Excerpt: ...Lacking alternative images, broadcasters in Europe and the United States repeated Putin’s orgiastic Potemkin spectacle with little commentary and no serious rebuttal, other than to question a referendum held under the barrel of Kalashnikovs with no international observers allowed. A Big Lie repeated often enough becomes truth. Putin’s Crimean Big Lie has seeped into our consciousness. Maybe he’s right after all, we begin to think. Let’s just let it go. If that is how it works out, Putin has won big time...
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:02:48 +0000