Syria and the S-300s: Re-Centering the People in the Global Struggles for Power
(WorldNews Iran)

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world [....] No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity, much less dissent. - Gore Vidal, A View from the Diner’s Club, 1991 One of the most amusing elements of the current anti-Russian hysteria produced by U.S. state/corporate propagandists is the notion that Russia is this bold, aggressive challenger to `U.S. and Western interests` when the reality has always been the opposite. In the tumultuous period after the Soviet Union disintegrated, the Russian Federation emerged as the dominate power under the leadership of the clownish Boris Yeltsin. The...