| tamas on Sat, 31 May 2014 03:58:49 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> putin, the odessa lynching, and the left |
War for some, politics, grand ambitions for others, fodder for propaganda for all, I certainly can agree with that. Tamas Banovich Postmasters Gallery 54 Franklin Street New York, NY 10013 917-400-2381 [email protected] postmastersart.com > On May 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Aleks <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2014-05-27 23:24 GMT+02:00 tamas <[email protected]>: > >> The real farcical part to me , besides the fact that some posts here are >> almost lifted from the RT Russian TV) Internet channel propaganda texts >> is that how Putin and his machine manages to disseminate their >> propaganda without people immediately seeing it in it's context. >> >> Russia is traditionally, regardless of the regime in power, has been a >> brutal imperialist state. Which each time without mercy stomps out any >> independence or 'separatist' movement within its border. >> >> I just saw a 'horror' video of 30 separatist bodies in the morgue in >> Ukraine on RT , yet I still remember the images when the capital of >> Chechnia was with all the civilians in it bombed to the ground not so >> long ago. Nobody seems to place the moral outrage next to those mass >> exterminations. > > War to some > This is war, man! And the Russians, like the Ukrainians, have learned a lot > from the Americans when it comes to war propaganda and covering atrocities > on national TV stations, print and online. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]