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  The trials of Julian Assange: A death sentence for democracy America’s ‘full assault on media freedom, access to information, and the truth’ is once again on full display. Belén Fernández Al Jazeera columnist Published On 22 Feb 202422 Feb 2024   A protester stands outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Wednesday, February 21, 2024., where Julian Assange's lawyers are on their final UK legal challenge to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges [Kin Cheung/AP Photo] In June 2022, when Russia’s foreign ministry announced that it was considering “stringent measures” against United States media outlets in response to US restrictions on Russian media, the US Department of State huffily complained that the Kremlin was “engaged in a full assault on media freedom, access to information, and the truth”. This sort of hypocrisy was nothing new; after all, the world’s self-appointed greatest democracy has long made...

  Dear Reader, we make this and other articles available for free online to serve those unable to afford or access the print edition of  Monthly Review . If you read the magazine online and can afford a print subscription, we hope you will consider purchasing one.  Please visit the MR store for subscription options . Thank you very much.  —Eds. A Theory of Mental Health and Monopoly Capitalism by   David Matthews (Mar 01, 2020) Topics:  Capitalism     Health     Inequality     Political Economy   Places:  Global Saul Albert / Flickr (CC by 2.0). David Matthews  is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. As an exposition of capitalism’s contradictions,  Monopoly Capital  remains one of the most influential treatises in Marxist political economy produced in North America. 1  Its theoretical core was its crit...