Why have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?

[Karmadillo]

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/18/ukmh-a18.html

Why have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?
By Niles Williamson
18 August 2014

The deafening silence of the US media and government about the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 one month ago reeks of a cover-up.

In the hours and days immediately after the crash, without a single shred of evidence, US officials alleged that the passenger jet was shot down by an SA-11 ground-to-air missile fired from pro-Russian separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine. They launched a political campaign to obtain harsh economic sanctions against Russia and strengthen NATO’s military posture in Eastern Europe.

Picking up on the scent, the CIA attack dogs in the US and European media blamed the crash squarely on Russian President Vladimir Putin. The cover of the July 28 print edition of German news magazine Der Spiegel showed the images of MH17 victims surrounding bold red text reading “Stoppt Putin Jetzt!” (Stop Putin Now!). A July 26 editorial in the Economist declared Putin to be the author of MH17’s destruction, while the magazine ghoulishly superimposed Putin’s face over a spider web on its front cover, denouncing Putin’s “web of lies.”

Anyone comparing the media’s demonization of Putin with their treatment of Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi had to conclude that Washington was launching a campaign for regime change in Russia like those it carried out in Libya and Iraq—this time, recklessly pushing the United States towards war with a nuclear-armed power, Russia.

Having built up the crash into a casus belli against Russia, however, the US media suddenly dropped the matter completely. The New York Times has not found it fit to print a word on the MH17 crash since August 7.

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[customerserviceguy]

1. No fresh evidence perhaps?

The other Malaysian airliner has been out of the headlines for awhile, too. Some new discovery can kick things up a bit, but I don't think we're going to hear anything more about either aircraft.

[FSogol]

2. Unrec. WSWS.org?

[Cayenne]

6. Why do you think there is a blackout on MH17?

[FSogol]

9. There isn't a blackout. Go to Google news, type in MH17 and you'll get a dozen

or more articles written in the past 24-72 hours on the subject.

PS. All of the sources are more reliable that caca that flows out of wsws

[Agschmid]

8. Yup.

[jberryhill]

3. They've gone silent on the Sochi Olympics too!

While internet investigators have found out it wasn't really held in Russia!

Nobody is or was going to war with Russia.

And Generalisimo Francisco Franco is STILL DEAD!

[Amonester]

4. The insurance corporation(s?) are looking for who and where to send...

their lawsuit(s?) to.

That will take a lot of time to figure out, if you want to know who will pay (back) their pending bills.

How old are you? How many years do you expect having in front of you?

Climate change might extinct us all before these bills will ever get settled...

[Cayenne]

5. Maybe the Ukrainians did it after all

Bullet holes were supposedly found.

The Ukrainians claim destroying parts of a convoy and there is no evidence of that either. Were did that go.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Because it was Obama who actually fired the missile

He was trying to hit Putin's plane, but he missed.

Send an email to Victoria Nuland. She's the one who concocted the devious plot.

[elias49]

10. They're cooking the books, trying to craft the story.

To the best of my knowledge, the black boxes are in the UK. How long does it take to get data off them? As long as it takes to finalize the story that it was Ukranian 'separatists'...takes a lot of work to build a lie sometimes. Takes longer than the truth.

[seveneyes]

11. Because nuclear war would be a very bad thing