{"id":240187,"date":"2023-07-31T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=240187"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:01:04","slug":"the-war-on-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/the-war-on-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/the-watchdog-low-key-logo.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240188 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/the-watchdog-low-key-logo-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/the-watchdog-low-key-logo-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/the-watchdog-low-key-logo-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/the-watchdog-low-key-logo-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/the-watchdog-low-key-logo.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">21 Jul 2023 &#8211; The<em> True Cost of Julian Assange\u2019s Persecution: An Exclusive Interview with Stella Assange<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world&#8217;s most famous political prisoner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stella Assange &amp; Lowkey Discuss The War On Julian Assange\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4Tl03wf3qs?start=7&#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<p><i>Lowkey<\/i><i> is a British-Iraqi hip-hop artist, academic and political campaigner. As a musician, he has collaborated with the <\/i>Arctic Monkeys, Wretch 32, Immortal Technique <em>and<\/em> Akala<i>. He is a patron of <\/i>Stop The War Coalition, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network <em>and<\/em> The Peace and Justice Project<i>, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album, <\/i>Soundtrack to the Struggle 2<i>, featured Noam Chomsky and Frankie Boyle and has been streamed millions of times.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The <\/i>MintPress<i> podcast, \u201c<\/i>The Watchdog<i>,\u201d hosted by Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know \u2013 including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. \u201c<\/i>The Watchdog<i>\u201d goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/stella-assange-lowkey-discuss-war-on-julian-assange\/285325\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; mintpressnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSCEND VIDEOS REMAIN POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Jul 2023 &#8211; Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world&#8217;s most famous political prisoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[229,918,2732,2709,910,2963,942,487,378,651,234,911,572,639,292,70,126,921,113],"class_list":["post-240187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-activism","tag-assange","tag-belmarsh-prison","tag-belmarsh-tribunal","tag-big-brother","tag-cryptome","tag-ecuador","tag-human-rights","tag-journalism","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-surveillance","tag-torture","tag-uk","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-whistleblowing","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240187","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=240187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241216,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240187\/revisions\/241216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}