Comment: Interesting, that after years of smearing Julian Assange with the most base, outlandish stories (looking at you Luke Harding) The Guardian seems to have woken up to the threat to their livelihoods that Assange's conviction represents..
The UK High Court is greenlighting a prosecution, in open defiance of the American constitution and international law, of a journalist for exposing monstrous criminal wrongdoing by the US government and military.
"We modern civilizations have learned to recognize that we are mortal like the others. We had heard tell of whole worlds vanished, of empires foundered . sunk to the inexplorable depths of the centuries with their gods and laws, their academies.
Americans suffer the same disabilities as the Europeans of 1919: They cannot think. They cannot speak plainly among themselves. By Patrick LAWRENCE “We modern civilizations…