Julian Assange committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption, and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.

We hear from all sides that the West is defending a ‘rules-based order’. Where did these rules come from? Who has even seen these rules? Who agreed on them? Listen, this is just some kind of nonsense, sheer deceit, double or even triple standards. These ‘rules’ are simply designed for fools.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Imperial powers do not forgive those who expose their weaknesses or make public the sordid and immoral inner workings of empire. Empires are fragile constructions. Their power is as much one of perception as of military strength. The virtues they claim to uphold and defend, usually in the name of their superior civilization, are a mask for pillage, the exploitation of cheap labor, indiscriminate violence and state terror.

All [the US] satellites not only dutifully agree, sing along to its music, but also copy its behavior, and enthusiastically accept the rules they are offered. Therefore, with good reason, we can confidently say that the entire so-called Western bloc, formed by the United States in its own image and likeness, all of it is an ‘empire of lies’.