Pete, there was a time when you had something intelligent to say. Alas. What I have or have not written is irrelevant. The issues I raised are all well established and if you bother to do the research you could find the data yourself. Just for the record, I am not Putin's mouthpiece, or anyone else for that matter.

Please respond if you have something to add to the discussion instead of smart alec put downs. Otherwise, well, there are lots of options.

Hi James O'Neill

I would be most grateful for a direct hyperlink to any article that you have written.

Regards

Pete

Pete, as I said earlier, what I have written is irrelevant. I was first published in a peer reviewed journal in the early 1970s. Since then there have been umpteen peer reviewed articles, two books, conference papers and contributions to online outlets. My last published article was in Counterpunch on 19 December 2014. It was widely republished around the world.

I respectfully suggest you focus on what Ms Cohn had to say. Trevor Timms has a recent article in the Guardian (UK) that is an important contribution to the debate. The editor of Spiked, Brendan O'Neill (no relative) also published an important editorial on 12 May 2014. Peter Dale Scott's last three books are important resources, and he takes the trouble to throughly document his argument with copious references to original sources.

There are a number of European websites, including Russian Insider, that publish a diverse range of articles, including many that run counter to their own editorial views, which is more than can be said for the vast range of Australian publications, including the present one.

As a publisher of a website you know better than most the value of evidence based arguments. For better or worse that is what I strive for to inform my comments. If someone has better evidence I am always glad to hear it.

Yep. Just another of Putin's useful idiots, ain'tya, Arjay.

>>The War mongering of the USA ,Britain and Israel has been common knowledge in the alternate media for some time<<

Amazing how the world turns, ain't it?

Once it was the European left-leaning "intelligentsia" who provided succour to the cold-war communist regimes. Now it is random non-thinkers from the ranks of the blind followers of "alternative" media who provide legitimacy to Putin's kleptocratic dictatorship.

"At home Russian media, which are mostly state-controlled, churn out lies and conspiracy theories. Abroad, the main conduit for the Kremlin’s world view is RT, a TV channel set up in 2005 to promote a positive view of Russia that now focuses on making the West look bad. It uses Western voices: far-left anti-globalists, far-right nationalists and disillusioned individuals. It broadcasts in English, Arabic and Spanish and is planning German- and French-language channels. It claims to reach 700m people worldwide and 2.7m hotel rooms. Though it is not a complete farce, it has broadcast a string of false stories, such as one speculating that America was behind the Ebola epidemic in west Africa.

The Kremlin is also a sophisticated user of the internet and social media. It employs hundreds of 'trolls' to garrison the comment sections and Twitter feeds of the West. The point is not so much to promote the Kremlin’s views, but to denigrate opposition figures, and foreign governments and institutions, and to sow fear and confusion"

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21643220-russias-aggression-ukraine-part-broader-and-more-dangerous-confrontation?

That all sounds mighty familiar, don't it.

Well put Pericles

To the Putin lovers of RT Useful Idiocy I give:

http://herbeat.com/55-photos-of-vladimir-putin-being-absolutely-ridiculous/

eg. http://herbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/vladimir_putin_5.jpg and

http://herbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/vladimir_putin_18.jpg

Get the trend?

Pete

Pericles, Vladmir Putin as an 85% approval rating while Tony Abbott has 24% approval rating. Putin is a nationalist who fights for Russia unlike our New World fascists who want the communist Agenda 21 and Lima Agreement for us.

The fact is that the criminal Zionist Rothschild Central Bankers control most of the World's Money and they create it as debt. The really big enslavement for us is they create inflation as debt and this destroys growth, wages, savings and spending capacity. We are seeing it now as inflation is on the rise.

These same banksters now have so much power that they control our Govts and most of our big corporations including the Murdoch Press.

Putin ,China with the BRICS nations are standing up to this debt oppression and you and your Zionist mates don't like it. Bad luck Pericles because the fascist Zionists are on the nose and people are becoming aware.