VIDEO SERIES - "All roads converge ... on Julian Assange"

PART 10 of the Julian Assange Archives, was a very long essay titled "All roads converge ... on Julian Assange". Now, you can watch / listen to it - over eight episodes.

All episodes (1- 8) of this illustrated reading now published

This video series (and the essay it reads from) examines ways in which the 'slow crucifixion' of Assange is situated at the crossroads of current international crises - Covid-19, Ukraine, the 'Climate Crisis', and considers ways in which his work and fate are central to our shared future.

The complete video series:

Episode 1: “The Crucifixion of Julian Assange”
Episode 2: “The ‘Banality of Evil’ “
Episode 3: “Heretics on Covid-19”
Episode 4: “Heretics - on the Holocaust”
Episode 5: “Heretics on Regime Change Wars”
Episode 6: “Heretics on Even More War (Ukraine)”
Episode 7: “Heretics on the ‘climate crisis’ “
Episode 8: “What’s Assange got to do with it?” (FINAL)

EACH EPISODE is linked below.
TEXT: “All roads converge ... on Julian Assange” contains all text (and most links) for all episodes in the video series.
CLIPS: Historic video clips used are listed in individual video headers.
SUBSCRIBE: To get the next series, subscribe at Substack (below) &/or at YouTube

Series Trailer:

Release date: 25 August 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute]
Start point in the text: [Substack]

Episode 1: “The Crucifixion of Julian Assange”

Release date: 27 August 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble]
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: @CiaronOReilly, @greekemmy, #JulianAssange (2012), Kenneth MackAskill MP, @fatherdave, @ChrisLynnHedges, @AndrewJFowler, @MaxBlumenthal, @khrafnsson
Art included from: #AFK, #Leunig, Antonio Rodríguez, #CaptainBorderline

Episode 2: “The ‘Banality of Evil’“

Release date: 3 September 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble]
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: @richimedhurst, UK HomeOffice, @StellaMoris1, @NilsMelzer, #HannahArendt, #JulianAssange (2013), #AmosElon, #WilliamKunstler, @WSWS, #SjoerdBekius, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, #DrRobertMalone, #DrMattiasDesmet, #LewisCarroll

Episode 3: “Heretics on Covid-19”

Release date: 9 September 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] (YT censored their copy)
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: #LewisCarroll, @barnabynerberka, #JulianAssange (2007, 2009, 2016, 2017 & 2018), @ChrisLynnHedges, #SjoerdBekius, #HarryTruman, #AmazingPolly, @justin_hart, #IainDavis (@ukcolumn), @P_McCulloughMD, @_FreeNZ, @RobertKennedyJr, @delbigtree, #DrPierreKory, #DrRobertMalone, @tribe_of_kiwis, @ZelenkoDr, #VeraSharav #DrPaulMarak, #ElieWiesel

This image is linked to the Rumble copy of the video, as YouTube censored their copy.

Episode 4: “Heretics - on the Holocaust”

Release date: 16 September 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble]
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: Various official Holocaust Memorial sites, @DW documentary, #MarthaGellhorn, @johnpilger, US DoD film of the concentration camps (sanitised for YouTube), #IainDavis (@ukcolumn), Testimony of Shlomo Cohen, #GittaSereny, #EstherVilar, #RobertProctor (via @lexfridman), #JulianAssange (2013)

Episode 5: “Heretics on Regime Change Wars”

Release date: 23 September 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble]
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: #MarthaGellhorn, @johnpilger, @_whitneywebb, #ARDIS, #SteveKangas, @WilliamBllum, #BillClinton @Bill_Binney, @raymcgovern, #JulianAssange (2017), @BogdanDzakovic, #GeorgeWBush, #HaroldPinter, #GeorgeHWBush, @georgegalloway, #HillaryClinton

[If the YouTube version of this video is censored (as was Ep 3), please use the Bitchute or Rumble link given above.]

Episode 6: “Heretics on Even More War (Ukraine)”

Release date: 30 September 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble]
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: @raymcgovern, Jacques Baud (via @KimIversenShow), US Ambassador William J Burns (via @wikileaks), Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, President Eisenhower, Oscar Grenfell (via @WSWS), #ScottRitter, @_whitneywebb, #JulianAssange (2010, 2011, 2016)

Episode 7: “Heretics on the ‘climate crisis’“

Expected Release date: 7 October 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble]
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: @fatherdave, Dorothea McKellar, @SDonziger, @wikileaks, @esquire, @CraigMurrayOrg, @_FreeNZ, #GarethPeirce @jordanbpeterson, #JohnShipton, #JulianAssange (2012, 2018), #LewisCarroll, @ct_alham, plus song from @people4assange

Episode 8: “What’s Assange got to do with it?” (FINAL)

Release date: 14 October 2022
Video platforms: [YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble]
Start point in the text: [Substack]
Quotes include: Captain Borderline, #JulianAssange (2018, 2013, 2011, 2012, 2010) @mimauseful re #KeithPiper (artist), @ClareDalyMEP, #MarleneDietrich (1965), #BillGates (via @KimIversenShow), @drvandanashiva (via @rustyrockets), @ProfStuartRees, @Jonathan_K_Cook, @StellaMoris1, @jeremycorbyn, @MaxBlumenthal, @GabrielShipton, @OborneTweets, #AdamHenry, @greekemmy, @NilsMelzer
Postscript from #TheWikiSisters

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THESE READINGS were from PART 10 of the Julian Assange Archives series.

The individual parts in this series are:
- PART 1: Essay: “Julian Speaks: Two Voices from behind The Wall”
- PART 2: Compendium: “Nils Melzer on the torture of Julian Assange: A compendium”
- PART 3: Compendium: “The Persecution of WikiLeaks: Counting the Cost”
- PART 4: Compendium: “Craig Murray on the Julian Assange Show Trial ”
- PART 5: Compendium: “The Assange Wedding”
- PART 6: Compendium: “A Chorus of Courage: Speaking Up for Assange”
- PART 7: Compendium: “Prizes for Assange: Praise where Praise is Due”
- PART 8: Compendium: “Torrent of Truth: A Timeline of Assange Speech”
- PART 9: Podcast Review: “View from the Other Side: Proponents of Prosecution”
- PART 10: Essay: “All roads converge ... on Julian Assange”
- SERIES INDEX (includes an index for each part of the series)

The author of this series lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

You can find me on Twitter at La Fleur Productions.

Related readings - further recommendations

I also recommend Gary Lord’s FREE online book: "A True History of WikiLeaks".
And of course you must order a copy of Nils Melzer’s “The Trial of Julian Assange”.
And Stefania Maurizi’s “Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies”.
Also Kevin Gosztola’s “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.”
Also a compilation by Karen Sharpe “Julian Assange in his own words”. [Book review]
Deepa Driver has made an excellent summary of the “Anomalies in the Assange case”.
She also joins other “Voices For Julian” in the Leipzig art programme of that name.
A good wiki for more information is “Challenge Power”.
See PART 6 of this series for a list of journalists who support Assange and WikiLeaks.

Still looking?

For older articles, videos or events not covered in these archives, try:

• The official sources listed in PART 6 of this series

• The UPDATE Files - maintained (in chronological order) since Julian’s arrest
  - PART 1 - 11 April 2019 - April 2021
  - PART 2 - 1 April 2021 - current date (includes links to key documents)

• For older (pre-arrest) items try the #Unity4J Pinterest boards, especially:
  - “OP Speech ABOUT Julian & Wikileaks” (OP = other people)
  - “OP Articles ABOUT Julian & Wikileaks”
  - “Law & Lawyers”
  NB: Pinterest boards work best if you have joined Pinterest (free) and are signed in. Pinterest limits and jumbles the entries non-members can see.