/region/north_america/the-return-of-george-orwell-big-brothers-war-on-palestine-ukraine-and-truth-01772/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:33:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 /region/north_america/the-return-of-george-orwell-big-brothers-war-on-palestine-ukraine-and-truth-01772/#comment-24364 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:38:26 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=43618#comment-24364 It is a bit bizarre that an article lamenting a “war on truth” portrays Russia and Putin as some sort of benevolent victim; what of the massive state-media apparatus in Russia? While the media landscape in Western countries is highly imperfect, there still exists a free and democratic space. This website is an example of that. No such space exists in Russia. The author’s failure to acknowledge that undermines his critique.

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