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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReally SALON?! Chris Hedges?
Who have you become? 🤬
Link to tweet
It is unconscionable that @Salon is pushing Russian apologia from a propaganda agent of the Russian state.
musette_sf
(10,184 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,129 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)They can go fk right off. And take Peter Daou with them.
Useless money & media sellouts
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Chris Hedges is a well known Putin whore
Budi
(15,325 posts)JFC.
Wingus Dingus
(8,049 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Figures. Snakes find each other.
LenaBaby61
(6,965 posts)More reich-winged content on the site. Too much for my taste, so I'm reading Salon less often.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)Omnipresent
(5,620 posts)johnp3907
(3,723 posts)Next itll be: What was Ukraine wearing?
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Commentor noted. 👍
They couldn't find anything at all newsworthy to print?
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)They are here and there are more of them than we realize.
Budi
(15,325 posts)SALON. Something for everybody!
Now we know.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)They should become pariahs.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Thanks for all you do, DU!
Budi
(15,325 posts)When they went full backflip I do not know.
Did they sell off to a bigger billion$$$ Corporate structure along the way somewhere?
I haven't bothered with them since they went full anti-Democratic Party in 2015/16.
About the same time Putin made his propaganda media move.
Guess that answers THAT question.
"Money & Media"
dchill
(38,324 posts)You only have to exist in his brain.
Budi
(15,325 posts)"Money & Media"
LenaBaby61
(6,965 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,085 posts)obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,085 posts)See the song title.
lame54
(35,141 posts)lame54
(35,141 posts)obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)Why did the US buy it for her and make her wear it so I wanted to savage Ukraine. Not my fault!
This is the exact thinking.
intheflow
(28,407 posts)Hedges lays out his antiwar argument in the first paragraph:
Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis of lies and fabrications, as was the case in Iraq, or because of the breaking of a series of agreements with Russia, including the promise by Washington not to extend NATO beyond the borders of a unified Germany, not to deploy thousands of NATO troops in Eastern Europe and not to meddle in the internal affairs of nations on the Russia's border, as well as the refusal to implement the Minsk II peace agreement. The invasion of Ukraine would, I expect, never have happened if these promises had been kept. Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed and angry. But to understand is not to condone. The invasion of Ukraine, under post-Nuremberg laws, is a criminal war of aggression.
Lays more blame on Washington - under TFG - than Russia, and that rings true to me. The entire rest of the article is Hedges laying out the horrors of war. It's a very strong antiwar opinion, but the tweet is from someone who has "Zelensky" in their handle so I guess it can't be critically questioned or examined.
Closing paragraph of piece - NOT pro-Putin or Russia:
This provocation, which includes establishing a NATO missile base 100 miles from Russia's border, was foolish and highly irresponsible. It never made geopolitical sense. This does not, however, excuse the invasion of Ukraine. Yes, the Russians were baited. But they reacted by pulling the trigger. This is a crime. Their crime. Let us pray for a ceasefire. Let us work for a return to diplomacy and sanity, a moratorium on arms shipments to Ukraine and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the country. Let us hope for an end to war before we stumble into a nuclear holocaust that devours us all.
shrike3
(3,283 posts)I'm sorry, but I don't see how a sovereign country putting in a NATO base is baiting Russia to war.
betsuni
(25,137 posts)supposedly baiting Russia to war.
shrike3
(3,283 posts)jalan48
(13,798 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)Bad faith is its stock-in-trade.
betsuni
(25,137 posts)The permanent war economy is the root of the conflict with Moscow, Western companies and government will profit. The American press used bellicose rhetoric, demonized Putin, made Ukrainians "demigods." Russia was provoked and baited, but invading Ukraine is a crime. War is very bad. Let us pray for a ceasefire.
If the point of the article was the horrors of war, he should've discussed that without the passive-aggressive both sides thing.
Budi
(15,325 posts)SharonClark
(10,005 posts)writers but Ill never forgive them for H. A. Goodman, the Bernie-loving Hillary hater who went full on trumper, and Goodmans acolyte Walter Bragman.
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)I didn't know he'd gone over to the dark side.