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cbabe

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Thu Dec 30, 2021, 11:50 AM Dec 2021

US Sec of State Blinken calling for Hong Kong to free [View all]

jailed seven Stand News editors.

Blinken said, ‘journalism is not sedition…A confident government that is unafraid of truth embraces a free press.’

From theguardian.com

Next Blinken needs to call for the release of Julian Assange who has been essentially tortured for years for practicing journalism to the embarrassment of the US.

Per Noam Chomsky, today’s Democracy Now

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