Tag Archive | "Mainstream Media"
Propaganda In the Eyes of the Beholder
By Michael AVERKO (USA)
Promoted at Johnson’s Russia List, Paul Goble’s piece of this past January 20 «US Appears to Have Accepted Donbas Model Not Only for Ukraine but for Other Conflicts, Russian Analyst Says», refers to Russia Today contributor and Russian Academy of Sciences researcher Pyotr Iskenderov as a Kremlin propagandist. This characterization is pretty rich given Goble’s penchant for […]
Continue reading...Euromaidan unmasked: Europe shocked by the bitter truth on Ukraine
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
The hard-hitting documentary by Paul Moreira “Ukraine, les masques de la révolution” [Ukraine: Masks of the Revolution], released on Monday night by Canal+, created a turmoil both in Ukraine and France well before the premiere. On Sunday the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported in Facebook that their Ambassador in France had sent an outraged letter to […]
Continue reading...The Price of Indifference and Self-deception
By Stephen EBERT (USA)
Monday, October 5, 2015
My Russian friends periodically ask me what Americans think about Russia. Recent developments have given rise to a new round of questions: Putin’s interview for CBS News’ “60 Minutes”, his UN speech, and the start of air support for the beleaguered Syrians. I can best address by referring to the remark by an American journalist […]
Continue reading...So who is in Russia’s crosshairs in Syria?
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
Sunday, October 4, 2015
The media frenzy in the countries of the anti-Assad coalition over the Russian air strikes on Al-Qaeda-linked guerrillas in Syria has made one very significant fact quite clear. Along with the nervous reaction of the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some other countries it is irrefutable proof that the interests of seemingly opposing forces – […]
Continue reading...US Media: Building Newspaper Curtain Against A Fabled Foe
By Angela BOROZNA (USA)
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
“Now we do not have an Iron Curtain, we have a newspaper curtain. “ Evgeny Yevtushenko (a prominent Russian poet) – RT interview, Sept 2009. Though Russia went through significant domestic changes since 1991, the extent of Russia’s domestic achievements had rarely been acknowledged in the United States. Instead, Russia has been continuously criticized for […]
Continue reading...Between The Lines: Western Public Support For Albanian Terrorism (I)
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Terrorists attacked the Macedonian city of Kumanovo on 9 May, but one wouldn’t know that by reading the Western media’s reaction to the tragedy, despite the fact that they typically mention that 8 police officers were killed and another 37 wounded during the firefight. The media’s disingenuous ‘reporting’ reeks of ulterior motives, which is evidenced […]
Continue reading...I read Russia Today, and so should you
By Amir AZARVAN (USA)
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Several years ago, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, complained to Congress that the U.S. was losing the information war to Russia Today (RT), as well as other English-language news sources owned by foreign governments. Arguably, however, what truly bothered Ms. Clinton wasn’t the idea that the U.S. has been losing the information war, but […]
Continue reading...It’s really Ukraine that’s sending young men to die on the front lines
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Thursday, February 26, 2015
The Western media’s latest tall tale is that Russia is supposedly tricking its greenest conscripts into ‘invading Ukraine’ under the auspices that they’re being sent to Rostov instead, and threatening them with detention in a military prison if they refuse. They got the idea right – young recruits being forced into a war they don’t […]
Continue reading...Is tolerance of dishonesty the fundamental problem in our culture?
By Eric ZUESSE (USA)
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
NBC-TV’s star news-anchor (America’s most popular) Brian Williams got caught repeatedly lying and fabricating his fake-‘courageous’ personal involvement in news stories that he had ‘reported.’ At LinkedIn, Rob Wyse headlined recently, “Brian Williams Essentially Lied on His Resume, Or Exaggerated The Truth,” and he noted there: “Whether you call it a lie, or an exaggeration — it is a breach of trust. […]
Continue reading...German sociologists on Crimea’s choice
By Konstantin KOSARETSKY (Ukraine)
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
A few days ago an interesting study, “The Socio-Political Sentiments in Crimea,” was released by the Ukrainian branch of GfK, the well-known German social research organization, as part of the Free Crimea initiative. Intriguingly, the primary objectives of this project, launched with the support of the governmental Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, were to “debunk […]
Continue reading...Warning: Suspicious Clintonites Rattle Sabers at Russia over Ukraine. War to Come?
By William DUNKERLEY (USA)
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Ukraine shot to the top of the U.S. news on Monday, February 2. In the proceeding week, the news had been occupied with a snowstorm that threatened to paralyze the U.S. Northeast; militant attacks, hostage situations, and death threats all involving Islamists; alleged NFL team cheating with soft footballs; chit chat over the upcoming Super […]
Continue reading...“Enigmatic Russia” And Its Detractors
By Michael AVERKO (USA)
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Periodically, some have engaged in what can be best described as “PoliSport”. (Years ago, I recall New York metropolitan area radio talk show host Steve Malzberg, using this term.) Such a route can prove to be faulty. This is especially true when some preferred Western mass media types do this against Russia. These instances can say more about the given commentator […]
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Monday, February 8, 2016
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