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Moon of Alabama trashes Russiagate and the US Russophobic propaganda campaign. There is no "there" there.Propaganda is effective, however. For example, on January 7, 2015, The Hill cited a Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public Mind poll showing that 42% of American erroneously believed that Saddam's WMD had been discovered. 19% erroneously believed that Obama was not an American citizen.It's the effect of propaganda that counts and propaganda is difficult to debunk in the minds of many...
Read More »Paul Robinson — Cunning troll
Funny.IrrussianalityCunning troll Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa See also Fort RussWest has spent $80 million to influence Russia's 2018 elections Vesti - translated by Inessa Sinchougova also For some unknown reasons these FB ads aren't made public so that people can come to their own conclusions about them. Fort Russ US President calls Russia's Facebook ad rumours "new mystification"Vesti -...
Read More »Leonid Bershidsky — Wanted: Russia Experts, No Expertise Required; Jingoism has replaced scholarship and a spirit of real inquiry when it comes to Russia. That’s a mistake.
There's a lot to unpack about the newly formed Committee to Investigate Russia, which aims to "help Americans recognize and understand the gravity of Russia’s continuing attacks on our democracy." Perhaps its most striking feature is that no Russia experts are involved; that's a sign of the times... No experts needed other than in propaganda. … as another eminent Russia expert -- Mark Galeotti, who used teach at New York University and now works at the Institute of International...
Read More »Robert Parry — The NYT’s Yellow Journalism on Russia
But the Times’ behavior over the past several years suggests something even more sinister than biased reporting. The “newspaper of record” has slid into yellow journalism, the practice of two earlier New York newspapers – William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World – that in the 1890s manipulated facts about the crisis in Cuba to push the United States into war with Spain, a conflict that many historians say marked the beginning of America’s global...
Read More »Deconstructing Bill Browder’s Dangerous Deception – Alex Krainer: with review by The Saker
The Saker: Today I want to introduce you to a book whose importance simply cannot be overstated: The Killing of William Browder: Deconstructing Bill Browder’s Dangerous Deception by Alex Krainer. I consider that book as a *must read* for any person trying to understand modern Russia and where the new Cold War with Russia came from. Most of you must have heard of the Magnitsky Act or even maybe of William Browder himself. You probably know that Browder was a British businessman who...
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