The Boston Globe has The New York Times story Soviet-style propaganda in media fueling crisis.

In the past week, as the crisis in Crimea deepened, similar images have been running on Russia’s state-run television. Even for the Kremlin’s master propagandists, it is a tenuous stretch — but that’s of no matter. The enemy has been identified: It is the West, allied with “fascist mercenaries” in Ukraine.

The scale of Russia’s propaganda effort in the current crisis has been breathtaking, even by Soviet standards.

That’s rich.  The master of American propaganda calling out Russia on propaganda.  Wasn’t it the false stories in The New York Times that promoted us into invading Iraq?

The Russians couldn’t possibly worry about the fake threat of missiles being launched at their territory from their former satellites that have been enticed into NATO  like the Americans were worried about Russian missiles in Cuba being launched at us in the 1960s.

And those neo-Nazis that we are supposedly befriending in Ukraine – unfortunately that’s not propaganda, that’s true. I’d call the denial of that factor in Western Ukraine is the propaganda.  Didn’t we just read about this in an OpEd piece in The Boston Globe yesterday. (See my previous post Vladimir Putin’s enemies aren’t all good guys.)