Sometimes in the midst of all the hard news out there it’s nice to read an opinion piece, one where the writer isn’t afraid to lay down the law and tell it like it is.

Now there is no shortage of hard news stories covering the G7 Summit in Germany, a meeting of political leaders from France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Media outlets around the world pull quotes from the political bigwigs and there is a generally pervasive anti-Russian sentiment. That’s not exactly unfounded given their recent behaviour, mind you, but it makes a nice change to read an opinion piece by someone who clearly doesn’t tow the popular line.

Meet Neil Clark, a highly-respected political writer who runs a left-leaning blog and regularly features in The Guardian, New Statesman and the Daily Telegraph. He isn’t as won over by the verbal placating of those attending the G7 Summit. His piece on RT.com, titled ‘Gee – What a load of hypocrisy and humbug at the G7‘, had some choice words to say on the Russia-bashing taking place at the summit:

Was it the “values” of endless warmongering, which has seen key members of the G7 bomb, invade, attack and destabilize the Middle East, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and untold human misery?

Or perhaps it was the “values” which saw many of the G7 powers sponsor and support an illegal coup against a democratically elected government in Ukraine, in which neo-Nazi thugs played a prominent part?

Or the “values” of supporting Israel in their brutal assault on Gaza last year, in which over 2,000 people, many of them women and children, were killed.

If these really are the “values” Tusk is referring to, then Russia is surely better to distance itself from such a group…

The one good thing about the G7 conference of hypocrisy and humbug is that it’s all over fairly quickly. Russia should not feel aggrieved at not being invited, but pleased that it missed out. This is a club of yesterday’s men and women that has never been so out of touch with the views of ordinary people.

People in the G7 countries want jobs (proper jobs, not McJobs), an end to warmongering and Russia-bashing and to economic policies that only benefit the 1 percent. But the G7 leaders aren’t listening. All they provided was just more of the same old claptrap that will certainly please the western elites and Washington hawks, but no one else.

This is one opinion piece that is certainly worth getting stuck into. Give it a read HERE and enjoy a chuckle along the way.

[source:rt]