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Defending Assange

Did his persecution lead to the rise of the biomedical state?

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

Free societies cannot exist without free speech nor survive without independent media able and willing to speak truth to power. Both pillars of free speech have been badly corroded over the last four years, as I argued in this magazine on 17 April 2021 and in a Brownstone article on 15 March 2023.

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