Julian Assange's Extradition is an Attack on Democracy Itself
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
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Anybody who cares about democracy, independent journalism and human rights should oppose the extradition of Julian Assange. Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat explains exactly what's at stake.
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| 0:00.0 | Now going to talk about Julian Assange who faces extradition. Now those extradition proceedings |
| 0:14.4 | are obviously in motion, but at the same time there is a so-called Belmars Tribunal which |
| 0:19.9 | is putting the United States instead on trial for the crimes committed in another so-called |
| 0:25.9 | war, the war on terror. Now we're joined by the brilliant philosopher, Sreco Harvats. Thank you so |
| 0:33.3 | all that. So thank you so much for joining us Sreco. Really, really appreciate it. How are you doing? |
| 0:37.3 | Hi, Owen. I'm really glad to be here with you. Even at the topic. It's a bit dire, but I think it's |
| 0:44.2 | very important to talk about it just before the extradition hearing on Wednesday and Thursday. |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, I mean, to be honest, anything we talk about right now is pretty bleak because that's |
| 0:54.5 | that's the world we're stuck with unfortunately for now. Do you just want to explain to people exactly |
| 0:59.1 | where things stand? So a lot of people obviously might have been following on and off with Saga, |
| 1:03.7 | but just a kind of basic summary. What is the polite Julian Assange currently faces, you know, |
| 1:09.5 | what's the case? And where do you think stand would the extradition proceedings? |
| 1:15.7 | Well, I mean, what is important to say is that this is not new. I mean, this case has been |
| 1:21.0 | dragging on for almost more than 10 years. Julian Assange has been in trep and trep at the |
| 1:28.0 | Ecuadorian embassy in London for more than seven years. You have all seen the images, |
| 1:33.3 | how the police was dragging him out of the embassy. And what basically happens, I think, is |
| 1:37.9 | really a scandal which is an embarrassment for the United Kingdom, I would say. It's an |
| 1:43.8 | embarrassment for Ecuador, of course, who gave him the political asylum at the very beginning, |
| 1:48.2 | but it's also an embarrassment for the UK, where you actually have CIA secret service |
| 1:56.6 | from the United States intervening into your sovereignty, intervening into your soil, |
| 2:03.7 | basically kidnapping a journalist and putting him in a prison, Belmars prison, which is in London. |
| 2:10.0 | He's there already for more than two and a half years. What is happening now is that the United |
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