The Guardian is left wing in the traditional sense - leftist values. That puts them immeasurably ahead of the American mainstream media who are left wing in the sense of being in the tank for Obama with no interest in facts or values. I’m please to see that the Guardian still has real journalists. As for the leaker, I hope that if he is married, is wife is ready to hear the worst innuendo that can be constructed from facts (with some of those invented). Is there a beautiful woman he has called/texted enough times to raise questions? Has he visited a questionable website ever? Any financial irregularities, real or close enough that a little added fiction can make him seem corrupt. This guy is about to experience the power of the US government wielded by pure evil. He has my sympathy - and my admiration.
Globalism, i.e., the financial oligarchy (London and NY finance, etc., the people who talk about new world order, etc., including the Bush dynasty, the Delano dynasty, etc., all liberal Republicans, the neocon movement lead by Harvard alumni, the far left, Democratic party, etc.), unbeknownst to most folks, created the idea of global communism/socialism/etc. Wall Street actually financially assisted in the Bolshevik revolution.
It’s hard to get one’s mind around until you look at very simply: the financial oligarchy uses communism to capture states (national governments) in nations where the public will submit to it.
Those communist nations inevitably come to them for capital; loans, investment, etc. And then... it’s one deal, and they have the whole nation as a customer. It’s a captured market, a total monopoly. And there’s no chance of a lot of people getting beyond middle class and start encroaching on their monopolies.
The left-wing agenda is, therefore, one part of globalism.
Left-wing news media corporations in the UK and US are either publicly held (their boards are then filled with globalist minions) or privately held (by families dedicated to fulfilling Wall Street’s agenda (like the NY Times).
The left wing propaganda sells so well to the poor and ignorant because it rants against capitalism - so the globalists control the newspapers that attack them. It gives great credibility to the newspapers, but at the same time the newspapers have always kept what is truly damaging to globalism out of the news. If you create and control your own enemies, your enemies will never beat you.
Notice now with this scandal... we are all talking about the US government spying on Americans, we’re not talking at all about any relationship the CIA has with the financial oligarchy.
When the Obama administration gets slammed in the UK press, the worst that can happen to the transnational financial oligarchy is that a guy like their man Romney would win the next election instead of their man Obama.
It’s when people start finding out about the oligarchy and it’s control of the US government that the oligarchs would be in danger. To counter this, they’ve always had their “this is a conspiracy theory” protection that they set up by having a few conspiracy theories about themselves that have some crazy claims embedded in them published from time to time.
In the interview he indicates he has a “partner”, and lived in Hawaii where he worked. Partway through they asked if his family knew he was doing this. Partner, assume homosexual, as usually one doesn’t call a girlfriend/fiance a partner in current usage.