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Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for bringing this article to our attention... MintPress Study: NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia Over Ukraine This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describe Putin as Hitler incarnate. by  Alan Macleod February 04th, 2022 W ASHINGTON –  Amid tough talk from European and American leaders, a new  MintPress  study of our nation’s most influential media outlets reveals that it is the press that is driving the charge towards war with Russia over Ukraine. Ninety percent of recent opinion articles in  The New York Times ,  The Washington Post  and  The Wall Street Journal  have taken a hawkish view on conflict, with anti-war voices few and far between. Opinion columns h

Thanks To Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article... America’s real adversaries are its European and other allies: The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia By Michael Hudson  The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime is aimed inward, to prevent America’s NATO and other Western allies from opening up more trade and investment  with  Russia and China. The aim is not so much to isolate Russia and China as to hold these allies firmly within America’s own economic orbit. Allies are to forego the benefits of importing Russian gas and Chinese products, buying much higher-priced U.S. LNG and other exports, capped by more U.S. arms. The sanctions that U.S. diplomats are insisting that their allies impose against trade with Russia and China are aimed ostensibly at deterring a military buildup. But such a buildup