08-12-2014, 11:30 PM
...goes back to C.P. Scott's acquisition of it, on terms much less favourable than he had anticipated or been lead to believe. It has, after all, been a fanatical defendant of the absurd Warren Omission for half a century.
The extent to which it has supplanted the New York Times and the Washington Post as the CIA's premier English-language vehicle - the agency having abandoned the Post to the Beltway nutters and the Old Grey Lady to geriatric limousine liberals - has not been widely appreciated. In return for pseudo-scoops, particularly concerning the agency's hated rival, the NSA, and priapic undercover plods (this presumably courtesy of the Orangemen, ever anxious to please their American masters, and scupper the Met's empire-building), readers have been treated to an overt alliance with that ghastly Nazi-collaborator, Soros, and a wholesale rigging of its readers' comments section, where critics of, for example, the CIA take-over of Ukraine, are routinely censored or placed on moderation the better that NATO- and Langley-bots can churn out incomprehensible drivel without challenge. But enough of Luke Harding.
How to respond? Well, one way is to compile a list of the paper's advertisers and write to them explaining that you can no longer purchase their goods and services due to their patronage of this appalling far-right rag. This is terribly dull, and the more energetic might consider a more direct form of action, not least an Auberon Waugh-style "persecution" of the absurd Wiggy Arsebridger, who appears to me to invite a custard pie or three, not to mention a vigorous & sustained public denunciation as an agent of American state terrorism. The Grauniad, a cynical, sometime champion of direct action, would doubtless appreciate the irony, even as it turned over your on-line details to the electronic knicker-sniffers at Cheltenham. It does, after all, have a rich history of that sort of collaboration.
The extent to which it has supplanted the New York Times and the Washington Post as the CIA's premier English-language vehicle - the agency having abandoned the Post to the Beltway nutters and the Old Grey Lady to geriatric limousine liberals - has not been widely appreciated. In return for pseudo-scoops, particularly concerning the agency's hated rival, the NSA, and priapic undercover plods (this presumably courtesy of the Orangemen, ever anxious to please their American masters, and scupper the Met's empire-building), readers have been treated to an overt alliance with that ghastly Nazi-collaborator, Soros, and a wholesale rigging of its readers' comments section, where critics of, for example, the CIA take-over of Ukraine, are routinely censored or placed on moderation the better that NATO- and Langley-bots can churn out incomprehensible drivel without challenge. But enough of Luke Harding.
How to respond? Well, one way is to compile a list of the paper's advertisers and write to them explaining that you can no longer purchase their goods and services due to their patronage of this appalling far-right rag. This is terribly dull, and the more energetic might consider a more direct form of action, not least an Auberon Waugh-style "persecution" of the absurd Wiggy Arsebridger, who appears to me to invite a custard pie or three, not to mention a vigorous & sustained public denunciation as an agent of American state terrorism. The Grauniad, a cynical, sometime champion of direct action, would doubtless appreciate the irony, even as it turned over your on-line details to the electronic knicker-sniffers at Cheltenham. It does, after all, have a rich history of that sort of collaboration.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche