I think from todays perspective and we really know now what the that the us us is really after him and i think he was. Confronted with. The big thing that i think cruelly undermined the public support for julian was a swedish case obviously you would find the newspapers of high repute. Television stations to doing julian in and became gratuitous. I think to be fair to say the mainstream old sound media never really liked chile and they didnt really like to him because his model publishing was a threat to their existence. There was a great deal of jealousy in the mainstream towards wiki leaks and torch and particularly why i wanted to be more like all. The one of ops. When they wanted access to commence they were then that. Now they can even do you know great this little note with respect. In the moment they collided with him they took the information he had but then immediately lets say the next day you had a hit piece in the New York Times from he was at that time who described him as
Was only after learning that a song should slept with both of them at the women decided to go to the police that proved to turning point both for wiki leaks founder Julian Assange it was when this story took a very different. Women went to the police. Ones there to report her rape there were reports they wanted to encourage him to have an h. R. Vetoes because theyve had sex with him unprotected were concerned about. So there was no like actual rape right there was no violence there although all the newspapers afterwards they were saying Rape Allegations Rape Allegations there was no actual rape that this is Serious Business is that this is exactly this is that was the aim of the whole exercise to start hearing the word rape in connection with. The best occasion. Business continuity links in the mountain jewels. In the Rape Allegation allegation ring gazing is associated more news in the renomination. In many peoples minds theres something suspicious about him and because he hasnt and h
The war i think it would have been better had he gone to sweden because i think he needed is a change hes clear his name but. At the same time i completely understand why he didnt see the problem in sweden its not a country where i understand the language of addition in the media climate has been said often in sweden. I think that if julian went to sweden at that point he would have been extradited that he was often like mocked in the press and people will say ah he just wants to know as he doesnt want to face the music in sweden and so on and then said hes paranoid but i think from todays perspective when we really know now what the that the us the us is really after him i think he was met with. The big thing that i think. The public support was the swedish case obviously you would find the newspapers of high repute. Television stations to doing. I think would be fair to say the Mainstream Media never really liked. They didnt really like him because his model publishing was a threat t
Always appreciate it lets go to the the legal part of this story here well go to alexander me curious alex i mean the Mainstream Media when it does report the trial it seems to me theres an enormous amount of mission being played out here. In europe you have a legal mind you have a legal legal experience is he getting a fair trial go ahead ill. Have to say there are certain aspects of the trial which do cause me a great deal of money on dont want to go into the. Details too far but firstly i have genuine concerns about the physical layout of the courtroom the fact that he is kept kept behind a glass barrier hes been complaining that this is limited hes contacts with his lawyers there is incidentally case little which says the physical layout. To the court room can have bearing on whether a trial is fair or not so for our all or his protests about that have been disregarded but beyond this i am becoming worried by the trend of some of the legal arguments in the very interesting lee the
Listen so if you read the print please turn as head to the woods and thats really that we meet with global news makers going to talk about the stories that 00 hi im Steve Clements and i have a question how bad are the problems of big money and powerful corporations in american politics and are they eroding people stressed in elections their elected leaders and even democracy itself lets get to the bottom line. In the last president ial election cycle more than 2000000000. 00 was raised and spent by the top 2 candidates donald trump and Hillary Clinton this time around we have some fabulously wealthy candidates mayor Michael Bloomberg tom stier and even donald trump but were still waiting for proof and its never released tax forms while other candidates pride themselves on not accepting any big money with the top one percent of this country getting even richer and the poor getting poorer and the middle collapsing out of the middle class and concentration of money in fewer and fewer hand