Elizabeth Vos — The Guardian’s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear

Anyone still reading The Guardian? "Guardian" of what one asks? The Establishment?

Is there another option to the editor being either a moron or else complicit? Unless there is an exculpatory explanation quickly forthcoming that passes the smell test, some people need to be fired.

Needless to say, The Guardian has joined a growing list of unreliable media that I will no longer be linking to, at least until there is a change in management.

Disobedient Media
The Guardian’s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear
Elizabeth Vos

See also

Zero Hedge
Top Ecuadorian Diplomat Destroys Guardian's Claim That Manafort Visited Assange

Tyler Durden

See also

Consortium News
The Guardian’s Vilification of Julian Assange

Jonathan Cook

Paul Robinson — Collusion

The investigation into suspected collusion between US President Donald Trump and the Russian government has claimed its first three victims: one (Paul Manafort) for completely unconnected money laundering charges, and two (George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn) for lying to investigators about things which were not themselves criminal, and which are therefore crimes which would never have happened had there never been an investigation. To date, the evidence of direct collusion between Trump and the Russians is looking a little thin, to say the least. Now, into this maelstrom steps Guardian reporter Luke Harding with his book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russian Helped Donald Trump Win.

Collusion spends over 300 pages insinuating that Trump is a long-standing agent of the Russian secret services, and hinting, without ever providing any firm evidence, that Trump and his team acted on orders from the Kremlin to subvert American democracy. I’ll be honest, and admit that I picked this book up expecting it to be a series of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and to be utterly unbalanced in its analysis, and in that sense I’m not an unbiased reader. At the same time, I was interested to see if Harding had come up with anything that everybody else had not, and was willing to give him a chance. I needn’t have bothered. For alas, my worst suspicions proved to be true, and then some.…

This collusion narrative is now jumping the shark more than the birther narrative about Barack Obama's birth certificate. In that sense, DJT is just experiencing a dose of his own medicine.

Irrussianality
CollusionPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Alert — Freedom of the press under attack?

Guardian journalist Luke Harding says paragraphs of his writing mysteriously disappeared while working on his latest book 'The Snowden Files.'

Bizarre. Much more to the story than the headline implies. 

Transcript of Amy Goodman's interview of The Guardian's Luke Harding.

AlterNet
'The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete': Did NSA Hack Snowden Biographer's Computer?
Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!