Yes, I do actually read this stuff - honest - and concede.
Ok, accepted as intended!
The essence of what you contemptously and so widely call "propaganda" though, the real stuff anyway, is something that was refined by the BBC during WW2. What you broadcast/publish is on the whole faithful to fact and usually material not available to your target audience. People naturally tend to come to rely upon it as a source of "the truth". Even more so, if they're already heavily biased, as is the case here. Then ....................................you slip in the other 10%.
You first need to define propaganda?
Whether it is left or right, true or false, pro/anti ..... it is something that is propagated based on a one sided view. What I have always said is that once you look at both sides of the story you can then make a reasoned assessment. If I only ever looked at extreme anti-Western sites ..... then I don’t have a reasoned view, I am biased toward what I have read. But, strange as it may seem I often read MSM first, where it applies,(.....say the Daily Mail) and if the story looks interesting and on a subject I have views on, I will look to see what the ‘other sites’ say.
The skeleton is the same in virtually all cases only the skin is different. But when you start delving through the entrails you start picking up all the bits that the MSM story does not reveal. This is such a case! The MSM has ignored this leaked paper from within OPCW completely. IMO: The greater probability is that it is true ...... why, because it is from people who were actually there and did the engineering survey.
Why do I accept that rather than the fact the MSM has ignored this document, so it cannot be true? Because of the sources the MSM use for their version ..... The White Helmets and Bellingcat, both of whom are financed to the tune of several million a year by the US/UK/EU governments, so they are totally biased. Both also have a proven history of telling blatant lies which are inevitably exposed weeks/months after the event and no longer news worthy for the MSM.
Again, please show me any MoA articles critical of Russia/Syria/Iran/North Korea/Venezuela. If it were truly an unbiased and objective source then, surely............... Of course though - it's anything but.
NO ..... you are applying your bias! I don’t speak Russian, so I don’ read Russian MSM! The same applies to the other countries you mention but I am sure that Putin is criticised as is Assad and the Ayatollah’s ........ I agree that, going by what I read about North Korea, criticism is ‘verboten’ and attracts the ultimate penalty.
I can honestly say that if you look at the foreign policies enacted by the US and their allies and compare those with the known actions of Russia/Iran/China over the last 20 years, as far as I can see, none of the three have any reason to be condemned. They have not crossed their borders to attack anybody in that time, except for Russia in Georgia which was right on their border, a responsive action and as was conformed by investigations by the UN and the EU. I don’t think you could justify saying that about US/UK/NATO/Israel and their wars are in general thousands of miles from their own borders ....... If the US attacked Canada or vice-versa it would at least be on their own doorstep? But to send three Carrier battle groups thousands of miles into an already unstable theatre and announce sending another 120.000 troops to add to the 35,000 already in the region ..... that is deliberate provocation and can only be described as a threat to any chance of peace.
So the reason I don’t run down these countries as I do with the actions of the west is because I do not believe, based on ALL available evidence, that they are guilty of crimes against International Law, The UN Charter or International Conventions.
Why are we being so nice today? Do you think that perhaps there might just be a pork chop involved?
Try the Spare Ribs! I am always nice ..... until someone winds me up!
) doesn't confer independence if they all offer material of a similar ilk. If you have an anti-West view then they're places that you go in order to find articles and opinions supporting that stance. It reinforces my perception though of how lucky we are to live in the West, the freedoms we routinely enjoy, that people are able to go about these publishing activities - as indeed do we - from within, secure in the knowledge they need have no fears regarding the sort of retribution which they’d surely attract elsewhere in the world.
There will never be Watergate/MP's expenses type scandals in those countries. To the unblinkered that's an obvious, whether you speak Russian, Persian, Korean, Chinese or not.
