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Crippling the Left

Cook, Jonathan
http://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/13/crippling-the-left/

Publisher:  Consortium News
Date Written:  13/10/2022
Year Published:  2022  
Resource Type:  Article

Whenever it truly matters, from Assange to Corbyn, Guardian George Monbiot journalist aligns with the corporate media herd.

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There is a reason that Monbiot suddenly professes to be interested in questioning whether the rampant, evidence-free anti-Semitism claims against Corbyn and large swaths of the Labour Party were valid. Because, with the broadcasting of the Al-Jazeera documentary, he finds himself increasingly cornered. He looks ever more the charlatan, a journalist who withdrew from the struggle, standing silently by while the only chance to stop Britain’s endless political drift rightwards was eviscerated with lies promoted by the corporate media that pays his salary.

And he did so, of course, in tandem with the campaign cheerled by his own newspaper, The Guardian, to demonise the Labour left, as Al Jazeera documents.

Rather than take a stand against the McCarthyism occurring right under his nose, witch-hunts that destroyed the British left’s chances of making the Labour Party a meaningful alternative to the Conservatives’ 'free market' zealotry, he focused his guns on leftwing journalists. He misrepresented as apologism for Russian President Vladimir Putin their critiques of Western hypocrisy and of NATO’s pursuit of a proxy war in Ukraine.
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There is a pattern with Monbiot, one that he has been repeating for years. His position on every major issue, aside from his genuine passion for the environment, chimes precisely with that of his employer, The Guardian. He goes only as far as he is given licence to. He is not on the left, he is not a dissident, he is not even his own man. He is owned. He is a salary man. He is a corporate stooge.
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On foreign affairs, he promotes C.I.A. talking points, advancing Washington's ever expanding, ever more lucrative war on terror -- wars that ravage the environment he supposedly cares about and constantly deflect our energies and attention from doing anything to tackle the ever more urgent climate crisis.

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