse freedom?😢

[@jesserdls]

We got to release this man

[@TowhidIslam]

Amy! you are a true brave soul.....may almighty bless you with strength and sound health. 💖

[@asleepawake3645]

Journalists must absolutely be protected checking power. We need laws to offset the powerful

[@dorisaffissio1649]

Assange is not a journalist. Someone paid him. He is a coward for not facing the law, Manning did!

[@pussiboos21t]

Unfortunatly it is the powerful who make and impliment the law ......

[@tumeke4328]

Power & change is in the people

[@gallectee6032]

@@tumeke4328 Easier said than done. It is effortless for them to divide us.

[@tumeke4328]

@Gallectee the challenge starts with us my friend

[@patrickvanmeter2922]

These three people continue to keep up the good fight with no success. It appears no one in the US, England or Australia care about the truth.

[@donHooligan]

the "allies" are the 4th reich

[@Mmcermes]

The US is in charge of 5 eye countries

[@artoaco]

Thank you all. Light destroys the darkness. Truth will win. We know it.🌼🌺🌸

[@jameswatson9641]

I admire this gentleman Jeffery Sterling, i applaud his bravery and commitment to truth.

[@jackdawes120]

Some wonderful contributions from all the speakers. My god! Who is listening in the White House? The maze of power is mind boggling.

[@vivalaleta]

Isn't it though? We are ruled by sociopaths.

[@MrJJ042804]

@@vivalaleta, and psychopaths, like Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger!

[@gitastudygroup1628]

Thank you ‘Democracy Now’ for this episode 🙏

[@farerolobos9382]

Why thanking them for doing what they should have been doing systematically long ago while they we're feeding us with the Russiagate paranoia?

[@Jasmin-ux5ho]

That man still in jail ?? 😮😮 For telling the truth

[@peterhixon371]

The really sad thing is that conferences such as this one will only ever be seen by the seekers of the truth. The mass of the population remain in a state of comparative oblivion and the politicians and media are, in general owned by a power that seeks to make us more ignorant and more subservient by their each and every action

[@dag118]

Day one, if Kennedy wins, he frees Julian.

[@jerrycook5834]

So would Marianne Williamson, a better candidate.

[@donHooligan]

couple Democrats, eh?

[@jerrycook5834]

@@donHooligan Not authoritarian dictators with no real plan except chaos like the repuglicants.

[@tonidimitrova6078]

Democracy: when those who commit crimes live in wealth and respect while those who expose thier crimes languish in prisons

[@warsakoon8968]

Free Assange without any delay Good deeds beget good bad begets bad think again and discharge Assange further keeping in prison..

[@wiralle4039]

War is crime. Telling the truth is honorable. Only a criminal would see it differently.

[@Happy-uy5wc]

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE ✌😎👍

[@deeone5326]

Thank you!❤❤❤

[@billienova]

We desperately need your voices to call ☎️ our USG representatives demanding to protect our freedom of speech!!

[@ConchillaVanchila-up2dj]

Bring Julian Assange to United States!!! Free this man!!!

[@Bisquick]

_"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started with truth"_ - Assange Just because I have this in the 'ol clipboard and it's in my opinion one of the great political speeches, here's Eugene Debs's statement to the court when tried/convicted under the very same espionage act that now persecutes Julian Assange in 1918, for merely speaking out against WWI (just a year after it was passed, revealing how intentional this use was from the beginning), reminding us why the courage embodied by folks like Assange, Snowden, Ellsberg, Daniel Hale, Manning, et al. (and all of you who speak and act in their imperative defense) is so important and I think also importantly clearly articulating the simple and necessary transformation of society that we must *_demand_* at this point: _Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free._ _I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions_ _Your Honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in a fundamental change-but if possible by peaceable and orderly means_ _Standing here this morning, I recall my boyhood. At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison_ _I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and the factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men._ _In this country-the most favored beneath the bending skies-we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child-and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity_ *_I believe, Your Honor, in common with all Socialists, that this nation ought to own and control its own industries. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned-that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all_* _I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence._ _This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth._ _There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order. They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night. They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time. The feel-they know, indeed-that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greatest social and economic change in history._ _In that day we shall have the universal commonwealth-the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth_ _Your Honor, I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice._ _I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity. The people are awakening. In due time they will and must come to their own._ _When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand. Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning._

[@joshroolf1966]

That's amazing and inspiring, thank you.💚🐾⛅

[@matilda4406]

Who wrote this ?

[@georgefurman4371]

Thank you for bringing us true history memory and the name and message of Eugene Debs. It is encouraging and reminds us of our socialist dream and duty for change. Thank you with all my heart.

[@georgefurman4371]

@@matilda4406 I hope Eugene Debs recovered his place in your history memory and working class identity.

[@matilda4406]

@@georgefurman4371 I just got to know him. Not one for political history, but I can tell you about religious history I wish was different

[@Elizabeth-mp6tr]

I didn't know the extent of this issue until listening to this documentary. Thank you for educating me.

[@georgefurman4371]

True history memory is a condition for freedom and peace. Is education.

[@nefigaha]

Betty Metzger's synopsis of the FBI abuses during the Cointelpro era is chilling

[@richardmtl]

It's up to Britain, we'll see Britain's true colours.

[@catherinejames2734]

America already has . Just who does America think they are to do what they have to Assange. Then again , the UK did allow it, just as Australia did.

[@iainherridge6253]

Australian elite are renowned for hanging their citizens out to dry on the whim of their fascist overlords?

[@jo-annerichardson34]

💯

[@carinarilk89]

TRUE! THE SWEDISCH TOO.😢

[@PixelProlo]

Thank you for sharing and hello from Northern Germany. Stay strong

[@carinarilk89]

HABECK zufolge; Wer? Ach ja Assange! Deutschland und Amerika sind sich so ähnlich, was sage ich da! GANZ EUROPA Von der Leyen & Co

[@hazelann63]

Well done these men and others

[@magnolian1923]

Free Julian Assange. Thank you

[@MichaelThomas-ll1hw]

This is amazing. Thank you all for your hard work- you are the true heroes ❤️ ☮️ 🌎 🌍

[@christopherbettridge5983]

I watched the entire Belmarsh Tribunal when it was aired; I am very glad that I did. As a Canadian who came up in the Eighties and Nineties, I am very cognizant of the US influence on world affairs and how much power and influence the United States imposes just by existing in other countries within it's sphere of influence ( the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, the people of Central and South America know all too well what these mean; I grew up within a few hours of the American border in South-Western Ontario and for much of my early life I saw American television, news, the culture was so pervasive that the Canadian government had to pass legislation to combat it!) and I am not alone in my, shall we say, subconscious xenophobia amongst Canadians when it comes to American influence on the policies of other nations. I was very impressed by the courage of the supra-national speakers for Mr. Assange at the Belmarsh Tribunal for standing up for the rights of all those who see in the United States a fantastically vibrant and dynamic cultural and social identity and are not willing to allow the falsehood of the current historical narrative to define them, or allow free speech to become a commodity like so much else in capitalist systems; where if it's just the "free" part you're after, sometimes you get what you pay for. Free speech, in its genuine incarnation, sometimes costs us. Here we see individuals standing up for one who has and is still paying that cost

[@nadiawheeler4772]

What is happening with our Democracy??? Democracy is freedom of information... Freedom of speech...

[@johleby8048]

Free Julian Assange. 🙏

[@nancyanderson5310]

Thank you, thank you , thank you. These disclosures must be incredible to many people. Having tracked the evolution of this inhuman man-made system since Vietnam, it is clear it is heading to a dead end. It is a privilege to hear voices of those still fighting for sanity and humanity. You are lights in a dark world. You are God’s blessing, helping all people keep their grip on truth. Thank you, thank you.

[@MariaVazquez-du3st]

👏

[@saveriofalcone66]

Thanks for publishing this we will spread.

[@billienova]

Please 🙏🏼 everyone start calling presidents comment line and your local government representatives on Monday demanding they stop 🛑 all charges on Assange

[@tlc121161]

Free our brave whistle blowers and reward them 🙏🥰 Honesty and integrity way showers on how to behave

[@schumannli5825]

The speakers are courageous to defend Julian. Up-hold justice!

[@gerardbiddle1808]

Free Julian Assange and improve oversight protection of whistleblowers protection and to protect transparency in our democracy and the right of free speech. What are we to do with the Twitter portal back door currently surveilling us during the pandemic and even to this day?

[@DingleDingleCasil196]

Thanks for this video. Saying and accepting the truth, the great feelings.

[@livondiramerian6999]

Greed doesn't breed democracy, justice, love, kindness, compassion, naturalness, humanness, & happiness, it breeds destruction, hate, exploitation, & inhumanity.

[@Drcragory]

Julian Assange is in jail, and Donald Trump is playing golf..wow

[@annenunney9907]

Get what you mean

[@EvanLovesWhiskey]

Nothing changed but him putting us trillions in debt

[@---re9jc]

Blair and Bush walking free.

[@donHooligan]

@@---re9jc both Clintons, Obama, etc...

[@gore1089]

The real left still exists but they hardly see the light of day the corporate media demonizes them and blames them for everything. Not the puppet imposters like Boris Obama and Biden.