The Guardian
"The neo-con warmongers’ house journal" |
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"[citation needed], although it is a solid defender of a number of key official narratives and "perhaps just as beholden to corporatism and the interests of capital as the next newspaper, regularly espousing the neoliberal “party line” rather the actual views of its left-wing readership."[1] In 2018 Craig Murray termed it "the neo-con warmongers’ house journal".[2]
Contents
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.[3] But the newspaper's owners Scott Trust Ltd became embedded into the corporate world in 2008, With board members including Catherine Howarth (a WEF/Young Global Leader 2014) and Vivian Schiller (CFR). Jonathan Cook wrote that The Guardian is "incapable of fulfilling its self-declared role as watchdog against abuses by the powerful".[4] In 2017, Craig Murray wrote a short comment on the "Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian".[5]
Billionaires pump their preferred agendas into the Guardian by paying for "journalism" and journalistic projects via the intermediary theguardian.org[6]
9-11
- Full article: 9-11/Media Response
- Full article: 9-11/Media Response
The Guardian has not seriously challenged the 9-11 Official narrative. In 2010 it did mention Francesco Cossiga's claim that 9/11 was widely known to be a joint CIA/Mossad operation, but waited until his obituary to advance the claim that: "He was, of course, being ironic".[7]
Internet Censorship
- Full article: Internet Censorship
- Full article: Internet Censorship
Craig Murray wrote in 2016 that the Guardian "has led the charge for internet censorship in the UK."[8]
Edward Snowden Affair
- Full article: 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 the UK 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."[9]
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.[10]
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.” [11]
COVID-19
6 days after The Telegraph published an article about Richard Dearlove's skepticism about the natural origin of COVID-19, The Guardian published an article by Peter Daszak entitled Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab. This did not mention Daszak's support for gain-of-function research and initially failed to mention his close working relationship with Zhengli Shi and the WIV.
OffGuardian
- Full article: 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.
#TrollingTheGuardian
In December 2019 The Guardian used the DMCA to request takedown of a parody, resulting in Twitter closing an account. Through the Streisand Effect this lead to many similar pieces, unified by the hashtag TrollingTheGuardian.
COVID
Pro vaccine passport propaganda.[13]
COVID is the cause of everything; never government lockdowns.
"Any Omicron restrictions will deepen prejudice against unvaccinated people"[14]
Quotes by The Guardian
Page | Quote | Date |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency COVID-19/Variants | 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. |
References
- ↑ https://mronline.org/2019/05/07/beholden-to-corporatism-how-the-guardian-sold-out-the-working-class/
- ↑ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/12/continued-american-occupation-of-the-middle-east-does-not-suppress-terrorism-it-causes-it/
- ↑ "Heroin dealer was secret informer for Customs and Excise"
- ↑ "HSBC and the sham of Guardian’s Scott Trust"
- ↑ Document:The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian
- ↑ https://theguardian.org/
- ↑ "Francesco Cossiga obituary"
- ↑ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/twitter-facebook-censorship-mainstream-media-denial/
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248581912/guardian-editor-weve-published-1-percent-of-snowden-files
- ↑ http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2014/12/518815.html?c=on#comments
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/14/bilderberberg-group-meeting-sinister The Guardian , 14 June 2015
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/daughter-bullied-school-covid-jab-government-campaign
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/15/vaccine-passports-are-less-a-threat-to-liberty-than-a-mark-of-solidarity
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/omicron-restrictions-prejudice-against-unvaccinated-people-virus