U.S. Media Lie, Yet Again
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Reagan, but in the decades since, he has transformed, because he has become disheartened by the constant lying from the U.S. news-media, especially after "Saddam's WMD" turned out to be fabrications.
Recently, his chief focus of concern has been the rampant lying in the American press about Ukraine. This is what he said on May 24th (and all of this is historically accurate, and it's important to know in order to be able to understand what's going on in Ukraine now):
"Areas of southern and eastern Ukraine are former Russian territories added to Ukraine by Soviet leaders. Lenin added Russian areas to Ukraine in early years of the Soviet Union, and Khrushchev added Crimea in 1954. The people in these Russian areas, alarmed by the destruction of Soviet war memorials commemorating the Red Army's liberation of Ukraine from Hitler, by the banning of Russian as an official language, and by physical assaults on Russian-speaking people in Ukraine, broke out in protests. Crimea voted its independence and requested reunification with Russia, and so have the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Washington, its EU puppets, and the Western media have denied that the votes in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk are sincere and spontaneous. Instead, Washington alleges that the protests leading to the votes and the votes themselves were orchestrated by the Russian government with the use of bribes, threats, and coercion. Crimea was said to be a case of Russian invasion and annexation. These are blatant lies, and the foreign observers of the elections know it, but they have no voice in the Western media, which is a Ministry of Propaganda for Washington. Even the once proud BBC lies for Washington."
Nowadays, the most accurate news reporting about events in Ukraine comes actually from Russia. The following report includes some of the latest of that, along with background reporting that I have put together from other sources, including links to videos of the actual historical events.
Unlike what you read in The New York Times or the Washington Post, or hear about on NPR, PBS, Fox "News," MSNBC, NBC, CBS, or ABC -- or even read about in New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, or Foreign Policy -- this is the reality; and all that you would need to do in order to check it out for yourself is to click on the links, all of which are to sources that I have checked out and verified as being true and authentic; you won't find any of this to be false or fake:
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Media-Lie-Yet-Again-by-Eric-Zuesse-Lies_Media_Media-Distortion_Media-News-140528-609.html