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I agree with Johansen 1000%. Assange is a hero, likely a martyr, thanks to the left as well as mainstream media failure to rally, really rally, to protect him. Nothing probably reveals the nadir of the liberal capitalist epoch so much as what the presumed opponents of censorship have let happen to Assange Peggy Powell Dobbins Sociology as an Art Form www.peggydobbins.net On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Ralph Johansen < > > Here's a guy who has worked incessantly and against all odds to bring up > these materials which outdo anything anyone has done since another very > courageous person, Dan Ellsberg, brought us the Pentagon Papers. Assange > has done this at serious risk of assassination, being chased all over > the globe, eluding the many agents capable of doing him in, fearing for > his life, also risking almost certain destruction of his credibility and > reputation, which is now taking place in spades, while American > journalists largely ignore what he has done and minimize its import, > while like NYT's John Burns playing up the smear. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com