Last November, The Guardian revealed Julian Assange met with Paul Manafort at the Ecuadorian Embassy, shortly after Manafort had been appointed to run the Trump campaign in the spring of 2016. Assange has vociferously denied these claims, calling Guardian reporters Luke Harding ...read more
Just for fun, I spent a few minutes taking The Guardian's "How Populist Are You?" quiz. The first image is of several world leaders and populist politicians including Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump scattered on a chart of how populist they are and ...read more
(Photo: Action Press/Rex) “Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing. I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don’t get turd lung disease." -- Jon Stewart, in a wide-ranging ...read more
In the interest of full disclosure, I honestly believe Oliver Stone's JFK is one of the greatest movies of our generation. That said, and factually speaking, there's a lot of hooey in there, too. But that's what filmmaking is ultimately about: making the unbelievable believable, ...read more
Allow me to preface this by underscoring that I'm not becoming a Johnny-Come-Lately supporter of the Snowden/Greenwald clique. That said, unless we learn new mitigating evidence (always possible), I can't help but to be a little creeped out by the new Snowden revelation in The ...read more
Of all the weird developments we've covered in the ongoing story of Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency files he leaked to Glenn Greenwald and others, it's unlikely anything will ever top an article in The Guardian this week in terms of weirdness and, frankly, total ...read more
(Photo: A staffer from The Guardian destroys what's obviously a desktop PC motherboard.) It's been six months since The Guardian published initial details about its GCHQ computer smash-up story. And now, months later, The Guardian has released video footage of the staffers ...read more
I haven't performed this debunking exercise in a while, but since I'm receiving outraged tweets and emails, I thought I'd dive in again. Yes, The Guardian's James Ball posted a new Snowden-based revelation about the National Security Agency's surveillance operations. And, yes, ...read more
"My role, aside from reporting and writing for it, is to create the entire journalism unit from the ground up by recruiting the journalists and editors who share the same journalistic ethos and shaping the whole thing — but especially the political journalism part — in the ...read more
In a brand new New Yorker piece about The Guardian's role in the NSA story, as well as its broader place in digital media, Glenn Greenwald dropped the following quote regarding the tone and style of his articles on the topic: “I wanted people in Washington to have fear in their ...read more
It was almost shocking when I first installed a browser add-on called Ghostery and began to click on various articles at The Guardian. With each click, I discovered that this news publication, which has been primarily tasked with reporting on Edward Snowden and top secret ...read more
Each time I post another article in which I endeavor to correct the serially misleading claims made by alleged journalists tasked with covering the National Security Agency leaks by Edward Snowden, I'm invariably accused (mostly by a handful of anonymous trolls) of being an ...read more
Every publication makes mistakes. Every major publication has, at some point, botched a story. But the way things are going with The Guardian as it publishes this series of Edward Snowden "bombshells," we're well beyond isolated glitches. The publication has botched nearly ...read more
There's one positive thing I can write about The Guardian's handling of the NSA/Snowden saga. They know how to control the narrative. No sooner had a variety of mitigating details come to light about the airport detention and interrogation of David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's ...read more
On Friday, President Obama held a televised press conference about proposed reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). While discussing leaks by former Booz Allen Hamilton analyst Edward Snowden, the president said, "Unfortunately, rather than an orderly and ...read more
For the last month or so, we've talked a lot about how sloppy, scattered reporting has served to mislead readers -- perhaps deliberately -- about the details of various bombshell National Security Agency (NSA) stories presented by Glenn Greenwald and others. Outrage-porn and ...read more
Another nail in the coffin for neo liberalism in Britain (from the Guardian): An extra £5bn of capital investment, funded by spending cuts elsewhere, will form the centrepiece of an overall £30bn national infrastructure programme due to be announced by George Osborne on ...read more
While the Murdochs have been doing their best to keep out of the press over the past few weeks, the scandal that threatened to dismantle their empire is roaring back at them, this time with some allegations that look next to impossible to side step. From the Guardian: Rupert ...read more
Continuing the tradition of stripping money from the state sector, the Conservative government is facing mounting resistance from the British public who have not bought in to the narrative that public sector pensions need 'reforming' (code word for 'defunding'). Reports the ...read more
An astonishing trial in the UK has proved diet, and not drugs can completely reverse type 2 diabetes. From the Guardian: People who have had obesity-related type 2 diabetes for years have been cured, at least temporarily, by keeping to an extreme, low-calorie, diet for two ...read more
Rising fees and lack of funding appears to be driving student away from UK universities and looking across the Atlantic for higher education. From the Guardian: Data obtained from seven prestigious US institutions reveals that a major drive to recruit UK undergraduates is ...read more
