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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)28. Counterpunch - Russian propaganda or not - is a shit website.
Here's them defending Pol Pot:
The Pol Pot the Cambodians remember was not a tyrant, but a great patriot and nationalist, a lover of native culture and native way of life. He was brought up in royal palace circles; his aunt was a concubine of the previous king. He studied in Paris, but instead of making money and a career, he returned home, and spent a few years dwelling with forest tribes to learn from the peasants. He felt compassion for the ordinary village people who were ripped off on a daily basis by the city folk, the comprador parasites. He built an army to defend the countryside from these power-wielding robbers. Pol Pot, a monkish man of simple needs, did not seek wealth, fame or power for himself. He had one great ambition: to terminate the failing colonial capitalism in Cambodia, return to village tradition, and from there, to build a new country from scratch.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/18/pol-pot-revisited/
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It's come to the point that now anything we read on the internet could be fake
kimbutgar
Nov 2016
#9
The US has just had its presidential election provably hacked/damaged by Russians...
Hekate
Nov 2016
#19
So an anonymous site wants to repress other websites, incl. Truth-out, and some people
suffragette
Nov 2016
#37
Maybe the answer is to keep your critical thinking faculties active and factcheck stories.......
LongTomH
Nov 2016
#21
I see JPR as more of an ongoing identity crisis and less of a "fake Russian news" site
Miles Archer
Nov 2016
#32