Is Russia playing around with American politics? Look at "Pravda" for Zarq

[originalpckelly]

"Most Americans still naively believe the government through the media. Some insiders say that Al-Zarqawi was one of our assets and he had to be extracted because things were getting too hot for him with the fundamentalist Muslims.

Ask yourself one thing: 'If two five-hundred-pound bombs were in fact used to kill Zarqawi, where did they get such nice photos of his intact, undamaged, supposedly-dead face?' Photos of the 'dead' Al Zarqawi were all over the television every 20 minutes for days.

Because a thousand pounds of explosives would make a deep crater, blowing everything to smithereens, Zarqawi would have been tomato paste and not distinguishable as even human. Yet the media just happened to receive cameo morgue photos to convince us suckers that Zarqawi et. al. were dead instead of evacuated.

So, why doesn't the head of Al-Zarqawi look like a pizza? Because, perhaps, he's no deader than the at least seven so-called 9-11 hijackers that are still living in the Middle East."

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/20-06-2006/82243-Zarqawi-0

Dude, where's my RF? This sounds like something from the USSR. I am beginning to wonder if they are planting notions like this to hurt our country. I don't like *, but Putin is even worse. Dude! (And/or Dudette!) I have been worried about them since the Kursk. They let those men die because they acted like we and the UK weren't on their side. I mean we are all supposed to be happy buddies, this isn't something a person who likes our country would publish.

This is on top of a story someone else posted a few weeks ago, they played the "gun shots" (that turned out to be workers) like it was a coup attempt. Things are bad here, but they aren't that bad.

Back in the USSR was not a policy recommendation.

[Avalux]

1. Pravda isn't much better now than it was then.

Still not credible. Don't let it bother you; I'm not sure anyone takes them seriously. :hi:

[existentialist]

2. I agree, they're almost as bad as

Fox News.

[Avalux]

3. I've often compared the two.

In fact, this country is resembling the USSR more and more every day. x(

[Igel]

4. The online Pravda's actually

worse than the old written one. The old one was simply too boring for words, much less thousands of them.

I remember something about a split in the editorial staff, and I think the decision was that online vs. print would reflect the worker-run site versus the new owners/editors paper?

The worker-run site is just ... strange. The English is stranger than the Russian, IMHO.