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There seems to be an awful lot of trolls glorifying China and demonizing Russia.

Say China is a totalitarian state, with concentration camps, and sells freshly harvested organs throughout the world, on any social media site, and someone will pop up claiming to live, have lived, or is otherwise uniquely familiar with the place... claiming it's just all lies and propaganda.

Say Putin is a decent human being defending the honor of Russia against the NWO and you get the opposite drivel you hear posted on this comment section.

I believe they are most all products from the think tanks Caitlin is talking about.

These same people are probably spending a great deal of their time editing Wikipedia.

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Another brilliant piece to your already brilliant body of work.

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The job listing seems a bit blatant for the New York Times. Where did it come from?

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Isn't this what Hannah Arendt called the "banality of evil?"

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Are you kidding me? The New York Times is doing it right. I’m from Russia, what is going on here is completely fucked up. Torture by law enforcement agencies has become a daily routine.

Do you want journalists to treat the authorities of my country with understanding and sympathy, because they are hate the West, democracy and human rights, but you do not want them to talk about how the terror of the authorities has become the norm in Russia?

Here is a post I made yesterday:

Torture of the police and special services in Russia is a common daily norm.

"Every tenth resident of Russia (the population of Russia is about 140 million people) faced violence or the threat of violence from law enforcement agencies. People are shocked, broken bones, stretching the body, sticking sharp objects, doused with boiling water, not letting them breathe. Almost all torture is associated with correctional institutions and law enforcement agencies. "

https://meduza.io/feature/2019/08/09/russkaya-shkola-yogi-kak-siloviki-pytayut-lyudey-v-rossii

(use Google translator)

It is almost impossible to bring executioners to justice, they themselves investigate their own cases and there is one criminal case for every 50 allegations of torture; in many regions of Russia there is not a single criminal case for hundreds of allegations of torture. But even if an investigation is carried out, it is always established that there was no torture.

In the European Court of Human Rights, Russia has become the anti-leader in terms of the number of lost cases, most of the decisions (over 100) were made on torture. But an absolutely insignificant number of cases reach the European Court.

https://www.znak.com/2019-01-24/rossiya_vozglavila_antireyting_stran_po_chislu_zhalob_i_proigrannyh_del_v_espch

If you are so worried about the objectivity of journalism, please see what is happening with journalists in Russia:

The editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod edition of KozaPress, Irina Slavina, wrote on her Facebook on the afternoon of October 2: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death,” put an end to it, and a few minutes later set herself on fire on a bench outside the building of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs. Slavina died on the spot, she was 47 years old. She was driven to self-immolation by the incessant terror on the part of the authorities and law enforcement agencies:

https://www.dw.com/ru/gibel-iriny-slavinoj-chto-govorjat-o-zhurnalistke-ee-druzja-i-kollegi/a-55148528

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