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

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 11 13:26:01 PST 2006


You may already know this, but if you dont, the Washington Post specifically has former financial ties to exiled oligarch Gusinsky, and its Russia person, Anne Applebaum, is married to -- the Defense Minister of the current right-wing government of Poland!

--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 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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