Published: November 9, 2012
MOSCOW — The motive behind the 2006 murder (click here) of Anna Politkovskaya, a veteran reporter who was an unstinting critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was to instill fear in the country’s journalists, a top criminal investigator said in an interview published Friday. It was a bleak assessment of a case that remains unsolved six years after Ms. Politkovskaya was shot at point-blank range as she arrived home from grocery shopping....
How much of the world can actually emulate democracy? Right now. Today. In 2014. What is possible and how much is hatred of authoritarian government breeding criminal elements?
But, more than that. How much of the hatred feeds the USA military industrial complex? What would the USA do, if Russia were to immediately become a USA state, with Chechnya? Would simply changing the flag change the reality on the ground? If all surveillance of these regions of the world immediately ended would the danger to civilization end as well?
Freedom of the press has over extended itself in their thirst for political controversy, ie: 2012 Olympic plane flights, endangering millions of people in the face of ambition.
There is a point in which the press imposes the demand for change by the people it serves whereby danger is more the outcome than benevolent change. Why isn't that realized? Why is it okay to push past the 'words' of peaceful change rather than radicalization?
Oh, I forgot, it isn't journalism's responsibility to discern inappropriate reporting. Really? Then why are whistleblowers necessary and acting on their own radicalized against their government? How much of Wall Street is published everyday to expand profits? How much of that is adhered to for political ambitions? Then how much actually causes wars, ie: Iraq?
When the people of Russia observe the USA, it sees wealth. It doesn't see the impoverishment of the Middle Class and the destruction of unions that impact the Middle Class. When the wealthy become bored they want power and turn to politics for their personal ambitions. One might note that isn't the reason for President Obama. He hadn't practiced long enough in his profession to be filthy rich and bored.
If a semi-democratic candidate won in Russia, what exactly would it look like, because the most recent challenger, after the election was over, stated, "He would never be able to naviagate the Russia bureaucracy." So, what exactly would a 'semi-democratic' Russia look like? Wall Street? Would that stop the violence? If the impoverished of Russia were exposed to Wall Street demands as exists in the USA today, does anyone actually believe there would be less violence in Chechnya? I seriously don't think so.
So, what is the profession doing to push change without radicalizing the people that make headlines and end up dead within that paradigm?
