If our page there wasn't helping to bring in new posters to c99, I'd shut it down and never go back.

Also interesting is the >war are the hard feelings brewing between the left twitterers. Tulsi is now Mother Teresa,and her supporters are pretty touchy in her defense. She can do no wrong. Gravel is pissing Tulsi's people off because how dare he think or even intimate that his is further left or more progressive than she. Bernie is still MIA on Assange, and his supporters think Assange, Gravel, and Tulsi don't matter one whit to the front runner. I tried to point out that there are quite a few disgruntled and/or less enthusiastic Bernie supporters this time for a variety of reasons, and I was firmly told I didn't matter.

We get the government we deserve because we are an incredibly stupid bunch.

Of a warmongering regime bent on keeping their nefarious power grabs "secrets" and those lone voices pushing back on the propaganda are tragically echoed through history. Giving props to travelerxxx who posted a link in bobswern's essay about Osseitzky receiving a Nobel piece prize for fighting against the Nazis.

I never thought, especially as an American citizen with parents born in Germany in 1937 , I would actually be making comparison between the two countries. I'll let you be the judge if the connection I'm making here is a bridge too far, but frankly I do think Julian deserves a Nobel peace prize for pushing back against this warmongering government at great personal cost.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/carl-von-ossietzky

In 1927 Ossietzky became the editor of the oppositional journal Die Weltbühne, where he published articles warning against Hitler and the nascent Nazi party. In March 1929, Ossietzky published his most daring exposé. Along with fellow Die Weltbühne writer, Walter Kreiser, they released a piece that exposed the secret rearmament of the German military and air force, in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War I. For betraying state secrets, Ossietzky was charged with high treason and espionage. In 1931 he was convicted, resulting in an 18-month prison sentence.

Ossietsky was cruelly tortured in prison by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp where he contracted TB. After being visited by the Red Cross he was finally sent to a hospital, where he received the Nobel Peace prize and then died shortly afterwards.

Now that Julian Assange has been arrested, I hope he will soon be held to account for his meddling in our elections on behalf of Putin and the Russian government.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) April 11, 2019

This is the neoliberal centrist Wall Street-funded Democratic Resistance™ cheering on the Trump regime's crucifixion of journalist Julian Assange, who never committed any crime — and unlike Schumer actually provided a positive public service for the worldhttps://t.co/bWx4BGlBpD

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 12, 2019

SETH RICH. SETH RICH. SETH RICH. SETH RICH. SETH RICH.
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Wait until Assange dishes the info on which Democrat ordered his murder.

— Alan Ballinger (@AlanBallinger) April 11, 2019

This goes double for you or Queen of Heinousness!

Hillary Clinton told an audience in New York that “it’s ironic that he may be the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the United States,” before chuckling at her own joke.

An you too you blue dawg ass.

"It will be really good to get him back on United States soil," says @Sen_JoeManchin on Julian Assange's arrest.

"He is our property and we can get the facts and the truth from him." https://t.co/fLnA1AKrpJ pic.twitter.com/0pKuILT6NP

— New Day (@NewDay) April 11, 2019

Mueller has flopped.

Statement from @RepEliotEngel on Assange. pic.twitter.com/IWaKavs2mh

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) April 11, 2019

Trump loves Wikileaks so much that he has had Ecuador expelled him from the embassy? How do you make sense of that in your mind>

for the loan they needed in exchange for giving up Assange?

From Off-Guardian:

Jen

Apr, 12, 2019

It seems that the US government can’t quite make up its mind as to what to charge Julian Assange with, that would justify his extradition. If memory serves me correctly, the initial charge against Assange, for which a Grand Jury was assembled in Virginia (?), was espionage. Now the charge has changed to conspiring with Chelsea Manning (after that unfortunate was arrested again and presumably put through various tortures to break her down and extract a false confession) to crack a password to access and hack US government computers. So Assange is to be charged as if he were a computer hacker, not a journalist or a publisher.

The sordid role of Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno should not go unnoticed. He is currently on the ropes as leader for his involvement with two investment companies run by his brother and registered in Belize and Panama, both known to be tax havens. He has been involved in bribery. He has used Ecuadorian law to raise charges against politicians associated with the previous Correa government, including Correa himself, in a way that smacks of the treatment other former Latin American leaders like Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff got in Brazil, and Cristina Fernandez Kirchner got in Argentina. He has had Assange under illegal surveillance for a year and cut off Assange’s contact with the outside world. Now he is using Assange to deflect international attention away from the corruption probe being conducted against him.
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/04/03/ecuador-twists-embarrassing-ina-...

Also Ecuador needs a loan and can’t get it from the IMF unless it gives up Assange.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1080582161521147904?ref_src=twsrc%5...

IMF Deal for Ecuador Paved Way for Assange’s Arrest

According to the document shared by Correa, the audit will examine the period from January 1, 2012, to September 20, 2018, and will “determine whether the procedures for granting asylum and naturalization to Julian Assange were carried out in accordance with national and international law.”

WikiLeaks subsequently shared Correa’s tweet and noted that this seemingly unusual reevaluation of Assange’s asylum was directly related to the Moreno administration’s efforts to secure a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a total of $10 billion.

Per WikiLeaks, some of the conditions set for Ecuador’s receipt of the IMF loan included U.S. government demands of “handing over Assange and dropping environmental claims against Chevron” for the oil giant’s role in polluting Ecuador’s rainforest and poisoning many of its indigenous inhabitants.

From a March 7 Popular Resistance article, "With Ecuador’s Cooperation Bought By IMF Loans, Washington Waxes Optimistic On Assange Extradition"

Washington’s IMF leverage

For those who would argue that the U.S. could not set such conditions on a loan offered by an “independent” international financial institution, it is worth pointing out that the U.S. is the IMF’s largest shareholder — owning 17.46 percent of the institution – and also ponies up the largest quota for the institution’s maintenance, paying $164 billion in IMF financial commitments annually. In the past, the U.S. has used its privileged position as the institution’s largest funder to control IMF policy by threatening to withhold its IMF funding if the institution does not abide by Washington’s demands.

Furthermore, a leaked U.S. Army manual on “Unconventional Warfare” published by WikiLeaks in 2008 noted that the IMF was considered by the U.S. government to be a “financial weapon” to be used in “unconventional warfare” scenarios. As MintPress News recently noted, the manual states that the U.S.’ “persuasive influence” over the IMF can be used by the U.S. military to create “financial incentives or disincentives to persuade adversaries, allies and surrogates to modify their behavior at the theater strategic, operational, and tactical levels,” with such unconventional warfare campaigns highly coordinated with the State Department and the intelligence community.

It is also worth pointing out that Ecuador has been threatened with the financial might of the United States for much more minor issues than Assange’s status, despite its return to Washington’s “good graces” under Moreno’s leadership. For instance, last July, the U.S.threatened Ecuador with “punishing trade measures” if it introduced a measure at the UN that supported breastfeeding over infant formula — a stunning move that showed the international community the U.S.’ willingness to use “economic weapons,” even against allies. Ecuador, of course, immediately acquiesced under the threat of U.S. retribution.

Less than two weeks ago, on February 21, Ecuador signed a deal securing the controversial IMF loan for a total of $4.2 billion, in addition to another $6 billion from other U.S.-dominated financial institutions like the World Bank, for a total of $10.2 billion. If WikiLeaks’ early January warning is to be believed, it can be assumed that deal was secured by Ecuador offering the U.S. assurances that it would soon “hand over” Assange.

Moreno, since he signed on the IMF’s dotted line, has wasted no time in putting into practice the “structural adjustments” and other conditions required by the IMF for Ecuador’s receipt of the loan, including job cuts. In just three days, from February 28 to March 1, Moreno’s government fired nearly 10,000 public officials, according to Ecuadorian media. This is remarkable considering that the deal has not even been granted final approval by the IMF, demonstrating that Moreno is eager to show his willingness to enact the demands of the loan package.

Appears it was Mint Press who first reported this, but I'm not positive.

Don't know who Press For Truth is but found this on the Duck Duck Go search:

This is so fucking ugly and disturbing. It's everything John Perkins was whistleblowing about in his book "Confessions of An Economic Hitman."