Profiles in Courage #3: Gareth Jones

The only reporter who covered the ongoing Holodomor in 1932

This is part 3 of a reoccurring series highlighting specific individuals (either living or historical figures who are not well known) who have displayed true, unquestionable courage standing up to the globohomo behemoth against unrelenting pressures, serving as a bit of a counter to the typical grim perspective pushed on this Substack. These individuals pay a price, often a big price, for their courage, and for standing up anyway they deserve to be applauded. Part 1 covers Ian Smith, who stood up to global hysteria around the COVID narrative at its peak, while Part 2 covers Julian Assange, who pushed a vision of radical governmental transparency at odds with globohomo’s desire for control over a worldwide slave colony.

Have you heard of the journalist Gareth Jones? How about Walter Duranty?

Basically no one has heard of the former, yet everyone has heard of the latter. This is a problem, which we will discuss, but it’s emblematic of a larger issue: globohomo’s ability to raise up or alternatively destroy, to eliminate from history, any character via their propaganda organs and their control over academia, the media, and Wikipedia.¹

But before discussing Jones and Duranty, what is your opinion of journalism in general? Well, if you’re reading this Substack the odds are pretty good that it’s not a positive one. Terms like dishonest, ideologue, corrupt, liar, loser, are some of the first words that may (hopefully) come to mind. And these pejorative terms are earned, they are not conjured out of thin air. The journalism profession works for the small moneyed class, they spin propaganda onto the masses to get them to believe things against their own interests so that moneyed class can benefit, and it has always been this way. Indeed, John Swinton, then-editor of the popular New York Sun, had this to say about the profession in 1883:

There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

Today there is basically no real journalism and no real journalists, at least in the mainstream. Anyone who doesn’t monolithically tow the globohomo line is expelled from work and blacklisted from having any influence. But in the past, occasionally, real journalism did exist. And just like it does now, bringing truth to power (at least if one manages to have a modicum of impact from that pursuit) is not celebrated but viciously punished, and the person promoting it would have his reputation smeared, with no material payoff in this world, while the worst, lowest scum of the earth are promoted in the media and given accolades as “bringing truth to power” - skinsuiting the term in a ghoulish, macabre exercise - that’s how this world works.

And this brings us to Gareth Jones.

Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones is the journalist who brought the truth about the ongoing Holodomor, the deliberate holocaust of the Ukrainian kulak/small farm peasant by Soviet authorities which killed 3.5-5 million in 1932-1933, to western attention. Rory Finnan, a lecturer in Ukrainian studies at Cambridge, called him "a true hero", saying "He is a remarkable historical figure and it is also remarkable that he is not well known. Jones was the only journalist who risked his name and reputation to expose the Holodomor to the world."

Here is a sample of what he reported:

I walked along through villages and twelve collective farms. Everywhere was the cry, 'There is no bread. We are dying'. This cry came from every part of Russia, from the Volga, Siberia, White Russia, the North Caucasus, and Central Asia. I tramped through the black earth region because that was once the richest farmland in Russia and because the correspondents have been forbidden to go there to see for themselves what is happening.
In the train a Communist denied to me that there was a famine. I flung a crust of bread which I had been eating from my own supply into a spittoon. A peasant fellow-passenger fished it out and ravenously ate it. I threw an orange peel into the spittoon and the peasant again grabbed it and devoured it. The Communist subsided. I stayed overnight in a village where there used to be two hundred oxen and where there now are six. The peasants were eating the cattle fodder and had only a month's supply left. They told me that many had already died of hunger. Two soldiers came to arrest a thief. They warned me against travel by night, as there were too many 'starving' desperate men.
'We are waiting for death' was my welcome, but see, we still, have our cattle fodder. Go farther south. There they have nothing. Many houses are empty of people already dead,' they cried.

On 11 April 1933, Jones published a detailed analysis of the famine in the Financial News, pointing out its main causes: forced collectivization of private farms, removal of 6–7 millions of "best workers" (the Kulaks) from their land, forced requisitions of grain and farm animals and increased "export of foodstuffs" from USSR.

What are the causes of the famine? The main reason for the catastrophe in Russian agriculture is the Soviet policy of collectivisation. The prophecy of Paul Scheffer in 1929–30 that collectivisation of agriculture would be the nemesis of Communism has come absolutely true.

Starvation during the Holodomor, 1933

Jones had visited Ukraine in 1932-33, where he sent stories about the ongoing famine to British, American and German newspapers but they were denied by the Stalin regime – and derided by Moscow-based western journalists, men like the New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who wrote: "There is no famine or actual starvation, nor is there likely to be," and dismissed Jones' eyewitness accounts as a "big scare story". In 1937, Eugene Lyons, a Moscow based correspondent, who repudiated Gareth four years earlier, was apologetic for his actions in his book Assignment in Utopia:

"Throwing down Jones was as unpleasant a chore as fell to any of us in years of juggling facts to please dictatorial regimes—but throw him down we did, unanimously and in almost identical formulas of equivocation. Poor Gareth Jones must have been the most surprised human being alive when the facts he so painstakingly garnered from our mouths were snowed under by our denials."

Walter Duranty: moral villain, regime hero

An anecdote in Robert Conquest’s “Reflections on a Ravaged Century", p. 122-123, demonstrates how the western establishment deliberately minimized the devastation of the Holodomor:

“The conflict between Soviet reality and Western perceptions had become acute in 1933.  As we have seen, the Soviet official line was that no famine had taken place.  Spokesmen from President Kalinin down called reports to the contrary inventions by emigre or fascist circles, or by Western bourgeois attempting to divert their workers’ attention from their own miserable life.  But the Soviet line was supported by a whole range of Western correspondents and other observers in the USSR.  The most influential was New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty (who seems to have been blackmailed on sexual grounds by the secret police).

Duranty personally told Eugene Lyons and others that he estimated the famine victims at around 7 million.  An even clearer proof of the discrepancy between what he knew and what he reported is to be found in the dispatch of 30 September 1933 from the British charge d’affaires in Moscow: ‘According to Mr Duranty the population of the North Caucasus and the Lower Volga had decreased in the past year by three million, and the population of the Ukraine by four to five million.  The Ukraine had been bled white….Mr Duranty thinks it quite possible that as many as ten million people may have died directly or indirectly from lack of food in the Soviet Union during the past year.”

What the American public got was not this straight stuff but the conclusion that ‘any report of famine’ was ‘exaggeration or malignant propaganda.’ The influence of his false reporting was enormous and long-lasting.

Duranty received the Pulitzer Prize for ‘dispassionate, interpretive reporting of the news from Russia.’ The announcement of the prize added that Duranty’s dispatches were ‘marked by scholarship, profundity, impartiality, sound judgment, and exceptional clarity,’ being ‘excellent examples of the best type of foreign correspondence.’ The Nation, in citing the New York Times and Walter Duranty in its annual ‘honor roll,’ described his as ‘the most enlightening, dispassionate and readable dispatches from a great nation in the making which appeared in any newspaper in the world.’

At a banquet at the Waldorf Astoria to celebrate the recognition of the USSR by the United States, a list of names was read, each politely applauded by the guests until Walter Duranty’s was reached; then, Alexander Woollcott wrote in The New Yorker, ‘the only really prolonged pandemonium was evoked…Indeed, one got the impression that America, in a spasm of discernment, was recognizing both Russia and Walter Duranty.’”

Jones was cut off from the establishment for his reporting, his career in tatters: “Following a forced year in the political reporting wilderness; having been virtually ostracised by all his former political and newspaper contacts within the British 'Establishment', including his former employer Lloyd George, Gareth found a job as a local reporter for the Cardiff Western Mail, covering stories about rural Welsh arts & crafts.” Jones was able to establish a relationship with William Randolph Hearst, who published Jones’s accounts of the Holodomor. In retaliation, globohomo came up with a great scheme:

Instead of again trying to publicly deride Gareth's articles, a month later, and conveniently for the Soviets, whether by accident or more probably by design, Hearst was 'furnished' with a series of fraudulent articles and bogus famine photo claiming an on-going Ukrainian famine in 1934, by one 'Thomas Walker,' a then unknown, convicted-conman who had absconded from Colorado prison. Walker, whose real name was Robert Green, was easily exposed as a complete charlatan by Louis Fischer (armed with evidence that Green had only spent 5 days in the USSR in 1934, and therefore could not visited Ukraine - information readily supplied to him by the Soviet authorities). Without ever-mentioning Gareth's name, Fischer was thus able to destroy the credibility of all of Hearst's reporting of any Soviet famine.

Globohomo wasn’t satisfied with just destroying Jones’s career, though. It never is when it feels slighted. Jones was murdered at the age of 29 while investigating in Japanese-occupied Inner Mongolia; he was reportedly murdered by the NKVD on direct orders from Maxim Litvinov, who ruled the Soviet Union on behalf of the Rothschild and ally central bank owners, over and above the level of Stalin. He had developed a grudge against Jones for reporting on the Holodomor, which he had been desperate to keep hidden from the world. I discussed this character previously here, where I wrote:

Of particular interest in the financing of the revolution is the role which Maxim Litvinov, born Meyer-Genokh Mojsjewicz Wallach-Finkelstein, played as a “revolutionary” in destroying Imperial Russia and handing it over to the international bankers.  Litvinov became the source of all foreign funds and was appointed treasurer of the Russian Socialist Democrat Party.  He was a representative of the Rothschilds with powers exceeding that of Lenin.  When Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union Litvinov, who feared no one, remained pre-eminent.  His rudeness to Stalin was legendary.  During World War 2 the Americans were reluctant to lend money to the Soviet Union but Litvinov sorted everything out; a Lend Lease agreement was signed and over the next four years $11 billion worth of supplies and services were provided.  Litvinov “could call the White House at any time and the President [Roosevelt] would see him immediately.”  Molotov, Litvinov’s successor in 1943, stated “Litvinov was utterly hostile to us…he deserved the highest measure of punishment at the hands of the proletariat.  Every punishment.”

Maxim Litvinov, the hidden ruler of the Soviet Union on behalf of the Rothschlds

Upon Jones’s death, former British prime minister David Lloyd George said, "He had a passion for finding out what was happening in foreign lands wherever there was trouble, and in pursuit of his investigations he shrank from no risk… Nothing escaped his observation, and he allowed no obstacle to turn from his course when he thought that there was some fact, which he could obtain. He had the almost unfailing knack of getting at things that mattered."

The U.S. eventually came around to investigating the Holodomor - 50 years later. Uh, great, thanks America.

What lessons can be drawn from this story?

There are a couple that come to mind:

1. Nothing has changed since then. When globohomo decides to push a narrative or downplay a narrative they will always get their way. They decide what the public knows and doesn’t know, and there are no real checks to them on this kind of power. During the COVID scam doctors who didn’t follow the party line lost their livelihoods, dissidents were banned on social media with ruthlessness. All globohomo had to do was tell these asshole administrators, censors, and bureaucrats that they were righteous for their actions and they did it eagerly. As Aldous Huxley said, "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."

2. Jones wasn’t the first and isn’t the last journalist to be murdered by globohomo for having moral integrity. Andrew Breitbart died of a “heart attack” at 43 (the CIA is on record that they utilize heart attack guns to kill people with heart attacks leaving no trace, what are the odds a prominent government critic died from a heart attack at 43? And then his coroner was murdered under “suspicious circumstances” two months later). The CIA likely murdered Michael Hastings, who was about to run a negative media story on CIA Director John Brennan and highlight illegal governmental spying, by hacking his car and ramming it at high speed into a wall. There are a bunch of others, read here if you want to read more, item #6.

3. Do not assume that doing the right thing will result in material reward in this Demiurgic hellworld. The incentives for this reality are all aligned against truth and justice and toward lies and manipulation to benefit the ultra powerful and most ruthless. Jones sought to do honor to his profession, to himself, to mankind and to God, and he ended up murdered and forgotten. As Thomas Ligotti concludes in "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race", “If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.” 

4. Lastly, globohomo has absolutely zero compunctions about repeating the Holodomor. There is an argument they are doing it now, again, by controlling both sides in the Russia/Ukaine “not-war” in order to churn endless amounts of white Christian dead bodies. They are also entirely ignoring Muslim Azerbaijan’s ongoing ethnic cleansing and takeover of Orthodox Christian Armenia as everyone focuses on Israel/Hamas. Don’t think for a second that they won’t do it to you too, here in America, as soon as the opportunity presents itself. They are just waiting for the opportunity. See the excellent Revolver News article: “Are you ready to be an American kulak?”

Hopefully this post can go a ways toward keeping Mr. Jones’s memory alive, and to spit on the grave of Walter Duranty, Maxim Litvinov, the central bank owners, and the rest of these ghouls and monsters.

Thanks for reading.

1. As one small example, Douglass Mackey aka Ricky Vaughn, who helped bring Trump to power in 2016 and then who was viciously prosecuted in a show-trial for posting memes, has no Wikipedia page. He has been “unpersoned” despite being a notable figure.