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PamelaDrew's avatar

Maybe it's cynical old timer in me but anything Luke Harding is pitching needs to be weighed for its value to spook world to manipulate public opinion. Harding is such a shameless presstitute he led the preposterous lies about Paul Manifort meeting Assange to tie Julian to Russiagate hoax despite no photo evidence yet Ecuadorian Embassy was the most surveilled place on the planet. Pathetic tool!!

Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

Exclusive: Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published

Luke Harding and Dan Collyns in Quito

Tue 27 Nov 2018 09.23 EST

https://web.archive.org/web/20181127143814/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy

Big time kudos & thanks as an antidote for propaganda!! <3

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Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

Thank you! Luke Harding is a slimeball of the first order. He's a liar and he is also responsible for revealing the password to the unredacted documents Julian Assange revealed. Assange spent hours redacting any names so that people would not be in danger when he released the documents. Luke Harding made all of Julian's efforts null and void. The fact that Harding still has a job at the Guardian tells you all you need to know about the effing Guardian.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Exactly right a fact ignored in Julian's show trial but why let truth get in the way!

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Gogs's avatar

It's always a pleasure to re-watch Harding making an idiot of himself when interviewed by Aaron Matė. Or consolation, given that he's still at it for that rag the Graun.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Abso-frigging-lutely priceless interview and more reasons to adore Aaron Mate who also has a Substack and followup for Luke's lame Russiagate propaganda.

https://mate.substack.com/p/luke-hardings-latest-bombshell-might

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Azra Dale's avatar

Thank you Pamela. Whenever Luke Russiagate Harding is mentioned, I immediately think of Aaron's fantastic take down of him during that infamous interview which showed him for the propaganda peddling puppet that he is.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

It was epic.. Aaron mopped the floor w Luke & thinking of it always brings chuckles. :~)

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Pauline C's avatar

Very good, Kit. Thank you.

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Stephanie Welch's avatar

Thanks for this great piece! I’ve been hoping to find a critical look at this case.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Thank you -- two seminal analyses in one day !! Another is below -- also simply astonishing.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/132671413 - outstanding and with 8 minute RFK-2 video excerpt

RFK Jr. Identifies “The Real Shooter” Behind His Father’s Death

“When I sat down and read the autopsy report, it became clear to me, as it would to anybody who read that report, that Sirhan could not have killed my father.” -- Jul 24, 2023

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Lena's avatar

Kit, here is a 2015 article by Ry Dawson - I think it is extremely important because it ties together many events that shook my country in the post-Yeltsin period. Especially important is the role of Browder and Berezovsky. That was the beginning of Putin's demonization, and Browder'a revenge on Russia. Here is the Archive link, because I am afraid the Unz link would be banned.

https://archive.vn/YvJAr

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St Stephen's avatar

In our times, any anti-Russian propaganda, any destabilising lie, is good.

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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

Scaramella is such a great name for a villain. Now I'm wondering if he has a third nipple and a golden gun.

One aspect of the Litvinenko saga that intrigues me is whether there was any association there between him (and Berezovsky) and the Apartment bombings. That's to say, if the terrorists came from the Caucasus and I believe Litvinenko was in agent support in that section. Ironically, giving away the names of agents so they'd be tortured and killed by terrorists was the dramatic device in Skyfall. And without those agents, there is a breach in the defensive wall, so to speak, allowing the (presumably as usual CIA/6-funded) terrorists to get into Russia and carry out the attacks. If that's true, then I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians wanted something nasty to happen to L. Mind you, 10 million seems a little extravagant. And the whole saga seems more like a plot from 24 than the real world.

Combine the absurdity of this narrative with the absurdity of the Skripal narrative and you wonder whether MI6 are on the lookout for some better scriptwriters. If not, I think they bloody well should be. Still, if the Great British Public are dumb enough to swallow it then why pay over the odds for a good writer.

I'm surprised the two alleged assassins of L didn't experience a vigorous duck-feeding incident. Still, too late for that now. Radioactive ducks would've been cool. Duck Duck Go indeed!

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Antiwar7's avatar

Kit, how do you think the Lugovoy's hotel room, plane seats, and apartment became contaminated? Just from shaking Litvinenko's hand?

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Clare Delahunt's avatar

Just wow, and yet, no surprise. I remember the news clips. Excellent reporting. Thank you.

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