{"id":13800,"date":"2012-01-25T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13800"},"modified":"2012-01-25T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:50:23","slug":"julian-assange-has-a-talk-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/julian-assange-has-a-talk-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange has a talk show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is a clever way to get around the financial blockade the government and the banks have placed on WikiLeaks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Starting in March, Mr. Assange will host a 10-part series of interview programs with &#8220;key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries&#8221; on\u00a0Russia\u00a0Today (RT), a state-funded English-language satellite news network which claims to reach more than 85 million viewers in the\u00a0US\u00a0alone.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement on\u00a0his website, the new Assange series will explore the &#8220;upheavals and revolutions&#8221; that are shaking the\u00a0Middle East\u00a0and expose how &#8220;the deterioration of the rule of law has demonstrated the bankruptcy of once leading political institutions and ideologies&#8221; in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled &#8220;The World Tomorrow,&#8221; the show will be filmed by an RT satellite crew at\u00a0Ellingham Hall, the remote manor house 130 miles north of\u00a0London. It&#8217;s the same place Assange has been under house arrest since December 2010 awaiting a Supreme Court decision on his extradition to\u00a0Sweden\u00a0to face sexual assault allegations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Global-News\/2012\/0125\/Russia-gives-WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-a-TV-platform?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+World%29\">From the <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is a clever way to get around the financial blockade the government and the banks have placed on WikiLeaks: Starting in March, Mr. Assange will host a 10-part series of interview programs with &#8220;key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries&#8221; on\u00a0Russia\u00a0Today (RT), a state-funded English-language satellite news network which claims to reach more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13801,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13800"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}