See? It's all baloney, just like most of what you read in the western media about Ukraine is baloney. In fact, there have been a number of excellent articles written on the topic just recently, notably articles by Ron Unz and Karel Van Woldferen. Having done considerable research on the topic, businessman and political activist Unz is amazed at, what he calls "the utter corruption and unreliability of the mainstream American media," adding that "the events of the last dozen years should have bankrupted any faith we have in our government or media." ("American Pravda: Who Shot Down Flight MH17 in Ukraine?" The Unz Review)
In a similar vein, Dutch journalist and retired professor at the University of Amsterdam, Karel Van Wolferen, takes aim at both the media and the state, but saves his most devastating salvo for Washington:
"'America's history,' he says, 'since the demise of the Soviet Union, of truly breathtaking lies: on Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, Libya and North Korea; its record of overthrown governments; its black-op and false flag operations; and its stealthily garrisoning of the planet with some thousand military bases, is conveniently left out of consideration. ...Decent Europeans cannot bring themselves to believe in the dysfunction and utter irresponsibility of the American state.'" ("The Ukraine, Corrupted Journalism, and the Atlanticist Faith," Karel Van Wolferen, The Unz Review
Both articles are worth reading in full.
In any event, readers would be well advised not to trust anything they read in the media about Ukraine. It's all bunkum. Just like the ridiculous article, that popped up in the Guardian last week (that was intended to start World War 3) is bunkum. Here's the scoop: Last Thursday, journalists from the Guardian and the Telegraph reported that a convoy of Russian military trucks and armored vehicles crossed the border into Ukraine. Here's a clip from the article in the Guardian:
"The Guardian saw a column of 23 armoured personnel carriers, supported by fuel trucks and other logistics vehicles with official Russian military plates, travelling towards the border near the Russian town of Donetsk -- about 200km away from Donetsk, Ukraine.
"After pausing by the side of the road until nightfall, the convoy crossed into Ukrainian territory, using a rough dirt track and clearly crossing through a gap in a barbed wire fence that demarcates the border. Armed men were visible in the gloom by the border fence as the column moved into Ukraine. Kiev has lost control of its side of the border in this area.
"The trucks are unlikely to represent a full-scale official Russian invasion, and it was unclear how far they planned to travel inside Ukrainian territory and how long they would stay. But it was incontrovertible evidence of what Ukraine has long claimed -- that Russian troops are active inside its borders." ("Aid convoy stops short of border as Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine," Guardian)
"Incontrovertible evidence," you say? No photos, no satellite imagery, no nothing. We are asked to believe that two professional journalists didn't even have a workable cell phone with which they could take a picture. That's Incontrovertible evidence?
Shortly after the alleged incident, Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko issued a statement saying that "his country's armed forces had destroyed part of an armed convoy that the Guardian saw moving through a gap in a border fence on Thursday night."
Got that? So, now they not only SAW the phantom convoy they also blew it up. Not bad for a day's work.
Okay, so where are the prisoners? Where are the blown up hulks of the armored vehicles? Where are the casualties? Where's eyewitness testimony of the people who first appeared on the scene? Where's the photographic proof from US satellites that were combing the area at the time? There's has to be something to substantiate a claim as serious as this; a claim that could lead to a declaration of war on Russia.
Nothing. They have nothing; not a shred of hard evidence. It's all just fluff.
This is sadly reminiscent of the bogus claims of "mobile weapons labs" and "aluminum tubes" that were used launch the war on Iraq. Similarly, all the media fell in line, reiterating the same basic narrative with zero evidence. Here's a blurb form the New York Times:
"The government of Ukraine, pushing to oust pro-Russian rebels from their last enclaves in the east while nervously eyeing a stalled Russian aid convoy, said on Friday that its force had destroyed a number of Russian military vehicles that it said crossed into Ukraine late Thursday through a border area controlled by the separatists." (NYT)
And the Telegraph:
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