[lbo-talk] What's Lies Behind the West's Russia Phobia?

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 11 11:17:59 PST 2006


The mystery-shrouded poisoning incidents are interesting; there's no denying that.

Much more intriguing however is the Western media's reaction, particularly in the UK. It seems like a sort of poorly medicated hysteria -- barely under control and always scant moments away from a public outburst.

If you were naive enough to take seriously the grim pronouncements coming from the UK-based Guardian and the American Washington Post -- to cite two noisy examples -- you could be forgiven for imagining passionately freedom-loving Western journalists and a few Russian Putin haters as being all that stood between us and a Moscow-conjured abyss.

What's going on here?

Why are many (most?) Western news organizations so heavily invested in portraying Russia in the bleakest terms possible?

Cui bono?

.d.



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