3/15/22 Kevin Gosztola on the Dangers Posed by the Prosecution of Assange

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Scott talks with journalist Kevin Gosztola about the most recent developments in the attempt to extradite Jullian Assange to the United States. Gosztola gives a background of the legal process so far. They then discuss just how blatantly political the effort to punish Assange is. There is no legal distinction between Wikileaks and the other publications that reported on these various leaks. But Assange is an outsider who has regularly and effectively embarrassed the U.S. government. And he is paying a severe and disproportionate price for that. At the end, Gosztola lays out why he predicts so-called “rival” governments like Russia and China to soon begin using Assange’s case to justify imprisoning Western Journalists. Discussed on the show: “UK Supreme Court Slams Door On Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized” (The Dissenter) wikileaks.org Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of Shadowproof. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, “Unauthorized Disclosure.” Follow him on Twitter @kgosztola. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. He is an independent journalist with the decenter.org and also shadow proof.com and you can follow
0:59.5	him on Twitter at I forgot exactly how it is.
1:03.0	It's K-Gostala.
1:05.0	That's what.
1:06.0	And if you spell it wrong, just put in Google and Google figure it out for you.
1:10.0	They'll know who you're talking about.
1:12.0	And here's some keywords you can add to make sure it's Julian Assange because Kevin is one of the
1:18.6	absolutely most dedicated journalists on this story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and all of their great journalism and all of their savage persecution at the hands of the American Empire over the last dozen years since they really broke on the scene in 2009-2010 era.
1:39.0	So very happy to have you back on the show, Kevin, how are you doing, sir?
1:42.0	Yep, thanks for the
1:42.9	introduction yeah man UK Supreme Court slams door on a son's appeal
1:49.3	extradition may be authorized.
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