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BrentWil

(2,384 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 12:57 AM Mar 2014

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Kremlin TV Loves Anti-War Protests—Unless Russia Is the One Waging War

RT is such a joke. The fact that it is taken seriously here is ridiculous.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116816/whataboutism-russia-protests-against-war-ukraine

But where are the pacifists, the ones who thing language isn't worth starting a war over? Russia Today generally takes an anti-war stance, right?

Well, oddly enough, RT has no coverage of the anti-war protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which, shockingly enough, were brutally broken up by police. In Moscow alone, some 350 people were arrested today. There were arrests in St. Pete, too. Here's what it all looked like, since you won't see it on Russia Today.

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Kremlin TV Loves Anti-War Protests—Unless Russia Is the One Waging War (Original Post) BrentWil Mar 2014 OP

I agree rt is propaganda. I still don't want a war though. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #1

It's not taken seriously here. Those who kept posting their articles shouldn't be taken seriously okaawhatever Mar 2014 #2

Have you seen this video of state brutality? MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #3

It was reported. That is the point. NT BrentWil Mar 2014 #4

During wartime I consider any media of the agressor country nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #5

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

1. I agree rt is propaganda. I still don't want a war though.

Reply to BrentWil (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 12:58 AM

Mar 2014

okaawhatever

(9,462 posts)

2. It's not taken seriously here. Those who kept posting their articles shouldn't be taken seriously

Reply to BrentWil (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 01:05 AM

Mar 2014

either. Didn't you notice that many of them were newish and so pro-Putin it almost seemed like they worked for the guy?

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

3. Have you seen this video of state brutality?

Reply to BrentWil (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 01:06 AM

Mar 2014

How do people live with such lawless repression of the right to peacefully seek a better life?

BrentWil

(2,384 posts)

4. It was reported. That is the point. NT

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 01:14 AM

Mar 2014

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

5. During wartime I consider any media of the agressor country

Reply to BrentWil (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 01:15 AM

Mar 2014

propaganda, that includes the NYT (Judith Miller anyone?)

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