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Thursday, November 29, 2018

The Guardian’s Desperate Attempt To Connect Assange To Russiagate Backfires

The Guardian’s latest attack on Julian Assange was not only a fallacious smear, it represented a desperate attempt on behalf of the British intelligence community to conflate the pending US charges against the journalist with Russiagate. The article seeks to deflect from the reality that the prosecution of Assange will focus on Chelsea Manning-Era releases and Vault 7, not the DNC or Podesta emails.

We assert this claim based on the timing of the publication, the Guardian’s history of subservience to British intelligence agencies, animosity between The Guardian and WikiLeaks, and the longstanding personal feud between Guardian journalist Luke Harding and Assange. This conclusion is also supported by Harding’s financial and career interest in propping up the Russiagate narrative.

All eyes were on WikiLeaks this week, as lawyers argued for US charges against Assange to be unsealed. Hours before the (Clinton-appointed) judge in the case delaying their ruling for seven days, The Guardian lobbed an unexpected shot across the bow, claiming that: “Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign.”

Disobedient Media recently reported on evidence indicating that charges against Assange do not relate to Russiagate. In light of this, one can immediately interpret the Guardian’s hit-piece as a distraction intended to tie public perception of Assange’s prosecution to the Russiagate narrative by any means necessary. Honesty be damned.

In the wake of the article’s publication, WikiLeaks and Paul Manafort have flat-out denied that any meeting ever took place between the former Trump campaign manager and the WikiLeaks co-founder. The Courage Foundation called the allegations “fabricated,” while members of Assange’s legal team strongly denied the allegations. WikiLeaks soon announced the creation of a Gofundme effort, raising funds to sue The Guardian for what it called an ‘entirely fabricated story.’

At the time of writing, The Guardian had already been observed modifying its claims, adding qualifiers to both the title of the article and the body of the text.

Journalist Ben Norton astutely observed the Guardian’s hasty editing, writing: “Some of the edits The Guardian has already made to its supposed Manafort-Assange scoop might look small but are significant: These weasel words like “would have,” “apparent,” and “might have” show the story is weak and relies entirely on anonymous sourcing.” WikiLeaks also observed the changes:

Assange legal representative Hanna Jonasson quickly noted that the authors of The Guardian’s smear very recently visited Ecuador. Jonasson also remarked:

“Incredible: The Guardian is running an entirely bogus story as its front page headline just hours before US EDVA hearing on the unsealing of the Assange indictment. Dan Collyns and Luke Harding have been peddling entirely false Russia propaganda for months.”

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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

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Some Caravan migrants are choosing to go back to Honduras – here’s why they’re doing it

According to an MSNBC reporter from Tijuana in Mexico, some of the caravan migrants are choosing to go back to their home countries – and they say it is because they were misled about how easy it is to enter.

“They have realized that it is very difficult”

MSNBC’s Gadi Schwartz reported from the migrant encampment where the situation had turned violent on Sunday as migrants tried to force their way into the United States.

“Many of these men tell us that they heard in Honduras that it would be easy to cross into the United States,” he reported.

“Some of them told us that they had heard that there were programs, work programs,” he continued, “that they would be eligible for and so now that they’re here in Tijuana, and they have realized that it is very difficult to get into the United States, especially after what happened on Sunday, some of them are deciding to turn back.”

“In fact,” he continued as the camera swung to a tent, “this is a tent that’s been set up by a bunch of different governmental agencies here in Mexico, but this is where people come if they want to go back to Honduras or Guatemala, or El Salvador.”

“These are people who have decided that it is time to go back and that they don’t have the opportunities that they wanted here,” he concluded.

Schwartz also reported that Mexico is extending humanitarian visas to the migrants and setting up jobs for them.

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