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Ends by noting, "...Americans who rely on these powerful news outlets for their information are as sheltered from reality as anyone living in a totalitarian society."
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/02/whos-telling-the-big-lie-on-ukraine/
Whos Telling the Big Lie on Ukraine?
September 2, 2014
Exclusive: Official Washington draws the Ukraine crisis in black-and-white colors with Russian President Putin the bad guy and the U.S.-backed leaders in Kiev the good guys. But the reality is much more nuanced, with the American people consistently misled on key facts, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
If you wonder how the world could stumble into World War III much as it did into World War I a century ago all you need to do is look at the madness that has enveloped virtually the entire U.S. political/media structure over Ukraine where a false narrative of white hats vs. black hats took hold early and has proved impervious to facts or reason.
The original lie behind Official Washingtons latest group think was that Russian President Vladimir Putin instigated the crisis in Ukraine as part of some diabolical scheme to reclaim the territory of the defunct Soviet Union, including Estonia and other Baltic states. Though not a shred of U.S. intelligence supported this scenario, all the smart people of Washington just knew it to be true.
Yet, the once-acknowledged though soon forgotten reality was that the crisis was provoked last year by the European Union proposing an association agreement with Ukraine while U.S. neocons and other hawkish politicos and pundits envisioned using the Ukraine gambit as a way to undermine Putin inside Russia.
The plan was even announced by U.S. neocons such as National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman who took to the op-ed page of the Washington Post nearly a year ago to call Ukraine the biggest prize and an important interim step toward eventually toppling Putin in Russia.
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In other words, from the start, Putin was the target of the Ukraine initiative, not the instigator. But even if you choose to ignore Gershmans clear intent, you would have to concoct a bizarre conspiracy theory to support the conventional wisdom about Putins grand plan.
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