{"id":124464,"date":"2014-06-16T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=124464"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:26:10","slug":"propaganda-war-ukraine-important-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/propaganda-war-ukraine-important-really\/","title":{"rendered":"The Propaganda War About Ukraine: How Important It Really Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse
\nRINF Alternative News<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Recently, Germany’s\u00a0Der Spiegel<\/i>\u00a0featured a lengthy editorial damning Russia regarding Ukraine; it was titled\u00a0“How Russia Is Winning the Propaganda War,”<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and it made many allegations, none with documentation, and not a single one with a link to assist the magazine’s online readers to reach easily the presumed (but unidentified) sources. They don\u2019t want to facilitate a reader\u2019s checking out the veracity. It was the type of propaganda for which Fox “News” in the U.S. has become famous, though\u00a0Spiegel<\/i>\u00a0is centrist (not “right wing”).<\/p>\n

The 2,500-word\u00a0Spiegel<\/i>\u00a0article ignored\u00a0Obama’s lies about Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, and ignored the solid and voluminous evidence that the\u00a0February 22nd<\/span><\/span>\u00a0overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych\u00a0was engineered in Washington<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with assistance from\u00a0rabidly anti-Russian Polish officials<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and with the additional assistance of some\u00a0fundamentalist far-Right Israeli-Ukrainian Jews who were willing to work with Ukrainian neo-Nazis to get this done<\/span><\/a>. The May 2nd\u00a0massacre in Odessa<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that started Ukraine\u2019s civil war was\u00a0masterminded by the person (Ihor Kolomoyski)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who was appointed by the person (Yulia Tymoshenko) whose ally (Arseni Yatsenyuk) was\u00a0chosen by Obama’s agent (Victoria Nuland) to lead the post-coup government, as the interim Prime Minister<\/span><\/a>. None of that interested the editors at\u00a0Spiegel<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Yatsenyuk, it should be noted, was quietly\u00a0retained in office, as the permanent Prime Minister, not replaced<\/span>,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by the elected President, Petro Poroshenko, who continues Yatsenyuk\u2019s policies now, under his title as Ukraine\u2019s \u201cPresident.\u201d The regime-change was the coup itself, not after; the coup placed Washington in control, which is\u00a0why<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Obama\u00a0did it<\/span><\/a>. And behind even that motivation is the U.S. aristocracy’s need to\u00a0continue the dollar as being the global exchange — or “reserve” — currency<\/span><\/a>. That\u2019s what basically motivates this.<\/p>\n

The major media present a very different picture than you see documented in those damning and factual links just given here. (This is not propaganda, such as at\u00a0Spiegel<\/i>\u00a0and elsewhere; so, it\u2019s written to be checked out, not to be accepted on faith. Any religion is preparation for mental enslavement, and sometimes even \u201cnon-religious\u201d people are also people of faith. It\u2019s why aristocrats promote and fund all sorts of faith.) Voltairenet pointed out how blatantly the major media lie about what is happening in Ukraine. Headlining,\u00a0\u201cKiev regime bombs civilians in eastern\u00a0Ukraine,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0they noted that those bombings were shown “only on Russian TV channels” even though “The OSCE mission in Ukraine has confirmed that\u00a0the incident involving the administrative building in Lugansk was indeed an\u00a0airstrike.” Moreover, “To this day, the Western media have \u2018refrained\u2019\u00a0from broadcasting the images of the civilian victims killed at the Lugansk\u00a0administrative headquarters, despite their being available on\u00a0Russian television and on the internet.” Our major \u201cnews\u201d media can be accepted only on faith.<\/p>\n

The links in the article that you now are reading are mainly to videos, and to articles with links to videos and tapped phone-conversations, which document in remarkable depth a shocking “You Are There” impossible-to-deny reality, which is the exact opposite of the filth that\u00a0Spiegel<\/i>\u00a0editorially dumped upon its readers, and that’s “reported” in the\u00a0New York Times<\/span><\/a>, TV “news,” etc. That political PR basically contradicts established facts, while providing no coherent — much less,rationally credible<\/i>\u00a0— explanation of them, in order to promote the Obama-Nuland four-Party Ukrainian coalition, of two neo-Nazi parties and two merely fascist parties: the Ukrainian coalition that\u00a0Obama placed into power<\/span><\/a>\u00a0there, and that was extended in the recent election, which was held between candidates of only those far-Right Parties. It’s as if an “election” in America had been held in which the only candidates were a regular Republican, a Tea Party Republican, a Militia activist, and a member of the Hitler-admiring Stormfront White supremacists. Should “democracy,” anywhere in the world, come down to a “choice” like that? If it does, then should the U.S. be threatening war against Russia to support this resulting fascism, in Russia’s own next-door \u2014 a security threat to Russia — a rabidly anti-Russian fascist Ukraine? Is this really the consequence of democracy in America? Or is it instead the result of democracy having\u00a0ended<\/i>\u00a0in America?<\/p>\n

America’s and Britain’s media, with very few exceptions (all of which have only small audiences, such as this one), are refusing to publish the articles that I have been doing on Ukraine (including the ones I link to here) (for just a few examples, HufPo, Salon and alternet, which publish from me on other subjects, reject with no comment everything I submit to them on Ukraine), and they also refuse to publish anything that exposes the\u00a0lies about Ukraine in America’s<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and some foreign,\u00a0“news” media<\/span><\/a>. Something’s\u00a0wrong<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

War against Russia,\u00a0initiated by the United States<\/span><\/a>, is no mere game. It could kill virtually all of the public, even if the aristocracy might just fly off to one of the ten mansions they own elsewhere, and their financial paperwork at Cayman Island, Zurich, etc., will still remain in perfectly functioning order. The aristocracy who own and control those media are mentally robotizing the public via lies, in order for commoners to serve as pawns in their global chess-game.<\/p>\n

The public in the West are being played for fools, and it’s now becoming so blatant, even worse than the lies that produced the scandalously vile invasion of Iraq (which our aristocratically controlled media also fooled the masses into supporting), so that the result will be either masses in “democratic” countries who really\u00a0are<\/i>\u00a0fools, and who don’t at all hold the press to account for having raped their minds, or else it will be\u00a0mass boycotts of the major “news” media, to protest it, and to change it — so as to restore democracy to America.<\/p>\n

If boycotts of the press don’t soon start, democracy has already ended here, because, ever since we invaded Iraq in 2003, we’re already way past the time when there should be a mass boycott by Americans of their major “news” media — media that lie to them so brazenly, and so repeatedly, for so long.<\/p>\n

We’re already dangerously close to being like Ukraine, where even fewer oligarchs control even more of the government, and of the economy.<\/p>\n

Ukraine isn\u2019t becoming more like America. America is becoming more like Ukraine. Will the American public finally put their collective \u201cfoot\u201d down? And, if not now, then\u00a0when<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Though we don’t see such a movement developing, the public is responding to the lies by the government and by the aristocracy behind it. An excellent example of the general trend of this response is the video on youtube,\u00a0“Why I’m burning my last bridge with Obama,”<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in which a former liberal and Obama-supporter lists Obama’s lies, declares him to be even worse than Bush because he used liberals (like her) to become George Bush II (who didn’t even pretend to be a liberal), and she then declares herself to be, essentially, a libertarian, which can only warm the cockles of the Koch brothers’ black hearts. She is now as anti-government, or as “Tea Party”ish, as the Kochs and their ilk want all of the public to be, which is great for the aristocracy, since everything then becomes privatized, and they own it directly, without even having to worry about regulation by the EPA, FDA, etc., or any possibility that they’ll need to pay fines, much less to be subject to imprisonment, as commoners would be who perpetrated the massive harms that they do (which they don\u2019t).<\/p>\n

A response like that, by the public, is worse than hopeless: it’s playing right into the aristocracy’s hands. If that’s to be the public’s response to the aristocracy, the game is already over, and they have won; the public has jumped right into the mental bondage that our fascist rulers want.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a01984<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span>. Unless a better response is forthcoming.<\/p>\n

The present news report is distributed to the news media throughout the United States and English-speaking world, including, but not limited to:\u00a0New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>, U.S. broadcast and cable-news networks, Huffington Post, Salon, Alternet, CommonDreams, MediaMatters,\u00a0Fair<\/i>,\u00a0Foreign Policy<\/i>,\u00a0TIME<\/i>, McClatchy Newspapers, Associated Press, Truthout,\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/i>, OpedNews,\u00a0The Atlantic<\/i>,\u00a0Harpers<\/i>,\u00a0Mother Jones<\/i>,\u00a0National Review<\/i>, Drudge, Washingtonsblog, Voltairenet, GlobalResearch,\u00a0Washington Monthly<\/i>, Bloomberg,\u00a0The Guardian<\/i>, BusinessInsider, Zerohedge,\u00a0The Nation<\/i>, Firedoglake,\u00a0Progressive<\/i>, NationalMemo, Dawn,\u00a0New Yorker<\/i>, Truthdig, DailyCaller, Counterpunch, and\u00a0American Prospect<\/i>. All of them have previously likewise received the articles to which I have linked, and so they are well aware of the information that is contained herein. At a few of them, their readers have likewise been made aware of this information, by means of publishing those news reports. But the others, it seems, don\u2019t want their readers to know. Yet again, they are being offered the opportunity to inform them, to bring them up-to-date. Let\u2019s see how many of them publish this. Let\u2019s all see if it really is\u00a01984<\/i>, in 2014.<\/p>\n

Just google the phrase (with quotation-marks) \u201cThe Propaganda War About Ukraine,\u201d and the answer will be evident.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0and of\u00a0\u00a0CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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