By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
Books - Guardian - NY Mag - Brutal Kangaroo
LITERARY SDNY, July 16 – When Josh Schulte was held incommunicado and then convicted under the Espionage Act in lower Manhattan, the United Nations in midtown had nothing to say.
Why should they?
Under UNSG Antonio Guterres, the UN was more than willing to rough up and ban its critics, including the Press.
And yet, people continued to cite to the UN system's vague bromides if they supported their cause. For being a Magic 8-ball, the UN took five billion dollars a year off the top, double that for its supposed peacekeeping.
Inner City Press before getting banned asked the UN repeatedly about Wikileaks, and Snowden, and the UN system's own retaliated against whistleblowers.
The Secretary General had said Snowden "misused" information. Up at the Council on Foreign Relations, recipient of Jeffrey Epstein's money, John Negroponte said Snowden should be punished.
But Ed remained in Russia, Zooming in wherever he chose, while the UN banned the Press even from its lame WebEx noon briefings.
Kurt Wheelock perched over the free PACER terminal in his beat in exile at the SDNY courthouse decided to launch a project.
Days after Schulte in his pro se re-trial was convicted on all nine courts against him, Kurt went back over every mention in Wikileaks in the Federal court system.
There were 33 pages of citations, 325 cases in all, beginning in a 2001 case against the Republic of Sudan, in the DDC, then the still ongoing 2003 case in SDNY about the 9/11/01 plane bombings.
Kurt took out his pad and began writing them up. This might be a new project, a follow-up to Brutal Kangaroo. Watch this site.
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