I enjoyed the guy who told her that insulting Israel is not anti-semitic and an anti-semitic act is just something like stabbing a Jewish person whilst shouting that you hate Israel.
Beyond her education at elite British educational institutions like Oxford University’s Pembroke College, little is known about Spring’s background. She studied at Oxford during the period when disgraced former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove served as its master. While there, she spent an extended period in Russia, working for the Western-funded Moscow Times. Her LinkedIn profile has been cached by the Internet Archive suspiciously few times since its creation, suggesting certain captures may have been scrubbed upon request.
There can be little doubt Spring’s online footprint elsewhere has been subjected to a dedicated cleanup operation. One of the most prolific editors of her Wikipedia page is the mysterious ‘Philip Cross’ profile, a notorious troll whose fanatical dedication to vandalizing the entries of anti-war, anti-imperialist public figures, while whitewashing and beautifying those of establishment shills and deep state actors, is so prolific that it has even been acknowledged by the mainstream media.
Spring’s proximity to the British intelligence sector was highlighted by a shadowy Foreign Office contractor, Amil Khan, when he proposed her as a potential participant in a meeting aimed at devising methods to destroy this outlet, The Grayzone.
Deployed as an influential public face of this effort, Spring relied heavily on an incestuous cluster of shadowy state-funded organizations to bolster her reporting. Foremost among them was the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a shadowy NATO state contractor that reaps millions to research supposed “disinformation”. Invariably, this term serves as a basis for defaming and suppressing anti-establishment viewpoints, and censoring inconvenient truths.
The people she interviewed just said the same sort of stuff one hears down the pub every day. And she didn't really analyse the detail of the conspiracies, let alone whether there was a kernel of truth in any of them.
What's interesting about these conspiracists (which she didn't address) is that they've always existed, especially in places like Totnes, but it's only in very recent times they've become associated with the Far Right. In the past, they were hippies, pacifists, vegans (before it became a thing), and members of the Liberal Party.
She gets onto that later including the proximity of the far right and far left in terms of the conspiracies they espouse and also the links between various groups across Europe.
What would be more interesting is to look at how things moved from being conspiracy theories and how they were consistently denied/Pooh Poohed to eventually being admitted.
One of the most prolific editors of her Wikipedia page is the mysterious ‘Philip Cross’ profile, a notorious troll whose fanatical dedication to vandalizing the entries of anti-war, anti-imperialist public figures, while whitewashing and beautifying those of establishment shills and deep state actors, is so prolific that it has even been acknowledged by the mainstream media.
Hilarious. How does risky have time for that in addition to roffing?
Oh I've been there! It was a random stop on my van tour of UK with my mates in 1990, I remember the castle.
We were eating fish & chips while sitting on the war memorial plinth (this is a normal thing to do in NZ). Some swivel-eyed taxi driver told us off and then went off to gather his mates when we told him to FO, so we departed sharpish. Fun times.
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Totnes has always been very bohemian, since the '20s.
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Cheers for the tip, Sailo. This looks right up my street. I've seen Marianna Spring pop up on Outside Source and she's excellent.
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totnes is hippy central
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I like Marianna. Fair play she has to deal with some proper mentalists.
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It’ll be considered a documentary in ten years time
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I enjoyed the guy who told her that insulting Israel is not anti-semitic and an anti-semitic act is just something like stabbing a Jewish person whilst shouting that you hate Israel.
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https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/01/bbc-specialist-disinformation/
Heh.
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And yet you’re the Russian
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Eh?
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I listened to the first two. Disappointing tbh.
The people she interviewed just said the same sort of stuff one hears down the pub every day. And she didn't really analyse the detail of the conspiracies, let alone whether there was a kernel of truth in any of them.
What's interesting about these conspiracists (which she didn't address) is that they've always existed, especially in places like Totnes, but it's only in very recent times they've become associated with the Far Right. In the past, they were hippies, pacifists, vegans (before it became a thing), and members of the Liberal Party.
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She gets onto that later including the proximity of the far right and far left in terms of the conspiracies they espouse and also the links between various groups across Europe.
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What would be more interesting is to look at how things moved from being conspiracy theories and how they were consistently denied/Pooh Poohed to eventually being admitted.
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Hilarious. How does risky have time for that in addition to roffing?
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Uh... Risky is on the other side, m8. He's one of the Grayzone conspiracy theorists.
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For a few years before the cashless economy, Totnes had its own currency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totnes_pound
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Oh I've been there! It was a random stop on my van tour of UK with my mates in 1990, I remember the castle.
We were eating fish & chips while sitting on the war memorial plinth (this is a normal thing to do in NZ). Some swivel-eyed taxi driver told us off and then went off to gather his mates when we told him to FO, so we departed sharpish. Fun times.
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