The Guardian

The UK daily newspaper which published the first revelations concerning NSA documents from Edward Snowden

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 http://www.TheGuardian.com     
Founder: John Edward Taylor

Owner: Scott Trust Ltd
Constitutes: Corporate media

The Guardian is a UK newspaper which, in some circles, has a reputation as "left wing" and perhaps even "anti-establishment", although it is a solid defender of a number of key official narratives.

Deep State control

More perhaps than most other elements of the commercially-controlled media, has reported on matters pertaining to the deep state, such as the heroin smuggling cartel of Hüseyin Baybaşin.</ref> But the newspaper's owners Scott Trust Ltd became embedded into the corporate world in 2008, and journalist Jonathan Cook now believes The Guardian is "incapable of fulfilling its self-declared role as watchdog against abuses by the powerful". In 2017, Craig Murray wrote a short comment on the "Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian".

9-11

Full article: 9-11/Media Response

The Guardian has not seriously challenged the "19 hijackers" story. In 2010 it did mention Francesco Cossiga's claim that 9/11 was widely known to be a joint CIA/Mossad operation, but claimed: "He was, of course, being ironic".

Edward Snowden Affair

Full article: Edward Snowden Affair

The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald was reportedly contacted by Edward Snowden seeking to publish the documents he had obtained while working at the NSA. In testimony before Britain's Parliament, the editor Alan Rusbridger stated that of the 58,000 files obtained from Edward Snowden only "about 1 percent" had published. He added: "I would not expect us to be publishing a huge amount more."

Controlled Media

In 2014, the Guardian fired Nafeez Ahmed, a widely respected critic of the "war on terror". This was interpreted by some as further indication that the paper is a form of controlled opposition, that while it tolerates certain anti-establishment views, it is in fact no more free than other members of the commercially-controlled media to fundamentally challenge official narratives.

In 2015, the Guardian published an article by Kevin McKenna on the Bilderberg group which minimizes their groups importance, beginning “To unravel the numeric code embedded in the name Bilderberg is to find yourself standing at the gateway to hell. By adding together all of the letters according to their position in the alphabet the chilling number 82 reveals itself. Eight plus two equals 10 which was the Number of the Beast when he was a lad. Later this week in a forbidding schloss in the Austrian village of Telfs-Buchen the money-changers and the self-appointed masters of the universe who form the Bilderberg group will meet.”

OffGuardian

Full article: OffGuardian

In 2015, a small group of readers tired of the censorship of the "Comment is Free" section, decided to found OffGuardian, their own WWW platform for exchanging such ideas - one that would not be subject to the Guardian's censorship.

 

Quotes by The Guardian

Page	Quote	Date
Nepal	“500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago, the Guardian can reveal. The findings, compiled from government sources, mean an average of 12 migrant workers from these five south Asian nations have died each week since the night in December 2010 when the streets of Doha were filled with ecstatic crowds celebrating Qatar’s victory. Data from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka revealed there were 5,927 deaths of migrant workers in the period 2011–2020. Separately, data from Pakistan’s embassy in Qatar reported a further 824 deaths of Pakistani workers, between 2010 and 2020.”	2022
Russia/Encirclement	“We have made it clear that Nato’s move to the east is unacceptable (...) The United States is standing with missiles on our doorstep. Is it an excessive requirement not to install shock systems at our house? How would the Americans react if missiles were placed at the border with Canada or Mexico”	2021

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
James Ball		2011	2015	Later member of the Integrity Initiative
Jason Burke	Correspondent	2009
Ian Cobain	Senior Reporter	2005	August 2018
Luke Harding	Moscow Correspondent	2007	2011	Expelled from Russia
Luke Harding	Journalist	1996
David Pallister	Journalist	1974	2009

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.
Equation Campaign	Rockefeller family financed organization to further its climate change agenda, utilizing "young people,indigenous people,black and brown communities,and poor people" as photogenic fronts.
Google News Initiative	Google and the deep state buying domination over corporate media and creating tools to censor independent voices.
Open Philanthropy	Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201.
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term 'genocide'	blog post	8 November 2024	Jonathan Cook	In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, The Guardian has admitted it has been, even according to Omer Bartov – its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year.
Document:Appleby launches legal action against ICIJ’s UK partners	Article	18 December 2017	Gerard Ryle	"This is a potentially dangerous moment for free expression in Britain" – Gerard Ryle
Document:George Monbiot’s excuses for not speaking out loudly in defence of Assange simply won’t wash	blog post	6 October 2020	Jonathan Cook	Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, The Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom.
Document:HSBC and the sham of Guardian’s Scott Trust	Article	3 March 2015	Jonathan Cook	Britain, we are told, is privileged to have two “liberal” media outlets, the BBC and Guardian, that are seen either as neutral or as a leftwing counterbalance to the rightwing agenda of the rest of the media. Here are three illuminating articles and a short video that should help to dispel any such illusions.
Document:Index on Disgrace	Article	22 April 2018	Craig Murray	"We thus have the extraordinary spectacle of a coordinated government and media onslaught on anybody who doubts their entirely fact free narratives. Public trust in the state and corporate media hits new lows, which is the happy part of this story."
Document:NYT and Guardian on Wikileaks	article	4 February 2011	John Young
Document:No fair hearing for Assange at the Guardian	article	5 February 2016	Jonathan Cook	Demonstrates the Establishment-friendly double standards of the UK's flagship 'Left-wing' newspaper - The Guardian - through analysis of its coverage of a UN decision on the political asylum of Julian Assange
Document:The Assange Arrest is a Warning From History	Article	12 April 2019	John Pilger	Leni Riefenstahl, close friend of Adolf Hitler, whose films helped cast the Nazi spell over Germany told me that the message in her films, the propaganda, was dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the public: "When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen.”
Document:The Broader View Reveals the Ugliest of Prospects	blog post	17 June 2019	Craig Murray	I find it hard to believe that I live in times where Julian Assange suffers as he does for telling the truth, where a dedicated anti-racist like Jeremy Corbyn is subjected to daily false accusations of racism and to US and security service backed efforts to thwart his democratic prospects, where the most laughable false flag is paraded to move us towards war with Iran, and where there is no semblance of a genuinely independent media.
Document:The Dangerous Cult of The Guardian	article	28 September 2011	Jonathan Cook	Criticism of The Guardian's policy on censorship of topics including "anti-semitism" and Wikileaks
Document:The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian	comment	31 October 2017	Craig Murray
Document:The Paradise Papers and HSBC. Who	Article	14 November 2017	Nicholas Wilson	The corruption surrounding Theresa May's seduction of Saudi Aramco to hold its stock market launch (IPO) at the London Stock Exchange next year has involved bribes, lobbying for HSBC and changing the rules by the FCA
Document:Whenever it truly matters, from Assange to Corbyn, George Monbiot cripples the left	Article	11 October 2022	Jonathan Cook	George Monbiot is treated by much of the left as a figurehead, one whose environmentalism earns him credibility and credit with the left on foreign policy issues, from Syria to Ukraine, in which he echoes the same talking points one hears from Keir Starmer to Liz Truss. While on matters at home, like Assange and Corbyn, he sucks the wind out of the left’s sails.

 

Documents sourced from The Guardian

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:British extremists are importing tactics from the US hard right. Their target? Family drag shows	Article	Institute for Strategic Dialogue "Extremism" "Anti-vaxxer" "Far right" Transgender Patriotic Alternative	22 June 2023	Tim Squirrell	The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has identified a new terror threat in this article published by Tim Squirrell, its head of communications, in the Guardian.
Document:Dag Hammarskjöld's plane may have been shot down, ambassador warned	article	Dag Hammarskjöld	4 April 2014	Julian Borger	Borger describes a recently released diplomatic cable which casts fresh doubts on the theory that Dag Hammarskjöld died an accidental death.
Document:De Beers to abandon cartel	Article	De Beers Ernest Oppenheimer Central Selling Organisation Gary Ralfe John Collard International Diamond Security Organisation	30 May 2000	Dan Atkinson	De Beers hit a high point in profit terms in the boom year 1989-90, but the following decade was to cost its shareholders billions of dollars. The break-up of the Soviet Union brought a flood of illicit diamonds on to the market, as did the civil war in Angola. In abandoning the CSO diamond cartel, Managing Director Gary Ralfe hopes to use De Beers' dominant position to persuade everyone in the industry to spend much more on marketing.
Document:Fleeced by Purveyors of Fear	article	Fear Security industry War on Terror/Purposes	1 October 2010	Simon Jenkins
Document:Here’s why the Grenfell inquiry will be a stitch-up	Article	Policy Exchange Michael Gove Archie Norman Oliver Letwin Frank Lowy Grenfell Tower fire Martin Moore-Bick Red Tape Initiative Jonathan Marland Kate Rock	5 July 2017	George Monbiot	On 14 June 2017, while the Grenfell Tower was smouldering, a meeting of the Red Tape Initiative panel decided that "on this occasion" they would not recommend the removal of the EU Construction Products Regulation, which seeks to protect people from fire, and restricts the kind of cladding that can be used.
Document:I will wear a poppy for the last time	article	War The Cenotaph	8 November 2013	Harry Smith	A WW2 veteran airs his disillusionment with the way in which the establishment's cynical use of remembrance day to promote the official narrative of all the US/UK/NATO military escapades as being purely altruistically motivated.
Document:I'm now a Muslim. Why all the shock and horror?	article	Islam Lauren Booth	3 November 2010	Lauren Booth
Document:Israel simply has no right to exist	article	Israel	3 January 2001	Faisal Bodi	A brief historical overview of Israel's claimed and much vaunted "right to exist" as a "Jewish State". The article demonstrates that the validity of the claim rest upon a single Biblical Old Testament source and nothing else. So far as the UN and international law are concerned, the claim would not stand scrutiny and adjudication by a truly impartial court of qualified law practitioners and judges.
Document:It's not Russia that is destabilising Ukraine	article	2014 Ukraine coup	7 April 2014	Sergei Lavrov	Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov - a voice of calm reason in a world gone mad - condemns the West for its uncooperative and obstructionist behaviour over the developing situation in Ukraine and appeals for rational cooperation to prevent civil war.
Document:It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war	article	2014 Ukraine coup	30 April 2014	Seumas Milne	A rare note of sanity (and accuracy) on the 2014 Ukraine coup from a western corporate media
Document:Jill Stein considering Palestinian American as running mate	Article	Jill Stein US/Vice President US/Green Party US/2024 Presidential election Noura Erakat 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War Abed Ayoub Amer Zahr Abdullah Hammoud	11 August 2024	Maya Yang	Kamala Harris mishandled anti-war demonstrators who protested during her rally in Detroit, Michigan, chanting: “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide." Harris responded: “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”
Document:Labour costs pass £500,000 in hearing over leaked antisemitism report	Article	Labour Party Seumas Milne Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer Equality and Human Rights Commission Karie Murphy Martin Forde	31 August 2023	Aletha Adu	"Much of the Labour Party machinery from 2015-18 was openly opposed to Jeremy Corbyn, and worked to directly undermine the elected leadership of the party...from winning elections to building a functioning complaints and disciplinary process" – Summary of leaked internal report (page 29).
Document:Labour left breaks with Jeremy Corbyn over sending weapons to Ukraine	Article	NATO Military-industrial-congressional complex Ukraine Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn John McDonnell Clive Lewis Nadia Whittome 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	26 February 2023	Toby Helm	The far left wing of the Labour Party has split from Jeremy Corbyn on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Document:Millbank Technical Services	article	Millbank Technical Services	8 June 2007	David Leigh Rob Evans
Document:Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq	Article	Al-Qaeda Iraq Syria US Islamic State Al-Nusra Front Bherlin Gildo	3 June 2015	Seumas Milne	American forces bomb one set of rebels while backing another in Syria, and mount what are effectively joint military operations with Iran against ISIS in Iraq while supporting Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen
Document:The Mystery of Dr Aafia Siddiqui	article	Aafia Siddiqui	24 November 2009	Declan Walsh	A sympathetic retelling of the persecution of Aafia Siddiqui, up to 2009.
Document:The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden	article	MI5 Bad Nenndorf UK/Torture	3 April 2006	Ian Cobain	The British military and security services are no strangers to torturing their prisoners when they judge it necessary.
Document:The scariest thing about Brussels is our reaction to it	article	"Terrorism" 2016 Brussels Bombing	24 March 2016	Simon Jenkins	Absurd over-reaction to terrorist attacks in the west in general and the Mass murder in Brussels in particular, is EXACTLY what the those responsible for the attacks want and expect.
Document:The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means	article	"War on Terror" Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden 2005 London bombings	8 July 2005	Robin Cook	Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.
Document:This war on terrorism is bogus	article	Project for the New American Century War on Terror/Purposes	6 September 2003	Michael Meacher
Document:Tiny Rowland – portrait of the bastard as a rebel	Article	MI6 Nicholas Elliott Edward Heath Tiny Rowland Lonrho Mohamed Al-Fayed Alan Bond Robert Holmes à Court Harrods Oswald Mosley	August 1990	Nick Davies	All big entrepreneurs have the stink of unpopularity around them. Whether it is through envy or sincere distaste, Donald Trump, James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Richard Branson have all become popular figures of hate. The one characteristic that has marked out Tiny Rowland is his lack of respect for authority.
Document:Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance	Op-ed	Wikileaks Julian Assange Nigel Farage Donald Trump Dana Rohrabacher Steve Bannon Cambridge Analytica Alexander Nix Strategic Communication Laboratories	29 October 2017	Carole Cadwalladr	(You got this? Farage visited Trump, then Assange, then Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher met Don Trump’s Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Then Assange. And is now trying to close the circle with Trump.)
Document:Up to King Charles whether he wishes to attend COP27	Article	Charles Mountbatten-Windsor Rishi Sunak Thérèse Coffey COP27	28 October 2022	Geneva Abdul	King Charles will not attend the COP27 summit, Downing Street has said, as it is not the “right occasion” for him to do so. The former Prime Minister Liz Truss had asked the king not to attend the summit, and her successor, Rishi Sunak, has left it in place, No 10 confirmed in the afternoon of 28 October 2022. Sunak had already decided not to attend COP27.
Document:Who should hold the next prime minister to account? Our best hope lies with the Green party	Article	Caroline Lucas Natasha Osben Green Party of England and Wales Sian Berry Jo Bird UK/General election/2024 Carla Denyer Adrian Ramsay Ellie Chowns	12 June 2024	George Monbiot	The Green party has a chance of winning six seats in this election – Brighton Pavilion, where former party leader Caroline Lucas is standing down, Birkenhead, Bristol Central, Clacton, North Herefordshire, and Waveney Valley. If you live in one of these constituencies and wish to evict the Tories, this is the most effective way to use your vote.
Document:Why Tony is right to entertain Assad	Article	Tony Blair Saddam Hussein George W. Bush Syria Bashar al Assad Elizabeth Windsor Asma al-Assad Hamid Karzai Geoff Hoon	17 December 2002	Rod Liddle	Bashar al Assad became the first Syrian leader to visit the United Kingdom in 2002.
Document:Why are government experts holding off vaccinating under-16s in the UK?	Article	CDC COVID-19 "COVID-19/Vaccine" Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency COVID-19/Variants Pfizer–BioNTech COVID jab	6 August 2021	Deepti Gurdasani	Pro COVID-19/Vaccine propaganda from an epidemiologist with ties to Big Pharma. The JCVI does not recommend jabs for under-16s and the approval process has slowed down. The rushed vaccination process is not rushed enough apparently.
Document:Why the secret handshake between police and Freemasons should worry us	Article	Metropolitan Police Freemasonry Brian Paddick	2 January 2018	Duncan Campbell	Successive Met Commissioners have tried to end the society’s influence. It is as clear as ever that membership of both bodies is incompatible with public service.
Document:Xi Jinping says a dark shadow looms over the world after years of peace	Article	Donald Trump Nuclear weapon Xi Jinping Kim Jong-un	3 September 2017	Tom Phillips Wang Zhen	Shen Dingli, an international relations expert from Shanghai, said Sunday’s nuclear test underlined the futility of both Washington and Beijing’s policies towards North Korea: "It's only a matter of time before Donald Trump realises he has no choice but to sit down with Kim Jong-un."
File:Carter-Ruck Syria Report.pdf	report	2011 Syrian Insurgency	20 January 2014	Desmond de Silva Geoffrey Nice David Crane	A text-book example of the how and why of demonising one's enemies. A widely reported shock-horror document is 'leaked' just prior to a conference, the outcome of which is regarded as crucial to Western global policy interests.

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