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Taking the low road to war: Washington and the Corporate Media are in Full Propaganda Mode on Ukraine

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The lies, propaganda and rank hypocrisy emanating from Washington, and echoed by the US corporate media regarding events in Ukraine are stunning and would be laughable, but for the fact that they appear to be aimed at conditioning the US public for increasing confrontation with Russia -- confrontation which could easily tip over the edge into direct military conflict, with consequences that are too dreadful to contemplate.


It would be beyond ironic if, a quarter of a century after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of nearly half a century of Cold War and Mutual Assured Destruction, during all of which time US and Russian soldiers never fought against each other, we now ended up with soldiers from our two countries actually doing battle with each other, instead of just fighting proxy wars.


For now, perhaps out of sheer unwillingness to accept that dreadful possibility, I'm choosing to look for the humor in this conflict.


When it comes to the US, the laughs are easy to find.


Start with Vice President Joe Biden, a guy who has always been hard to take seriously. I mean, we're talking about a politician who in 1988 had to quit running for president when he was caught lifting his life story from British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.


Still, Biden outdid even himself on his current visit to Ukraine when he called on Russia to back off in its support of pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine saying that, "No nation should threaten its neighbors by amassing troops along the border."


This from the man who is one heartbeat from the presidency of a nation that doesn't just have an army and a navy and an airforce along its southern shore threatening its neighbor Cuba, but actually has its navy based on Cuban territory, which it refuses to leave, despite having long ago run out its lease. And the US doesn't just threaten. It acts, most recently by attempting to fund a fake Cuban "Twitter" operation called ZunZuneo (Hummingbird Tweet) designed to enable and encourage anti-Cuban government activists to anonymously organize and create chaos.


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