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Chomsky, Walker and Ellsberg Defend Julian Assange

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that's what you were seeing, my eyes go down to the paper.

We tolerate the horrors of foreign policy in order to achieve the smallest reforms in domestic

policy. We adjust to Internet censorship until it affects us. We live with unspeakable cruelties

towards the Earth and the planet, focusing on human rights, although they are unshakably

interconnected. Can you speak to what the danger of accepting the war on whistle-blowers is,

as many liberals have done throughout the Obama administration and beyond?

Alice Walker

Well, I've been banned a lot in my lifetime, you know, I have been called everything but a child

of God. So what that does is, it hurts. And sometimes, you know, you look for your books or

whatever you produced and they're just not there. Well, they've been banned. Right. So then

you have to think about your livelihood. So that's totally reasonable. You know, you have to eat

and you have to live within housing if you have children and take care of them. So all these

things have to be considered when you then make the decision, whether you're going to just

step up anyway. And that is what is called for, now, just step up anyway.

Jimmy Dore

OK, let me go back to Professor Chomsky if I could. You know, the Internet has given us an

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