{"id":114909,"date":"2014-04-28T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=b1a03ff13a3ebb300eedfba87cb506ce"},"modified":"2014-04-28T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T07:35:00","slug":"nyt-russia-bashing-stench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/nyt-russia-bashing-stench\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Russia Bashing Stench"},"content":{"rendered":"
NYT Russia Bashing Stench<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In 2005, Chicago’s famed City News Bureau closed. Times correspondents, contributors and editors ignore it notable principle. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“It your mother tells you she loves you, check it out with two independent sources,” it said. Get it right before publishing. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Journalism requires truth-telling. Times rubbish features managed news misinformation. Readers are systematically lied to. The so-called newspaper of record is a de facto Washington house organ.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Discredited Times correspondent Judith Miller wrote daily propaganda rubbish. Front page space featured it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
War on Iraq was promoted. Lawlessly destroying the cradle of civilization followed.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Miller reflects the worst of irresponsible journalism. She was a reporter with an agenda. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
She was a de facto Pentagon press agent. Her sources were a Noah’s Ark of scam artists. She remains unapologetic.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
So do current Times correspondents, contributors and editors. They continue her disgraceful agenda. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They lie for power. They substitute garbage for real news and information.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They bash Russia relentlessly. They do it irresponsibly. They ignore US imperial crimes. They support Kiev fascist putschists. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They make yellow journalism look good by comparison. The late Gore Vidal called The Times the “Typhoid Mary of American journalism.” He did so for good reason.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
An April 15 Times article headlined<\/span><\/a> “Russia Is Quick to Bend Truth About Ukraine.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It lied about Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev. It called their honest assessment “misinformation, exaggerations, conspiracy theories, overheated rhetoric and, occasionally outright lies\u2026”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It turned truth on its head claiming “an extraordinary (Kremlin) propaganda campaign.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A same day Times editorial<\/span><\/a> headlined “Mr. Putin’s Power Play,” saying:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“When President Vladimir Putin of Russia talks about what is happening in Ukraine these days, it is as if he\u2019s looking into a mirror.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“He says fascists and nationalists are running amok in Kiev, even as Crimea is annexed in the name of Great Russia\u2026”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(H)e says Russians are threatened in eastern Ukraine, even as Russia directs secessionists there to seize administrative buildings and arms\u2026” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(H)e calls on President Obama to use his influence to prevent the use of force in Ukraine, even as he puts a major military force on the Ukrainian border.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected government. It violated international, constitutional and US statute law doing so.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: It elevated illegitimate fascist putschists to power.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: They’re xenophobic, ultranationist, anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, anti-Russian hate-mongers.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington threatens world peace. So do Kiev putschists.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Putin prioritizes peaceful conflict resolution.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington prioritizes war, mass slaughter, destruction and world domination.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Don’t expect Times editors to explain. Lies, damn lies and Big ones substitute for credible news and analysis.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“What the world sees is an outrageous and highly dangerous power play,” said Times editors. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“A report by the United Nations high commissioner for human rights says ‘greatly exaggerated stories of harassment of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian nationalist extremists’ in Crimea were ‘systematically used to create a climate of fear and insecurity.’ “<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Russian Ukrainian policy represents the best of peaceful conflict resolution.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington’s agenda features “dangerous power play” policies.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Times reporting substitutes propaganda for real news, information and analysis. It’s longstanding editorial policy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Eastern Ukrainians acted on their own volition. They’ve done so without Russian involvement.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Not according to Times editors. They lied claiming Moscow “incit(ed) secessionists\u2026” They make stuff up. No credible evidence supports them. None exists.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay lost credibility long ago. She’s an imperial tool. She disgraces the office she holds.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Her reports bury truth. They substitute misinformation garbage. She’s pro-putschist. She’s anti-democratic governance. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
She marches in lock step with US imperial policy. So do Times editors. Russia bashing persists irresponsibly. Truth is systematically buried.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Big Lies follow earlier ones. In early April, The Times hyped fake satellite photos. They “show(ed) Russia(n)” hoards on Ukraine’s borders.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
NATO supplied them. Images “offered some of the first documentary evidence of a military buildup that the West says Russia could use to invade Ukraine at any moment,” said The Times.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Images released dated from August 2013. Russia’s General Staff exposed them. Times mea culpa didn’t follow. Liars don’t apologize. Big Lies repeat.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A follow-up Times report hyped fake photos allegedly linking masked men in East Ukraine to Russia.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It lied calling them the same “Russian military and intelligence forces – equipped in the same fashion as Russian special operations troops involved in annexing the Crimea region in February.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Clear evidence showed otherwise. Claiming Russian military involvement in Crimean reunification reflected another Times Big Lie.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On April 26, The Times headlined <\/span><\/a>“For Russia, Negatives Seem to Outweigh Positives for an Invasion,” saying:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Thousands of Russian troops are maneuvering along the border, with Russian fighter jets menacing Ukraine\u2019s airspace.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Ukrainian leaders have warned that border crossings by any soldiers would be considered an invasion, even while the country pursues military operations against a pro-Russian rebellion in the east.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Russian military exercises don’t threaten Ukraine.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Its airspace wasn’t violated. Russia’s Defense Ministry debunked spurious accusations. Its statement said:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Russia’s airspace monitoring systems have not registered any violations of air borders of the states adjacent to Russia, including Ukraine.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On the one hand, said The Times, Putin “seems to have strong reasons to dispatch his tanks: shaping the Ukraine he wants well before elections scheduled for May 25 put a new, legitimate government in place; reclaiming an area that was historically part of Russia; gaining direct access to natural resources and factories that have been crucial to Moscow’s military-industrial complex since Soviet times.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“And his land grab of Crimea in March made him wildly popular at home.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On the other, it added:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Yet the reasons for Mr. Putin to refrain from further military adventurism make a longer, more tangled list: the cost of a huge occupation force and the responsibility for the welfare of millions more people; the effect of new, more severe Western sanctions on an already weak economy; the possibility of significant Russian casualties caused by an insurgency in eastern Ukraine; a new, implacably anti-Russian western section of Ukraine; and likely pariah status internationally.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Putin and Obama are geopolitical opposites. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Putin isn’t expansionist. His agenda isn’t revanchist. He deplores imperial rampaging. He prioritizes peace and stability. He respects for rule of law principles.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Obama trashes international, constitutional and US statute laws. He’s waging multiple direct and proxy wars. His imperial policy threatens world peace.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Don’t expect The Times to explain. “Mr. Putin would rather feed the insurrection from afar,” it claims.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He “never quite allow(s) the calm that would give Ukraine the opening needed to join the European Union, or worse, NATO.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“It is a tactic Russia has used successfully in previous attempts by former Soviet republics to shift westward.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Putin respects national sovereignty. He’s polar opposite Washington. He doesn’t intervene against other nations lawlessly like Obama and previous warrior presidents. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He supports peace and stability. He backs multi-polar world policies. He’s geopolitically on the right side of history. He reflects leadership America lacks.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Claiming “signs that Russia seems poised to invade” is another Times Big Lie.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A matching one calls US aggression humanitarian intervention. So-called responsibility to protect is pretext for ravaging, destroying and plundering one country after another.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Times correspondents, contributors and editors leave inconvenient truths unexplained. Big Lies substitute. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Longstanding policy features them. Rubbish substitutes for news fit print. Increasing numbers of readers vote with their feet and ignore it. Maybe some day everyone will.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NYT Russia Bashing Stench<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In 2005, Chicago’s famed City News Bureau closed. Times correspondents, contributors and editors ignore it notable principle. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“It your mother tells you she loves you, check it out with two independent sources,” it said. Get it right before publishing. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Journalism requires truth-telling. Times rubbish features managed news misinformation. Readers are systematically lied to. The so-called newspaper of record is a de facto Washington house organ.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Discredited Times correspondent Judith Miller wrote daily propaganda rubbish. Front page space featured it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
War on Iraq was promoted. Lawlessly destroying the cradle of civilization followed.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Miller reflects the worst of irresponsible journalism. She was a reporter with an agenda. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
She was a de facto Pentagon press agent. Her sources were a Noah’s Ark of scam artists. She remains unapologetic.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
So do current Times correspondents, contributors and editors. They continue her disgraceful agenda. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They lie for power. They substitute garbage for real news and information.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They bash Russia relentlessly. They do it irresponsibly. They ignore US imperial crimes. They support Kiev fascist putschists. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They make yellow journalism look good by comparison. The late Gore Vidal called The Times the “Typhoid Mary of American journalism.” He did so for good reason.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
An April 15 Times article headlined<\/span><\/a> “Russia Is Quick to Bend Truth About Ukraine.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It lied about Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev. It called their honest assessment “misinformation, exaggerations, conspiracy theories, overheated rhetoric and, occasionally outright lies…”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It turned truth on its head claiming “an extraordinary (Kremlin) propaganda campaign.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A same day Times editorial<\/span><\/a> headlined “Mr. Putin’s Power Play,” saying:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“When President Vladimir Putin of Russia talks about what is happening in Ukraine these days, it is as if he’s looking into a mirror.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“He says fascists and nationalists are running amok in Kiev, even as Crimea is annexed in the name of Great Russia…”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(H)e says Russians are threatened in eastern Ukraine, even as Russia directs secessionists there to seize administrative buildings and arms…” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(H)e calls on President Obama to use his influence to prevent the use of force in Ukraine, even as he puts a major military force on the Ukrainian border.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected government. It violated international, constitutional and US statute law doing so.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: It elevated illegitimate fascist putschists to power.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: They’re xenophobic, ultranationist, anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, anti-Russian hate-mongers.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington threatens world peace. So do Kiev putschists.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Putin prioritizes peaceful conflict resolution.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington prioritizes war, mass slaughter, destruction and world domination.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Don’t expect Times editors to explain. Lies, damn lies and Big ones substitute for credible news and analysis.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“What the world sees is an outrageous and highly dangerous power play,” said Times editors. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“A report by the United Nations high commissioner for human rights says ‘greatly exaggerated stories of harassment of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian nationalist extremists’ in Crimea were ‘systematically used to create a climate of fear and insecurity.’ “<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Russian Ukrainian policy represents the best of peaceful conflict resolution.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Washington’s agenda features “dangerous power play” policies.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Times reporting substitutes propaganda for real news, information and analysis. It’s longstanding editorial policy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Eastern Ukrainians acted on their own volition. They’ve done so without Russian involvement.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Not according to Times editors. They lied claiming Moscow “incit(ed) secessionists…” They make stuff up. No credible evidence supports them. None exists.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay lost credibility long ago. She’s an imperial tool. She disgraces the office she holds.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Her reports bury truth. They substitute misinformation garbage. She’s pro-putschist. She’s anti-democratic governance. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
She marches in lock step with US imperial policy. So do Times editors. Russia bashing persists irresponsibly. Truth is systematically buried.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Big Lies follow earlier ones. In early April, The Times hyped fake satellite photos. They “show(ed) Russia(n)” hoards on Ukraine’s borders.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
NATO supplied them. Images “offered some of the first documentary evidence of a military buildup that the West says Russia could use to invade Ukraine at any moment,” said The Times.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Images released dated from August 2013. Russia’s General Staff exposed them. Times mea culpa didn’t follow. Liars don’t apologize. Big Lies repeat.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A follow-up Times report hyped fake photos allegedly linking masked men in East Ukraine to Russia.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It lied calling them the same “Russian military and intelligence forces – equipped in the same fashion as Russian special operations troops involved in annexing the Crimea region in February.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Clear evidence showed otherwise. Claiming Russian military involvement in Crimean reunification reflected another Times Big Lie.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On April 26, The Times headlined <\/span><\/a>“For Russia, Negatives Seem to Outweigh Positives for an Invasion,” saying:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Thousands of Russian troops are maneuvering along the border, with Russian fighter jets menacing Ukraine’s airspace.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Ukrainian leaders have warned that border crossings by any soldiers would be considered an invasion, even while the country pursues military operations against a pro-Russian rebellion in the east.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Russian military exercises don’t threaten Ukraine.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Its airspace wasn’t violated. Russia’s Defense Ministry debunked spurious accusations. Its statement said:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Russia’s airspace monitoring systems have not registered any violations of air borders of the states adjacent to Russia, including Ukraine.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On the one hand, said The Times, Putin “seems to have strong reasons to dispatch his tanks: shaping the Ukraine he wants well before elections scheduled for May 25 put a new, legitimate government in place; reclaiming an area that was historically part of Russia; gaining direct access to natural resources and factories that have been crucial to Moscow’s military-industrial complex since Soviet times.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“And his land grab of Crimea in March made him wildly popular at home.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On the other, it added:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Yet the reasons for Mr. Putin to refrain from further military adventurism make a longer, more tangled list: the cost of a huge occupation force and the responsibility for the welfare of millions more people; the effect of new, more severe Western sanctions on an already weak economy; the possibility of significant Russian casualties caused by an insurgency in eastern Ukraine; a new, implacably anti-Russian western section of Ukraine; and likely pariah status internationally.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Putin and Obama are geopolitical opposites. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Putin isn’t expansionist. His agenda isn’t revanchist. He deplores imperial rampaging. He prioritizes peace and stability. He respects for rule of law principles.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Obama trashes international, constitutional and US statute laws. He’s waging multiple direct and proxy wars. His imperial policy threatens world peace.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Don’t expect The Times to explain. “Mr. Putin would rather feed the insurrection from afar,” it claims.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He “never quite allow(s) the calm that would give Ukraine the opening needed to join the European Union, or worse, NATO.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“It is a tactic Russia has used successfully in previous attempts by former Soviet republics to shift westward.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fact: Putin respects national sovereignty. He’s polar opposite Washington. He doesn’t intervene against other nations lawlessly like Obama and previous warrior presidents. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He supports peace and stability. He backs multi-polar world policies. He’s geopolitically on the right side of history. He reflects leadership America lacks.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Claiming “signs that Russia seems poised to invade” is another Times Big Lie.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A matching one calls US aggression humanitarian intervention. So-called responsibility to protect is pretext for ravaging, destroying and plundering one country after another.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Times correspondents, contributors and editors leave inconvenient truths unexplained. Big Lies substitute. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Longstanding policy features them. Rubbish substitutes for news fit print. Increasing numbers of readers vote with their feet and ignore it. Maybe some day everyone will.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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