GRAY ZONE - 40 rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange

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The Gray Zone, August 27th 2019
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40 rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there
- By Fidel Narváez

 
A former diplomat who worked in the Ecuadorian embassy while Julian Assange lived there in asylum debunks 40 of CNN’s smears against the WikiLeaks publisher. Continue reading...

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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