3/31/23 Josh Rushing on the Persecution of Julian Assange

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Journalist Josh Rushing joins Scott to discuss a documentary he produced for Al Jazeera about Julian Assange. Rushing talks about his experience making the documentary, what they focused on and why they produced it now. They run through the many myths people still believe about Assange before getting into the multiple ways he has been targeted by the government and betrayed by many of his fellow journalists. Discussed on the show: The imprisonment of Julian Assange Scott’s interview with Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother The Julian Assange Indictment WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007) The Good Soldiers by David Finkel README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning “An open letter from editors and publishers: Publishing is not a Crime” (The Guardian) “Alternative Facts: How the media failed Julian Assange” (Harper’s Magazine) “Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks” (Yahoo News) “How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks’ immunity deal” (The Hill) ‘I Sold The Iraq War And Regret It’ Mission Al-Jazeera by Josh Rushing Josh Rushing is an American broadcast journalist and photographer. He is a correspondent for the Emmy-winning documentary series, Fault Lines, on Al Jazeera English. He is also a former officer of the United States Marine Corps. Follow him on Twitter @joshrushing This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY 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.
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0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
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0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. and he made this great new documentary about Julian Assange and his persecution for Al Jazeera,
0:58.3	the imprisonment of Julian Assange at Al Jazeera.com.
1:02.2	Welcome to the show, how you do?
1:03.8	Thanks for having this God, I'm happy to be here.
1:06.0	Hey, so I just want to say before we start the show
1:08.5	that last night I had the honor of hosting the Q&A after Julian Assange's father and brother debuted their movie
1:17.2	at the Alamo Draft House here in Austin and I got to meet both of them and it's John and Gabriel Shipton and the movies called Itthaca and I
1:26.8	interview Gabriel on the show a couple weeks ago and people can go well I guess you can't
1:32.3	see it online yet soon you'll be able to I guess you can't see it online yet.
1:33.1	Soon you'll be able to, I guess.
1:34.8	But it was great because John Shipton,
1:38.4	Julian Assange's father said that Julian says hi, and he remembered me I doubt it he probably remembered me I interviewed him back in 2010 or something like that and he said oh Julian says hi and he was thrilled to know that I was going to be doing this with you tonight and he
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