Putin Is Demonized While Democracy Fails In Amerika ~ Paul Craig Roberts

Propaganda and the art of it's persuasion, understood for what it is in it's full context by Paul Craig Roberts.
This is a MUST read.

The latest “rights group” to jump on Russia’s President Putin about Pussy Riot is RootsAction. Following the propaganda line that Washington has established, RootsAction’s appeal for money and petition signers states that the three Russian women were sentenced to two years in prison “for the ‘crime’ of performing a song against Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in a Moscow church.”

This statement is a propagandistic misrepresentation of the offense for which the women were tried and convicted.

I have expressed my sympathies for the convicted women, and as a member of Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union, I support human rights.

But I do not support the use of human rights organizations in behalf of Washington’s propaganda.

If Putin or some other official has the power to commute the sentences, I hope he uses it. But I do not think that the concerted Western propaganda campaign against Putin encourages that result. Twice as many Russians support the sentence than oppose it.

If the sentence is commuted in response to the Western propaganda campaign against Putin,

Netanyahu slams 'disgrace' of Tehran summit

The use of the word Houlocaust, as well as that of the word anti-semitic, need to be addressed a little later on.
And I will get to it.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed the wide international participation at a Non-Aligned summit in Tehran as a "stain on humanity" following Iran's denial of Israel's right to exist.

"Today, over 120 countries are in Tehran, saluting a regime that not only denies the Holocaust but pledges to annihilate the Jewish state, brutalises its own people, colludes in the murder of thousands of innocent Syrians and leads millions in chanting 'Death to America, death to Israel'," he said.

"So many in the international community appear to have learned nothing. I think this is a disgrace and a stain on humanity," Netanyahu said in a statement.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon, in Tehran for the summit of the 120-member

US Ready to Back Bigger EU Stability Fund: Official

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40454469

Them officials in Washington better shut up!
2 million people are falling off of unemployment with no extension left.
Giving up to the IMF again at this point is a humongous bitch slap, that ain't gonna be taken to lightly.
And if that wasn't enough to already think about, here's a little more, just how much less will your dollar buying power now be?


The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money from the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.

War game shows how attacking Iran could backfire

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/2...k=omni_popular



Here's a war game involving Iran, Israel and the U.S. that shows how unintended consequences can spin out of control:

With diplomacy failing and precious intelligence just received about two new secret Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Tehran's nuclear complex. The strike is successful, wiping out six of Iran's key sites and setting back its suspected quest for a bomb by years.

But what happens next isn't pretty.