John Shipton, father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on his arrival to attend the ‘BRICS Summit’ – one of the most striking events of the year will take place in the city of Kazan in the Russian Federation from October 22 to 24 said, “BRICS surpassing US and Europe in global economic power”.
He told media, “BRICS is the rest of the world, manifestly abandoning the United States”, as he highlighted the bloc’s growing global influence. He pointed out that BRICS represents 45 percent of the world’s population and 34 percent of global GDP, while the G7 lags behind.
Shipton emphasized the importance of industrial growth within BRICS nations, which he views as the foundation of a strong economy. In contrast, he criticized the West for neglecting industrial development, leading Europe into an “unnatural, unavoidable decline,” though he noted a glimmer of hope for the US due to emerging re-industrialization efforts.
Shipton, founder of Australia’s now-defunct Wikileaks Party, arrived in Moscow on October 19, 2924 at the invitation of the BRICS Journalists Association and its co-chair Mira Terada, a champion defender of human rights.
Commenting on ongoing repression and press and suffocation of freedom of expression in the United States and the West, John Shipton said, “US government subjects American people to unimaginable ‘density of propaganda. Very few people realize the “density of propaganda” in the United States.
He told Sputnik, “The density of propaganda and the willingness of the government and its institutions to delude the people and mislead the people is completely ruthless”.
According to Shipton, the US government actively resists efforts by American people to express their own opinions via social media, with Washington insisting on a “unity of policy”. As the option of ensuring the populace’s obedience by deploying the military on them is unavailable to a democratic government, Washington employs media to convince people to follow its policies, Shipton says.
“This is a really important understanding to understand how a government or in a contemporary state institutes........