Better watch out, Vlad. When Western propaganda throws an \u201c-ism\u201d at you, the gloves have come off. Think Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, communism, socialism, extremism and \u201cIslamic\u201d terrorism, for starters. After all, behind the Great Western Firewall, they are all the same thing, right?<\/p>\n
I have a friend whose email signature is \u201cBlame it on Putin\u201d. For a while, he changed it to \u201cBlame it on China\u201d. But that didn\u2019t last long and he recently changed it back. As we have seen with the most depressing predictability, President Putin, specifically, and Russia in general are the voodoo pin dolls of Western racism and demonization of another…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"economist-cover-putin-blue-black-skull-with-jets-for-eyes-16-10-21\"](\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Economist-cover-Putin-blue-black-skull-with-jets-for-eyes-16.10.21-228x300.png\")
<\/a>A recent cover and main article in the Economist<\/em>, pictured left, reminds me of just how hyperbolic and ideological is the West\u2019s propaganda against Russian President Vladimir Putin. While maybe good polemical fodder as a cartoon on the editorial page, the fact that this demonic caricature merits front cover status, indicates just how programmed and institutionalized Western mainstream media is. Westerners love to insult the Anti-West press for being \u201cparty organs\u201d and \u201cgovernment mouthpieces\u201d. But, why travel so far? They only need to stay home with their national New York Times<\/em>, Radio France<\/em>, and BBC<\/em>, to really appreciate Bernaysian psyops being passed off as serious journalism (as in Edward Bernays). I don\u2019t call it living behind the Great Western Firewall for nothing.<\/p>\n