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Julian Assange
Christine Assange said that she doesn't go to sleep and have nightmares, she wakes up to one every day.
Mother to Julian Assange, this generation's most significant publisher - now a political prisoner - Christine lives with the daily terror of foreboding anticipation. Only ever moments away from the next piece of terrible news, as she watches her son, born of her body, raised by her hand, die in slow motion from afar.
This week was full of nightmares for Christine.
Ink or blood?
I had intended to write a news bulletin and deliver important and timely tidings. Revelations unbroken by the mainstream, and exclusive to Consortium News
. But to Christine, and to anyone with both an empathetic bone in their body and the ability to see through the haze of mainstream lies,
Julian Assange is not just news. He is a human being. A human being who felt so strongly for other human beings, that he has laid his head on the chopping block time and again for us. It will likely cost him his life.
Given the irreversible damage his doctors warned is being inflicted upon him, it may have already.
His liberty is long gone. His public reputation, excoriated. A twisted caricature crafted by his persecutors, raised in its place. For peasants in the town square to throw rotten tomatoes at, while the puppet-masters who alternately starve them and send them to die in pointless wars, scoff and self-congratulate. Just as the well-to-do
toasted themselves with champagne, high above Wall Street, as the Occupy movement marched below.
Comment: A case can be made that likely both countries were in on it. Israel reaped immediate and lasting benefits, but exactly how Saudi Arabia has gained is not clear.A back deal with the neocons in power at the time for continued support and increased weapons sales may be one answer