Often the biggest lies involve what remains unsaid. For instance, U.S. media rarely mention such key matters as the promise-breaking huge expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the brazen U.S. intervention in Russia’s pivotal 1996 presidential election, or the U.S. government’s 2002 withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, or the more than 800 U.S. military bases overseas — in contrast to Russia’s nine.
Public reactions to an open letter from academics, journalists and politicians asking for co-existence with Russia show many Americans don’t buy the media’s bellicose spin, as Norman Solomon explains.
By Norman Solomon
Source: Consortium News
Throughout the day before the summit in Helsinki, the lead story on the New York Times home page stayed the same: “Just by Meeting With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead.” The Sunday headline was in harmony with the tone of U.S. news coverage overall. As for media commentary, the Washington Post was in the dominant groove as it editorialized that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is “an implacably hostile foreign adversary.”
Contempt for diplomacy with Russia is now extreme. Mainline U.S. journalists and top Democrats often bait President Trump in zero-sum terms. No doubt Hillary Clinton thought she was sending out an applause line in her tweet Sunday night: “Question for President Trump as he meets Putin: Do you know…
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You can understand why Russians might be uncomfortable with the provocative NATO and EU expansion into eastern Europe.
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But Alan we only want to bring them humanitarian democracy.
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Humanitarian, Tube? I’m confused. I thought it was capitalist democracy.
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DrB., capitalism is slavery. Everyone knows that now.
Humanitarian is the capitalist buzzword for “taking them to the cleaners”.
Some would say they get “pressed”. The essence of vulture capitalism.
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Absolutely, Alan. Reagan and Bush promised Gorbachev NATO wouldn’t expand.
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