The western media are fiddling while Minsk2 burns
It looks as if Minsk2 is in a lot of trouble, due to what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov describes as a “glaring breach of the first steps...
The Guardian whitewashes its own support for the invasion of Afghanistan
from Ian Sinclair Journalism We’re posting this short but significant piece because it calls attention to the current bid to erase from collective memory the part our media played,...
What “community standard” did this comment breach? #8
This comment was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment Removed from: Is Putin Ill? ‘Everything is fine’ despite cancelled meetings...
What “community standard” did this comment breach? #6
This comment was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment Removed from: Britain Should Arm Ukraine Which of the Guardian’s “community...
The Guardian’s Tory Donor of Salo Cries Wolf
“And don’t forget to arm Ukraine!” (A. Temerko – left) At some point on the cusp of the centuries American television invented and quickly proliferated the idiotic genre of...
Readers Dissect The Guardian over US Venezuela Sanctions
Umberto Eco describes the resistance to the new totalitarianism of colluding media and cleptocratic elites, as a “semiological guerrilla warfare“. As in most colonial wars, the abused and exploited...
Guardian-watch: The referendum that never was
by BlackCatte The Guardian’s slide from liberal, informed media outlet, to crass, Ministry of Truth propaganda-sheet, gathers pace every day. Yesterday, for example, came this offering: Vladimir Putin describes...
“We can’t rely on entitlement addicts to care about ethics in journalism”
By Dace Mikey We can get into trouble telling stories. Few things evoke more high-handed, Puritanical moralizing than someone else doing something untoward that each of us has done...
The Guardian’s Latest Attempts at PR for the Ukraine Nazis
This profile of the females in the infamous Aidar Battalion appeared on the Graun front page today,
though it didn't stay there long, being swiftly removed and hidden away in...
Bryan Macdonald: Guardian vs. RT. The spoiled child is losing it.
Bryan Macdonald, an Irish journalist, comments on the Guardian’s latest attack on RT. While UK press regulators consistently find the Russian broadcaster’s practices fair and acceptable, the self-anointed guardians...
Incursions by whom?
Britain was pulled closer towards a renewed cold war with Russia when David Cameron announced UK military trainers are to be deployed to help Ukraine forces stave off further...
J. Steele in the Guardian: Frontline Ukraine – Richard Sakwa’s unrivalled account
“When Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine’s prime minister, told a German TV station recently that the Soviet Union invaded Germany, was this just blind ignorance? Or a kind of perverted wishful...
There goes The Guardian, censoring us away…again!
There goes The Guardian, censoring us away…again! Earlier today, I experienced yet another of The Guardian‘s acts of political censorship: this time on the topic of Greece. Since the...
John Pilger: War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Belfast Telegraph, 06 December 2014 The most effective propaganda is found not in the Sun or on Fox News – but beneath a liberal halo. When the New York...
[Counterpunch] There Goes the Guardian, Lying About Ukraine…Again!
by ERIC DRAITSER The western media is busily trying to prop up their failed narrative of “Russian aggression” in Ukraine in a desperate attempt to legitimize their consciously deceitful...
Guardian Lords: Let Our Sins be on Putin’s Head
Devil’s Advocate Dejevski Fed to the Trolls While a standard journalistic procedure, publishing conflicting views on a single subject has long escaped the Guardian on the Ukrainian crisis. Today...
Brown Moses ‘proves’ again!
Well, ‘proves’ to the satisfaction of The Guardian, at least — not too difficult, as the Graun is clearly eager to believe. Believe what? Why, believe that Russia shelled...
Alec Luhn takes a different tone . . .
. . . in this Vice News story about the Debaltseve cauldron than we usually see in his work for The Guardian. Indeed, one might reasonably conclude that Mr....
A bit of sense and sanity makes it to The Guardian
Offerings of relative clarity and reasoned thinking on the Ukraine crisis are rare in The Guardian, even above the line in CiF. This piece by Dmitri Trenin, director of...
CiF = “Censorship is Final”
The Guardian, today, is featuring an article by European editor Ian Traynor claiming, per the headline: Putin tried to delay Ukraine ceasefire deal, EU summit told Unfortunately, Mr. Traynor’s...
