{"id":170860,"date":"2020-10-19T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T11:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=170860"},"modified":"2020-10-19T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T09:26:42","slug":"yanis-varoufakis-at-the-belmarsh-tribunal-first-they-came-for-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/10\/yanis-varoufakis-at-the-belmarsh-tribunal-first-they-came-for-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanis Varoufakis at the Belmarsh Tribunal: First they came for Assange\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>13 Oct 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">In his speech at The Belmarsh Tribunal, Yanis Varoufakis makes the case that we must move beyond defending Julian Assange, to actively condemning those whose crimes he revealed. Convened by the Progressive International, The Belmarsh Tribunal investigated and evaluated US war crimes in the 21st century \u2014 and defended Julian Assange&#8217;s right to reveal them.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=31A5qwXMLsU<br \/>\n<em>Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of <\/em><em>the MeRA25 Party,<\/em> <em>professor of economics <\/em><em>at the University of Athens<\/em><em>, and<\/em><em> co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement). His latest book is <\/em>And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe\u2019s Crisis and America\u2019s Economic Future<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Oct 2020 &#8211; In his speech at The Belmarsh Tribunal, Yanis Varoufakis makes the case that we must move beyond defending Julian Assange, to actively condemning those whose crimes he revealed. Convened by the Progressive International, The Belmarsh Tribunal investigated and evaluated US war crimes in the 21st century \u2014 and defended Julian Assange&#8217;s right to reveal them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[229,918,910,942,487,378,651,234,911,454,572,639,292,70,126,921,113,2086],"class_list":["post-170860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-activism","tag-assange","tag-big-brother","tag-ecuador","tag-human-rights","tag-journalism","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-surveillance","tag-sweden","tag-torture","tag-uk","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-whistleblowing","tag-wikileaks","tag-yanis-varoufakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}