> > I would bet that the INDEPENDENT or the GUARDIAN would shy away from
> > criticizing the UK government (especially given the Official Secrets
> Act
> > and the libel laws there) while being able to lambaste the US
> government
> > with abandon. People there might be consulting the US media in order
> to get
> > a little more objectivity on the UK.
> >
> > Is this an accurate perception? inquiring minds want to know...
> >
> > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> =============
> After having perused those papers every evening for a few years now,
> my guess is they get around the OSA simply by poking fun at the Tories
> and Labour as the authors of state policies; where do the parties
> leave off and the State begin? It makes it difficult for the Brit.
> State to box them in. At the same time, for the most part, they
> critique the State with a little more nuance than US journalists.
The Guardian is controlled and operated by MI5. The idea that it is an atuonomous
part of the 'free press' is wrong. For most of its existence as a charitable
foundation, The Guardian has in fact been no more than an SIS cover.
No doubt this sounds delusional to some here, and I'm sorry that I can't say what
the evidence is, not here anway. Sorry and all that, but nevertheless I believe it
is true. Actually the Guardian has been an SIS front since at least the 1920s-1930s
when Malcolm Muggeridge and George Orwell and Arthur Koestler and Albert Rhys
Williams and M Philips Price and other worthies reported the world for the liberal
intelligentsia. They were all SIS men.
But the Guardian's greatest Intelligence exploits happened much later, during the
Thatcher era. The Guardian was then given the role of dishing Old Labour from the
left, which it did very well.
Today, per contra, MI5 is resolutely Blairite. So is the Guardian. Those circles are
Tony's alma mater, after all. And now, under the tutelage of these same circles, the
British social-democratic project has acquired an [anti-US] life of its own. This is
not just because of the presence of the egregious Bush in the White House. This is
only the *occasion* for the split. In fact, Bush is so opportune from the Euro POV
that he might almost be an installation.
The British have now split with the USA--the great Anglo-Saxon condominium is
already over--and the great post-1940 trajectory which made the UK essentially a
part of the Union, is a thing of the past. Britain is part of Europe, and Europe has
sloughed off US tutelage where it counts, ie, the nuclear control codes. British
nuclear submarines are all now out of service because of alleged technical problems.
But its not technical problems, it's about who controls the missiles.
There, almost nobody knows that publically but now Pen-L does. Why has Britain
secretly ruptured its historical 'special relationship' with the US? That's the
question here.
Mark
