Yesterday I opened a local paper to the editorial page to find a black caped ghoul staring back at me. The cartoonist had scrawled “Putin” on the cape and placed the sign for radioactivity in his outstretched hand.
Justin Raimondo on the media’s rush to blame Putin for the death of Alexander Litvinenko.
The Litvinenko Mystery
We don’t know who killed him – but we’re pretty sure who didn’t
by Justin Raimondo, 29 November 2006, Antiwar.com
The horrific murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-KGB officer and minor conspiracy theorist, has unleashed a wave of Russophobia that is sweeping over the Western media with Katrina-like force – washing away reason, logic, and the natural curiosity that makes for good investigative journalism. In their rush to convict Russian President Vladimir Putin as the evil mastermind behind this grisly death, Western journalists don’t seem to need all that many facts to condemn Putin as a murderous fiend. Litvinenko was a critic of Putin, he was subsequently poisoned in a horrible manner – and what more do we need to know? Apparently, nothing. [Read more.]