{"id":312758,"date":"2017-06-14T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-ukraine-and-what-americans-know\/"},"modified":"2017-06-14T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:22:40","slug":"putin-ukraine-and-what-americans-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-ukraine-and-what-americans-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin, Ukraine and What Americans Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> In an interview with Oliver Stone, Russian President Putin explained his take on the Ukraine crisis, one that contrasts with what the U.S. mainstream media has allowed the American people to hear, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>A prime example of how today\u2019s mainstream media paradigm works in the U.S. is the case of Ukraine, where Americans have been shielded from evidence that the 2014 ouster of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych was a U.S.-supported coup d\u2019etat spearheaded by violent neo-Nazi extremists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23792\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-300x169.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23792\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-1028x578.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23792\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-1028x578.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/maxresdefault-4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin in Showtime\u2019s \u201cThe Putin Interviews\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As The New York Times has <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/01\/06\/nyt-still-pretends-no-coup-in-ukraine\/\">instructed us<\/a>, there was no coup in Ukraine; there was no U.S. interference; and there weren\u2019t even that many neo-Nazis. And, the ensuing civil conflict wasn\u2019t a resistance among Yanukovych\u2019s supporters to his illegal ouster; no, it was \u201cRussian aggression\u201d or a \u201cRussian invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you deviate from this groupthink \u2013 if you point out how U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland talked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/02\/23\/neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup\/\">U.S. spending $5 billion on Ukraine<\/a>; if you mention her <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/07\/11\/nato-reaffirms-its-bogus-russia-narrative\/\">pre-coup intercepted phone call<\/a> with U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt discussing who the new leaders would be and how \u201cto glue\u201d or how \u201cto \u201cmidwife this thing\u201d; if you note how Nuland and Sen. John <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/09\/08\/seeing-no-neo-nazi-militias-in-ukraine\/\">McCain urged on the violent anti-Yanukovych protesters<\/a>; if you recognize that <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/03\/30\/ukraines-inconvenient-neo-nazis\/\">snipers firing from far-right-controlled buildings<\/a> killed both police and protesters to provoke the climactic ouster of Yanukovych; and if you think all that indeed looks like a coup \u2013 you obviously are the victim of \u201cRussian propaganda and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But most Americans probably haven\u2019t heard any of that evidence revealing a coup, thanks to the mainstream U.S. media, which has essentially banned those deviant facts from the public discourse.\u00a0If they are mentioned at all, they are lumped together with \u201cfake news\u201d amid the reassuring hope that soon there will be <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/05\/02\/nyt-cheers-the-rise-of-censorship-algorithms\/\">algorithms to purge such troublesome information<\/a> from the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>So, if Americans tune in to Part Three of Oliver Stone\u2019s \u201cThe Putin Interviews\u201d on \u201cShowtime\u201d and hear Russian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/06\/13\/putin-ukraine-and-what-americans-know\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: In an interview with Oliver Stone, Russian President Putin explained his take on the Ukraine crisis, one that contrasts with what the U.S. mainstream media has allowed the American people to hear, writes Robert Parry. 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