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Misreporting Manafort and the Julian Assange Affair: A Case Study in Journalistic Malpractice By Alan MacLeod
In what has been described as potentially the biggest story of the year, the Guardian’s Luke Harding (11/27/18) reported last week that Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, held a series of secret talks with WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. These meetings were said to have occurred inside the Ecuadorian embassy between 2013 and 2016.… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Limits Of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald And The Guardian
When we think of prisons, we tend to think of Alcatraz, Bang Kwang and Belmarsh with their guard towers, iron bars and concrete. But in his forthcoming book, ’33 Myths of the System’, Darren Allen invites us to imagine a prison with walls made entirely of vacuous guff: ‘Censorship is unnecessary in a system in… Continue reading
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Top Ecuadorian Diplomat Destroys Guardian’s Claim that Manafort Visited Assange
A former consul and first secretary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London has put the final nail in the coffin of credibility for The Guardian, refuting the paper’s fantastical and wholly unsupported claim that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and the spring of 2016 – a… Continue reading
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MSM Is Getting Weirder, More Frantic, And More Desperate By The Day By Caitlin Johnstone
When even the Washington Post is saying your Russiagate article is bad journalism, your Russiagate article is really, really bad journalism. Continue reading
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Growing calls for Guardian editor-in-chief to resign after the paper publishes massive ‘fake news’ story
There are growing calls for the Guardian‘s editor-in-chief to resign as the paper faces accusations of publishing a major “fake news” story about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 27 November. Citing anonymous sources, the Guardian article accused Assange of holding “secret talks” with Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort. The allegation could strengthen efforts… Continue reading
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Guardian newspaper spearheads new accusations against Assange and WikiLeaks By James Cogan
The Guardian has stepped up its contemptible role as one of the main media conduits for the persecution of Julian Assange, publishing unsubstantiated and sensationalist allegations that the WikiLeaks publisher met with American political lobbyist, Paul Manafort. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 