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SHARE Sunday, April 21, 2019 Control of the News and Prosecution of Assange
Wikileaks is at the center of our present struggle to maintain an independent press. The charge against him are ludicrous. The process of seizing him was illegal by many measures. The threats and billion-dollar bribes used to induce the sovereign state of Ecuador to relinquish its sovereignty were a chilling precedent.
In the larger picture, the whole "fake news" meme is merely an excuse to clamp down on the independent j