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In contrast, Russia Today reaches 400 million viewers globally. It presents real news, information and analysis. So does Voice of Russia, reaching 110 million in 160 countries.
They report Occupy Wall Street protests across America accurately. America's media first ignored them, then became dismissive, and now belittle what hopefully may become a national mission for progressive change.
On October 5, tens of thousands of New York Occupy Wall Street protesters (by far the largest assembly so far) faced brutal police violence. It's what cops do, acting as "enforcers for crime bosses" as Gerald Celente explains.
The New York Times and other major media gave it scant coverage, focusing mostly on presidential politics, the economy, and various other topics unrelated to major world and national issues, especially on television.
"Obama will have to find ways to continue working with Mr. Putin. He will also have to be ready to speak out, clearly and forcefully, when (he) bullies his own citizens or his neighbors. There can be no illusions about who Putin really is."
Fact check
Obama solely represents wealth and power, scorns democratic values, defiles rule of law standards, and threatens wars against independent leaders, lurching from one to another.
Putin and Medvedev understand the threat. Times writers support it.
On September 30, a Mark Kramer Times op-ed headlined, "The Past and Future Putin," quoting a line from an old song titled, "Won't Get Fooled Again," saying:
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