Exploiting the Dead
Exploiting the Dead Alexei Navalny Is the New Great Hero of the West RYAN DELARME Arguably the biggest story being parroted and commodified in the corporate media these last couple weeks is the death of Russian “opposition leader” Alexei Navalny. I think it’s worth asking why, in a time where there are no shortage of domestic issues, are our media institutions dedicating so much time and energy to the death of a foreign activist? In case you somehow missed it, Alexei Navalny, who was cast as the West’s answer to Vladimir Putin, died in a Russian prison under extremely mysterious circumstances with most fortuitous timing . A litany of establishment partisan hacks, and just about every major corporate media talking head, have extensively discussed this event with uncanny emotional intensity, unanimously agreeing that it was a historically significant occurrence of gravity. Our readers understand that there is much more to the MSM today than simply turning a profit. Rather than informi