{"id":150994,"date":"2015-05-14T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=b02c93cef11bb9c97db71b01495bea73"},"modified":"2015-05-14T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:21:02","slug":"ukraines-latest-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/ukraines-latest-big-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Latest Big Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Lendman<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211; Rogue states have no credibility whatever. Ukraine&#8217;s regime is a US-installed Nazi-infested fascist police state. It&#8217;s a serial lying machine.<\/p>\n<p>US-anointed illegitimate oligarch president Poroshenko ludicrously claimed Russia has 11,000 troops in Ukraine &#8211; during an interview on German ZDF television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we can see that, despite the signed Minsk agreement, the number of Russian weapons and Russian troops on the occupied territory is increasing,&#8221; he blustered.<\/p>\n<p>Not a shred of evidence supports him. He complained about continued conflict in Donbass. He ignored his military&#8217;s full responsibility complicit with Washington, systematically breaching Minsk ceasefire terms.<\/p>\n<p>Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded saying Russia &#8220;see(s) no need to repeat that such unfounded accusations without any specifics or any evidence, to put it mildly, do not contribute to anything positive here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Repeated accusations of &#8220;Russian aggression&#8221; in Ukraine are baseless &#8211; some of the most outlandish propaganda in modern times exceeding anything during Cold War years.<\/p>\n<p>A US-created state of war exists in Ukraine. On Thursday, NATO foreign ministers expressed their firm support for Kiev &#8211; ignoring its coup d&#8217;etat regime waging war on its own people.<\/p>\n<p>They continued turning a blind eye to Moscow&#8217;s all-out efforts for peaceful conflict resolution. They outrageously demand Russia &#8220;cease its (nonexistent) destabilization of eastern Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>US-installed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg regurgitates what Washington orders him to say.<\/p>\n<p>He ignored ongoing Kiev low-level aggression in Donbass, including against residential neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>He outrageous pointed fingers the wrong way claiming &#8220;an increase in ceasefire violations, primarily by the separatists, continued Russian support for them, and the continued obstruction of the work of OSCE monitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>False on all counts &#8211; willful Big Lies in support of Washington&#8217;s imperial project to crush democracy in Donbass, harden fascist rule, and use Ukraine as a pretext to bash Russia irresponsibly risking direct confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg expressed full NATO support for Kiev&#8217;s Nazi-infested coup d&#8217;etat regime. &#8220;Our partnership is strong and getting stronger,&#8221; he blustered.<\/p>\n<p>On May 14, Ukrainian state-controlled media reported fugitive former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashviki head of Poroshenko&#8217;s so-called International Advisory Council for Reforms to solidify repressive fascist rule more than already.<\/p>\n<p>Saakashvili is a US neocon favorite. In Georgia, he&#8217;s a wanted man. His assets were frozen by court order.<\/p>\n<p>He faces corruption and other criminal charges. An international warrant was issued for his arrest. An Interpol Red Notice was served against him.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d been living comfortably in New York. In February, Poroshenko appointed him a non-staff advisor.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a Ukraine\/Georgia extradition agreement, he\u2019s granted safe haven status in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2008, he was complicit with Washington in attacking South Ossetia. Russia was irresponsibly blamed for intervening to protect its own citizens &#8211; after hundreds were ruthlessly slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p>A 2010 Independent Fact Finding Mission Report ruled Saakashvili responsible for naked aggression.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s militantly anti-Russian. So is neocon US Senator John McCain. Poroshenko asked him to join Saakashvili and others on his so-called International Advisory Council &#8211; a cover initiative unrelated to responsible reform.<\/p>\n<p>McCain said he&#8217;s unsure whether Senate rule permit his involvement. They favor all anti-Russian initiatives &#8211; the more outlandish the better.<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg said US-dominated NATO will send increasing numbers of so-called advisors to &#8220;strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s ability to defend itself&#8221; &#8211; despite having no enemies except ones it invents.<\/p>\n<p>Low-level dirty war against Donbass continues &#8211; to be revved up to full-scale at Obama&#8217;s discretion. Rogue states operate this way. Washington and Kiev partner in high crimes against peace.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/p>\n<p>His new book as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/p>\n<p>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/p>\n<p>It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><b>Ukraine&#8217;s Latest Big Lie<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rogue states have no credibility whatever. Ukraine&#8217;s regime is a US-installed Nazi-infested fascist police state. It&#8217;s a serial lying machine.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>US-anointed illegitimate oligarch president Poroshenko ludicrously claimed Russia has 11,000 troops in Ukraine &#8211; during an interview on German ZDF television.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Today we can see that, despite the signed Minsk agreement, the number of Russian weapons and Russian troops on the occupied territory is increasing,&#8221; he blustered.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not a shred of evidence supports him. He complained about continued conflict in Donbass. He ignored his military&#8217;s full responsibility complicit with Washington, systematically breaching Minsk ceasefire terms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded saying Russia &#8220;see(s) no need to repeat that such unfounded accusations without any specifics or any evidence, to put it mildly, do not contribute to anything positive here.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Repeated accusations of &#8220;Russian aggression&#8221; in Ukraine are baseless &#8211; some of the most outlandish propaganda in modern times exceeding anything during Cold War years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A US-created state of war exists in Ukraine. On Thursday, NATO foreign ministers expressed their firm support for Kiev &#8211; ignoring its coup d&#8217;etat regime waging war on its own people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They continued turning a blind eye to Moscow&#8217;s all-out efforts for peaceful conflict resolution. They outrageously demand Russia &#8220;cease its (nonexistent) destabilization of eastern Ukraine.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>US-installed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg regurgitates what Washington orders him to say.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He ignored ongoing Kiev low-level aggression in Donbass, including against residential neighborhoods.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He outrageous pointed fingers the wrong way claiming &#8220;an increase in ceasefire violations, primarily by the separatists, continued Russian support for them, and the continued obstruction of the work of OSCE monitor.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>False on all counts &#8211; willful Big Lies in support of Washington&#8217;s imperial project to crush democracy in Donbass, harden fascist rule, and use Ukraine as a pretext to bash Russia irresponsibly risking direct confrontation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stoltenberg expressed full NATO support for Kiev&#8217;s Nazi-infested coup d&#8217;etat regime. &#8220;Our partnership is strong and getting stronger,&#8221; he blustered.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On May 14, Ukrainian state-controlled media reported fugitive former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashviki head of Poroshenko&#8217;s so-called International Advisory Council for Reforms to solidify repressive fascist rule more than already.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saakashvili is a US neocon favorite. In Georgia, he&#8217;s a wanted man. His assets were frozen by court order.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He faces corruption and other criminal charges. An international warrant was issued for his arrest. An Interpol Red Notice was served against him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;d been living comfortably in New York. In February, Poroshenko appointed him a non-staff advisor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite a Ukraine\/Georgia extradition agreement, he&rsquo;s granted safe haven status in Kiev.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In August 2008, he was complicit with Washington in attacking South Ossetia. Russia was irresponsibly blamed for intervening to protect its own citizens &#8211; after hundreds were ruthlessly slaughtered.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A 2010 Independent Fact Finding Mission Report ruled Saakashvili responsible for naked aggression.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s militantly anti-Russian. So is neocon US Senator John McCain. Poroshenko asked him to join Saakashvili and others on his so-called International Advisory Council &#8211; a cover initiative unrelated to responsible reform.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>McCain said he&#8217;s unsure whether Senate rule permit his involvement. They favor all anti-Russian initiatives &#8211; the more outlandish the better.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stoltenberg said US-dominated NATO will send increasing numbers of so-called advisors to &#8220;strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s ability to defend itself&#8221; &#8211; despite having no enemies except ones it invents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Low-level dirty war against Donbass continues &#8211; to be revved up to full-scale at Obama&#8217;s discretion. Rogue states operate this way. Washington and Kiev partner in high crimes against peace.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His new book as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":151010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150994","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\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}