<img class="alignnone size-medium" src="https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Assange-arrest-rtr-img.jpg?scale=896&amp;compress=80" width="896" height="564" />

I woke this morning to the news that the heroic journalist Julian Assange had been arrested. I had heard that the US government was hammering the Ecuadoran government to hand him over. Well they succeeded. The freedom of the press to report on governments gone rogue is held as sacrosanct in healthy democracies. I needn't say more. We should all be concerned...very concerned. Learn more from this <a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-11-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">interview with Ryan Grim</a> and this <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/julian-assange-arrest-free-press/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">article in The Nation magazine</a>. Long live a free and unfettered press!