Ex-Guardian columnist, now fully independent, award-winning journalist Jonathan Cook wrote a piece two weeks ago about The Guardian, MI6 and the vilification of Julian Assange.
That piece focused on the propaganda campaign that Guardian journalist
Luke Harding, widely regarded as an MI6 stooge, had cooked up in his
continued smear campaign to get Julian Assange arrested and sent back to
the USA to face a life sentence in a small dark room.
“Reporter Luke Harding’s latest article, claiming that
Donald Trump’s disgraced former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly
visited Assange in Ecuador’s embassy in London on three occasions, is
so full of holes that even hardened opponents of Assange in the
corporate media are struggling to stand by it.
Faced with the backlash, the Guardian quickly – and very quietly – rowed back its
initial certainty that its story was based on verified facts. Instead,
it amended the text, without acknowledging it had done so, to attribute
the claims to unnamed, and uncheckable, “sources”.
