Publisher’s note: It is both amusing and terrifying to watch US corporate commercial “news” outlets and personalities like the Washington Post and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow dance around the Trump regime’s prosecution of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act. Their dislike of Assange is only trumped by their dislike of Trump (thus, they argue, we must grudgingly defend “the Wikileaks Guy,” as Maddow refers to him) and their unwillingness to recognize Wikileaks as the world’s first truly “stateless” global news organization is embarrassing at best, given Wikileaks’ impressive track record as a legitimate global news organization. If you’ve never visited www.wikileaks.org, now might be a good time to see how simple and powerful their work to date has been. Jimmy Dore breaks it down below. Free our news culture, and free Vermont!