{"id":5456,"date":"2019-06-10T17:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:40:40","slug":"anklage-assange-journalismus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/anklage-assange-journalismus\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL PICK:  Charging Assange criminalizes journalism and helps the powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong> Charging Assange criminalizes journalism and helps the powerful<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this video produced by the GrayZone project and translated by acTVism Munich into the German language, independent journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9 explains why the US effort to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is a war on press freedom \u2013 and nothing for the anti-Trump Resistance to cheer on.<\/p>\n<p>To read the transcript of this video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Charging-Assange-criminalizes-journalism-and-helps-the-powerful.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charging Assange criminalizes journalism and helps the powerful<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Charging Assange criminalizes journalism and helps the powerful<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charging Assange criminalizes journalism and helps the powerful\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1p54pfAMfk?start=185&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To view our past videos with Aaron Mat\u00e9 and other experts on this topic,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT AARON MAT\u00c9<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-15-at-10.27.53-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-15-at-10.27.53-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Aaron Mate\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><strong>Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0is a contributing writer to the Nation. He has previously reported and produced for Democracy Now!, Vice, and Al Jazeera; as well as written for the Toronto Star, the Intercept, and Le Monde Diplomatique.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@aaronjmate<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aaronjmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/aaronjmate<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Nation:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/aaron-mate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.thenation.com\/authors\/aaron-mate\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Image Credit: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Author: newsonline<\/li>\n<li>Link:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55361146@N08\/9260194206\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55361146@N08\/9260194206\/sizes\/o\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video produced by the GrayZone project and translated by acTVism Munich into the German language, independent journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9 explains why the US effort to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is a war on press freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,886],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-opinions"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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