[OPE-L:8719] Iraq reports from Russia

From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 09:27:04 EDT


A recommendation from the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA).
In solidarity, Jerry


> * While this is outside our immediate domain, we do feel the dissemination
of
> information is important, and obviously the war in Iraq is on many of our
minds,
> and the focus of much of our active political efforts. Russian military
analysts
> and journalists have been making daily reports of the war since it began,
giving
> the world the kind of information which the US press censors every day,
> resulting in a main stream press that carries contradictory and sometimes
> blatantly false stories. We don't know that the Russian information is
airtight,
> but it provides a level of detail that we don't see elsewhere in the
press, and
> it strengthens the case to see that the Russian military is using its
espionage
> equipment and intelligence to tell the world what it understands as the
events
> as they unfold.
>
>     http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_022.htm (April 5)
>     http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_023.htm (April 6)
>
>  Be sure to check daily, as the reports are translated by the day. Note
that you
> can search back to the beginning of the war. All this material is
translated
> from the Russian only site iraqwar.ru.
>
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