U.S. Media Lie, Yet
Again May 28, 2014
by WashingtonsBlog By Eric Zuesse
[
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President
Reagan, but in the decades since, he has transformed, because he has become
disheartened by the constant lying from the U.S. news-media, especially after
ÒSaddamÕs WMDÓ turned out to be fabrications.]
See also series on media coverage of East Europe:
http://worldtraining.net/Ukraine.htm
; http://worldtraining.net/Ukraine1.htm
Recently, his chief focus of concern has been the
rampant lying in the American press about Ukraine. This is what he said on May 27th (and all of this is
historically accurate, and is important to know in order to be able to
understand whatÕs going on in Ukraine now): ÒAreas of southern and eastern Ukraine are former Russian
territories added to Ukraine by Soviet leaders. Lenin added Russian areas to
Ukraine in early years of the Soviet Union, and Khrushchev added Crimea in
1954. The people in these Russian areas, alarmed by the destruction of Soviet
war memorials commemorating the Red ArmyÕs liberation of Ukraine from Hitler,
by the banning of Russian as an official language, and by physical
assaults on Russian-speaking people in Ukraine, broke out in protests. Crimea
voted its independence and requested reunification with Russia, and so have the
Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Washington,
its EU puppets, and the Western media have denied that the votes in Crimea,
Donetsk, and Luhansk are sincere and spontaneous.
Instead, Washington alleges that the protests
leading to the votes and the votes themselves were
orchestrated by the Russian government with the use of bribes, threats, and
coercion. Crimea was said to be a case of Russian invasion and annexation. These
are blatant lies, and the foreign observers of the elections know it, but they
have no voice in the Western media, which is a Ministry of Propaganda for
Washington. Even the once proud BBC lies for Washington.Ó Nowadays, the most accurate news
reporting about events in Ukraine comes actually from Russia. The following
report includes some of the latest of that, along with background reporting
that I have put together from other sources, including links to videos of the
actual historical events. Unlike
what you read in The New York Times or the Washington Post, or hear about on
NPR, PBS, Fox ÒNews,Ó MSNBC, NBC, CBS, or ABC — or even read about in New
Yorker, HarperÕs, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, the Nation, the New York Review
of Books, or Foreign Policy — this is the reality; and all that you would
need to do in order to check it out for yourself is to click on the links, all
of which are to sources that I have checked out and verified as being true and
authentic; you wonÕt find any of this to be false or fake:
The oligarch Petro Poroshenko,
who on May 25th was elected by the people of northwestern Ukraine to become the
new President of all Ukraine, is now overseeing his troopsÕ bombing of apartment
buildings and airports in southeastern Ukraine, where the people
broke away from the central government after more than 200 of their compatriots were massacred in
Odessa on May 2nd, during an operation that was masterminded by banking, gas, and media, magnate Ihor Kolomoysky.
Residents in the southeast no longer feel safe
being ruled by UkraineÕs oligarchs, who recognize and support the central
government in Kiev, in the west — the very same government thatÕs
massacring and bombing the increasingly breakaway public in UkraineÕs
southeast. The wealthiest
man in Ukraine, Rinat Akhmetov,
the oligarch who owns most industry in the southeast, and who employs 300,000
people there, is now threatening to fire anyone who supports the breakaway
movement. Some of his employees have started quitting, especially after
Donetsk was bombed on May 26th by planes
flying in from the west.
On May 25th, thousands of people massed at his mansion to protest AkhmetovÕs
having joined with the fascists. On May 27th, several of AkhmetovÕs mines
in Donetsk were closed by strikes. And ÒPoroshenko has promised to
use full force until all separatists have been destroyed. He has now vowed to
strengthen the military crackdown, making it faster and more efficient.Ó He
Òsays the military operation should last hours and not weeks.Ó His expectation
seems to be that his troops will slaughter enough people so as to terrorize the
population into submission, quietude, and peace.
Also on May 27th,
the U.S. White House stated: ÒPresident Obama called
President-elect Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine
today to congratulate him on his victory and offer the full support of
the United States as he seeks to unify and move his country forward.
The President stressed the importance of quickly implementing the
reforms necessary for Ukraine to bring the country together and to develop
a sustainable economy, attractive investment climate, and transparent
and accountable government that is responsive to
the concerns and aspirations of all Ukrainians. The United States
will continue assisting Ukraine in these efforts. The two leaders agreed
to continue their conversation during the PresidentÕs upcoming trip to
Europe.Ó For the basic
background on these developments, see this and this. Investigative historian Eric Zuesse
is the author, most recently, of TheyÕre Not
Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010,
and of CHRISTÕS VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created
Christianity.