Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Guardian has put out a smear piece on critics of the imperial Syria narrative that reads like propaganda made by seven year-olds without adult supervision. The article was initially released under the headline "Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified," which was then
I think the Grayzone expose of Paul Mason hurt their propaganda network last week. It got a lot of traction, hence why this piece is rushed out at this time.
The first thing I had to do years ago regarding Syria was to NOT believe anything I'd heard. Especially from media for the masses and the liar agenda asses
The more the veil is lifted, the more we find that many of the more sophisticated and strategic psyops are fabricated in Britain, its MI6 and related tentacles, and then outsourced to other Five Eyes nations.
People tend to mistake the brain for the brawn. The US military industrial complex and the Anglo-American intel establishment has provided much of the muscle, but when it comes to actual psyops and narrative creation (which requires a bit more creativity), from the Iraq War "dodgy dossier" about WMD in Iraq, to the Russiagate 2016 "Dirty Dossier," to the Syria White Helmets, to the recent targeting of The Gray Zone for destruction, it's all British intelligence.
That's no mere detail, neither is the historically low profile they tend to keep. There is a saying, if you have less power, act like you are much stronger than you are, if you have great power, give the appearance that you are much weaker than you are. I think a lot of people get thrown by this one.
Furthermore, from a strategic standpoint, I think it's important to recognize that the United States is the main target for destruction, with its institutions having been infiltrated over the long-run with a very patient "Fabian" approach. This longer-term approach was taken because all attempts to destroy the USA militarily or through internal Civil War failed in the past. A different approach was taken, a much more subtle one designed to destroy the United States from within by corrupting its institutions, until the rot is so great that it crumbles under its own weight.
That's a strategy. It's not just the product of chaos and mismanagement. Many many resources have gone into creating that by subverting the American intellectual tradition, its culture, and replacing it with the kind of dumb-down kitsch culture and pseudo intellectualism. But anyone who thinks this is just some happenstance would be very very mistaken.
Behind that is something much older than anything American, and we should be putting a name on it.
In this respect, one documentary stand outs. It is by British film-maker Michael Oswald, "The Spider's Web":
In terms of writing, a very lucid piece titled "Why the Anglo-American Special Relationship Must End" also put a name on things in a way that is rarely done, despite these things being right under our noses.
The Grauniad as it was known, got owned by the same mad dog neocons as WaPo and NYT.
There was a sea change over the Blair and Campbell’s WMD fiasco. The offices were raided , the editor left and they fell editorially into the claws of the odious Jonathan Friedland whose agenda was a radical departure. All the pro - Israel news fit to print, and then some. . Ritual attack on anyone telling the truth, like Vanessa Beeley.. They invented BS daily about Assad’s chemical weapons, etc. only Putin prevented total annihilation of most Syrians aligned with Assad. This meant that the Grauniad rode on its laurels for years before the British public realized the coup that had taken place.
Although it was evident to many within days of the raid on their offices by domestic intelligence services.
The Grauniad is to UK news as NPR is to US. I used to call it the Kozy Konsensus Reality but now they seem too frantic and often demented for that name.
The Guardian is owned by the Scotts Trust, which is now a private, for-profit corporation. The interests represented on the board of the Scotts Trust are heavily tied to the corporate oligarchy, e.g., HSBC.
It is pure propaganda targeting unthinking 'leftists' and neoliberal fascists.
It's all such bullshit when the only conspiracy was the US conspiring to destroy Syria and Assad with the help of its little wonder-worker elves, Al Qaeda and ISIL. That's the whole point of imposing destructive conditions on destroyed countries- to promote radicalism, and then exploit it for your own, nefarious, selfish ends. Russia put a crimp in that objective - so it's gotta go. But Russia is the bite that chokes.
This is the same Guardian that used and abused the relationship with Julian Assange. Firstly using his material to boost their circulation when such truthful exposes were in big demand. But then, when the chips were down, showing such a pathetic lack of support to the predicament that both the UK government and the criminal USA created in the form of a show trial.
A disgraced publication in my book, never to recover any credibility and a major contributor to today’s situation
While on the subject of Julian Assange, an Australian, a respected and truth-telling journalist by any measure, here is my small contribution to the new one month old government of Australia, who to date have avoided taken action on behalf of all the people who support justice, who support the truth and who dislike the warmongering antics of Biden and the US military death brigades. Twenty million (more likely 25 million) plus to date.
It is unlikely to receive much in the way of action without the nod from the current president and political criminals in Washington, a situation that has been in train since the CIA assisted in the overthrow of a democratically elected Australian government in 1975 and have used this country as a servile bag carrier ever since.
Yes. We allowed this to happen. The message to the government follows.....
Global condemnations of Assange extradition order as Australian government still has not defended Julian Assange
"Subject to further legal appeals, the UK order amounts to a death sentence that would place Assange directly in the hands of the US military and corrupt intelligence agencies who have sought to destroy him for more than a decade.
We would like to see this matter scheduled for an immediate parliamentary discussion…and VOTE. Please do not fall into line with the extreme and criminal USA and ignore this matter, now seen by all people as critical to the reputation of this country……and to returning the freedom of the press.
The whole wold is watching right now. To save this country we must remove Australia from the domination of the USA and all foreign military entanglements"
AUKUS, QUAD, ANZUS, all US bases in Australia, Pine Gap Spying Station, to name but a few.
Interestingly, the Guardian is the paper of the left leaning educated middle class, just the sort of people that Edward Bernays targeted as 'influencers' of public thinking (teachers etc.) when he was tasked with changing the American public from a fierce isolationist position to a pro war stance in the effort to get the US into WWI. How successful that was and still proves to be.
Indeed. The track record of the Guardian has been appalling. They toe the neocon party line like an automaton. Their enablers have included some surprises, betraying their principles for some media coverage.
I remember The Guardian having their offices raided and their computers destroyed some years ago. Shortly after this, unsurprisingly, they became a mouthpiece of the government. I guess they got the message all right....
Dear Caitlin, you accurately point out The Guardian's "place on the leftish side of the political spectrum," but later lament "its ability to market right-wing horrors to an unsuspecting demographic who otherwise wouldn't buy what they're selling."
If the horrors are marketed by The Guardian, then they are NOT "right-wing" horrors. If anything, they are "left-wing" horrors. I suppose you have to say it that way in order to retain the readership of "people who eat organic produce," but it's still divisive as hell and turns off libertarians and conservatives who otherwise agree with you. There has to be a better way. We need to unite those opposed to elite narratives, not further divide them. Leave that to the elites; they're doing a bang-up job.
I remember there was a time, not so long ago, when I fell for the White Helmet propaganda. Keeps me humble, that does. Any thoughts on Jacobin? I know I've read that they're also now empire propaganda. On Robert Malone's Substack I posted something puzzling me on Russell Brand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2jsA3sk2H0) that DeSantis used the Jan 6 event to usher in a domestic terrorism law against protest, one of 88 such laws since then. In response to other comments, I investigated further:
I think the Grayzone expose of Paul Mason hurt their propaganda network last week. It got a lot of traction, hence why this piece is rushed out at this time.
The first thing I had to do years ago regarding Syria was to NOT believe anything I'd heard. Especially from media for the masses and the liar agenda asses
The more the veil is lifted, the more we find that many of the more sophisticated and strategic psyops are fabricated in Britain, its MI6 and related tentacles, and then outsourced to other Five Eyes nations.
People tend to mistake the brain for the brawn. The US military industrial complex and the Anglo-American intel establishment has provided much of the muscle, but when it comes to actual psyops and narrative creation (which requires a bit more creativity), from the Iraq War "dodgy dossier" about WMD in Iraq, to the Russiagate 2016 "Dirty Dossier," to the Syria White Helmets, to the recent targeting of The Gray Zone for destruction, it's all British intelligence.
That's no mere detail, neither is the historically low profile they tend to keep. There is a saying, if you have less power, act like you are much stronger than you are, if you have great power, give the appearance that you are much weaker than you are. I think a lot of people get thrown by this one.
Furthermore, from a strategic standpoint, I think it's important to recognize that the United States is the main target for destruction, with its institutions having been infiltrated over the long-run with a very patient "Fabian" approach. This longer-term approach was taken because all attempts to destroy the USA militarily or through internal Civil War failed in the past. A different approach was taken, a much more subtle one designed to destroy the United States from within by corrupting its institutions, until the rot is so great that it crumbles under its own weight.
That's a strategy. It's not just the product of chaos and mismanagement. Many many resources have gone into creating that by subverting the American intellectual tradition, its culture, and replacing it with the kind of dumb-down kitsch culture and pseudo intellectualism. But anyone who thinks this is just some happenstance would be very very mistaken.
Behind that is something much older than anything American, and we should be putting a name on it.
In this respect, one documentary stand outs. It is by British film-maker Michael Oswald, "The Spider's Web":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8&t=0s
In terms of writing, a very lucid piece titled "Why the Anglo-American Special Relationship Must End" also put a name on things in a way that is rarely done, despite these things being right under our noses.
https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/06/09/why-the-anglo-american-special-relationship-must-end/
One is reminded of Edgar Poe's "The Purloined Letter."
The Grauniad as it was known, got owned by the same mad dog neocons as WaPo and NYT.
There was a sea change over the Blair and Campbell’s WMD fiasco. The offices were raided , the editor left and they fell editorially into the claws of the odious Jonathan Friedland whose agenda was a radical departure. All the pro - Israel news fit to print, and then some. . Ritual attack on anyone telling the truth, like Vanessa Beeley.. They invented BS daily about Assad’s chemical weapons, etc. only Putin prevented total annihilation of most Syrians aligned with Assad. This meant that the Grauniad rode on its laurels for years before the British public realized the coup that had taken place.
Although it was evident to many within days of the raid on their offices by domestic intelligence services.
"The Guardian is just Fox News for people who eat organic produce" 🤣🤣🤣 Luvit!! Spot on Caitlin.
The Grauniad is to UK news as NPR is to US. I used to call it the Kozy Konsensus Reality but now they seem too frantic and often demented for that name.
The Guardian is owned by the Scotts Trust, which is now a private, for-profit corporation. The interests represented on the board of the Scotts Trust are heavily tied to the corporate oligarchy, e.g., HSBC.
It is pure propaganda targeting unthinking 'leftists' and neoliberal fascists.
It's all such bullshit when the only conspiracy was the US conspiring to destroy Syria and Assad with the help of its little wonder-worker elves, Al Qaeda and ISIL. That's the whole point of imposing destructive conditions on destroyed countries- to promote radicalism, and then exploit it for your own, nefarious, selfish ends. Russia put a crimp in that objective - so it's gotta go. But Russia is the bite that chokes.
The Guardian and it's past values.
This is the same Guardian that used and abused the relationship with Julian Assange. Firstly using his material to boost their circulation when such truthful exposes were in big demand. But then, when the chips were down, showing such a pathetic lack of support to the predicament that both the UK government and the criminal USA created in the form of a show trial.
A disgraced publication in my book, never to recover any credibility and a major contributor to today’s situation
While on the subject of Julian Assange, an Australian, a respected and truth-telling journalist by any measure, here is my small contribution to the new one month old government of Australia, who to date have avoided taken action on behalf of all the people who support justice, who support the truth and who dislike the warmongering antics of Biden and the US military death brigades. Twenty million (more likely 25 million) plus to date.
It is unlikely to receive much in the way of action without the nod from the current president and political criminals in Washington, a situation that has been in train since the CIA assisted in the overthrow of a democratically elected Australian government in 1975 and have used this country as a servile bag carrier ever since.
Yes. We allowed this to happen. The message to the government follows.....
Global condemnations of Assange extradition order as Australian government still has not defended Julian Assange
"Subject to further legal appeals, the UK order amounts to a death sentence that would place Assange directly in the hands of the US military and corrupt intelligence agencies who have sought to destroy him for more than a decade.
We would like to see this matter scheduled for an immediate parliamentary discussion…and VOTE. Please do not fall into line with the extreme and criminal USA and ignore this matter, now seen by all people as critical to the reputation of this country……and to returning the freedom of the press.
The whole wold is watching right now. To save this country we must remove Australia from the domination of the USA and all foreign military entanglements"
AUKUS, QUAD, ANZUS, all US bases in Australia, Pine Gap Spying Station, to name but a few.
Interestingly, the Guardian is the paper of the left leaning educated middle class, just the sort of people that Edward Bernays targeted as 'influencers' of public thinking (teachers etc.) when he was tasked with changing the American public from a fierce isolationist position to a pro war stance in the effort to get the US into WWI. How successful that was and still proves to be.
Indeed. The track record of the Guardian has been appalling. They toe the neocon party line like an automaton. Their enablers have included some surprises, betraying their principles for some media coverage.
The Guardian of HSBC money laundry empire.
I remember The Guardian having their offices raided and their computers destroyed some years ago. Shortly after this, unsurprisingly, they became a mouthpiece of the government. I guess they got the message all right....
Purely coincidental that The Guardian would to after The GrayZone after GZ dropped the Mason story.
I fully expect TYT to have a Monday story on this, looking to smear these courageous independent journalists.
Dear Caitlin, you accurately point out The Guardian's "place on the leftish side of the political spectrum," but later lament "its ability to market right-wing horrors to an unsuspecting demographic who otherwise wouldn't buy what they're selling."
If the horrors are marketed by The Guardian, then they are NOT "right-wing" horrors. If anything, they are "left-wing" horrors. I suppose you have to say it that way in order to retain the readership of "people who eat organic produce," but it's still divisive as hell and turns off libertarians and conservatives who otherwise agree with you. There has to be a better way. We need to unite those opposed to elite narratives, not further divide them. Leave that to the elites; they're doing a bang-up job.
I remember there was a time, not so long ago, when I fell for the White Helmet propaganda. Keeps me humble, that does. Any thoughts on Jacobin? I know I've read that they're also now empire propaganda. On Robert Malone's Substack I posted something puzzling me on Russell Brand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2jsA3sk2H0) that DeSantis used the Jan 6 event to usher in a domestic terrorism law against protest, one of 88 such laws since then. In response to other comments, I investigated further:
So this is very curious. Russell's video shows text that says, "In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis invoked the Capitol riot to reintroduce and pass into law a repressive anti-protest bill that had previously failed." It quotes Jacobin in this article: https://jacobin.com/2021/01/us-capitol-riot-police-investigation/ which never mentions this quote nor the screen that follows about the 88 laws passed since. I can find that DeSantis did pass a law against destruction of property in April of 2021: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/ron-desantis-signs-combating-public-disorder-act/index.html. So has Russell been fooled or infiltrated?