{"id":350829,"date":"2018-03-05T03:53:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T02:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/all-fire-and-fury-in-ukraine-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T03:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T02:53:53","slug":"all-fire-and-fury-in-ukraine-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/all-fire-and-fury-in-ukraine-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"All Fire and Fury in Ukraine \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Exclusive: The still decidedly volatile situation in Ukraine \u2013 resulting from another in a long line of U.S.-inspired regime changes that have destabilized the geopolitical landscape over the past few decades \u2013 is worth revisiting for a number of reasons. With the fourth anniversary of the coup just passed, the sudden, shock passing of veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry and Consortium News founder\/editor also affords even greater impetus for doing so. This is especially given his incisive body of reportage on the crisis since 2014; the larger issue of America\u2019s worsening relationship with Russia; and the geopolitical implications going forward of these developments. Australian blogger Greg Maybury reports.<\/p>\n<p>By Greg Maybury<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Shabby Deck of Political Cards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who haven\u2019t seen <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/250899571\">Ukraine on Fire<\/a> (UOF), the Oliver Stone-produced documentary on the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, it is not overstating the case to say it\u2019s an essential historical document and one of the most important, insightful political documentaries of recent times. It may also be one of the most portentous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ukraine-on-fire.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\/2018\/03\/ukraine-on-fire-203x300.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26104\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26104\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ukraine-on-fire-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a>Quite apart from the illuminating history lesson the film delivers as a backdrop to the current situation in one of Europe\u2019s most pivotal of battlegrounds, there are many takeaways from the film. To begin, it stands as a vital corrective of the disinformation, misinformation, evangelistic doublespeak, ersatz analysis, unadulterated agitprop, and plain old garden-variety groupthink that attended the public discourse on the events and developments in the country, and which ultimately framed most people\u2019s views of the situation. Needless to say, the messages and impressions conveyed by this ongoing, relentless \u2018psy-op\u2019 cum fake news onslaught still \u2018rules the roost\u2019 in most people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the film\u2019s narrative is highly revealing in the manner in which the Western mainstream media (MSM) reported on the events surrounding the turmoil and conflict. In the process it showcases how much the perfidious thought contagion spread by the ever-nefarious neoconservatives and their fellow travelers the liberal interventionists infects U.S. foreign policy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/03\/03\/all-fire-and-fury-in-ukraine\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: The still decidedly volatile situation in Ukraine \u2013 resulting from another in a long line of U.S.-inspired regime changes that have destabilized the geopolitical landscape over the past few decades \u2013 is worth revisiting for a number of reasons. With the fourth anniversary of the coup just passed, the sudden, shock passing of veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350829","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\/350829","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}