Here we sit on the cusp of a three-day weekend and just as many of us get ready to take a much-needed breather, the United States reveals that it plans to heap upon Julian Assange 17 Espionage Act-related charges that could see him jailed for 175 years, and potentially even executed. All of this hinges on whether the UK extradites Assange either directly to the U.S. or to the U.S. via one of the empire’s…