{"id":136146,"date":"2014-08-11T21:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136146"},"modified":"2014-08-11T21:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T21:29:54","slug":"nyt-discovers-ukraines-neo-nazis-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/nyt-discovers-ukraines-neo-nazis-war\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Discovers Ukraine\u2019s Neo-Nazis at War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Parry<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times reported almost in passing on Sunday that the Ukrainian government\u2019s offensive against ethnic Russian rebels in the east has unleashed far-right paramilitary militias that\u00a0have even raised a neo-Nazi banner over the conquered town of Marinka, just west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.<\/p>\n

That might seem like a big story \u2014 a U.S.-backed military operation, which has inflicted thousands of mostly civilian casualties, is being spearheaded by neo-Nazis. But the consistent pattern of the mainstream U.S. news media has been \u2014 since the start of the Ukraine crisis \u2014 to white-out the role of Ukraine\u2019s brown-shirts.<\/p>\n

Only occasionally is the word \u201cneo-Nazi\u201d mentioned and usually in the context of dismissing this inconvenient truth as \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d Yet the reality has been that neo-Nazis played a key role in the violent overthrow of elected President Viktor Yanukovych last February as well as\u00a0in the subsequent coup regime holding power in Kiev and now in the eastern offensive.<\/p>\n

On Sunday,\u00a0a Times article<\/a>\u00a0by Andrew E. Kramer mentioned the emerging neo-Nazi paramilitary role in the final three paragraphs:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fighting for Donetsk has taken on a lethal pattern: The regular army bombards separatist positions from afar, followed by chaotic, violent assaults by some of the half-dozen or so paramilitary groups surrounding Donetsk who are willing to plunge into urban combat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn pressing their advance, the fighters took their orders from a local army commander, rather than from Kiev. In the video of the attack, no restraint was evident. Gesturing toward a suspected pro-Russian position, one soldier screamed, \u2018The bastards are right there!\u2019 Then he opened fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, the neo-Nazi militias that surged to the front of anti-Yanukovych protests last February have now been organized as shock troops dispatched to kill ethnic Russians in the east \u2014 and they are operating so openly that they hoist a Swastika-like neo-Nazi flag over one conquered village with a population of about 10,000.<\/p>\n

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Robert Parry The New York Times reported almost in passing on Sunday that the Ukrainian government\u2019s offensive against ethnic Russian rebels in the east has unleashed far-right paramilitary militias that\u00a0have even raised a neo-Nazi banner over the conquered town of Marinka, just west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. That might seem like a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-media-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}