I live in a small rural town of southern Colorado. We have an overwhelming number of disabled veterans (VIetnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, name it...) who are physically and mentally handicapped for life. Facing the truth is difficult. How many of these men and women should NEVER have been in a war, over lies? Truth matters.

Whistle-blowers must be protected, not incarcerated.

Greetings vrom France: Excellent presentation and program 👏 👍 👌

Thank you all for a true voice

The question is: is making crimes public a crime in the US ?

Free Assange now !

Telling The Truth is Not a Crime. Journalism is not a Crime ❤Free Him Now ❤

Justice and freedom for The brave Julian Assange

Exposing war crimes and telling truth and doing journalism should NOT be a crime, it should be praised! FREE HERO JULIAN ASSANGE!!!!!

✨🌎🇺🇸 FREE JULIAN ASSANGE IMMEDIATELY ‼️📡🌎

Those who commit crimes against the people must be made to pay for their actions.

I'm glad they are doing this. I was beginning to wonder why we didn't hear more about what happened after the Embassy.

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE !!!! ♥‼‼

free Asange !!!

Julian Assange's crime? Truth. Free him, and award him the Pulitzer Prize.

Justice for Julian

Free Assange. Now, about those war crimes......we the people demand justice!

The great Jeremy Corbyn is a real leader ❤

Remember watching this a few months ago, chills every time

❤ Julian Assange & Noam Chomsky & Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn ❤

In a world where exposing the evil deeds of government, hiding behind the espionage act is a crime,where is the accountability freedom and democracy in that

Free Julian!!!!! Now!!!!!

I had the privilege to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak, here in Edinburgh Scotland. Vilified by the right wing press here In the U.K.

Isn’t it mind boggling how slowly they move towards correction as opposed to how quickly and wilfully they move towards destruction

Free Assange! Lock up Pompeo!

"Well Spoken Mr Corbyn!!!🙏🙏🙏".

Thanks Amy for working to bring more awareness to the plight of Julian Assange.

Activists I agree with You and The Truth You Presented. Free Julian Assange Now and Send home to his Family ❤✊

It's astonishing that the general press doesn't put more attention on this issue.

We all have to keep fighting for truth. Free Julian Assange. Thank you truth tellers❤

Free Julian Assagne please🙏 When did telling the truth become a crime? Real criminals are in government positions whilst an honest journalist is locked and tortured in jail. This should not be so.

People in our world are punished for telling the truth.

Bravo. Julian should receive amnesty and compensatory as well as punitive money damages by the taxpayers of the two faced United States.

FREE ASSANGE

It's gotten to the point where it's so embarrassing for the United States internationally to keep pursuing this witch hunt that I'm not sure who I want Julian Assange to be freed for now - himself or the global reputation of the country persecuting him.

Thank You Julian Assange and all the heroes who fights for the truth! 🙏

Thank you for focusing on this. By now it should be obvious who mainstream media represent.

This is amazing. Thank you all for your hard work- you are the true heroes ❤️ ☮️ 🌎 🌍

So thankful for Jeffery Sterling speaking out ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

GREAT MEETING of Minds folks!!! Ben Wizner is a very smart and well spoken man. He makes simple words say volumes. I can see why he would be speaking for Julian Assange in all this Jeffrey Sterling - thank you for using your voice and singing your song out loud. You are my hero. A man of color who would not take this BS and who stood up and refused to be quiet. A great man who speaks very well for himself and for all of us. Bless You all the many years you walk this Earth!!! Margaret Kunstler . . . Go get em!!! You are great at what you do. You get people's attention - Very intelligent & sharp attorney protecting all our human rights. Democracy Now - standing ovation - GREAT JOB & show!!! And shame on the USA & our world for calling folks like this out for telling the truth in a world lead by LIARS

We need to protect the truth!

_"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started with truth"_ - Assange Just because I have this in the 'ol clipboard and it's in my opinion one of the great political speeches, here's Eugene Debs's statement to the court when tried/convicted under the very same espionage act that now persecutes Julian Assange in 1918, for merely speaking out against WWI (just a year after it was passed, revealing how intentional this use was from the beginning), reminding us why the courage embodied by folks like Assange, Snowden, Ellsberg, Daniel Hale, Manning, et al. (and all of you who speak and act in their imperative defense) is so important and I think also importantly clearly articulating the simple and necessary transformation of society that we must *_demand_* at this point: _Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free._ _I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions_ _Your Honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in a fundamental change-but if possible by peaceable and orderly means_ _Standing here this morning, I recall my boyhood. At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison_ _I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and the factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men._ _In this country-the most favored beneath the bending skies-we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child-and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity_ *_I believe, Your Honor, in common with all Socialists, that this nation ought to own and control its own industries. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned-that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all_* _I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence._ _This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth._ _There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order. They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night. They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time. The feel-they know, indeed-that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greatest social and economic change in history._ _In that day we shall have the universal commonwealth-the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth_ _Your Honor, I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice._ _I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity. The people are awakening. In due time they will and must come to their own._ _When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand. Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning._

Those responsible for the military crimes have obviously been removed from their positions and prosecuted for what they have done.

Wishing you goodhealth and longevity prof.Chomsky sir.

Making the military elites look bad is fatal. The government sucks.

How much darker can we get as a nation?

We got to release this man

That man still in jail ?? 😮😮 For telling the truth

Democracy: when those who commit crimes live in wealth and respect while those who expose thier crimes languish in prisons

Well done these men and others

Thank you Dan and special Suchitra telling the truth

Thank you!❤❤❤

I watched the entire Belmarsh Tribunal when it was aired; I am very glad that I did. As a Canadian who came up in the Eighties and Nineties, I am very cognizant of the US influence on world affairs and how much power and influence the United States imposes just by existing in other countries within it's sphere of influence ( the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, the people of Central and South America know all too well what these mean; I grew up within a few hours of the American border in South-Western Ontario and for much of my early life I saw American television, news, the culture was so pervasive that the Canadian government had to pass legislation to combat it!) and I am not alone in my, shall we say, subconscious xenophobia amongst Canadians when it comes to American influence on the policies of other nations. I was very impressed by the courage of the supra-national speakers for Mr. Assange at the Belmarsh Tribunal for standing up for the rights of all those who see in the United States a fantastically vibrant and dynamic cultural and social identity and are not willing to allow the falsehood of the current historical narrative to define them, or allow free speech to become a commodity like so much else in capitalist systems; where if it's just the "free" part you're after, sometimes you get what you pay for. Free speech, in its genuine incarnation, sometimes costs us. Here we see individuals standing up for one who has and is still paying that cost

Thanks Democracy Now for this important post on Julian Assange, the "free" world owes this man a great debt. Let's keep up the noise! Free Speech; Free Press; Free Assange!

Damn right!

Journalists must absolutely be protected checking power. We need laws to offset the powerful

I didn't know the extent of this issue until listening to this documentary. Thank you for educating me.

Free Julian Assange. 🙏

Greetings from France: Fantastic program, people and excellent presentation 👏 👍..finally..should be freed immediately 👏

Thank you for sharing and hello from Northern Germany. Stay strong

Thank you Democracy Now for continuing to reveal the truth.

Amy! you are a true brave soul.....may almighty bless you with strength and sound health. 💖

TRUTH MUST BE FREE!!!!!!FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR EVERYONE!!! FREE THEM THAT WE MIGHT LEARN FROM THEM.

Thank you ‘Democracy Now’ for this episode 🙏

What can we say? One thing I will say Amy, is that you never let us down. Thank you.

We desperately need your voices to call ☎️ our USG representatives demanding to protect our freedom of speech!!

I admire this gentleman Jeffery Sterling, i applaud his bravery and commitment to truth.

it may be an irony for some that democracy needs people like Assange, now more than ever.

The speakers are courageous to defend Julian. Up-hold justice!

these people are true heroes. all possible support and thanks to them !

Free Julian Assange. Thank you

Thank you Jeremy for always being on the side of truth ❤

Wow, ugh, gulp, actual journalism on trial. I never thought I'd see the day, sorta, when a mere reporter, like a piano player, being treated like a leaker, when he leaked nothing, only reported information with extremely high import. Such courage should be rewarded. Hopefully that will still come, when leaders & media are brought to their senses by us varied peoples everywhere.

Thank you for sharing!!!

Great people who stand firm on the side of truth. Wonderful speakers….Assange must be freed and compensated for years of wrongful imprisonment. Barb

Julian Assange an extraordinary, noble human being. He must go home to his lovely family.

Thank you all. Light destroys the darkness. Truth will win. We know it.🌼🌺🌸

Bring Julian Assange to United States!!! Free this man!!!

Thank you, thank you , thank you. These disclosures must be incredible to many people. Having tracked the evolution of this inhuman man-made system since Vietnam, it is clear it is heading to a dead end. It is a privilege to hear voices of those still fighting for sanity and humanity. You are lights in a dark world. You are God’s blessing, helping all people keep their grip on truth. Thank you, thank you.

Julian Assange is every inch a hero. We should be making statues to him for what he did. His message should be being taught in college

Brilliant, powerful speeches.

The really sad thing is that conferences such as this one will only ever be seen by the seekers of the truth. The mass of the population remain in a state of comparative oblivion and the politicians and media are, in general owned by a power that seeks to make us more ignorant and more subservient by their each and every action

Keep rebroadcasting these crucial voices of the true defenders of democracy

Some wonderful contributions from all the speakers. My god! Who is listening in the White House? The maze of power is mind boggling.

Free Assange without any delay Good deeds beget good bad begets bad think again and discharge Assange further keeping in prison..

The former head of the CIA and secretary of state said openly that the job of the intelligence services is to lie and kill.

Thanks for publishing this we will spread.

thank you

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW AND LET BE THE WINNER OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.

It's up to Britain, we'll see Britain's true colours.

America already has . Just who does America think they are to do what they have to Assange. Then again , the UK did allow it, just as Australia did.

Thank you Ms. Goodman and Democracy Now for bringing this out and your commentary.

The 'TRUTH' will heal the world !!!!

Free julien Assange NOW!!!!!!!!

These three people continue to keep up the good fight with no success. It appears no one in the US, England or Australia care about the truth.

If anyone should be held accountable for anything in this matter, it should be the same people seeking to block these leeks, and prosecution of these great truth sayers, yes they should be held accountable to more than just the courts, but to the American people, and all people of this challenged country....I've never been more humbled as American, with just enough native Iroquois to be pissed off about it. I'm so sorry about what passed immigrants did to the indigenous peoples of America, all of the America's....maybe it's time to retire that name.. America is not the great nation talked about in history books.. it's a pit shameful....

Free Assange NOW!

I stand with you guys . Salute to you all.

Wonderful work,thank you.

Q We've been saying "Free Julian Assange" For many years now. He is a gem. Q ❤️