On the December 8th, 2019 weekly episode of the Sunday Wire, host Patrick Henningsen covers a range of ideas in an insightful monologue about Western mainstream media lies, intelligence agencies propaganda, and the constant push by NATO and America to demonize and accuse Russia of crimes such as election meddling that western governments have themselves committed.
From the 21 Wire website: This week we’ll the discuss the latest MSM defection over the OPCW leak, as a journalist resigns over Newsweek’s cover-up of fraud at the OPCW in an attempt to cover-up an intentionally manipulated report about a non-existent chemical weapons ‘chlorine’ attack. over-the-top obsession in the US and Europe (now a national fetish in US, UK) over alleged ‘foreign’ (Russian) election meddling, as we find out who is really doing the meddling (and it ain’t Putin).
Below is an excerpt from the November 23, 2019 Sunday Wire broadcast (Episode #303). Host and journalist Patrick Henningsen talks to Australian Clinical Psychologist Dr. Lissa Johnson about the legal precedent currently being set in the extradition and torture of publisher Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. Dr. Lissa Johnson is one of sixty doctors who recently signed a letter to the British Home Secretary warning that Assange could die in prison.
From the Sunday Wire show summary: In the first hour, we’re joined by Australian Clinical Psychologist, Dr Lissa Johnson, to discuss the current perilous situation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his deteriorating health and suffering due to his unlawful detention in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison at the pleasure of the Queen – and at the behest of the USA.
Concerns of medical doctors about the plight of Mr Julian Assange
Open letter to the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott
We write this open letter, as medical doctors, to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange. Our professional concerns follow publication recently of the harrowing eyewitness accounts of Craig Murray and John Pilger of the case management hearing on Monday 21 October 2019 at Westminster Magistrates Court. The hearing related to the upcoming February 2020 hearing of the request by the US government for Mr Assange’s extradition to the US in relation to his work as a publisher of information, including information about alleged crimes of the US government.
Our concerns were further heightened by the publication on 1 November 2019 of a further report of Nils Melzer, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, in which he stated:
‘Unless the UK urgently changes course and alleviates his inhumane situation, Mr Assange’s continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing his life.’
Having entered the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on 19 June 2012, Mr Assange sought and was granted political asylum by the Ecuadorian government. On 11 April 2019, he was removed from the Embassy and arrested by the Metropolitan Police. He was subsequently detained in Belmarsh maximum security prison, in what Mr Melzer described as ‘oppressive conditions of isolation and surveillance.’
During the seven years spent in the Embassy in confined living conditions, Mr Assange was visited and examined by a number of experts each of whom expressed alarm at the state of his health and requested that he be allowed access to a hospital. No such access was permitted. Mr Assange was unable to exercise his right to free and necessary expert medical assessment and treatment throughout the seven-year period.
While mass shootings make up less than one percent of all gun deaths in America, Tim Pool seems convinced that the landscape of American society may transform into one resembling a Civil War. I am less convinced of this but feel that the that both Tim Pool and Paul Joseph Watson articulate well the warnings and condemnations of violence that should be heeded if we are to arrest the impending potential race to the bottom.
As a reminder that things aren’t as bad as they seem, I’ve pasted some useful statistics from a Mises Institute article by Ryan McMacken titled, “Media Focus on Mass Shootings Shows Disconnect from Actual Crime Trends.” (I have faith that Americans – who have endured through thick and thick for over 240 years – will not let a string mass shootings, political extremists, and untactful politicians tear this Republic apart, and that we’ve still century or two of longevity left in us yet. For all the uncertainty, I know this much is true: we're not going to be able to shoot our way out of this dilemma.)
From the Mises Institute article:
The homicide rate in America in recent years has been around half of what it was in the early 1990s.
Indeed, for Americans born in the 1970s or after, the last few years have been theleast homicidal years of their lives.
It is true that nationwide homicide rates have increased since 2014's 51-year low, rising from 4.4 homicides per 100,000 people in 2014 to 5.3 per 100,000 in 2017. But, the most recent data we have suggests 2018 may be another down year for homicides.
According to preliminary crime data from the FBI for 2018, homicides and violent crime were both down in the first half of 2018, compared to the previous year.
Full-year stats for 2018 will become available in September.
From January to June of 2018, there were 6.7 percent fewer murders, and 4.3 percent less violent crime overall.
Embedded in the video below are snippets from two podcast episodes which explore the case of Julian Assange: the April 11, 2019 Liberty Report and the April 7, 2019 Sunday Wire. In the Liberty Report, Daniel McAdams and Dr. Ron Paul discuss the ways they anticipate that U.S government will be gunning for Assange in the expected “show trail” that will follow his arrest. They remind listeners of the importance of the First Amendment and speaking up against the state while you still can. In theSunday Wire, host Patrick Henningsen interviews the Editor-in-Chief of Consortium News, Joe Lauria. Though this interview took place several days before the arrest of Assange, Lauria gives a thorough breakdown of Assange’s legal dilemma and reviews the series of events that have led up this predicament. Lauria states:
The vast majority of the public is not plugged into this story – if they understood simple principle here: that Assange is on their side, not on the side of the state. He’s on the side of the people knowing what people in the state are doing secretly that are criminal activities, corruption, and certainly hurts the interest of the vast majority of the American people. He’s doing the job journalism is supposed to do, which is to defend the people against government malfeasance, and mispractice, and crimes, and corruption. The establishment media is not doing nearly a good enough job exposing that because they have become succumbed to partisan point of views which they’re not supposed to have as journalists – they’re supposed to be independent and protect the people against the government and they’re not doing that. Assange is doing that. Somehow the people have to be made to understand that, and they could come forward and defend him and put pressure on governments.
21st Century WireExecutive Editor and Founder Patrick Henningsen interviews journalist Vanessa Beeley on the Sunday Wire podcast. The audio excerpts in the above video are from the March 31, 2019 episode on the war in Syria, the White Helmets, and film that Ms. Beeley has made with Rafiq Lutf called The Veto: Exposing CNN, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Western Media Propaganda War in Syria. Ms. Beeley raises the point that many children who have been filmed with the White Helmets are still missing, and that an independent inquiry which investigates the testimony against the White Helmets into the possibility of them facilitating organ harvesting should be launched. Additionally, Ms. Beeley talks about the increased militarization of emergency rescue operations and first response units, the White Helmets as a “global franchise,” and implications of the collapse and exposition of the White Helmet construct, namely how such an exposition would undermine the validity of those institutions that have called for the war against Syria. Lastly, Mr. Henningsen and Ms. Beeley speak about the lack of accountability by western media news networks to own up to their lies, cover-ups, and omissions regarding their reporting on the lead up to the war in Syria.
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