In The West Respect for Truth No Longer Exists — Paul Craig Roberts
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In The West Respect for Truth No Longer Exists
Paul Craig Roberts
The Western media have proved for all to see that the Western media
comprises either a collection of ignorant and incompetent fools or a
whorehouse that sells war for money.
The Western media fell in step with Washington and blamed the downed
Malaysian airliner on Russia. No evidence was provided. In its place
the media used constant repetition. Washington withheld the evidence
that proved that Kiev was responsible. The media’s purpose was not to
tell the truth, but to demonize Russia.
Now we have the media story of the armored Russian column that
allegedly crossed into Ukraine and was destroyed by Ukraine’s rag-tag
forces that ISIS would eliminate in a few minutes. British reporters
fabricated this story or were handed it by a CIA operative working to
build a war narrative. The disreputable BBC hyped the story without
investigating. The German media, including Die Welt, blared the story
throughout Germany without concern at the absence of any evidence.
Reuters news agency, also with no investigation, spread the story.
Readers tell me that CNN has been broadcasting the fake story 24/7.
Although I cannot stand to watch it, I suspect Fox “news” has also been
riding this lame horse hard. Readers tell me that my former newspaper,
The Wall Street Journal, which has fallen so low as to be unreadable,
also spread the false story. I hope they are wrong. One hates to see
the complete despoliation of one’s former habitat.
The media story is preposterous for a number of reasons that should be obvious to a normal person.
The first reason is that the Russian government has made it
completely clear that its purpose is to de-escalate the situation. When
other former Russian territories that are part of present day Ukraine
followed Crimea, voted their independence and requested reunification
with Russia, President Putin refused. To underline his de-escalation,
President Putin asked the Russian Duma to rescind his authority to
intervene militarily in Ukraine in behalf of the former Russian
provinces. As the Russian government, unlike Washington or EU
governments, stresses legality and the rule of law, Russian military
forces would not be sent into Ukraine prior to the Duma renewing Putin’s
authority so to do.
The second reason the story is obviously false is that if the Russian
government decides to invade Ukraine, Russia would not send in one
small armored group unprotected by air cover or other forces. If Russia
invades Ukraine, it will be with a force capable of rolling up the
rag-tag Ukrainian forces, most of which are semi-private militias
organized by nazis. The “war” would last a few hours, after which
Ukraine would be in Russia’s hands where it resided for hundreds of
years prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Washington’s
successful efforts in 1991 to take advantage of Russian weakness to
break apart the constituent provinces of Russia herself.
The third reason that the story is obviously false is that not a
single Western news organization hyping the story has presented a shred
of evidence in its behalf.
What we witness in this fabricated story is the total lack of integrity in the entirety of
the Western media.
A story totally devoid of any evidence to support it has been
broadcast world wide. The White House has issued a statement saying
that it cannot confirm the story, but nevertheless the White House
continues to issue accusations against Russia for which the White House
can supply no evidence. Consequently, Western repetition of bald-faced
lies has become truth for huge numbers of peoples. As I have emphasized
in my columns, these Western lies are dangerous, because they provoke
war.
The same group in Washington and the same Western “media” are telling
the same kind of lies that were used to justify Washington’s wars in
Iraq (weapons of mass destruction), Afghanistan (Taliban = al Qaeda),
Syria (use of chemical weapons), Libya (an assortment of ridiculous
charges), and the ongoing US military murders in Pakistan, Yemen, and
Somalia.
The city upon the hill, the light unto the world, the home of the
exceptional, indispensable people is the home of Satan’s lies where
truth is prohibited and war is the end game.
Update: After pretending that the Russian
humanitarian truck convoy contained a hidden invasion force, the stooge
Kiev government was forced by facts on the ground to officially
acknowledge that the trucks only contained aid for those that the Kiev
stooge government has been bombing and attacking with artillery. http://rt.com/news/180844-ukraine-recognizes-russia-humanitarian-aid/
Putin Should Send Troops Into Ukraine — Finian Cunningham
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Guest Column by Finian Cunningham
Putin Should Send Troops Into Ukraine
Reposted from Debbie Menon’s My Catbird Seat
Finian Cunningham’s title will strike propagandized Americans as
strange, as according to Washington Russia has already sent troops into
Ukraine.
Whether one agrees with Cunningham’s advice to Vladimir Putin, Finian’s
denunciation of the mendacity and inhumanity of Washington, its NATO
puppet governments, and the entirety of the Western media is on the
mark. It is an extraordinary thing that the US government, which
markets itself as a light unto the world, the Great Policeman who
defends, alone among nations, human rights everywhere, is in brutal fact
a cruel, inhumane, vicious murderer of peoples all over the world. The
murders of unarmed citizens that are underway in the Russian inhabited
areas of Ukraine as I write are Washington’s murders. The neo-fascists,
neo-nazis who are murdering Russians in Ukraine are murdering with
Washington’s support and on Washington’s orders.
The only conclusion I can come to is that the US government is in the hands of insane psychopaths.
Why are civilized European countries allied with an insane psychopath?
How did the Western media, allegedly the home of free speech, become an
organization of sociopaths? PCR
With a death toll of at least 50 over the weekend inflicted by the
Western-backed unelected, fascist regime in Kiev, has the time come for
Russian President Vladimir Putin to send his troops into eastern
Ukraine?
The escalating violence committed by the Kiev junta under the
Orwellian guise of “an anti-terror operation” strongly warrants that
President Putin should give the go-ahead. The stakes are high.
Washington and its European allies, their puppet regime in Kiev and the
Western mainstream media have for weeks been accusing Russia of covertly
orchestrating protests in eastern and southern Ukraine. With no facts
to support its claims, Washington alleges that Moscow is “building a
pretext to invade and annex Ukrainian territory”.
If Russia intervenes now, there will be howls of Western assertions
that Moscow’s “sneaky plot” is finally being executed. Already
Washington is lining up more sanctions against Russia for alleged
violation of Ukrainian sovereignty – again based on groundless
assertions. And with NATO military forces assigned to Russia’s
neighboring countries, a Russian invasion of Ukraine might risk a
broader war. But regardless of Western propaganda accusing Russia of
malfeasance and in the face of Western threats of punitive response,
Moscow should act with boldness based on the facts.
Despite Western claims, the facts show that the unrest and violence
in Ukraine has stemmed from Western subversion in that country,
beginning with the CIA-backed street agitation in Kiev last November
that led to an illegal coup against the elected government of Victor
Yanukovych in February. We could go further back to the CIA-sponsored
Orange Revolution of 2004 and the $5 billion invested by Washington for
regime change from the early 1990s onwards.
The neo-Nazi paramilitaries and their political leaders who usurped
power in Kiev have gone on to unleash a campaign of terror against
ethnic Russians in the east and south of the country, and anyone else
who opposes the regime’s power grab.
The second “anti-terror” crackdown unleashed by the Kiev junta over
the weekend was preceded by a similar operation last month following the
visit of CIA boss John Brennan to Kiev on April 12-13. The latest more
deadly crackdown has resulted in more than 50 dead. In the southern city
of Odessa, more than 40 anti-Kiev protesters were killed when a
building they were seeking refuge in was set ablaze by hundreds of
neo-Nazi storm troopers acting on the tacit direction of the junta in
Kiev and its Western state sponsors.
As Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, the Kiev regime and
its Western sponsors are “up to their elbows in blood” following the
weekend deadly violence.
There were mealy-mouthed condemnations of “violence by all sides”
from the US Secretary of State John Kerry; and there were attempts in
the Western media, such as the BBC, New York Times and Voice of America,
to downplay the criminality of the Kiev junta in the deaths, saying
that victims in Odessa came after “clashes between two sides”. The BBC
even gave prominence to the spin from the Kiev junta, which blamed the
violence on police incompetence and “pro-Russian activists”.
The fact is that people were massacred – including several others in
the eastern city of Slavyansk – by Western-backed Kiev forces.
Eyewitnesses in Odessa say that when people jumped from windows to
escape the blaze they were “finished off” by neo-Nazis on the ground who
had minutes before set the building alight with petrol bombs.
These forces comprise remnants of the Ukrainian national army loyal
to the fascist junta, as well as Right Sector neo-Nazi paramilitaries
outfitted as a “national guard”, and very possibly the involvement of
US-backed mercenaries and Special Forces.
Reports have emerged that the CIA is now officially collaborating
with the regime in Kiev, although the US State Department uses Orwellian
language to describe the liaison as “security consultation”.
Kerry’s disingenuous deploring of violence in Ukraine barely conceals
the fact that Washington has given the green light to the lethal
crackdown by the Kiev junta against its own citizens. President Barack
Obama said while the crackdown was underway on Friday that “Ukraine has
the right to restore order”. By “Ukraine” Obama is referring to the
unelected criminal regime that Washington railroaded into office in
complete violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and on the back of murderous
street violence, including the covert sniper massacre on February 20
that killed up to 100 people.
The Kiev junta is warning that the current “anti-terror operation” is
to continue apace. We can expect more deaths in the coming days among
ethnic Russian populations in the east and south of Ukraine – carried
out with the full approval of Washington and with the assistance of its
covert forces. Russian President Putin has already received
authorization from his parliament in March to send in troops to protect
the millions of ethnic Russians in Ukraine. He has moral and legal right
on his side. The only “impediment” is Western propaganda claims –
claims that have been discredited – and threats of sanctions and
military response from NATO.
But Putin should not be blackmailed by baseless lies when peoples’
lives are being threatened by a Western-backed fascist cabal and their
murderous paramilitaries. Besides, more and more people around the
world, including the US and European public, can see through the sordid
tissue of lies that the Western governments and their pathetic news
media have been peddling against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. The
present situation resembles the previous covert US-led operation in
South Ossetia in 2008 when NATO backed Georgian troops tried to
destabilize that country, a Russian ally. Russia acted decisively then,
sent in its troops and routed the NATO plot. And Washington backed down.
Washington is at it again: subverting, lying, killing and
threatening. But it’s a cowardly bluff that Putin should slap down
immediately. The reality is much too serious to entertain these cynical
Western games. Peoples’ lives are in real danger in Ukraine from the
fascist paramilitaries and politician-gangsters that Washington
installed in Kiev and which it is now giving full vent to. The bloody
events this weekend are tragic testimony to the urgent threat.
If Putin takes action, he can be sure that world public opinion is on
his side. Washington will find that it is a loser, and deserves it. It
has nothing on its side but malign and negative forces.
Seventy years ago, Russia defeated fascism in Europe. It is time to deliver that honorable blow again.
