[Sundaycommunity] Why Is Alexei Navalny's Death Being Depicted as So Vital for Americans—As Assange Faces Final “Life or Death” Extradition Appeal?

[Arthur Blomme]

Hi all

I continue to publish articles by reputable journalists to counter the 
lies that are published in our mainstream media. The first victim of war 
is the truth. We cannot have peace if we do not seek the truth. let us 
discuss the evidence.  below find 2 articles on how Navalny's   death is 
being treated in our mainstream media. *Why Is Alexei Navalny's Death 
Being Depicted as So Vital for Americans—As Assange Faces Final “Life or 
Death” Extradition Appeal?* by Glen Greenwall and *Alexei Navalny’s 
Death and Curious Well-Timed Coincidences* published in Global Research.

Art


          Alexei Navalny's Death Being Depicted as So Vital for
        Americans—As Assange Faces Final “Life or Death” Extradition Appeal?

    Tonight, by far the biggest story of the last week in the corporate
    media is the death of Alexei Navalny in a prison in Russia. There's
    no question about that. Almost every political leader in both
    parties and every corporate media outlet spoke of this event at
    great length, with extreme emotional intensity, all in agreement
    that it was a historic event of immense proportion and gravity, but
    it is worth asking why was it depicted in this way. What is it about
    Albany's death exactly that makes it such a momentous moment in the
    United States and American political and media discourse generally?
    It is, after all, hardly news that Russia is authoritarian and
    intolerant of dissent, nor is it news or uncommon for political
    dissent. Such events as dissidents dying in prison or being killed
    in gruesome ways by authoritarian governments happen with great
    regularity, not just in countries that are enemies of the United
    States, but in some of the countries to which the United States is
    closest, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt. When was the last time
    you heard any American media mention of the deaths of Egyptian
    dissidents or Saudi dissidents in those countries, let alone day
    after day after day of intense media coverage? Even more notably,
    actual American citizens, the citizens of our country are killed
    with frequency by other countries, and one would think—wouldn't
    one?—that the death of Americans would attract at least as much
    indignation and attention from our political leaders and media
    outlets as the death of Russian dissidents. Ukraine—the country
    which has received more American money than any other country by far
    over the last two years—twice arrested the American citizen Gonzalo
    Lira, explicitly for the crime of criticizing Ukrainian President
    Volodymyr Zelenskyy and questioning the U.S. native narrative about
    that war—what the Ukrainians call the crime of spreading Russian
    disinformation. And then, exactly as Lira predicted, what happened?
    He ended up dying in a Ukrainian prison of pneumonia at the age of
    55. Something his father told me in an interview last week
    <https://rumble.com/v4cyzdl-system-update-227.html> was extremely
    unlikely for this previously healthy, relatively young man. How much
    of American media indignation or political concern or anger did we
    hear about the death of Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian prison? Israel
    has twice killed American citizens under extremely suspicious
    circumstances. Last month, the IDF shot and killed the U.S.
    teenager, the Louisiana-born Taufik Isaac. The year before, the
    Israelis shot and killed the American Shireen Abu Al-Khalifa, in
    Gaza. First denying they did it and admitting they did it but saying
    it was accidental, only for an independent investigation to conclude
    that the killing was intentional. I'd bet anything you don't
    remember the names of either of those American citizens because the
    media attention paid to the killing of our own citizens by allied
    countries such as Ukraine or Israel has no political or
    propagandistic value and is thus basically ignored.

    Then, there's the case of Julian Assange, who has been effectively
    imprisoned since 2012 when he received political asylum from Ecuador
    explicitly against U.S. persecution and has been actually in prison
    since 2018, in a high-security prison in the UK known as the British
    Guantanamo. The only reason he's imprisoned is because the U.S.
    government seeks to extradite him and try him on espionage charges
    for the crime of reporting on the secret crimes of the American
    government. This week, Assange will face his final attempt to
    convince a British court not to extradite him to the United States.
    While the U.S. media and political class obsess about civil
    liberties in Russia, they ignore—when they're not cheering it—what
    all civil liberties and press freedom groups agree is the gravest
    threat to press freedom in the West, namely, the attempt to put
    Assange in an American prison for life, where he will almost
    certainly die. We'll tell you the latest on this story, and we'll
    dig into the context of why this obsessive focus on Navalny has real
    propagandistic value.

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/Watch the full episode here: /

https://rumble.com/v4eecn0-system-update-230.html 
<https://rumble.com/v4eecn0-system-update-230.html>

Podcast:Apple 
<https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/system-update-with-glenn-greenwald/id1669610956> 
-Spotify <https://open.spotify.com/show/7nIQct5mbPPYV4dFiseLWv>


      *Alexei Navalny’s Death and Curious Well-Timed Coincidences*

Once the death in a Russian prison of the Western backed Russian 
dissident Alexei Navalny was announced on Friday, February 16, 2024, it 
was immediately followed by a cascade of anti-Russia pronouncements 
whose aim was to not only continue the demonization of Russia and its 
President Vladimir Putin but to serve other purposes as well.

Read 
here:https://www.globalresearch.ca/alexei-navalny-death-curious-well-timed-coincidences/5850071 



       





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