[lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 16 13:27:21 PDT 2012


On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:


> But an entertainer in an era when the media and information networks of
> neoliberalism are starting to turn against their corporate overlords
> (something especially striking in the semi-peripheries). Assange's real
> importance is that he's one of the first transnational media stars of the
> post-2011 conjuncture -- the kind which draw their power from billions of
> cellphones, user sites, and LAN-cafes.

Yeah, and what is the U.S. state next to those?

Really, Dennis, this is dreamy stuff.

Doug



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