this time, the i r d. c. these warming revolution garza corps now. and iranian mobile service provider called or, you know, it was quick to follow suit and also imposed its own st. the, you and the u. k. are the iranian foreign ministry on the same blank republic affair on condense, the acts of the e. u, and the u. k. international obligations regarding combating terrorism and set forth in the united nations charter over the past alleged gross rights violations by the iranian official harsh cracked down on hundreds of thousands of protesters. as always, we appreciate your company here on our t n. ah, frederick military intervention in ukraine? yes. ah, hello, i'm manila in some 50 percent of countries around the world. but is the same true when other countries demand with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges.

alright. and australia, national has been the center of now locked away at a maximum security prison awaiting extradition, ugly, especially since for decades the u. k. has the coolest near or u. k. air base. the u. s. rejected the extradition imbalance between the u. s. and the rest of the warranty on the assange extradition trial is post of the chris hedges report on the real news network. that would be of julian assange. it would appear that his attorney's now data from the d o. j shows that they haven't a sovereignty of jurisdiction due to decades old extra closely. this has been judicial. julian is not committed a crime. he didn't do anything different to the espionage act. 17 count. so it's 117 who leaked the documents did not need to hack into a computer or

a term that set up cameras and recording devices throughout the ecuador and embassy in london. and turned over all of that tape to the cia vis a rating attorney client privilege. we have the fact that julian is not a us citizen. so there's that question of how he can even be charged under the espionage act. wiki weeks is not a u. s. based publication. so i've sat in on the trials and then during coven was getting up at 5 in the morning and getting links to follow the trials of the video stream. and when you look at all of the details of the case, and i think that's one of the reasons why the u. k. judicial system made it so difficult to cover. it's clear that this is not the best of british jurisprudence, but the luby, aka. so i think all of us from the beginning have assumed that he

would be expedited, remember, he wasn't extra dieted under when the ruling, the expedition ruling was made by merisa. it wasn't because she found any of the charges against julian invalid. in fact, she endorsed all of the charges against julian, but it was very clear that he was a suicide risk. there was just no way i'm going here attempted suicide and his psychological, physical, and psychological health is extremely precarious. there is no way to deny it. and so she blocked the extradition based on the fact that he had a high suicide. there was a high potential force gave in a diplomatic note of doing the government's dirty work in terms of its quote unquote, terrorism laws. so we all of us to support julian and press freedom because the

consequences of this for the press are catastrophic. it means that any one who possesses classified material or publishes them or both and now be charged under the espionage act. as a precedent, it would set, i work for the new york times for 15 years, i possess classified material and i published it. and it will essentially put on the iron wall between us and the inner workings of governments. extremely dangerous, but yeah, i think those of us who have been following the case closely don't have much doubt that he will be extradited yet. you mention how the u. k. court made it difficult to cover julians case does this than allude to the u. k. effectively acting as a vassal state for the us in the way of arresting people. you know, i mean, there is provision and you law that says the people cannot be extradited for political offences if they are politically persecuted. and of course,

they have ignored the fact that this is very clear, political persecution and, and done the bidding of. but you have the 5 eyes, the security networks are intertwined. there were all sorts of leak documents that were published by weekly leaks that were not flattering to the u. k. i think that it all goes back to the 2017 volt 7 leak. this was wiki weeks, exposing the ability of the cia through back channels to hack all of our electronic devices, even our televisions and our cars and phones and everything else. and that, that is when you saw the trump administration demand the expedition prompted by the c. i a, in the intelligence community demand the extradition of julian. remember that up until then, obama had used the espionage act quite vigorously, almost

a dozen times against whistleblowers drake, carrie octo curiosity and others who had provided information to the press. but trump ratcheted that up to another level by going after a journalist himself, in this case, julia. but i think that was driven by the eyes, embarrassment and anger over these revelations. and that is the driving force. now behind the expedition of doing an extradition case. now going in the other direction, answer cool us. the alleged us diplomat, we now know she was a u. s. spy for the cia. she was a wrong way driver near the crowd, an air base in england. she hit and killed a 19 year old called harry dunn, who was writing a motor bike in august of 2019. she left him to die along the side of the road and fled back to the was claiming diplomatic immunity at the time she has since

confessed to that tragic accident but has refused to return to the u. k. to stand trial. now back in january of 2020 the u. k issued an official extradition request for her, which my palm pay. oh, who was secretary of state at the time? denied that request. is this a reflection of the extradition, imbalanced not only between the u. s. a u. k, but it would appear that when you look at any random country, the u. s. asked for anybody for any reason that country almost always acquiesces, but it's not true the other way around. yeah, that's exactly right. and we should also be clear that in the case of julian, as i mentioned before, he's not a us citizen, and he does not commit a crime. so the hypocrisy is not limited to this case. there are numerous cases, including the case of hoss on the stuff of some a nasir in my land, which i can go into if you want in 2003. the u. s. has one set of rules

for others. another set of rules for themselves are more to come with chris hedges . don't go anywhere, chris. coming up next. the united states keeps extradition numbers under wraps. the mystery around. just how many people the u. s. government brings from abroad and forces to stand. trial are unknown. we'll discuss it when we return that type. the ammo will be right back. i

hungry has been a member of the european union and nato since 999 during the 1st post soviet wave of nato's eastwood expansion number. because if the may naga, thank is my property that i see like that by now crunch. it's easy so me of so we did show zappa luma edge the what the show room. yeah. the motion i will beach but i see a boshoway a mug, which is suddenly in the early ninety's hungry was a country with a worst view of russia due to historical disagreements left over from the soviet union. and why, why didn't someone like yours, but i don't know what i see if somebody hasn't come here to political more than otherwise, but i c k and i did it at the political though so much. but in

the welcome back to the m l. i'm manila champ pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges with his new sub stack of the same name has kindly agreed to stick around. so chris, continuing our conversation here more broadly. the u. s. has signed over a 100 extradition treaties with other countries around the world. now that's nearly half of the countries out there, but these aren't necessarily bilateral agreements. what's the tradeoff here? why would these countries agree to unilateral extradition treaties with the us? well, there are all sorts of inducements for any military assistance intelligence assistance plus retribution. if they fail to follow through and these requests and the u. s. use is, is pondering so military and economic power to make these countries bend to their

will. and you've got some other examples of kind of bizarre extradition cases that you can tell us about. well, i think the most egregious occurred in milan in 2003. this was an egyptian national, who i mean, right out of peano shades chilly, was stashed an extraordinary rendition off of the streets of milan. and it prompted investigations by in italy culminating the convictions in the center of 22 c i. c, i, a operatives u. s. air force colonel and 2 italian accomplice accomplices. and we actually know because of wikileaks, that there was tremendous pressure put on the bell, a scone government, not to request or demand the expedition of these

people already been found guilty of a crime. he was, he was taken the egypt put in prison in egypt, and very badly tortured. so there is another example of how the united states commits a crime in another country. the crime is documented, it goes through the traditional system. all of those people are given sentences and, and none of them face justice or any kind of repercussions. i mean, that is that, that's unfortunately how the empire works globally. so true extradition numbers are nearly impossible to track in the u. s. because different agencies have different reporting standards and on top of that, according to a report by the council on foreign relations law enforcement or they say political sensitivities preclude many extradition from being reported officially on the books

. so the best they could find was through the u. s. marshal service. they handle the great majority of international extradition. their estimates range wildly between $350.60 x traditions annually. here to the us, that's data coming from 2003 to 2016. what sort of political sensitivities might they mean here? and why can't the public know these numbers? well, because a lot of these people are charged under terrorism was we saw this after 911 fight hashmi. it would be a good example. he was us citizen, he was right after 911. there was a lot of efforts on the part of the government, the bush had ministration to shut down all organizations for holy land foundation. anyone who did any work on behalf of palestinians or fight for palestinian rights, obviously pushed by israel. and $911.00 became the excuse. i had osh me was

a graduate student in london, i think of the london school of economics. his roommate had been on a cell phone wanting to send non military supplies and waterproof socks or something to help in the fight in afghanistan against us forces. and and i guess a 1.5 us, we use the phone, they use that as the excuse to extradite him. and then he was brought back and just held an isolation for 23 months under sam's is a special administrative measures, i mean, tortured. and let's be clear that this is what's happening to julian is neil's mouth or the special un special wrapper door, and fortress pointed out that he's being tortured. it's a slow motion execution. and, and i mentioned before about julian's psychological state. we know from the court. he's elucidating, seen, banging his head against the wall. they found

a razor come which confiscated in a sock, seize, calling the samaritans with about potential, committing suicide. eccentric central eyes on so last tremendous amounts await the many stroke except for. and by the time i had actually got into the court in manhattan, he was a zombie. i mean, i was there, he didn't, he didn't, i was outside the court, but he didn't have any. he hardly knew where he was. so that that is, i think why they are so quiet. we talked earlier about making it difficult to cover . i was in the court room with chelsea manning when she was being tried at for me for leaking the documents, and there are only $27.00 visitors allowed in the courtroom. the same with julia. it's so heavily restricted that you have to get up at 4 or 5 in the morning and stand in line and hope that you can get in. and then although the problems i will say cleared up initially when we were following by video link,

there was no audio. the pictures went out, people couldn't get on. so on some level they understand that this is judicial burlesque kind of dickensian, far something out. a bleak house and, and i think that's why they make it always make it very difficult to cover, including all these extra disc cases that you mentioned. and let me guess, and 5 hash me case, they probably cited socks as material support to terrorists. i think that was it, i mean, you know, and then they sent them to florence dx. i just, it was quite, i mean, it was quite a frightening window into what had happened to our own judiciary and how, especially after 911, it just became a tool of repression for any just, i mean in the, in the trial they were playing a surreptitious recordings that had been taken of 5 me speaking quite eloquent. br very brilliant men in at brooklyn college where he was

a student on behalf of palestinian writes. and they did the same thing to samuel area and the palestinian professor out of florida, who was eventually extradited, now lives in turkey, a whole kind of quote unquote, us marine corps pilot, accused of ill not quite clear. some say he's relinquished his american citizenship . all doug has done was his job as a flight instructor. is there any meet on those bones? i mean, the us china tensions the new august pack. is that all part and parcel of this extradition game? yeah, i think the, the united states, the binding ministration has the democratic party, even more than the republican party has made this kind of bifurcation between us and them. whether it's russia, whether it's china, these countries have been labeled as enemies potential, you know, aggressors against the united states. this has

a lot to do with the substantial sums that are provided to the military $854000000000.00, which is more than the military budget for the next 9 countries combined, including china and russia. so i go into israel and doing this kind of stuff, you know, all sorts of american citizens who worked as mercenaries for the i d. f. in essence, i the same in ukraine. there is no, there are no repercussions for that. so again, it's the kind of double standard and also any kind of collaboration with states or entities that have been demonized. we'll see you whacked by the kinds of grotesque terrorism laws and extradition requests that have been visited upon julia chris hedges, host of the chris hedges report, see his weekly columns on sheer post dot com. thank you so much,

chris. i greatly appreciate it. so as you can see, when the u. s. government or the so called american justice system has its site set on you, it's nearly inescapable. and with a 97 percent extradition to conviction rate by the d o. j, it's unlikely you will walk free. but if you are an american who admits to causing death of a civilian overseas, be it in wars as a military contractor or simply as a distracted driver. if you can make it back home, you'll likely not have to face a foreign court for your crimes. that's going to do it for this week's episode. modus operandi the show that digs deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chan. thank you so much for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the m. o. ah

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