Australia’s
public broadcasting network gave Hillary Clinton an open mike to
defame WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange as “a tool of Russian
intelligence” without giving him a chance to respond.
by
John Pilger
Part
4 - Generational ‘Icon’
The ABC
interviewer lauded Clinton as “the icon of your generation.” She
asked her nothing about the enormous sums she creamed off from Wall
Street, such as the $675,000 for speaking to Goldman Sachs, one of
the banks at the center of the 2008 crash. Clinton’s greed deeply
upset the kind of voters she abused as “deplorables.”
This
high-profile journalist made no mention of Clinton’s own “clear
and present danger” to the people of Iran whom she once threatened
to “obliterate totally,” and the 40,000 Libyans who died in the
attack on Libya in 2011 that Clinton orchestrated. Flushed with
excitement, the Secretary of State rejoiced at the gruesome murder of
the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi.\Clearly looking for a cheap
headline in the Australian press, Ferguson asked her if Trump was “a
clear and present danger to Australia” and got her predictable
response.
“Libya
was Hillary Clinton’s war,” Julian Assange said in a filmed
interview with me last year. “Barack Obama initially opposed it.
Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton. That’s
documented throughout her emails … there’s more than 1,700 emails
out of the 33,000 Hillary Clinton emails that we’ve published, just
about Libya. It’s not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the
removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state —
something that she would use in her run-up to the general election
for President."
“So in
late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock
that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it’s the chronological
description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of
the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within
Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European
refugee and migrant crisis."
“Not
only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the
destabilization of other African countries as a result of arms flows,
but the Libyan state itself was no longer able to control the
movement of people through it.”
This –
not Clinton’s “visceral” pain in losing to Trump nor the rest
of the self-serving scuttlebutt in her ABC interview – was the
story. Clinton shared responsibility for massively de-stabilizing the
Middle East, which led to the death, suffering and flight of
thousands of women, men and children.
Ferguson
raised not a word of it. Clinton repeatedly defamed Assange, who was
neither defended nor offered a right of reply on his own country’s
state broadcaster.
In a
tweet from London, Assange cited the ABC’s own Code of Practice,
which states: “Where allegations are made about a person or
organisation, make reasonable efforts in the circumstances to provide
a fair opportunity to respond.”
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