{"id":169517,"date":"2015-07-30T18:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=169517"},"modified":"2015-07-30T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T18:08:45","slug":"shot-mh-17-paul-craig-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/shot-mh-17-paul-craig-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Shot Down MH-17?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- pk start extra content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- pk end extra content --><\/p>\n<p>Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211; The available evidence convinces me that the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine was a plot hatched in Washington in order to blame Russia, blame which helps Washington\u2019s pressure on Europe for sanctions against Russia. An alternative explanation is that Washington\u2019s stooge government in Kiev in an assassination attempt against Vladimir Putin mistook the Malaysian airliner for Putin\u2019s airplane.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstantial evidence in favor of the former explanation is that the Western media was primed and ready to go with stories blaming Russia the minute the news broke that the airliner had been downed. No evidence was available, but the Western media was uniform in accusations against Russia and \u201cRussian-supported separatists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In making up your own mind, consider these two reports:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/support-mh17-truth-osce-monitors-identify-shrapnel-like-holes-indicating-shelling-no-firm-evidence-of-a-missile-attack\/5394324\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/support-mh17-truth-osce-monitors-identify-shrapnel-like-holes-indicating-shelling-no-firm-evidence-of-a-missile-attack\/5394324 <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/opinion\/columnists\/28-07-2015\/131502-unanswered_questions-0\/\">http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/opinion\/columnists\/28-07-2015\/131502-unanswered_questions-0\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Craig Roberts (RINF) &#8211; The available evidence convinces me that the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine was a plot hatched in Washington in order to blame Russia, blame which helps Washington\u2019s pressure on Europe for sanctions against Russia. An alternative explanation is that Washington\u2019s stooge government in Kiev in an assassination attempt against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169517","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\/169517","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=169517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}