Is the GUARDIAN reliable...make up your mind????
Daniel A Pennuto
, Studied and lived through the subject for several decades
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Is the Guardian newspaper decent?The football reportage is decent, but ‘news’ is corporate manufactured propaganda. They repeat the same mantra as the state and other corporately owned mass media machines. Look at the first news article from The Guardian from today>
Trump’s decision comes after several years of complaining about Nato, without taking any specific action. In July 2018 he threatened “go it alone” if Nato members – and in particular Germany – did not raise their defence spending to 2% of GDP in order to reduce the cost incurred by the US from providing transatlantic defence against Russia.
their presence is partly designed to deter Russian aggression.
with troops stationed in all three Baltic states, Nato faces as many as 500,000 Russian troops in its western military district.
“Weakening Nato in the hope this will lead to increased German defence is a dangerous game which plays into Russia’s hands.”
Trump move to take US troops out of Germany 'a dangerous game'
When have Russia threatened Germany? Its firstly completely at odds with reality as there is nothing to support the idea that Putin is aiming to invade or attack Germany. Its cold war rhetoric designed to manufacture support for military spending by our governments instead of investment in education, health care, infrastructure…because the russians are coming if we dont!
They give a platform for neocon swine like Ellwood, a stern supporter of arming islamic jihadists in Syria he had the gall to continue even when faced with an archbishop from Alleppo pleading for them not to keep supporting those who are slaughtering anyone who didnt share their views…Ellwood is also a staunch supporter of the zionist right wing regime in Israel and yes of course, of this cold war rhetoric routine and mindset when it comes to Russia. And also believes that the Uk population are ignorant of the great progress in human rights made by the KSA regime, through chopping up journalists and that kinda stuff!
He is also a demonstrable liar…telling the UK parliament in 2015 ‘the UK does not provide lethal assistance to anyone in Syria’, and yet the military support for the so called rebels in Syria was a well known fact at least 2 years before this>
US and Europe in 'major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb'
As for Jens Stoltenberg…
A man who talks of Afghanistan as a success story for NATO - a country dogged by war for twenty years now, with thousands of lives lost, and the control of the country left in the hands of warring Taliban and vaguely US supported stooges, with plenty of opium grown and resources taken, and a hundreds of thousands of bombs dropped.
Old Jens was also of course a strong supporter of arming the uprising in Ukraine, a basket case of a country now which he would like to become part of NATO. Happily meeting with known fascists for selfies to share on twitter>
The author of the article…Dan Sabbagh…The current defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, started at The Guardian as head of media and technology and has no history of covering national security. There used to be some adversarial experts with national security expertise, but the Guardian got rid of them. Instead they have a yes man who will write well enough whatever he is told and is happy to use extremely one sided sources to confirm whatever the agenda is e.g.
There is a war ongoing with Russia. Trump is helping them (again!) - The Agenda.
So the whole framework will be based on this. Its nothing to do with objective journalism, its not asking any questions, its just telling you the news, and confirming this ‘news’ by using as biased a selection of sources as you can find. Rampant pro-war politicians and warmongers all with proven form for demonising Russia for their own ends.
This is not journalism. Its poor propaganda. Yet very few look into it, they read it and accept it is the news ‘ah well, if these politicians and NATP specialists and military industrial sector think tanks are all confirming it, must be true eh?’
The Guardian is a nasty, vicious propaganda machine…Just look at anything by Jonathan Freedland…and you quickly understand that their is nothing liberal or left wing about this paper. It is happy to support whoever is paying the right money. Right wing fascists are fine - when they suit the narrative.
Some say that the Guardian is independent, a true not for profit beacon of superb journalism, yet its just not true. Making up the board of Scott Trust Limited, the corporation valued at 1bn pounds
Alongside Forgan is Anthony Salz, a senior investment banker and executive vice chairman of Rothschild, and a director at NM Rothschild and Sons. He was a key legal adviser to Guinness during the notorious share-rigging scandal, helped Rupert Murdoch form BSkyB, and was vice chair of the BBC’s Board of Governors before it was replaced by the BBC Trust. He was also lead non-executive director of the board at the Department for Education under arch-neoconservative Michael Gove. Until 2006, Salz led a highly successful 30 year career as a corporate lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was head and senior managing partner since 1996.
Anthony Salz, a Rothschild investment banker who helped Rupert Murdoch with BSkyB, oversees the Guardian as a Scott Trust Ltd. executive
One of Freshfield’s most prominent long-term clients is HSBC. In 2012, Salz’s former firm was appointed to advise HSBC on its record $1.9 billion fine from US authorities for money-laundering, regarding its UK law implications. Although that occurred well after Salz’s time, HSBC’s relationship with Freshfields had been consolidated under Salz’s tenure shortly before he left, establishing an advisory monopoly on much of HSBC’s corporate work in Asia, and displacing the rival firm Norton Rose as HSBC’s advisor of choice.
Forgan and Salz are accompanied on the Scott Trust Ltd.’s board by Philip Tranter, a former partner and head of corporate law at the firm, Boyes Turner, where he led on major corporate transactions as well as banking and finance. Tranter is still a consultant for the firm. Among Boyes Turner’s corporate clients are most major British banks: including HSBC.
Philip Tranter, a former corporate lawyer and currently a consultant for Boyes Turner, among whose clients is HSBC
Also on the Scott Trust Ltd. board is Jonathan Scott, chairman of Ambac Assurance UK, and a former director at KPMG Corporate Finance. Ambac Assurance is a UK subsidiary Ambac Assurance, which in turn is part of the Ambac Financial Group based in New York. Ambac played a major role in underwriting dodgy derivatives at the heart of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, and was implicated in fraud to save its skin as the crisis kicked off — but still managed to obtain a $700 million government bailout that even the Internal Revenue Service agreed was unwarranted.