These shameless propaganda champions were agog with mis/dis-information about 9-11 and WMD to mobilize public opinions to go to war with Afghanistan and then Iraq -- and continuing to do so in favor of illegal & downright criminal activities in Syria, Yemen, and Libya...
Selected Readers' Comments:
# Iv been watching international politics for years since I finished a degree in laws majoring in armed conflict and humanitarian law, and I can tell you categorically that the western media is corrupted by money making scandel. Very little actual journalism thesedays. The art is lost. I had not even been reading or watching RT until two years ago and had by way of in person knowledge formed this resounding opinion. There is certainly some bad articles on RT but there is a serious problem with global propaganda especially from the entrenched capitalist corners.
# I was a regular guardian (British media site) reader until I got tired of all the anti-Russian, anti-Chinese articles. Russia did this, Russia violated human rights in Syria, Russia should be sanctioned, Putin supports Trump, Putin is a gangster (US literally annihilated half the middle east, how dumb do you have to get to realize that). I will be reading RT from now on to see the other side of the image. It's really difficult to find objective journalism these days, here's to hoping that RT doesn't disappoint.
# while RT does offer an alternative view on world events, don't use it as a single source of information, the media is free but not objective. It's always for the better if you get your information from multiple news agencies, especially on global events.
# The articles against the U.S by RT are usually showing the public the lies being told by the U.S. RT usually supplies check-able facts to prove the point. The U.S. do not and expect people just to accept their propaganda as fact.
# There is no little Putin, only a great, wise and good one. You talk about expansion? I don't see any Russian troops in Europe, but we see tenths of thousands of US soldiers occupying Germany, Poland ...and telling us what to do. We are occupied by the US army.
# As a Scottish person in the UK, I have to pose the question, "Do you think that the majority of the UK believes the nonsense that we are fed by mainstream media?" These tabloid rags constantly undermine anyone who does not share their opinion. Witness the ongoing campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Opposition in British Parliament.
I don't know anybody who thinks that Russia is about to attack us or think that selling arms to the Saudis is a good idea. These right wing MP's do not represent the public opinion. Personally I have always been more afraid of the actions of the US over many years. The US has invaded 129 sovereign countries since WWII. They're about to get even scarier, given the choice of presidential candidates. Unfortunately, UK is tied in with the nutty American government. Again, I don't understand why based on the fact that US only joined both previous world wars late in the day and charged us exorbitant rates for lending us money which was only paid off a few years back. Some mates.
# Classical Western jealousy. Only works in the West by the way.
# That's all western media can do? Insult people? Well, apparently that's the level of their civilization. Disgusting!
# The Clinton camp getting mad at Putin's supposed interference with the U.S. election is ironic considering Bill Clinton and the CIA rigged the '96 Russian election for Yeltsin.
# Western Main Stream Media mainly report news and information their Government agencies give to them for parroting or paid news or pet ideals of their owners or masters. Very little unbiased news seen or heard in the last few decades and Rarely the give out both sides of the coin in any analysis.
# Pathetic it is a good thing some people are intelligent to relies that Russia have been going through the channel for decades it is because the media are trying to ratchet up tension to sell more papers it is a good that a number of people are beginning to read between the lines.
# Russia as a threat is needed perhaps for two main reasons: For the lobbyists of the arms industry and the military to influence the governments to increase significantly the budgets of the defense forces. To make the army again more important...
The EU is, as well know, in great trouble: Brexit, the EURO, Greece, mass immigration, TTIP - Russia is used to sidetrack from all these problems, to make all these crisis forget. In Western Media they are set apart, all the light is focused on Russia. And this is done deliberately to avoid public control, to do a lot of things unseen and unnoticed by the public at large. The sheer opposite of transparency and democratic control...
The blame of Russia is therefore just a symptom of their own crisis and their own undemocratic behaviour towards their own people...
And of course: the Europeans are doing so because the Americans told them to do so - to serve their interests in the world. Puppets, nothing else...
# light is focused on Russia and the dark evil empire that destroyed half the world is doomed, it became especially clear with the fall of the ussr, americans thought they could dictate the whole world which no nation could ever do... mania of arrogance.
# And western media in the U.S. is controlled by the Liberal-Socialists known as the Obama regime. Hillary is a part of the deceit and false promises and all the lies that are told to the Unaware and Compliant in the American citizenry. Also in our counterparts in Europe. What can be done about this? Talking and debating is good. Expose everything that is problematic on all sides. Then come to binding agreements and have honest people confirm everything.
# One of the largest Swedish newspapers 'Dagens Nyheter' too! They are complaining about how foreign media is giving a false image of Sweden while doing the same with Russia. Hypocrites!
# Why not Russia bring USA and it's puppet allies to the ICC on false flag WMD and destroyed Iraq and it's people.
# The Rotschild propagada and lies..they talking about how Iranian people has nit ENOUGH freedom in Iran..the Westerns lies, games and terrorism is also lack of freedom.
# This is what they did to Gaddafi in Libya, false flag WMD on Saddham Husaine in Iraq etc,etc before they invaded and murdered them.
The West is united spreading false propaganda against Russia on daily basis. Why not Russia start broadcasting it's own documentaries on 9/11, Iraq, Libya and Syrian conflicts etc,etc to show the world the other side of the story to the Western readers and viewers. Also gathering early intelligence a must.
# Its the gullibility of readers that fuel hysteria and if the public in the West were to do there homework and look deeper than is presented by the MSM they would see that the only threat to Western way of life is the USA and the world bankers. From what I see its only Putin who is speaking any sense...
# "Neutrality is impossible, ..." I wholeheartely agree with this paragraph. This is why I think journalists are legal targets in a war. They can spit prapaganda which can make you lose a war before the first bullet has been fired. They are soldiers in a war, even if they are telling the truth.
# West know only thing is how to manipulate ordinary people how to band people's mind to the wrong direction....this time its another reflection of manipulating just like they did in middle-east to Gaddafi, Saddam...
# West was always afraid development of Russia and did everything, to Russia was presented in a bad image. West rewrote the entire history of Russia and since then publishes only lie. When there is no ideology west goes to the person. Therefore, the word communism was replaced on by President Putin. Putin and Russia to the west - the largest and most dangerous enemy, so they will continue to frighten its readers.
# best thing one can do is stop only watching ZioMSM.
# the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Express all newspapers owned and run by Rupert Murdoch who is not and never has been a British citizen. He doesn't and never has spoken for the people of the UK. Many of us have always looked up to Russia and continue to do so. A great country with a rich history and many many important accomplishments for humanity. I hope the general public in Russia and Putin's government know this and don't believe the hate spewed out by Murdoch.
# It actually tells you everything you could ever wish to know about the AngloWest that they are lying and demonising in the most vile way imaginable the most moral, decent, honest man around in any political arena anywhere in the world today.
Evil, vile, stinking, the West deserves to go down in a hail of fire - as It seems to want.
# These certainly are interesting times we live in...as well as exciting. I do hope that cool and calm heads prevail and that logic and common sense will reign supreme in this troubled era. We don't need more wars and killings, so let's air kiss, shake hands and make up and help each other to improve our countries and the lives of our children and grandchildren. It's not too late, so let us ALL get to the business of fully eliminating Daesh off the face of the Earth. Forget ancient hatreds and envy. Help your fellow human and they will help you.
Between imaginary threats and hysteria: How Russia dominates Western headlines
RT: 20 Oct, 2016
Russia’s actions, both imaginary and real, recently became front
page news, as the western MSM reported on Vladimir Putin’s plans to
nuke Europe or about Russian warships in the English Channel. One UK
magazine even dedicated an entire issue to Putin.
However, the Spectator, a British conservative weekly with a total circulation of
about 71,700 copies, did not just engage in a Russia-bashing exercise
so characteristic of the UK tabloids lately, when it came out with a
cover featuring the Russian president.
The cover of the magazine, one of the oldest continuously published
magazines in English, plays on an iconic Soviet WWII poster, but instead
of Mother Russia calling on its sons to go to arms against the Nazi
invaders it features the Russian president apparently leading an army of
broadcasting dishes headed by RT at a media offensive. “Putin vs the world: He's winning, in propaganda and on the ground,” the cover proclaims.
The issue itself contains two long articles that that partly contradict each other. A piece by
Paul Wood elaborates on a usual western Russophobic fear – the
possibility of Russia invading the Baltic States and plunging the
continent into a war. It thoroughly describes fears of the Baltic States
as well as those of Sweden, Norway and Poland concerning potential “Russian threat.”
The
article refers to a number of sources ranging from Lithuanian President
Dalia Grybauskaite’s statements, in which she called Russian Iskander
missiles deployment in Kaliningrad region an “open demonstration of power and aggression against not [just] the Baltic states but against European capitals.”
Though in fact, the Russian missiles were deployed to the Kaliningrad region as part of an exercise that came as a response to the NATO drills across the border.
Then it goes on to describe what it calls “a future history novel”
called 2017: War with Russia by a retired British general, Richard
Shirreff and mentions a study by the Rand Corporation, which says that “a Russian invasion of Estonia and-Latvia would be complete in as little as 36 hours.”
The article is also constantly interspersed with horror stories about the “old KGB headquarters in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius” and claims that “one-third of [Lithuania’s] population killed or deported to Siberia during the-Soviet occupation.”
It is West that ‘worries,’ not Russia
However, the second article,
a piece by Rod Liddle, demonstrates a rare example of common sense as
its author asks what would happen if western politicians go too far and
actually imagine a perceived Russian threat.
“Today, when some
deranged Tory MP clambers to his feet and demands we start shooting
down Russian jets, it is evident to everyone that he is not joking,
merely idiotic and dangerous. But it is a gung-ho idiocy which is
catching. Every day sees a ratcheting up of the rhetoric against
Russia,” Liddle says, adding that “it is our side that worries me, not theirs,” referring to the UK and Russia.
The article goes on to reveal western hypocrisy as it draws attention
to the fact that the West is fiercely criticizing Russia for its
actions in Syria but now plans to do pretty much the same thing in the
Iraqi city of Mosul.
“What we have done in the name of dippy,
well-meaning, liberal evangelism has cost far more lives than can be
laid at the door of the Russkies and Vladimir Putin,” Liddle wrote,
referring to the actions of the US and its allies in the Middle East,
ranging from 2003 invasion to Iraq to bombings of Libya in 2011.
Western hypocrisy also spreads to the media sphere, the author of the
article says, as he mentions a recent scandal with NatWest bank that
chose to stop rendering services to RT UK due to apparent British
government involvement to silence a dissenting media outlet.
“There
is indeed direct government involvement. We try to harass and hopefully
close down a broadcaster because it is putting out stuff with which our
government disagrees,” he said, stressing that “the problem,
then, is not that they are spreading misinformation, but that Russia
Today is spreading truthful information which the UK government finds
extremely unhelpful.”
Mass hysteria
The balanced
approach The Spectator demonstrated in its coverage of Russia is
something new to the western MSM, which usually prefers to just
hysterically scream about Putin and how he and Russia threaten the
entire world.
Putin has virtually replaced Mike Pence as Donald
Trump’s running mate in the US presidential election, if you believe
Hillary Clinton’s campaign. On Monday, the Clinton camp released a video
explaining that.
A recent tour of duty performed by a Russian naval group also
provoked an excessively nervous reaction in the West as several European
countries prepared to intercept the group “if necessary” while the British daily The Sun came with a headline “THE
RUSSIANS ARE COMING: Vladimir Putin’s nuclear warships pictured
steaming towards the English Channel as Royal Navy prepares to scramble
fleet.”
Meanwhile, Reuters assumed that Russia “deployed
all of the Northern fleet and much of the Baltic fleet in the largest
surface deployment since the end of the Cold War,” even though the group included only a part of the Russian Northern Fleet.
Even stranger, the Daily Star reported that Putin is apparently
preparing to nuke Europe based on rumors claiming that Russian officials
and their families living abroad have been “urgently recalled” home in anticipation of “World War III.”
The BBC went even further and aired a TV show demonstrating a vision of the future compiled by “western strategists” in which Russia invades Latvia and then launches a nuclear strike on the UK.
The ongoing hysteria about Putin stirs up readers’ interest in Russia and makes it “a good selling subject”
for the western media, Freddy Gray, The Spectator deputy editor, told
RT, adding that the West’s overreaction to any Russia’s action is based
on “some deep psychic need for an enemy, which Putin is filling very neatly for us at the moment.”
Meanwhile, the chairman of Britain's oldest conservative think-tank,
the Bow Group, Ben Harris-Quinney, warned that the biased coverage of
Russia in the Western media can have dangerous consequences.
“The idea of World War III does sell newspapers and magazines. And is often the topic of Hollywood films,” he said.
However, he noticed that “something
has changed in the last year of two, in which I would describe as a
sleepwalk towards war or, certainly, conflict with Russia, which can be a
very dangerous side effect of this sort of coverage.”
“The question is how do we row back from this position? How do we engage with Russia in a way that isn’t fuelling aggression?”
‘Russia can be blamed for every evil’
Ellis Cashmore, a sociology professor at Aston University, Birmingham, told RT that while he believes “hysteria” is a term too strong, Russia has indeed become a universal scapegoat in the MSM narrative.
“It’s
a growing sense that Russia can be blamed for almost every evil in the
world at the moment. There has been this cultural shift practically
since Ukraine,” Cashmore noted. He added that Russia-bashing has
continued through the Rio Olympics and spread to coverage of the
conflict in Syria.
Cashmore says he experienced implications from
a biased attitude toward Russia first-hand when he, as a media analyst
and an independent commentator, said that Russia was “unfairly dealt with” in the build-up to Rio Olympics and Paralympics.
“My
e-mail and Twitter accounts were full of accusations that I was in a
pay of Putin, I was Putin’s mouthpiece, I was in love with Russia,” Cashmore said. “This is what independent comment gets you.”
In practice, there is no such thing as total neutrality and independence in media, Cashmore argues.
“Neutrality
is impossible, it’s a Holy Grail, simply a myth. There cannot be an
independent, objective, neutral position from which any media
organization operates from. Any news organization is always affected by
its position, history, its geographical center, the views and opinions
of its owners as well as its contributors, commentators and
journalists.”
# Iv been watching international politics for years since I finished a degree in laws majoring in armed conflict and humanitarian law, and I can tell you categorically that the western media is corrupted by money making scandel. Very little actual journalism thesedays. The art is lost. I had not even been reading or watching RT until two years ago and had by way of in person knowledge formed this resounding opinion. There is certainly some bad articles on RT but there is a serious problem with global propaganda especially from the entrenched capitalist corners.
# I was a regular guardian (British media site) reader until I got tired of all the anti-Russian, anti-Chinese articles. Russia did this, Russia violated human rights in Syria, Russia should be sanctioned, Putin supports Trump, Putin is a gangster (US literally annihilated half the middle east, how dumb do you have to get to realize that). I will be reading RT from now on to see the other side of the image. It's really difficult to find objective journalism these days, here's to hoping that RT doesn't disappoint.
# while RT does offer an alternative view on world events, don't use it as a single source of information, the media is free but not objective. It's always for the better if you get your information from multiple news agencies, especially on global events.
# The articles against the U.S by RT are usually showing the public the lies being told by the U.S. RT usually supplies check-able facts to prove the point. The U.S. do not and expect people just to accept their propaganda as fact.
# There is no little Putin, only a great, wise and good one. You talk about expansion? I don't see any Russian troops in Europe, but we see tenths of thousands of US soldiers occupying Germany, Poland ...and telling us what to do. We are occupied by the US army.
# As a Scottish person in the UK, I have to pose the question, "Do you think that the majority of the UK believes the nonsense that we are fed by mainstream media?" These tabloid rags constantly undermine anyone who does not share their opinion. Witness the ongoing campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Opposition in British Parliament.
I don't know anybody who thinks that Russia is about to attack us or think that selling arms to the Saudis is a good idea. These right wing MP's do not represent the public opinion. Personally I have always been more afraid of the actions of the US over many years. The US has invaded 129 sovereign countries since WWII. They're about to get even scarier, given the choice of presidential candidates. Unfortunately, UK is tied in with the nutty American government. Again, I don't understand why based on the fact that US only joined both previous world wars late in the day and charged us exorbitant rates for lending us money which was only paid off a few years back. Some mates.
# Classical Western jealousy. Only works in the West by the way.
# That's all western media can do? Insult people? Well, apparently that's the level of their civilization. Disgusting!
# The Clinton camp getting mad at Putin's supposed interference with the U.S. election is ironic considering Bill Clinton and the CIA rigged the '96 Russian election for Yeltsin.
# Western Main Stream Media mainly report news and information their Government agencies give to them for parroting or paid news or pet ideals of their owners or masters. Very little unbiased news seen or heard in the last few decades and Rarely the give out both sides of the coin in any analysis.
# Pathetic it is a good thing some people are intelligent to relies that Russia have been going through the channel for decades it is because the media are trying to ratchet up tension to sell more papers it is a good that a number of people are beginning to read between the lines.
# Russia as a threat is needed perhaps for two main reasons: For the lobbyists of the arms industry and the military to influence the governments to increase significantly the budgets of the defense forces. To make the army again more important...
The EU is, as well know, in great trouble: Brexit, the EURO, Greece, mass immigration, TTIP - Russia is used to sidetrack from all these problems, to make all these crisis forget. In Western Media they are set apart, all the light is focused on Russia. And this is done deliberately to avoid public control, to do a lot of things unseen and unnoticed by the public at large. The sheer opposite of transparency and democratic control...
The blame of Russia is therefore just a symptom of their own crisis and their own undemocratic behaviour towards their own people...
And of course: the Europeans are doing so because the Americans told them to do so - to serve their interests in the world. Puppets, nothing else...
# light is focused on Russia and the dark evil empire that destroyed half the world is doomed, it became especially clear with the fall of the ussr, americans thought they could dictate the whole world which no nation could ever do... mania of arrogance.
# And western media in the U.S. is controlled by the Liberal-Socialists known as the Obama regime. Hillary is a part of the deceit and false promises and all the lies that are told to the Unaware and Compliant in the American citizenry. Also in our counterparts in Europe. What can be done about this? Talking and debating is good. Expose everything that is problematic on all sides. Then come to binding agreements and have honest people confirm everything.
# One of the largest Swedish newspapers 'Dagens Nyheter' too! They are complaining about how foreign media is giving a false image of Sweden while doing the same with Russia. Hypocrites!
# Why not Russia bring USA and it's puppet allies to the ICC on false flag WMD and destroyed Iraq and it's people.
# The Rotschild propagada and lies..they talking about how Iranian people has nit ENOUGH freedom in Iran..the Westerns lies, games and terrorism is also lack of freedom.
# This is what they did to Gaddafi in Libya, false flag WMD on Saddham Husaine in Iraq etc,etc before they invaded and murdered them.
The West is united spreading false propaganda against Russia on daily basis. Why not Russia start broadcasting it's own documentaries on 9/11, Iraq, Libya and Syrian conflicts etc,etc to show the world the other side of the story to the Western readers and viewers. Also gathering early intelligence a must.
# Its the gullibility of readers that fuel hysteria and if the public in the West were to do there homework and look deeper than is presented by the MSM they would see that the only threat to Western way of life is the USA and the world bankers. From what I see its only Putin who is speaking any sense...
# "Neutrality is impossible, ..." I wholeheartely agree with this paragraph. This is why I think journalists are legal targets in a war. They can spit prapaganda which can make you lose a war before the first bullet has been fired. They are soldiers in a war, even if they are telling the truth.
# West know only thing is how to manipulate ordinary people how to band people's mind to the wrong direction....this time its another reflection of manipulating just like they did in middle-east to Gaddafi, Saddam...
# West was always afraid development of Russia and did everything, to Russia was presented in a bad image. West rewrote the entire history of Russia and since then publishes only lie. When there is no ideology west goes to the person. Therefore, the word communism was replaced on by President Putin. Putin and Russia to the west - the largest and most dangerous enemy, so they will continue to frighten its readers.
# best thing one can do is stop only watching ZioMSM.
# the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Express all newspapers owned and run by Rupert Murdoch who is not and never has been a British citizen. He doesn't and never has spoken for the people of the UK. Many of us have always looked up to Russia and continue to do so. A great country with a rich history and many many important accomplishments for humanity. I hope the general public in Russia and Putin's government know this and don't believe the hate spewed out by Murdoch.
# It actually tells you everything you could ever wish to know about the AngloWest that they are lying and demonising in the most vile way imaginable the most moral, decent, honest man around in any political arena anywhere in the world today.
Evil, vile, stinking, the West deserves to go down in a hail of fire - as It seems to want.
# These certainly are interesting times we live in...as well as exciting. I do hope that cool and calm heads prevail and that logic and common sense will reign supreme in this troubled era. We don't need more wars and killings, so let's air kiss, shake hands and make up and help each other to improve our countries and the lives of our children and grandchildren. It's not too late, so let us ALL get to the business of fully eliminating Daesh off the face of the Earth. Forget ancient hatreds and envy. Help your fellow human and they will help you.
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