{"id":38415,"date":"2020-09-30T19:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=38415"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:18:25","slug":"the-us-is-using-the-guardian-to-justify-jailing-assange-for-life-why-is-the-paper-so-silent-counterpunch-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/the-us-is-using-the-guardian-to-justify-jailing-assange-for-life-why-is-the-paper-so-silent-counterpunch-org\/","title":{"rendered":"The US is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life. Why is the Paper So Silent? &#8211; CounterPunch.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/09\/24\/the-us-is-using-the-guardian-to-justify-jailing-assange-for-life-why-is-the-paper-so-silent\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/C03F73A4-88E9-46FD-BF17-C6B04F4C14AF.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison on the basis of claims by Donald Trump\u2019s administration that his exposure of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan amounts to \u201cespionage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/09\/24\/the-us-is-using-the-guardian-to-justify-jailing-assange-for-life-why-is-the-paper-so-silent\/\">The US is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life. Why is the Paper So Silent? &#8211; CounterPunch.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,241,81,83,136,23,2,6,16],"tags":[515,12,13,516,148,79],"class_list":["post-38415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowar","category-economy","category-english","category-history","category-human-rights","category-mainstream-media","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","category-reportages","tag-journalism","tag-julian-assange","tag-liberta-di-stampa","tag-the-guardian","tag-uk","tag-usa","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}