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Igel

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6. Because they like the agitprop.

Sat Sep 13, 2014, 11:40 AM

Sep 2014

It fits their narrative. US evil, everybody else good.

Russia provides the same narrative. Even the nice "heil Hitler" salute. Although who he'd be "heiling" is a mystery. It was a salute, but he'd be saluting photographers that he'd already have saluted. Or a crowd, assuming that would would amass in front of him and be walking backwards.

Novosti, the "information service" that really just serves the Kremlin, the basis of RT.

Oddly enough, for all the complaining about how horrible the Ukr media is--it's not, not really--RIA Novosti has a Ukrainian service that is available to all Ukrainians, not blocked, and is really just RIA Novosti's Ukrainian feed. It's less polemical than Russian 24 or Channel 1, but not by much. As long as it's not openly calling for overthrowing the Ukrainian government, it's allowed. (Which is far more freedom than the apparently freedom-loving Russian government allows. Or has allowed for at least a decade.)

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Even if Yats "Popular Front Party" loses . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #1

Y'know, the one thing that fascinates me about your consistent anti-fascist statements RiverNoord Sep 2014 #2

Because they like the agitprop. Igel Sep 2014 #6

Those people we are talking about, Yats allies . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #10

All 1% Duckhunter935 Sep 2014 #27

Russia is not my cause, and they are responsible for their own crimes . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #9

I think I understand your perspective better now - thanks. RiverNoord Sep 2014 #36

I believe Putin will have all of Ukraine by the end of next ballyhoo Sep 2014 #3

Putin doesn't want all of Ukraine cosmicone Sep 2014 #4

I used to think that too, but because of exactly what you ballyhoo Sep 2014 #5

Putin shouldn't want any of Ukraine. It's not his country to tell what to join and what not to join. pampango Sep 2014 #13

Putin can do whatever he wants in Kiev since a Western Power came in ballyhoo Sep 2014 #15

No he can't. Last I checked he is not the president of Ukraine so he can't do anything in Kiev. pampango Sep 2014 #19

I suggest you find and read Paragraph 3 of the Budapest Memorandum ballyhoo Sep 2014 #21

The EU offered a deal; Yanukovich rejected it. That's economic coercion? pampango Sep 2014 #34

Only Crimea unless they are forced into a war, in which they ballyhoo Sep 2014 #35

It has already been established that you are a fan of idealism cosmicone Sep 2014 #33

Except Ukraine was Duckhunter935 Sep 2014 #28

America from 1950 to 1960 - you mean 1950 - December 1954 - the Mccarthy years - karynnj Sep 2014 #7

An issue for you--not me. I was too busy eating non-GMO food, playing ballyhoo Sep 2014 #16

As I was born in 1950, it was in high school that I learned who McCarthy was karynnj Sep 2014 #23

McCarthy ended in 1956. That left four years of ballyhoo Sep 2014 #25

You condemn all teachers because your daughter had some bad ones? karynnj Sep 2014 #29

I was with those protesters in the sixties all over ballyhoo Sep 2014 #31

Great place to be ? R3druM Sep 2014 #8

Absence of police brutality. Lying in government confined to a few. Better educations for Americans, ballyhoo Sep 2014 #12

Absence of police brutality --- did you forget the coverage of the police attacks on peaceful karynnj Sep 2014 #30

I was in Meridian, Mississippi. I saw it first-hand. It was NOT like ballyhoo Sep 2014 #32

Now that the American Empire has Ukraine in its greedy clutches . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #11

I think many of those things are going to happen next ballyhoo Sep 2014 #14

Did you see that Michael Moore interview video clip posted recently? another_liberal Sep 2014 #17

That's what I'm talking about. The rich have drained money from the people right under ballyhoo Sep 2014 #18

Like you said . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #20

You have a fine mind, AL, and ballyhoo Sep 2014 #22

A beautiful thought . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #24

Uh oh, looky here...... ballyhoo Sep 2014 #26