The Guardian

"The neo-con warmongers’ house journal"

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The Guardian on September 12, 2001, assisting the effort to promote 9/11 as a casus belli.

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Founder: John Edward Taylor

Owner: Scott Trust Ltd
Constitutes: Corporate media

The Guardian is a UK newspaper which, in some circles, has a reputation as "left wing" and perhaps even "anti-establishment", although it is a solid defender of a number of key official narratives and "perhaps just as beholden to corporatism and the interests of capital as the next newspaper, regularly espousing the neoliberal “party line” rather the actual views of its left-wing readership." In 2018 Craig Murray termed it "the neo-con warmongers’ house journal".

Deep State control

More perhaps than most other elements of the commercially-controlled media, has reported on matters pertaining to the deep state, such as the heroin smuggling cartel of Hüseyin Baybaşin. But the newspaper's owners Scott Trust Ltd became embedded into the corporate world in 2008, With board members including Catherine Howarth (a WEF/Young Global Leader 2014) and Vivian Schiller (CFR). Jonathan Cook wrote that The Guardian is "incapable of fulfilling its self-declared role as watchdog against abuses by the powerful". In 2017, Craig Murray wrote a short comment on the "Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian".

Billionaires pump their preferred agendas into the Guardian by paying for "journalism" and journalistic projects via the intermediary theguardian.org

9-11

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The Guardian has not seriously challenged the 9-11 Official narrative. In 2010 it did mention Francesco Cossiga's claim that 9/11 was widely known to be a joint CIA/Mossad operation, but waited until his obituary to advance the claim that: "He was, of course, being ironic".

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The Guardians 2015 image cropping in its report on the 2015 legal case, Virginia Roberts Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell is a classic limited hangout, neatly hiding the position of Andrew Windsor and Virginia Roberts's hands.

Internet Censorship

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Craig Murray wrote in 2016 that the Guardian "has led the charge for internet censorship in the UK."

Edward Snowden Affair

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The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald was reportedly contacted by Edward Snowden seeking to publish the documents he had obtained while working at the NSA. In testimony before the UK Parliament, the editor Alan Rusbridger stated that of the 58,000 files obtained from Edward Snowden only "about 1 percent" had published. He added: "I would not expect us to be publishing a huge amount more."

A 2019 study by Declassified concluded that after the Snowden coverage, UK intelligence ratcheted up efforts to deal with the exposures with a "charm and threat offensive", transforming the Guardian to a platform trusted by the security state to amplify its information operations.

Controlled Media

In 2014, the Guardian fired Nafeez Ahmed, a widely respected critic of the "war on terror". This was interpreted by some as further indication that the paper is a form of controlled opposition, that while it tolerates certain anti-establishment views, it is in fact no more free than other members of the commercially-controlled media to fundamentally challenge official narratives.

In 2015, the Guardian published an article by Kevin McKenna on the Bilderberg group which minimizes their groups importance, beginning {{#subobject: |Has superobject=The Guardian |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Kevin McKenna|+sep=, |Has text=“To unravel the numeric code embedded in the name Bilderberg is to find yourself standing at the gateway to hell. By adding together all of the letters according to their position in the alphabet the chilling number 82 reveals itself. Eight plus two equals 10 which was the Number of the Beast when he was a lad. Later this week in a forbidding schloss in the Austrian village of Telfs-Buchen the money-changers and the self-appointed masters of the universe who form the Bilderberg group will meet.” |Is about=The Guardian,2015 Bilderberg|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=14 June 2015 |Sourced from=The Guardian |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=The Guardian |Has sourceURL=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/14/bilderberberg-group-meeting-sinister }}“To unravel the numeric code embedded in the name Bilderberg is to find yourself standing at the gateway to hell. By adding together all of the letters according to their position in the alphabet the chilling number 82 reveals itself. Eight plus two equals 10 which was the Number of the Beast when he was a lad. Later this week in a forbidding schloss in the Austrian village of Telfs-Buchen the money-changers and the self-appointed masters of the universe who form the Bilderberg group will meet.”

Covid

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The Guardian on the "COVID-19 Vaccine" for ids, an "anonymous" article that could have been written by a lobbyist continued "Misinformation led to her being picked on. A clear government campaign aimed at 12 to 15-year-olds is vital".

Pro vaccine passport propaganda.

Covid is the cause of everything; never government lockdowns or - even less - the Covid jabs.

"Any Omicron restrictions will deepen prejudice against unvaccinated people"

The paper also indirectly promoted a official opposition narrative of a "lab leak" by denying it. 6 days after The Telegraph published an article about Richard Dearlove's skepticism about the natural origin of COVID-19, The Guardian published an article by Peter Daszak entitled Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab. This did not mention Daszak's support for gain-of-function research and initially failed to mention his close working relationship with Zhengli Shi and the WIV.

GCHQ

A 2024 review of all the paper's 59 articles tagged with GCHQ, the UK's largest intelligence agency, in the past three years found that 35 (59%) can be considered sycophantic towards the agency. Twelve articles were found to be somewhat critical and another twelve neutral. Some 14 of the puff pieces were written by the Guardian's defence editor, Dan Sabbagh. Other Guardian articles provide a platform for GCHQ’s views on official enemies, usually covered uncritically.

War propaganda

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In 2010 the Guardian published a fake interview to incited to war.

In 2026, former Guardian journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan wrote that

I want to confess to the front-page story that I wrote for The Guardian, which was published on August 7, 2010. It was presented as an exclusive interview with Sakine Ashtiani. This interview never took place. I fabricated all the material. It was a false story—completely untrue—and I take full responsibility.

Dehgan was awarded as the 2010 Journalist of the Year in Britain by the Foreign Press Association.

In 2011, the paper published a number of reports from "A Gay Girl In Damascus". The story received a large response on social media, and served to create a war mood against Syria in Western liberal public opinion. The story was exposed as a hoax persona created and maintained by a bearded American man living in Scotland.

OffGuardian

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In 2015, a small group of readers tired of the censorship of the "Comment is Free" section, decided to found OffGuardian, their own WWW platform for exchanging such ideas - one that would not be subject to the Guardian's censorship.

#TrollingTheGuardian

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The image which kicked off #TrollingTheGuardian

In December 2019 The Guardian used the DMCA to request takedown of a parody, resulting in Twitter closing an account. Through the Streisand Effect this lead to many similar pieces, unified by the hashtag TrollingTheGuardian.

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