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Corporate Media and Fake Leftists are the Real Traitors to Press Freedoms
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
29 Apr 2019
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Asked why purported “progressives” insist on expressing their personal dislike for Julian Assange, noted author Maximillian Forte, a professor of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, said some are angry because they blame Wikileaks’ publication of embarrassing emails for Hillary Clinton’s presidential defeat. Others simply call Assange a “traitor,” said Maximillian. “I suppose they don’t know that he’s not actually an American citizen.”

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