They’re Murdering My Son – Julian Assange’s Father Tells of Pain and Anguish

They’re Murdering My Son – Julian Assange’s Father Tells of Pain and Anguish

September 24, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/24/theyre-murdering-my-son-julian-assanges-father-tells-of-pain-and-anguish/

Finian Cunningham*

Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, gave an interview to Strategic Culture Foundation over the weekend. After arriving from his home country of Australia, Shipton is visiting several European states, including Russia, to bring public attention to the persecution of Julian Assange by British authorities over his role as a publisher and author.

First though an introduction to the Assange case. Few media figures can be attributed with transforming international politics and the global media landscape. Arguably, Julian Assange, author, publisher and founder of the Wikileaks whistleblower website (2006), is in the top tier of world-changing individuals over the past decade.

The Australian-born Assange has previously been awarded with accolades and respect for his truth-telling journalism which exposed massive crimes, corruption and nefarious intrigues by the US government and its Western allies.

One of the most shocking exposés by Wikileaks was the video ‘Collateral Murder’ (2010) which showed mass, indiscriminate deadly shootings by US troops

Roger Waters, do Pink Floyd, faz apelo por boicote ao regime israelense

20 agosto 2013, Resistência http://www.zereinaldo.blog.br (Brasil)

O astro do Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, publicou uma esperada carta na qual insta seus colegas do rock and roll a boicotar Israel.

“Não necessitamos de controle mental”, Roger Waters no muro Israel-Palestina, 2006.

Na missiva, Waters explica que participa há sete anos da campanha “Boicote, Desinvestimento e Sanções contra o sistema israelense de ocupação, colonização e apartheid". Igualmente, o músico britânico assinala que refletiu sobre a publicação desta carta durante os últimos meses, informa o portal The Electronic Intifada.

Waters condena as violações dos direitos humanos pelo regime israelense e cita algumas das razões pelas quais, em sua opinião, esse regime deve sofrer boicote.

“Devido à incapacidade ou falta de vontade de nossos governos,