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Oh, Russia! Even before we point fingers over poison and speculate about secret agents and spy swaps and pub food in Salisbury, one thing has become clear: Russia appears lost, a global menace, a moral vacuum, a far greater threat than it ever was during the cold war.Read this. It's from a respected "unbiased", liberal news outlet. It is the worst, most partisan political language I have ever heard, more heated and emotionally charged than even the most fraught moments of the Cold War. It is dangerous to the whole planet, and has no place in our media.
"The way to end homelessness is hardly to arrest people, keep them in prison for a time and then kick them out on the street again," Alston told HuffPost in a phone interview Friday. "That's a costly, vicious cycle. What we're doing is making it worse."Homelessness is on the rise in the U.S., an issue that's inextricably tied to a lack of affordable housing. But instead of investing in sustainable housing options and job retraining programs, which have proved to work and save taxpayer dollars, states continue to pass more laws that essentially make it impossible for people to escape the streets.
Comment: An excellent dissection of a propaganda persuasion article. The example should help all of us to identify the machinations of rhetorical undercurrents to undermine truth and reality in order to affect our baseline thinking processes and critical determination faculties.