{"id":1641,"date":"2020-03-01T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T08:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T08:08:29","slug":"march-2020-goodnews-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2020\/03\/01\/march-2020-goodnews-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"march 2020 \u2013 goodnews editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julian Paul Assange, the unloved whistleblower<\/strong><\/p>\n

We may not like him as readily as we like Edgar Snowden, his own sympathies leaning to the right, but controversial journalists also have a right to justice, especially since the Australian founder of Wikileaks, through the extensive revelations that Chelsea Manning made available to him, exposed substantial injustices himself. Anyone who read carefully suspected for some time that the rape accusations that Sweden made against Assange were constructed. These are not his friends from the Chaos Computer Club or other hackers spreading the accusations published by the Swiss online newspaper Republic as a primer: The UN Special Envoy on Torture, Nils Melzer, states that Assange\u2019s case is dishonest and that it is illegal to imprison someone in such a way that his \u2013 physical, mental and social \u2013 health suffers. This is more than given with Assange; the images of a broken man on the verge of dereliction being dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy by the police, after almost seven years of what amounted to solitary confinement, went around the world. Since then he has been rotting away in a London prison. Let us hope that the international appeals and demonstrations for his release will bear fruit. Ex iniuria ius non oritur!*<\/p>\n

Please, stay well!
\nSusanne G. Seiler<\/em><\/p>\n

*No right can come from wrong.<\/p>\n

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A non-binary person walked by<\/h3>\n

And I thought of my daughter, I mean my child. And of my breasts,
\nwhich protrude in a superfluous fashion, and of my make-up,
\nmask of an aging drag queen. And I felt ridiculously out-of-touch.
\nA woman gets tired of impersonating a woman, like keeping the
\nfront porch clean for the drivers-by. Why not write a book instead?
\nWhy not tattoo Fuck the Gender-Cops on your knuckles?
\nI asked my child what should be done with my jewelry when I die
\nand they said I still like jewelry, and something inside me as primitive
\nas putting flowers on a grave felt gratified. I can die now, I thought,
\nand all the ways I tried to make them conform to femininity, may they
\ndie with me. I\u2019m sorry, darling, that I wrapped you up in all that soft
\npink fairy shit, that tulle, for your quincea\u00f1erx.<\/p>\n

Gail Wronsky<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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