For “The Dachshund’s Ringhio”, Paolo Arigotti interviews Fulvio Grimaldi
The dachshund’s growl: Assange and the dangers to freedom of expression (with Fulvio Grimaldi)
Here we talk far and wide about the Assange affair, a planned white murder, and about the rift between two worlds in strategic and definitive dispute: that of Assange and the anti-world of Navalny.
Others have dealt with it even better and from the most varied angles. The mainstream press, for its part, which finds itself in the second of the two worlds mentioned, does not know, does not see, does not say anything about the first, except to repeat the concoction of the spy – who is not a journalist – in Putin’s service. They conceive journalism this way, being of the race of those who get a salary and buffets from morning to evening for every little service provided, that is, to be the shop boys of murderers in tailcoats, swindlers, liars, robbers. And, therefore, to ignore and defame Assange and elevate the Russian qui pro quo on the altars.
It seems to me that the unforgivable, the scandalous, the irremediable even, of the work that led Julian to the tactic of creeping death during 14 years of imprisonment, without a ray of sunshine or a slice of sky, has not been properly highlighted . There had been the Pentagon Papers of 1991, the 7000 pages of infamy of the US Department of Defense; there was the Frank Church Commission, in 1975, which exposed the fantastic crimes of the CIA and FBI against enemies, friends, allies. But those were different times. The defeat of Vietnam, facilitated by millions of people in the streets, schools, universities, factories, all over the world, even the usually dutiful Churches, the still looming memory of horrible and overwhelming Nazi-fascism, had created the conditions. Also favored by information of which one could still say with appreciation: “It’s the press, Beauty!”
This was worked on very well, thinning it out and concentrating it to take it out of the hands of those who did it for the sake of doing it, the publishers, and put it into the hands of those who preferred to produce leaflets accompanying armaments, cement construction, environmental and health poisoning, GMO foods, cars and other genres of surplus value, the system has guaranteed itself a press that recognizes itself in Navalny and does not know, or does not recognize, Assange.
But since he remained obsessed with the scoop, the pleasure of epater le bourgeois, which still ensures sales and income, certain media were able to make themselves look good with what came to them from Wikileaks in the form of dispatches, cables and text messages from the emperor. Bombshell news, but coated with the paint that corrects the comments of those who published it: patented newspapers like the Guardian, the Washington Post, Le Monde. Service bodies with the pretense of objectivity, thanks to the astute alternation of a tap on the rim and a deadly blow on the barrel, who could afford it, or rather to whom it was allowed. Since in the cost-benefit account they still presented a positive balance.
But no, Assange couldn’t be allowed to do so. Assange had gone further. Assange had really repeated, enhanced, the cry of Andersen’s child who stripped the king of his dazzling imaginary clothes: “The king is naked”. As? By letting all of us and those responsible get the raw facts directly to all of us. THEIR facts, without adding anything, in terms of interpretation, comment, condemnation, approval, something external, ideological. Irreversible, irremediable, non-cosmetizable facts.
The videos of those who machine-gunned Reuter journalists and passers-by for fun, the number of those who were killed, in their thousands, because they got too close to the checkpoint, those who were in Guantanamo for nothing and for years at all were horribly tortured, Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, who, with sovereign interlocutors in Qatar or Saudi Arabia, organized an army of Al Qaeda-ISIS terrorists with whom they claimed to fight horrible dictatorships and, instead, to use to overthrow governments and destroy villages. Continuing on the road opened by the Neocons starting from Ground Zero. Fundamental tool for the reconquest of the world under the banner of the “War on Terrorism” rooted in that gold medal of all False Flags
There was little to look at: those were Hillary’s chats, that was the Pentagon cable, that was the directive from the president of the Democratic Election Committee, that was Obama’s extrajudicial assassination order, that was the description of how to carry out waterboarding in Guantanamo , that the document on the rules of engagement for the massacres of civilians in Afghanistan, those all the diplomatic dispatches that hatched intrigues, plots, crimes to be hidden under appearances.
By activating the direct line between political organized crime and unaware humanity, but with the full right – and the maximum opportunity – to know, to regulate himself, with Wikileaks Assange had torn the veil of Maia, the immunity that guarantees the impunity of the elite and, therefore, its self-granted license to dominate 99% of humanity at all costs and by any means. She had dealt a mortal blow to a system revealed to be ready to do anything, anything, anything, just to keep up the unnatural aberration of the dominion of a few criminals over the totality of us all. Fatal blow that deserves death.