{"id":25015,"date":"2017-08-29T20:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T01:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25015"},"modified":"2017-08-29T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T01:47:34","slug":"inflating-the-russian-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25015","title":{"rendered":"Inflating the Russian Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inflating the Russian Threat<\/a><\/h3>\n
Exclusive:<\/strong> The U.S. mainstream media, led by The New York Times, has behaved as classic propagandists, hyping a Russian military \u201cthreat\u201d and promoting a new Cold War hysteria, as Jonathan Marshall describes.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Readers of the New York Times<\/em> have more to sweat about than hot summer weather in the Big Apple. The paper\u2019s chief military correspondent, Michael Gordon \u2014 co-author<\/a> of the infamous 2002 story about Saddam Hussein\u2019s \u201cquest for A-bomb parts\u201d \u2014 has all but warned that war in Europe could break out at any minute with the mighty Russian army.<\/p>\n

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New York Times building in New York City. (Photo from Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cRussia is preparing to send as many as 100,000 troops to the eastern edge of NATO territory at the end of the summer,\u201d he reported<\/a> last month with Eric Schmitt. Sounding like speechwriters for Sen. John McCain, they called the long-planned military exercises with Belarus \u2014 known as \u201cZapad\u201d (Russian for \u201cwest\u201d) \u2014 \u201cone of the biggest steps yet in the military buildup undertaken by President Vladimir V. Putin and an exercise in intimidation that recalls the most ominous days of the Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gordon and Schmitt added that this latest and greatest example of \u201cMr. Putin\u2019s saber-rattling,\u201d represents \u201cthe first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that so much offensive power has been concentrated in a single command.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many other Western news organizations have echoed this story, albeit with less alarmist rhetoric. NBC News warned<\/a> that \u201canother military challenge may be on the horizon\u201d as \u201cthousands of Russian troops and tanks are preparing to take part in what may be the country\u2019s largest military exercise since the Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reciting the same talking points almost verbatim<\/em>, the London Guardian<\/em> reported<\/a> days ago that \u201cRussia\u00a0is preparing to mount what could be one of its biggest military exercises since the Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Inflating the Russian Threat Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream media, led by The New York Times, has behaved as classic propagandists, hyping a Russian military \u201cthreat\u201d and promoting a new Cold War hysteria, as Jonathan Marshall describes. Readers of the New York Times have more to sweat about than hot summer weather in the Big Apple. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[149,6963,281,7430,1921,655,694,10632,827],"class_list":["post-25015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cold-war","tag-consortium-news","tag-europe","tag-jonathan-marshall","tag-new-york-times","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25016,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015\/revisions\/25016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}