This is interesting.
I came across this 2016 Guardian article pushing a report that said “ultra-rich” philanthropists, in particular Bill Gates, are using their money to set their own agendas in poor countries and undermining governments and UN and its agencies.
Study identifies Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations among rich donors that are close to government and may be skewing priorities
Ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries, according to a major study (pdf).
Using their immense wealth and influence with political and scientific elites, organisations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and others are promoting solutions to global problems that may undermine the UN and other international organisations, says the report by the independent Global Policy Forum, which monitors the work of UN bodies and global policymaking.
Okay, so Bill is bad and uses his money to buy influence and change things to how he wants. Got it. Very Guardian.
This story came from a Guardian sub-section called ‘Global Development‘.
But then I came across this 2010 Guardian story about how the Guardian has started up this new ‘Global Development’ site in partnership with… the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Guardian today has launched a new website in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help focus the world’s attention on global development.
Perhaps the Guardian has reconsidered this sponsorship in the light of that critical story? It appears not. When you click on the ‘About this content’ on the Global Development page you get taken to a page which is headlined ‘About this site’. And that says that the site is is partly funded by one entity: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
That content is dated 2011, but presumably the sponsorship is still going, otherwise that page would be have been taken down, right? (Unless the Guardian is incapable of even updating its own site.)
So I did some more digging, and discovered this Guardian story from late 2018 which reports that Gates is still funding the Guardian’s Global Development page, which is well after the critical story of 2016 came out.
Our current philanthropic partnerships
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports the Guardian’s global development site
So the Guardian takes money from the very man who was said to be, in a report that they pushed, ‘skewing priorities’ by ‘promoting solutions to global problems that may undermine the UN and other international organisations’. The report also questioned ‘why the Gates foundation invests heavily in companies like Monsanto and Bayer’, and suggested the real aim was to open African markets to US agribusiness. This is all very Guardian, but it seems that the Guardian’s board wasn’t convinced.
17 thoughts on “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s sponsorship of The Guardian”
The article about the Gates agenda is not an editorial, it’s a new story about a report by a think tank. What would you prefer that the Guardian had done? Avoid acknowledging it just in case it looked hypocritical?
What the fuck! The Guardian not hypocritical? Pass the smelling salts.
Why is it bad to ‘promot[e] solutions to global problems that may undermine the UN and other international organisations’. ?
Surely, Gates wants to find solutions to global problems. If any of those solutions happen to undermine the UN, that would suggest the UN is part of the problem. Which should lead to some serious head-scratching on the part of the UN, followed by a drastic change of direction to make itself part of the solution.
As GL says, it is not necessarily true that the UN and other international bodies are right, or that anyone else is.
If the Gates’s are undermining the UN it remains to be shown which if any are right.
….and that nice Bill and Melinda Gates…
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/robert-f-kennedy-jr-exposes-bill-gates-vaccine-agenda-scathing-report
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/bill-and-melinda-gates-con-sortium
There are quite a few BRAINWASHED commenters on this site, which makes me SAD. Not all are brainwashed. So I suggested you all BRAINWASHED cretins google UNITED NATIONS AGENDA 21 and AGENDA2030. Then you will come to realise just HOW DANGEROUS THIS CRACKPOT LUNATIC BILL GATES IS. FIGHT THE NEW WORLD ORDER. WE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!!
Bill Gates’s criminality is off the charts. But so is that of most of the people in his superclass. Right now, most of the world is willingly serving Bill Gates and the Transnational Capitalist Class that he is a part of. There’s no use in going after them. They are almost everyone. There is a use in Armageddon however.
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