Prepping for a Ukrainian Massacre - CommonDreams.org

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Published on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 by Consortium News
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/23-1

Prepping for a Ukrainian Massacre

As the rhetoric rages out of control, worsening violence in Ukraine grows more likely. Official Washington is readying the American people to view the slaughter of eastern Ukrainians as justified because they are “terrorists” and linked to the hated Russians
by Robert Parry

Between the anti-Russian propaganda pouring forth from the Obama administration and the deeply biased coverage from the U.S. news media, the American people are being prepared to accept and perhaps even cheer a massacre of eastern Ukrainians who have risen up against the coup regime in Kiev.

The protesters who have seized government buildings in ten towns in eastern Ukraine are being casually dubbed “terrorists” by both the Kiev regime and some American journalists. Meanwhile, it’s become conventional wisdom in Official Washington to assume that the protesters are led by Russian special forces because of some dubious photographs of armed men, accepted as “proof” with few questions asked by the mainstream U.S. news media.

While the U.S. news media is treating these blurry photos as the slam-dunk evidence of direct Russian control of the eastern Ukrainian protests – despite denials by the Russian government and the protesters – the BBC was among the few news agencies that provided a more objective assessment, noting that the photos are open to a variety of interpretations.

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1. Do we resign ourselves to the inevitable horror or shouldn't we take to the streets now ?

Maybe an opposition to the thumping of war drums and the bloodthirsty media whores promoting it, starts with a single person in anytown city square. Saying No to War. once again.

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2. Facepalm, on steroids...

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4. +1

Common Dreams is usually better than this.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. And I don't know about you

But coverage has been maddening not there. So I want some f whatever the author is smoking

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Oh and forgot to take out the trash.

Now trash taken out