Jeremy Corbyn faces Russiagate smear
campaign before UK vote
Jeremy Corbyn, a real progressive, could win
UK’s elections. Max Blumenthal joins
Pushback to discuss how powerful forces are
trying to stop Corbyn with a Russiagate-fueled
smear campaign — and why Bernie Sanders
could be their next target.
By Aaron Maté
December 11, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Just before British elections, the UK’s
military-intelligence apparatus is smearing
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with
evidence-free Russiagate allegations.
NATO-funded “researchers” are claiming that
leaked documents publicized by Corbyn that
exposed secret US-UK talks over the British
health service are in fact the result of a
Russian disinformation campaign. The
Russia-baiting against Corbyn comes as the
Labour leader also faces an ongoing campaign
to smear him with fake charges of
anti-Semitism. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal
discusses the British and US government-tied
forces behind the anti-Corbyn effort, and
how Bernie Sanders could be next.
Guest: Max Blumenthal,
Editor of The Grayzone and author of The
Management of Savagery.
Aaron Maté: Those of us on
the Left who have been critical of
Russiagate have long warned that it will be
used to attack progressives and progressive
values. In the US, we’ve seen that with
attempts to tie Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein,
Tulsi Gabbard, and other dissident voices to
Russian influence. And now in Britain we are
seeing perhaps one of the most blatant cases
of Russia-baiting to date. Just days before
British elections, the UK’s
military-intelligence apparatus is smearing
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with
evidence-free allegations. This latest
attempt began after Corbyn publicized leaked
documents exposing secret talks between
Britain’s Conservative government and the US
to privatize Britain’s National Health
Service (NHS) as part of the Brexit deal.
The revelation undermined the claim of Prime
Minister Boris Johnson – who is Corbyn’s
opponent — that the NHS was not up for
negotiation.
Jeremy Corbyn: We’ve now
got evidence that under Boris Johnson, the
NHS is on the table and will be up for sale.
The U.S. is demanding that our NHS is on the
table in negotiations for a toxic deal. It’s
already being talked about in secret. That
could lead to runaway privatization of our
health service. Mega-corporations see
Johnson’s alliance with Trump as a chance to
make billions from the illness and sickness
of people in this country.
Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
Aaron Maté: No one has
challenged the authenticity of the documents
Corbyn exposed. Instead, the British
government and its allies are turning to a
familiar tactic: blaming Russia. Within
days, a series of news reports on both sides
of the Atlantic told audiences that the
leaked documents were likely part of a
Russian disinformation effort. The social
media site Reddit, where the documents first
appeared, made that allegation as well. But
buried in these stories was a caveat: there
is no actual evidence of Russian
involvement. And although these allegations
were said to have come from “independent
researchers”, also hidden from these
audiences is that they are anything but
independent. The main expert cited here, Ben
Nimmo, is funded by governments including
the US, and the British Tory government.
Nimmo’s firm Graphika, works with the
Pentagon and the US Senate intelligence
committee. Nimmo also works as a senior
fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab
at the Atlantic Council, NATO’s unofficial
think tank in Washington. The British
government is among the Atlantic Council’s
biggest donors.
This Russia-baiting against Corbyn comes as
the Labour leader also faces an ongoing
campaign to smear him with fake charges of
anti-Semitism. Reported, isolated incidents
of anti-Semitism by members of Corbyn’s
Labour party have been used to manufacture a
so-called “anti-Semitism crisis” that
supposedly afflicts his entire movement. In
reality, that allegation serves the same
purpose as the Russia allegations: to taint
a progressive leader, and lifelong
anti-racist, who has a strong chance of
becoming Britain’s next Prime Minister.
Aaron Maté is a journalist and producer. He
hosts Pushback with Aaron Maté
on The Grayzone. He is also is contributor
to The Nation magazine and former
host/producer for The Real News and
Democracy Now!. Aaron has also presented and
produced for Vice, AJ+, and Al Jazeera
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