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(1) REQUEST: audio & transcript of Benjamin Freedman 1961 speech

(2) I'm interested in any of Freedman's recorded speeches ... AND I PAY GOOD!

(3) Assange: Real Threat To US Is Not Russia But Israel (2017)

(4) Assange: Capitalism+Atheism+Feminism = Sterility = Immigration

(5) Ecuador hints it may hand over Julian Assange to Britain and the US

(6) Julian Assange Ends The Suspense: "The Source Of Hacked Emails Is Not Russia"

(7) Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt

 

(1) REQUEST: audio & transcript of Benjamin Freedman 1961 speech

 Roland Wallis <rostero@gmx.de>          11 July 2018 at 17:43

The 1961 speech by Benjamin Freedman that was recorded on 2 LPs by the Christian Educational Association is missing nearly half an our of the ongoing question and answer period. You can easily check this via Youtube / archive.org:

The 2 LP / 1,5 hour version (that runs around 1:28:26) ends with Freedman's words "[...] you can't call it aggression if people merely want to go back to their homes.", right? (can be obtained here https://archive.org/details/BenjaminFreedman-WillardHotelSpeech1961FromOriginalLps)

Now, have a look at this. This is the recording from what I call "the 2 hour version", which has to be the master tape, probably record on reel-to-reel-tape:

2:00:36 Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHdXiRKjwJI - Scroll to 1:33:14 to hear the last words mentioned above and then the beginning of the "missing" part I am looking for: "If you went back to your homes now and you found some bums and tramps living in it [...]" So we have here around 27 minutes of unknown / missing part of this speech and that's exactly what I'm looking for!

Please also notice that both versions are cut. You can find parts that were cut out in the 2 LP version you will find in the 2 hour version and vice versa. One example: scroll in the 2 LP version to 1:03:34. Freedman says "Now, is there anyone who would like to ask me a question? I would like you to ask anything that's on your conscience." But between those two sentences you can hear in the 2 hour version at 1:04:52 a man from the audience that speaks longer (inaudible, though, except for "damn fools" und "my generation!" ;-) and even gets an applause from the audience! That's just one example, there is more.

I have been looking for that 2 hour recording now almost for 3 years, without success. Most people aren't simply interested I contacted, or are afraid of because Freedman is regarded as "self-hating Jew" and they won't get any trouble.

My goal is to create a proper english transcript of the whole (!) speech and to process, edit and analyse it scientificly to provide his contributions - as controversal as they may be - for scientific research & discussion. There are a lot of transcripts out there, all incomplete unfortunately, and only a few have footnotes to works cited (as yours), but no one has ever done it thoroughly so far. I would like to change that. And, of course, the lacking German translation (and other languages, respectively).

As far as I know, all of the organisations or persons Freedman worked with or founded himself are dead today. The Christian Educational Association (CEA) is dead, Common Sense is dead and I assume that his "League for Peace and Justice in Palestine" is also dead. So the big question is: Would you help me in trying to get that 2 hour recording? Do you have any idea or contacts or useful hint for me?

(2) I'm interested in any of Freedman's recorded speeches ... AND I PAY GOOD!

   Roland Wallis <rostero@gmx.de>        12 July 2018 at 17:32

I'm interested in any of Freedman's recorded speeches (LP, reel-to-reel, master tapes, whatever it may be) for scientific purpose and I pay good! Because no one seems to know how many speeches of him has actually been recorded and circulated. So I'm looking not only - but very especially! - for the 2 hour version of the 1961 Willard speech, I'm also looking for his 1974 speech, also in Washington, before a military organisation. Any hint, contact, name, organisation etc. would be helpful! If you would do that for me, I would be very grateful.

 

(3) Assange: Real Threat To US Is Not Russia But Israel (2017)

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=158672

From his refuge in the Ecuador Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a press conference of his supporters in Berlin on Tuesday, amid speculation that he planned to reveal potential threats to America.

But early into his speech, Assange said that while more revelations were to come, he would not be making any major announcements, asserting that there would be no point in making such revelations at a time when most Americans would be sleeping.

"Russian actions on its own doorstep in Eastern Europe do not, in fact, threaten the United States or any actual vital interest. Nor does Moscow threaten the U.S. through its intervention on behalf of the Syrian government in the Middle East. That Russia is described incessantly as a threat in those areas is largely a contrivance arranged by the media, the Democratic and Republican National Committees and by the White House. Candidate Donald Trump appeared to recognize that fact before he began listening to Michael Flynn, who has a rather different view. Hopefully, the old Trump will prevail, there is, however, another country that has interfered in U.S. elections, has endangered Americans living or working overseas and has corrupted America’s legislative and executive branches. It has exploited that corruption to initiate legislation favorable to itself, has promoted unnecessary and unwinnable wars and has stolen American technology and military secrets. Its ready access to the mainstream media to spread its own propaganda provides it with cover for its actions and it accomplishes all that and more through the agency of a powerful and well-funded domestic lobby that oddly is not subject to the accountability afforded by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 even though it manifestly works on behalf of a foreign government. That country is, of course, Israel," said Assange.

. The assessment of Israel and what damage it does regarding what most Americans would regard as genuine national interests are most definitely not reported, revealing once again that what is not written is every bit as important as what is. I would note how what has recently happened right in front of us relating to Israel is apparently not considered fit to print and will never appear on any disapproving editorial page. Just this week the Senate unanimously passed an Anti-Semitism Awareness bill and also by a 99 to zero vote renewed and strengthened sanctions against Iran, which could wreck the one-year-old anti-nuclear weapon proliferation agreement with that country.

The Anti-Semitism bill makes Jews and Jewish interests a legally protected class, immune from any criticism. "Free speech" means in practice that you can burn an American flag, sell pornography, attack Christianity in the vilest terms or castigate the government in Washington all you want but criticizing Israel is off limits if you want to avoid falling into the clutches of the legal system. The Act is a major step forward in effectively making any expressed opposition to Israeli actions a hate crime.

And it is similar to punitive legislation that has been enacted in twenty-two states as well as in Canada. It is strongly supported by the Israel Lobby, which quite likely drafted it, and is seeking to use legal challenges to delegitimize and eliminate any opposition to the policies of the state of Israel.

As the Act is clearly intended to restrict First Amendment rights if they are perceived as impacting on broadly defined Jewish sensitivities, it should be opposed on that basis alone, but it is very popular in Congress, which is de facto owned by the Israel Lobby. That the legislation is not being condemned or even discussed in the generally liberal media tells you everything you need to know about the amazing power of one particular unelected and unaccountable lobby in the U.S.


(42) Assange: Capitalism+Atheism+Feminism = Sterility = Immigration

https://twitter.com/julianassange/status/904006478616551425?lang=

Julian Assange

@JulianAssange

Capitalism+atheism+feminism = sterility = migration. EU birthrate =

1.6. Replacement = 2.1. Merkel, May, Macron, Gentiloni all childless.


(5) Ecuador hints it may hand over Julian Assange to Britain and the US

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/12/assa-m12.html

By James Cogan

12 May 2018

Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities.

On March 28, under immense pressure from the governments in the US, Britain and other powers, Ecuador imposed a complete ban on Assange having any Internet or phone contact with the outside world, and blocked his friends and supporters from physically visiting him. For 45 days, he has not been heard from.

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa stated in a Spanish-language interview on Wednesday that her government and Britain "have the intention and the interest that this be resolved." Moves were underway, she said, to reach a "definite agreement" on Assange.

If Assange falls into the hands of the British state, he faces being turned over to the US. Last year, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated that putting Assange on trial for espionage was a "priority." CIA director Mike Pompeo, now secretary of state, asserted that WikiLeaks was a "non-state hostile intelligence service."

In 2010, WikiLeaks courageously published information leaked by then Private Bradley [now Chelsea] Manning that exposed war crimes committed by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. WikiLeaks also published, in partnership with some of the world’s major newspapers, tens of thousands of secret diplomatic cables, exposing the daily anti-democratic intrigues of US imperialism and numerous other governments.

For that, Assange was relentlessly persecuted by the Obama administration. By November 2010, it had convened a secret grand jury and had a warrant issued for his arrest on charges of espionage—charges that can carry the death sentence. The then Labor Party government in Australia headed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard threw Assange, an Australian citizen, to the wolves. It refused to provide him any defence and declared it would work with the US to have him detained and put on trial.

On June 19, 2012, under conditions in which he faced extradition to Sweden to answer questions over fabricated allegations of sexual assault, and the prospect of rendition to the United States, Assange sought asylum in the Ecuador’s embassy in London.

Since that time, for nearly six years, he has been largely confined to a small room with no direct sunlight. He has been prevented from leaving, even to obtain medical treatment, by the British government’s insistence it will arrest him for breaching bail as soon as he sets foot outside the embassy.

Now, for six weeks and three days, he has been denied even the right to communicate.

Jennifer Robinson, the British-based Australian lawyer who has represented Assange since 2010, told the London Times in an interview this month: "His health situation is terrible. He’s had a problem with his shoulder for a very long time. It requires an MRI [magnetic resonance imaging scan], which cannot be done within the embassy. He’s got dental issues. And then there’s the long-term impact of not being outside, his visual impairment. He wouldn’t be able to see further than from here to the end of this hallway."

The effort to haul Assange before a US court is inseparable from the broader campaign underway by the American state and allied governments to impose sweeping censorship on the Internet. Lurid allegations of "Russian meddling" in the 2016 US election and denunciations of "fake news" have been used to demand that Google, Facebook and other conglomerates block users from accessing websites that publish critical commentary and exposures of the ruling class and its agencies—including WikiLeaks and the World Socialist Web Site.

WikiLeaks has been absurdly denounced as "pro-Russia" because it published leaks from the US Democratic Party National Committee that revealed the anti-democratic intrigues the party’s leaders carried out to undermine the campaign of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary elections. It also published leaked speeches of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that further exposed her intimate relations with Wall Street banks and companies.

As part of the justification for Internet censorship, US intelligence agencies allege, without any evidence, that the information was hacked by Russian operatives and supplied to WikiLeaks to undermine Clinton and assist Trump—whom Moscow purportedly considered the "lesser evil."

In response to the hysterical allegations, WikiLeaks broke its own tradition of not commenting on its sources. It publicly denied that Russia was the source of the leaks. That has not prevented the campaign from continuing, with Assange even being labelled "the Kremlin’s useful idiot" in pro-Democratic Party circles. WikiLeaks is blamed for Clinton’s defeat, not the reality, that tens of millions of American workers were repulsed by her right-wing, pro-war campaign and refused to vote for her.

Under conditions in which the Ecuadorian government has capitulated to great power pressure and is collaborating with British and US agencies to break Julian Assange, there is an almost universal and reprehensible silence on the part of dozens of organisations and hundreds of individuals who once claimed to defend him and WikiLeaks.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which in February 2016 condemned Assange’s persecution as "a form of arbitrary detention" and called for his release, has issued no statement on his current situation.

In Britain, the Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have said nothing on the actions by Ecuador. Nor have they opposed the determination of the Conservative government to arrest Assange if he leaves the embassy.

In Australia, the current Liberal-National government and Labor leadership are just as complicit. The Greens, which claimed to oppose the persecution of Assange, have not made any statement in parliament or issued a press release, let alone called for public protests. Hundreds of editors, journalists, academics, artists and lawyers across the country who publicly defended WikiLeaks in 2010 and 2011 are now mute.

A parallel situation prevails across Europe and in the US. The so-called parties of the "left" and the trade unions are all tacitly endorsing the vicious drive against Assange.

Around the world, the Stalinist and Pabloite pseudo-left organisations, anxious not to disrupt their sordid relations with the parties of the political establishment and the trade union apparatuses, are likewise silent.

The World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International unconditionally defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. If the ruling elite can haul him before a court, it will hold him up as an example of what happens to those who speak out against social inequality, militarism, war and police-state measures. His prosecution would be used to try to intimidate and silence all dissent.

If Assange is imprisoned or worse, and WikiLeaks shut down, it will be a serious blow to the democratic rights of the entire international working class.

Workers and young people should join with the WSWS and ICFI in demanding and fighting for the immediate freedom of Julian Assange.

 

(6) Julian Assange Ends The Suspense: "The Source Of Hacked Emails Is Not Russia"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-03/julian-assange-ends-suspense-source-hacked-emails-not-russia

by Tyler Durden

Nov 3, 2016 9:11 AM

With countless hours of media, and Clinton campaign, speculation and accusations that the source of hacked Wikileaks Democratic emails including the Podesta files, is none other than Russian president Vladimir Putin, either directly or indirectly, Julian Assange has decided to close the book on that particular loose end, and as RT reports, in a John Pilger Special, to be broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released this year have come from the Russian government.

“The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That’s false – we can say that the Russian government is not the source,” Assange told the veteran Australian broadcaster as part of a 25-minute interview.

Assange spoke with Pilger at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been for four years, and accused the US presidential candidate of being a pawn of behind-the-scenes interests, and voiced doubts about her physical fitness to take charge of the White House.

“Hillary Clinton is just one person. I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person, because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick – for example faint – as a result of going on, and going with their ambitions. But she represents a whole network of people, and a whole network of relationships with particular states.”

Over the past nine months, WikiLeaks uploaded over 30,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server, while she was Secretary of State. This was followed by nearly 20,000 emails sent to and by members of the US Democratic National Committee, exposing the party leadership’s dismissive attitude to Bernie Sanders, and his outsider primaries campaign.

Finally, last month, WikiLeaks posted over 50,000 emails connected to John Podesta, Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, and a close associate of the current presidential frontrunner.

A preview of the upcoming interview below. The Homeland Security Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence posted a joint statement in October, claiming they were “confident” that the Russian government “directed” this year’s leaks. Moscow has rejected the accusation, with presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov calling the claims “nonsense,” while Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the “public bickering with Russia” before the US election is probably a “smokescreen” to draw the voters’ attention away from serious domestic issues.

 

(7) Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt

https://www.rt.com/news/365164-assange-interview-wikileaks-russia/

Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE)

Published time: 3 Nov, 2016 05:00 Edited time: 3 Nov, 2016 15:14

In a John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released this year have come from the Russian government.

“The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That’s false – we can say that the Russian government is not the source,” Assange told the veteran Australian broadcaster as part of a 25-minute John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films. ==

Also see

http://johnpilger.com/videos/julian-assange-in-conversation-with-john-pilger

Julian Assange in conversation with John Pilger. An extended interview with Julian Assange recorded during filming of John Pilger's latest film 'The War You Don't See' 

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