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Riff McClavin's avatar

Caitlin Johnstone, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek, Aaron Mate, Robert Scheer, Jimmy Dore, Ryan Knight, and Hard Lens Media give me a reasonably accurate picture of the mountains of crap pulled by my country on any given day. It's apparent that one must go outside those employed by corporate media to get this information. All else is comfy cheerleading.

BTW Caitlin, I appreciate the amount of work you're putting out of late. I noticed.

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CNNisFakeNews's avatar

Viva Frei and Robert Barnes are good too! And Matt Taibbi!

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Rebecca Turner's avatar

Given The Guardian's history with Luke Harding, it's less than shocking for the site to publish this nonsense. "In 2011 Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding published a book, WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy. The book provided a passphrase to the unredacted US cables.

The passphrase Leigh and Harding disclosed featured prominently in a chapter heading of the book. It’s worth mentioning that Harding was also co-author of a Guardian article that claimed Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, met with Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. In an exclusive, The Canary went on to report the claim that the story was false."

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/03/08/a-note-reveals-exactly-why-the-julian-assange-extradition-case-is-based-on-lies/

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CNNisFakeNews's avatar

Here's some outstanding reporting by TheGuardian (same author too, one month apart):

> Why Ivanka Trump’s new haircut should make us very afraid

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/18/why-ivanka-trumps-new-haircut-should-make-us-very-afraid

> The uproar over AOC's hair is a reminder that women can't win under the patriarchy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-haircut-uproar-aoc-reminder-women-cant-win-under-the-patriarchy

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Jack's avatar

Caitlin, I red your book (excellent!) and I listen to your podcast. You often say that our strength is in numbers. That we can win because there is more of us than them. By "them", I know who you mean but I am not sure that I understand who you mean by "us". Who do you think is out there who understands what you are saying?

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Why isn't Luke Harding being prosecuted like Julian Assange? /s

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Feral Finster's avatar

If Paul Robinson (a respected Canadian scholar) is to be believed, the "leaked screenshots ZOMG!" contain linguistic and grammatical errors that no native speaker of Russian would make.

https://www.rt.com/russia/529358-guardian-putin-trump-election/

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Feral Finster's avatar

If Luke Harding were working the counter at a fast food joint, I'd be sure to count my change.

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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

Do these idiots belong to a club? - of idiots?

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Me's avatar

Somebody writes something that I think is untrue, I hit the big X and get on with my life. I don't lobby for other people to be fired or censored.

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KV77's avatar

When someone is repeatedly writing unsubstantiated innuendo as hard news in major publications it needs to be talked about. The more people are made aware of this the better.

She's not demanding he be fired either. She's just saying it's embarrasseing for these organizations to keep publishing him. They are ruining the very little credibility they have left.

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CNNisFakeNews's avatar

I am reading this article laughing but eventually I almost started crying at the miserable state of the media.

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