Behemoth's Revenge: There are chilling parallels between the suffering of Gaza and Julian Assange

By locking away one journalist and abetting the misery of an entire people, the West combines oppressive structure with disregard for law

Recently, two of the defining injustices of the contemporary West have been the object of legal proceedings. And while one involves mass murder and the other the torture but not murder of a single victim (at least not yet), there are good reasons to juxtapose the two systematically. The suffering involved is different, but the forces that cause it are i…