{"id":177585,"date":"2015-09-01T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ukraine-rightists-kill-police-putin-blamed\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T19:52:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T19:52:17","slug":"ukraine-rightists-kill-police-putin-blamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ukraine-rightists-kill-police-putin-blamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Rightists Kill Police; Putin Blamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"221.92923769701\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> As rightists riot in Ukraine \u2014 killing three policemen in a protest against making any concessions to ethnic Russians in the east \u2014 The New York Times had to move nimbly to\u00a0again foist all the blame on Russia\u2019s President Putin, but the Times was up to the propaganda task, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15790\"\/>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>As I read the latest example of The New York Times\u2019 propagandistic coverage of the Ukraine crisis on Tuesday, it struck me that if these same reporters and editors were around in 1953, they would have cheered the coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh as a popular \u201crevolution\u201d putting the beloved and benevolent Shah back on the Peacock Throne.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly in 1954, these credulous journalists would have written about another people\u2019s \u201crevolution\u201d in Guatemala removing President Jacobo Arbenz and restoring law and order behind well-regarded military commanders. The Times would have airily dismissed any suggestions of U.S. manipulation of events.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11447\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nuland-ukraine-2-7-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11447\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?55ac53\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nuland-ukraine-2-7-14.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2014. (U.S. State Department photo)\" width=\"290\" height=\"176\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11447\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nuland-ukraine-2-7-14.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2014. (U.S. State Department photo)\" width=\"290\" height=\"176\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2014. (U.S. State Department photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And, for decades, that was how the Central Intelligence Agency wanted American journalists to write\u00a0those stories \u2014 and the current crop of Times\u2019 journalists would have fallen neatly into line. Of course, we know historically that the CIA organized and financed the disorders in Tehran that preceded Mossadegh\u2019s removal and pulled together the rebel force that drove Arbenz from office.<\/p>\n<p>And, the evidence is even clearer that U.S. government operatives, particularly Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, helped orchestrate the 2014 coup that overthrew Ukraine\u2019s elected President Viktor Yanukovych. Indeed, journalists knew more about the coup-plotting in Ukraine in real-time than we did about the coups in Iran and Guatemala six decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ukraine case, there was even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-26079957\">an intercepted phone call<\/a> just weeks before the Feb. 22, 2014 coup revealing Nuland handpicking the new Ukrainian leaders \u2014 \u201cYats is the guy,\u201d she said referring to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/09\/01\/ukraine-rightists-kill-police-putin-blamed\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: As rightists riot in Ukraine \u2014 killing three policemen in a protest against making any concessions to ethnic Russians in the east \u2014 The New York Times had to move nimbly to\u00a0again foist all the blame on Russia\u2019s President Putin, but the Times was up to the propaganda task, writes Robert Parry. By Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177585","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=177585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}