From war heroes to war zeros: The unjust treatment of Julian Assange

We live in a world where war criminals are celebrated, worshipped, and praised while those who hold them to account are vilified, abused and thrown in prison, as in the case of Julian Assange.

We live in a world where George Bush and Tony Blair can lead the United States, United Kingdom, and allies into an illegal war in Iraq and walk free instead of facing trial at the Hague.

We live in a world where Donald Trump boasts about sexually assaulting women, Boris Johnson pathologically lies about the benefits of Brexit, while the governments of the US and UK gaslight and mislead the world about China, Russia, and any other country that refuses to bow to their dystopian, subverted version of democracy. Yet when Assange exposes all of this, the illegal war, the atrocities committed in that conflict on the false premise of Iraq having weapons of…