I have posted all the foreign language articles, with (thanks to Google Translate) excerpts in English.
Imagine my surprise when this turned up in my inbox:
Sputnik?
Indeed, this Sputnik:
Sputnik (Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputnʲɪk]; formerly The Voice of Russia) is a news agency, news websites and radio broadcast service established by the Russian government-controlled news agency Rossiya Segodnya.[2] Headquartered in Moscow, Sputnik has regional editorial offices in Washington, Cairo, Beijing, London and Edinburgh; in Sputnik's Washington D.C. office, Peter Martinichev is the editor and Mikhail Safronov is the bureau chief.[3] Sputnik focuses on global politics and economics and is geared towards a non-Russian audience.[4] According to The New York Times, Sputnik engages in bias and disinformation,[5] and has been described by Foreign Policy magazine and the Centre for European Policy Analysis as being a Russian propaganda outlet.[6][7]
Sputnik currently operates news websites, featuring reporting and commentary, in over 30 languages including English, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, and several others. The websites also house over 800 hours of radio broadcasting material each day and its newswire service runs around the clock.[8][9][10] Alongside its news content, Sputnik also produces photo essays, live streaming, infographics, and public opinion surveys.[11][12]
Sputnik News is a successor to Russian state-owned RIA Novosti's international branch ("...outside Russia our agency will be branded as Sputnik, which sounds familiar, warm, swift and romantic..."), which became defunct in 2013.[11] Whereas RIA Novosti's output tended to emanate from a more concentrated base in Moscow, Sputnik's content is drawn from a number of international bureaux.
The nitty gritty of the article actually describes not just what’s in the headline, but a description of the Duty to Warn movement among mental health professionals in the United States:
This is far from the first time people have expressed opinions about Trump's mental condition.
In April, a group of psychiatrists — Dr. John Gartner, Dr. Bandy Lee and Dr. James Gilligan — met at Yale University to make statements about Trump. These three names appear over and over again on similar reports on the issue later on: a Newsweek report from October 14 — Gilligan and Gartner; a Newsweek report from October 24 — Gartner and Lee.
According to a Newsweek report on Coburn's statement, "some Democrats have […] explored ways to test whether Trump possesses the sanity necessary to hold the nation's highest political office. Six Democrats from both congressional chambers reached out to a Yale psychiatry professor to discuss the president's state of mind.”
Sputnik attacked the former senator's credibility because he was an obstetrician rather than a psychiatrist.
While major media websites such as Newsweek, the Independent and others underscore that Coburn is a "trained medical doctor," they omit the fact that Coburn is an obstetrician. That is, he specializes in delivering babies, so his point of interest lies pretty far away from the brain.
But they miss the point that what is significant is that, medical training and experience aside, Tom Corburn is a former Republican senator, without interpreting the meaning of the fact that he’s so conservative that he endorsed Roy Moore whose strongly anti-homosexual, anti-Muslim, and far-right views are well known.
What can we make of the following? Why does Sputnik say Coburn’s statement was alarming?
Tom Coburn, a former Republican senator, has made an alarming statement about US President Donald Trump. Discussing national politics with the New York Times, he was asked what it would take for the Republican party to stop supporting the president.
"We have a leader who has a personality disorder," he replied, without elaborating the medical opinion.
The last two sentences present some muddled logic:
"Over the past year, we have heard statements that Trump must be impeached over "Russian hackers," the "secret dossier," "obstructions of justice," you name it.
So that's what this is all about. In a way, psychiatry is the new "Russian meddling." Everybody's in on it!
I get it (I think I get it at least).... the new meme to attack Trump has nothing to do with Russia.... it's the new version of Russian meddling. Hmmm, I need some more coffee…