Gonzalo Lira was a journalist, activist, and writer. He was a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization dedicated to exposing the corruption of the Obama administration and the corrupt practices of the Biden administration. His death in Ukraine highlights the hypocrisy of the establishment media, and the lack of reporting on the death of a journalist who was critical of the policies and actions of the US government, including the arrest and detention of Julian Assange, who is currently being held without charge in the UK awaiting extradition to the United States of America, where he has been accused of being a spy and a spy, among other things. In this episode, Russell Brand pays his respects to the brave journalist who died in Ukraine, and calls for a return to a free and fair press in the US. He also calls for the return of independent journalism to the US, and pushes for the release of Julian's case against the US Government for the charges brought against him by the British Foreign Office against him in the Julian Assange case, which was dismissed by the US as "preparing him for trial" in London as "lies and cover-up" and a "cover-up." and is now awaiting trial in London. If you can support Julian in any way, please do so, and if you can't do so in any other way, then please do do so by supporting Julian's campaign to support him in any amount you can, by becoming a supporter of his cause, by clicking the link in the description below, and supporting his campaign, here is a link to his campaign. . We really appreciate the support we ve been getting through the fight for justice and freedom, and justice for Julian, and freedom. Thank you! , and we really appreciate you, our listeners, and want to bring you more content like this every day, and we would love you to support our work, we make exclusive videos like these every week, and bring you access to our work and access to all the best resources that we make available to you every single day, wherever you can access the best of our work. , every single one of our content. - Russell Brand - Stay Free with Russell Brand: Stay Free With Russell Brand? - Free With Me? - Subscribe to our newest episode of Stay Free, Stay Free? - Free with a Free Minds? - Subscribe & Subscribe to Stay Free: Subscribe to Our Podcast by clicking Here! - FREE Mentioned in this Episode?
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00:00:55.000Firstly, we want to honour Gonzalo Lira and send our condolences to those directly affected by his death in jail in the Ukraine that he predicted would happen because he was reporting, broadly speaking, against the Ukrainian regime.
00:01:09.000If you are a Ukrainian person, got total respect for you.
00:01:11.000But the reason this is sort of Agitating for us is because we're told continually that independent journalism is in itself valuable and free press is in itself valuable, not just journalism that happens to amplify and support the message of the dominator culture.
00:01:24.000So that's why we're highlighting this sad death.
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00:01:39.000So here's Tucker Carlson's post about Gonzalo Lira.
00:01:43.000says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison where he's being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments.
00:01:49.000Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture.
00:01:54.000Several weeks ago, we spoke to his father, who predicted his son would be killed.
00:01:58.000And of course, Gonzalo Lira himself predicted he would be killed.
00:02:02.000This story highlights the galling hypocrisy of the Biden administration.
00:02:06.000Here is Joe Biden at the White House Press Correspondents Dinner, an occasion where the establishment, and another part of the establishment essentially, the legacy media, josh one another about freedom.
00:02:16.000And Biden here makes clear what the values of a free press are.
00:02:20.000But if you're anything like me, you know already you don't have a free press.
00:02:23.000You have a propagandist unit, either corporate or state, that amplifies and normalizes the message of the powerful and shuts down dissent, and even joins the establishment in attacking dissenting voices.
00:02:33.000Will they be reporting, for example, on the death of Gonzalo Lira?
00:02:36.000What are they doing now when it comes to reporting on Julian Assange, who may yet be extradited to the United States of America, essentially for journalism, for publishing.
00:02:44.000information that was harmful to the interests of the state.
00:02:47.000Firstly, he was accused falsely, it appears, of sexual assault. Then he was imprisoned
00:02:52.000without trial in Belmarsh. He has a hearing coming up soon. The information about that is in
00:02:56.000the video. If you can support Julian in any way, please do. Here's the public face of Joe
00:03:01.000Biden and his values. And sadly, Gonzalo Lira's death is the actuality of his values.
00:03:19.000As long as what they report on is in alignment with our principles, I don't mean Edward Snowden or Julian Assange or Gonzalo Lira, God rest his soul.
00:03:28.000I mean journalists that are willing to say stuff like, go in your house when we tell you to go in your house, fund a war when we tell you to fund a war, shut your mouth when we tell you to shut your mouth.
00:04:36.000And sometimes, I mean, a personal experience to tell you, actually create stories in order, I believe, to participate with the state in the amplification of certain narratives and the shutting down of other narratives.
00:04:47.000Wouldn't you think that if you were a journalist working at the New York Times or some high-profile fancy newspaper that you would report on the death of a committed foreign correspondent dying in prison in suspicious circumstances?
00:04:58.000You know, when Jamal Khashoggi lost his life, tragically, awfully, brutally, it was necessarily and quite rightly a national story.
00:05:08.000You know, they have that saying that I forget the wording exactly.
00:05:13.000You know, I'm a little stressed out as you can imagine, but they have that saying that people are fundamentally good, but for evil to triumph, all you need is the indifference of good people.
00:05:29.000Please don't be indifferent to my fate.
00:07:27.000That's why you can't go around censoring and shutting down important information.
00:07:31.000And you certainly should respect the rights of journalists.
00:07:34.000Particularly if you disagree with them, it could be argued.
00:07:36.000Not now for Gonzalo Lira, because he's died in jail as he and his father predicted, and as Joe Biden failed to mention, and as the legacy media refused to report on.
00:07:44.000So, of course, the plight of journalists held across the world, whether that's in Russia that are anti-Russia, or in America that are anti-America, or journalists or reporters anywhere in the world that are being attacked by establishment interests, all offer the same principles and support.
00:07:57.000And there is no more famous case than that of Julian Assange.
00:08:01.000The only presidential candidate that has unequivocally said that they will pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden is RFK.
00:08:07.000Doesn't that alone make him stand head and shoulders above many of his rivals?