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DetlefK

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3. RT.com is interviewing conspiracy-theorists, Obama-haters, Alt-Right...
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:23 PM
Mar 2017

... and then they pretend that these people actually have a valid opinion on issues like US foreign-policy.
(EDIT: They once did an interview with a "former Pentagon-member". What they didn't mention was that he was fired for having contacts to an arms-dealer.
Or another time they brought up two Russians who were the victims of the unfair US justice-system... What they forgot to mention was that one was a big-time arms-dealer with an international arrest-warrant and the other one was a drug-smuggler.)

Or how about the historian who wrote an article for RT about the Balkans (summary: evil US is dragging Macedonia into NATO because imperialism), but whose entire reasoning would have collapsed if he had mentioned the brutal yugoslavian civil-war of the 1990s?

Or how about the blogger who praised Iran as being an independent country and free, free from western dictates, a vibrant and open country... where women get arrested if they dare to sing on a stage. A vibrant, open and free country where everything has to pass muster with a circle of septugenarian religious fanatics.

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