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Julian Assange is still facing extradition and charges of violating the Espionage Act for exposing the US military’s war crimes. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://truthout.org/articles/prosecution-of-assange-would-lead-to-end-of-the-first-amendment-advocates-warn/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Julian Assange is still facing extradition and charges of violating the Espionage Act for exposing the US military's war crimes. You know, this story has always bothered me so badly because, you know, the people love to, he's a criminal. He did these terrible things. He raped a girl, which proved to be completely nonsense. Yeah. That was years ago and they said no. No, he didn't. As a matter of fact, it was, that was created by the spook industry. The spook industry created that story to discredit him. Pick this up and how dangerous the Espionage Act is, and how if they use it against him, we're in big trouble. Yeah. We are. Listen, you know, people love him or hate him. It doesn't matter your personal feelings about him at all. What we're talking about here is journalism itself at risk. And Julian Assange is, is currently facing extradition to the United States. They want to charge him under the Espionage Act, which could put him in prison forever until he, till he dies. And the Espionage Act is not supposed to be for whistleblowers exposing problems with our own US military. But that's a hundred percent of what they're doing with it. Yes, it is. And that's, that's what we're hearing from past whistleblowers. Daniel Ellsberg. Yeah. Has now had to come out. Noam Chomsky is coming out and they are sounding the alarm bells about what could happen, should Assange come over here and be convicted, because that is going to be the death blow for what's left of journalism in this country. Howard Zinn was talking about this his entire career. He said, this is getting ready to happen. He even described what the legislation would look like. It looked like the Espionage Act. Now let's talk about these horrible things he did. First, he, he disclosed that the feds were spying on US citizens. That's one of the bad things he did. The other thing he did is he was the first to disclose that, that dozens of purely dirty tricks by the US were being pulled off all around the globe and he pointed 'em out. He said, this is what happened in this country. This is what happened in this country. Here are the people that were responsible. That's another terrible thing he did. The other thing he did is he was the first to disclose the remarkable impact that the feds were having on controlling the media. You know, so, so the media attacked him. They didn't like that. That, that's terrible. How dare you do that. He was first to disclose the indiscriminate use of drone bombs that were killing civilians. Yeah. God, what a criminal he is. You know, let's put him in prison. He was the first to disclose the details about George Bush and Dick Cheney and how they lied and hustled us into the Iraq War. Sounds like a criminal to me, doesn't he? I can't even get my arms around it. And Biden comes out and says, you know, one of the first thing he, you know, Biden's big thing, this is a quote from him. Our freedom is dependent on free un, unregulated information flowing through the press. Right? Yeah. And, and they still, they will not drop the charges. They want him to come and stand trial. And the charges were actually brought by the Trump administration. The Trump DOJ after, you know, Trump had kind of made it seem like he wasn't gonna do anything. You know, we were gonna forgive him or whatever. And then nope, they move forward full steam ahead. Biden has not reversed that course at all. And again, we are not talking about this man releasing, oh, here's all these secrets the United States has. These are the things I'm talking, this is what he released. Exactly. He's, he's talking about here are some war crimes that we've committed. Yeah. Here are some other atrocities that our government is committing by manipulating the media. Yeah. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7p1qWpPbBQ

On Thursday, the Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump, and reports say that the currently-sealed indictment contains at least 30 different counts. This is a lot more than just a simple hush money payment, and could indicate that the District Attorney actually hit him with the financial crimes that the office had last year. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/donald-trump-indictment/index.html Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Nobody likes being wrong. But in this particular instance, I gotta say, I'm glad that I got this one wrong because yesterday, just hours after I had posted a video saying, Alvin Bragg is not gonna indict Trump, he's a coward. It turns out the grand jury did vote to indict Donald Trump. And here's the kicker. As far as we know, according to sources, close to the investigation reported by C N N, there's more than 30 counts in this sealed indictment, which means this goes far beyond just a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. See, look at it this way. Even if you had the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels combined with the falsification of business records, at most, you could probably stretch that into six, seven, maybe eight different charges. If you're really, really clever, you know, obviously you've got the campaign finance violation, you've got the falsification of records, you could probably throw in a couple different kinds of fraud, possibly wire fraud, bank fraud, maybe tax fraud. If you wrote off that legal expense, that was actually the reimbursement for the hush money payment, you might be able to grab another one or two charges off that, but that's about it. So that may account for, let's say, generously eight charges, right? All right, well you still got 22 other charges. So what are they? Now, obviously there's a ton of speculation at this point because the indictment is still sealed, so we don't know. But if you've got, you know, 22, maybe 25, maybe 28 additional charges not related to Stormy Daniels or the falsification of the business records to hide the reimbursement, then Brad went big. He went bigger than any of us, especially me, thought he would go. It's likely, likely that he may be going after all of the other business fraud that, uh, Pomerance and CVA were ready to prosecute for last year. As I've repeatedly said, Pomerance told us those indictments were already written, they were ready to file them and they never did. So possibly Bragg said, you know what? I'm getting kind of about what's happening. I got these other indictments here. Let's go ahead and throw those into, that's a possibility. The hush money payment to Karen McDougle, uh, you know, the catch and kill story involving David Pecker, who by the way did testify those could be in these charges. These charges could span literally every horrible thing that Trump has done in New York. Both hush money payments, the payoff, the catch and kill, the business, uh, uh, issues, You know, the fraud that the business was already convicted for Trump and his kids are having a civil trial later this year. So this is massive and we won't actually have to wait too long before we find out what these charges are. Donald Trump is expected, you know, take that with a grain of salt to turn himself in on Tuesday. Now, originally, according to reports out this morning, his defense lawyer said that prosecutors wanted him to turn himself in today. But when he goes and turns himself in, shows up in court for the arraignment, that is when the charges will be read to him. So whenever that happens, if it happens later today, if it happens Tuesday, that's when the world will know what these charges are against Donald Trump. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOmsC52Cc8

Marjorie Taylor Greene is back on her covert racism kick, claiming that the "average white male" has no one advocating on their behalf in Washington, D.C. Forget that the majority of both Houses of Congress are white men, along with the President and most of the Cabinet, and most state governments - pretty much every well-funded lobbying group is advocating for white men. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2659368494/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. If you were to ask Marjorie Taylor Green, which group of American citizens has at the worst, she would tell you probably quicker than you could even finish asking the question that the group that is probably the most underrepresented here in the United States are those poor white men. During A recent interview, Marjorie Taylor Green whined about the fact that there are no lobbyists out there fighting for the average white man. Let me read this. This is from Raw Story in a video shared by Twitter account, Patriot Takes which monitors right wing extremism online. Green complained that lobbyists in the US are just fighting for big corporations and industries and no one is taking care of regular Mr. And Mrs. American like mom and pop shops. The single moms trying to make it the guy, the MAGA Republican lamented that there's not people fighting for regular Americans, such as the average white male trying to climb the corporate ladder when his problem is being white and male. Yes. Trust me, as an average white man living in the United States, I've been an average white man, believe it or not, for my entire life. I can't tell you how hard it has been. I can't tell you how difficult I have the difficulties I have suffered climbing that corporate ladder. Yes, no, what is more persecuted than me, the average white man, according to Marjorie Taylor Greene. In reality, of course, I, honest to God, have never dealt with any persecution. I have seen firsthand, plenty of instances of white privilege on my behalf. You know, some, some youthful indiscretions I will call them, um, where basically because I'm just an average middle class white kid, nothing happened. White men are not persecuted. But let's go back to her say like there's no lobbyists out there fighting for the white man. Who the hell do you think the lobbyists are out there fighting for Marjorie? It doesn't matter if you're talking about lobbyists for Exxon, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry, lobbyists for the nra, at the end of the day, they're all literally fighting for the average white man or the rich white man. 90% of the CEOs in this country are white men. Marjorie, the majority of people in the House of Representatives where you are, are white men. The majority of people in the Senate are white men. The majority of state governments, like each individual state government majority, is white men. I don't know if you've noticed this, But since 2017, the person in the White House has been a white man. White men are overrepresented here in the United States, and just because you don't see a lobbyist going to Congress saying, yes, I'm here with the White Man Coalition. What are you doing for the whites? Just cuz you don't see that type of person, doesn't mean that the lobbyist for Exxon are the lobbyists for Pfizer and Merck. They're not out there fighting for the white people. The NRA is fighting for the white man, Marjorie, because those are the only people they care about. So enough with this like racist crap, which is what this is, every lobbyist out there is fighting for white men. Whether they say it openly or not, the policies they are advocating for are not for the benefit of women. They're not for the benefit of African Americans or Latinas. They're not for the benefit of the L G B T Q community. The lobbyists you see walking through those halls every day, Marjorie, they're there because white men want them to be there fighting for them. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcqiu8XDOgo