So we should always be skeptical of the American government and assume they are lying 100% of the time, but always take what Russia, an authoritarian, right-wing, anti-lgbt, anti-free-press state says at face value? It is hard for me to believe that Putin had absolutely no knowledge or input in the Russian operations against the U.S. This is like arguing Chris Christie had no knowledge of Bridgegate. You claim demonization of leaders presages U.S. action in those nations and cite Venezuela. What, exactly, have we done there since we "slandered' Hugo Chavez? I'd say the state of Venezuela is mostly the fault of Chavismo and slumping oil profits and not secret CIA conspiracies to ruin the economy.
The example of Mossadegh gets brought up ad nauseum, as if no other nation similarly hatched plans to overthrow democratically elected leaders. This happened 60 years ago; we live in a different geo-political world. It's time to retire this old go-to example of American perniciousness.
Let me guess; the annexation of Crimea was a legitimate pre-preemptive strike to protect Russian civilians from an evil, Nazi Ukrainian government intent on murdering them? And I am sure the intervention in Syria is solely to fight ISIS and not at all to prop up Bashr Al-Assad while he slaughters his own people?
I don't understand why left-wing academics (and I consider myself very liberal) express the utmost skepticism towards the United States' foreign policy, yet bend over backwards to give the benefit of the doubt to authoritarian regimes (and right-wing ones at that!). That's not nuance; that's ideological dogma. That's assuming the worst of America and the best of vile regimes. The American goevrnment is guilty of many vile things in the 21st century (Iraq, Abu Gharib, etc). but I would hazard to guess that atrocities like this and worse happen fairly regularly in the nations that are being "victimized" by the American media. This is exactly what I am talking about Ewan Compton Hani Habra Patrick Neal Russell Julius
I've already heard CNN refer to him as a terrorist, as well as many news outlets outside of the Fox News-bubble. CNN pundits even reminded people that "this terrorist attack killed more people than the Boston bombing.", so progress in labelling, or at least some.
So we should always be skeptical of the American government and assume they are lying 100% of the time, but always take what Russia, an authoritarian, right-wing, anti-lgbt, anti-free-press state says at face value? It is hard for me to believe that Putin had absolutely no knowledge or input in the Russian operations against the U.S. This is like arguing Chris Christie had no knowledge of Bridgegate. You claim demonization of leaders presages U.S. action in those nations and cite Venezuela. What, exactly, have we done there since we "slandered' Hugo Chavez? I'd say the state of Venezuela is mostly the fault of Chavismo and slumping oil profits and not secret CIA conspiracies to ruin the economy.
The example of Mossadegh gets brought up ad nauseum, as if no other nation similarly hatched plans to overthrow democratically elected leaders. This happened 60 years ago; we live in a different geo-political world. It's time to retire this old go-to example of American perniciousness.
Let me guess; the annexation of Crimea was a legitimate pre-preemptive strike to protect Russian civilians from an evil, Nazi Ukrainian government intent on murdering them? And I am sure the intervention in Syria is solely to fight ISIS and not at all to prop up Bashr Al-Assad while he slaughters his own people?
I don't understand why left-wing academics (and I consider myself very liberal) express the utmost skepticism towards the United States' foreign policy, yet bend over backwards to give the benefit of the doubt to authoritarian regimes (and right-wing ones at that!). That's not nuance; that's ideological dogma. That's assuming the worst of America and the best of vile regimes. The American goevrnment is guilty of many vile things in the 21st century (Iraq, Abu Gharib, etc). but I would hazard to guess that atrocities like this and worse happen fairly regularly in the nations that are being "victimized" by the American media. This is exactly what I am talking about Ewan Compton Hani Habra Patrick Neal Russell Julius
I've already heard CNN refer to him as a terrorist, as well as many news outlets outside of the Fox News-bubble. CNN pundits even reminded people that "this terrorist attack killed more people than the Boston bombing.", so progress in labelling, or at least some.