Yep, you guessed it ... "or something" :D Anyone who still has pride in "the Western MSM press" is surely rather shamed at this point in time, since even those paid to "spread the great Western propaganda machine" to our Russkie patriots have had to acknowledge that their efforts have had the opposite effect ... the typical non-English/ only-Russian reading Russkie, is absolutely convinced that "The West" is out to get them. Yep, "we"'re definitely spreading the Western "message"... One can quite rationally and seriously say that (from the cynical Western perspective), the Western MSM is literally doing the Kremlin's job for them. And of course, that warm hearted, peace loving movie star, Morgan Freeman, has only added to Russkie "trust" of the West, just as the Western MSM has been doing for years. You could barely script such satyrically improbable humour - except this is all -actually- happening, in real time, year after year, before our very eyes!! <mumbles under his embarrassed breath>Damn I wish I was Russian, this is so bloody embarrassing it's just, not, funny!<‼> ** Morgan Freeman's Russia-Hating Video Has Gone Viral - But Not the Way He Hoped http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=e49007fc5e&e=5110f4b440 ------------------------------------------------------------ by Paul Robinson on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 I once read that the founders of the website Inosmi.ru, which translates articles from the Western mass media into Russia, had hoped that by giving Russians access to Western journalism they would be able to convince them of the rightness of Western ways and of the values of liberal-democracy more generally, and thus rid them of their nationalist and anti-democratic urges. Unfortunately, said the article, Inosmi had had the opposite effect. Once non-English speaking Russians finally got the opportunity to read the over-the-top nonsense about Russia that passes for journalism in the Western press, they became more convinced than ever that the Western world was out to get them. Given such "comedy" if one can even call it that, it's just as well "The West's" "leading corporate lights" continue upholding "Western values" for the rest of the world to learn from - especially those "uneducated Russkies": ** Land of the Free? - Amazon Bans Book Critical of Hyper-Russophobe Bill Browder in US http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=8937c2e19a&e=5110f4b440 ------------------------------------------------------------ by Alex Krainer on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 Update: the book is still available on Amazon.fr (The Killing of William Browder) It is ironic that just today I posted an article about the paramount importance of free speech, which numerous government bureaucracies and large corporations in the West seek to suppress in their purported endeavor to police “hate speech.” (I assure you there’s not even a trace of hate speech in my book). Tick tock ... ** What Saudi King Salman’s Visit Means for Russia http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=6ca7bc6e12&e=5110f4b440 ------------------------------------------------------------ by M K Bhadrakumar on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 The forthcoming visit by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to Russia(October 4-7) carries great symbolism. Such poignancy is for several reasons – not merely because this is the first-ever visit by a Saudi monarch to Russia. The Soviet Union was the first country in 1926 to establish diplomatic relations with the Kingdom (which was known at that time as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd) but under heavy western influence, the Saudi side froze the relationship a decade later, and it remained so till the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Thankfully, looks like we might just not be all about to die: ** US and Russian Generals Met in Unprecedented Face-To-Face Syria Deconfliction Meeting http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=542989d3ea&e=5110f4b440 ------------------------------------------------------------ by Marko Marjanović on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 The US military has disclosed it has held the first ever meeting with Russian generals directing Russia’s military intervention in Syria last week. The meeting was held to try and ease the US-Russian rivalry in eastern Syria which threatens to turn into a military confrontation. “They had a face-to-face discussion, laid down maps and graphics,” in the first meeting of its kind, U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman in Baghdad for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the IS extremist group, told a Pentagon briefing.