MICHAEL WALSH: Any stomach-turning appraisal of Britain’s mainstream media invites the thinking person to ask, ‘just what illegal substances are these editors and journalists on?’

In the world today there are 195 countries in the world and all but a handful of those making up the Western Alliance are getting on fine with each other and enjoying peace. Russia, remember has 14 borders with 14 neighbours – again, the Russian Federation gets on well with all – except, you guessed it, those of the NATO West which constantly threatens and sanctions the world’s largest and mineral-rich country in the world.

Russia has never threatened Britain. However, the governing self-styled but deeply unpopular Westminster regime, in partnership with the largely alien-owned or managed mainstream media is obsessed with threatening post-Soviet Russa.

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The much-provoked Russians do have the means to turn the UK into a glass-strewn parking lot if it is attacked by NAT or its member states. Russian parliamentarian Frants Klintsevich doesn’t mince his words. “Britain’s threat deserves a tough answer.”

The First Deputy of the Russian Defence Committee adds: “Russia cannot conquer Europe or the US through invasion or occupation. It is absolutely evident and thus pointless to do so. It is high time to remind (London) of the vulnerability of its territory, which could be literally wiped off the face of the earth.”

Russia is perfectly entitled to react to the then British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon threats to use nuclear weapons pre-emptively. This privately educated idiot never held a proper job, ran a business and never wore anything but a school uniform. Yet, without feeling it necessary to give reason or consult the people, he absurdly threatens the annihilation of the world’s second most powerful nuclear-armed superpower.

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Britain’s infamous ‘if it bleeds it leads’ red top tabloids took up the cry. The American-Jewish-owned Daily Mail: ‘So how do you like it, Vlad?’ This same hapless newspaper had earlier confused Latvia on the Baltic Sea with landlocked Mordovia which is situated 1,500km distant.

Déjà vu: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on August 16, 1939: “History will judge the Press generally to have been the principal cause of war.”

Alexander Khrolenko takes a more positive view. The international affairs analyst says the main purpose of war rhetoric is to drive up arms sales. Sardonically, he alludes to taxpaying Britons paying for war with their incinerated ashes or their tax obligations.

Until they are elected British MPs are a run-of-the-mill lot who aren’t particularly wealthy. However, after their being elected, 78% of MPs are millionaires. Why? Because MPs and the Lords pass legislation that favour corporate interests. Then, having made trading conditions favourable they invest in corporations including the taxpayer-subsidised armaments industries.

Senators who voted to attack Syria received 83 per cent more campaign money from military contractors than lawmakers voting no.

The West’s legislators and heads, editors and journalists of state-controlled corporate media should have their investments carefully scrutinised. I would put money on it so that their slime trail leads straight to their stockbroker’s office. The fact is, every time you vote for politicians you vote for war. IF YOU CARE SHARE