By Chris Martenson of
Peak
Prosperity.
Posted
on August 1, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog
Here only extracts. Full art in http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
For reasons that have no rational explanations at
this time, the US and Europe have embarked on a concerted program to demonize Putin, ostracize Russia, and bring the world as close to a major conflict as it’s been
since the Cold War, a time hardly memorable to many in the current
crop of our elected officials.
Within hours of the MH-17 plane
crash, the United States pinned the blame on Russia generally, and Putin
particularly. The anti-Putin propaganda (and if there were a stronger term I’d
use it) has been relentless and almost comically over-the-top (see image above,
and those below).
The US and the UK in particular, are
leading the charge. Indeed, the UK’s Daily Mail managed to crank out an article
on the MH-17 affair within just a few hours on the very same day it occurred
with this headline:
Jul 17,
2014
The world
may have averted its gaze towards Israel and Gaza, but this week the rumbling
warfare in eastern Ukraine has been erupting into something growing daily more
dangerous.
Meanwhile the Russian bear, still pretending to be an innocent party
despite blood dripping from its paws, has begun stealthily
rebuilding its forces on the border.
Now we may well have witnessed the kind of shocking event that
happens when heavy armaments are placed in the hands of untrained and desperate
militias.
That’s really ‘an amazing piece of journalism to have
managed to have figured out the who, the what and the why of a major
catastrophe without the benefit of any evidence or investigation’. One wonders who the author’s source was for
obtaining what have become very crisp talking points that both the US and
Europe are echoing as they exert increasing pressure on Russia?
Nearly two weeks later, neither the
US nor Europe has provided substantial evidence of any sort to support their
assertions that Ukrainian separatists and/or Russia are to blame for the MH-17
catastrophe. There’s literally been nothing.
In the meantime, very important
questions surrounding the shoot-down have gone entirely unaddressed by US
officials and the western media. Why? Perhaps because they raise the
possibility that there could be an alternative explanation:
- What about the Russian satellite photos showing Kiev controlled BUK-1 missile batteries in the area on July 17th?
- What about Russia’s evidence that the radar of these units were active on July 15th, 16th and 17th?
- What were on the air traffic control recordings that were immediately seized by Ukrainian authorities, and why have they not been released?
- Why was a Ukrainian SU-25 flying within a few kilometers of MH-17 at the moment of the shoot-down and what did that pilot see?
- Why has the US not responded to nor released the satellite images and data from its spy satellite that Russia claims was in the right position to capture the precise moment of the MH-17 shoot-down?
So far, the entire case made by the
US State Department and Obama administration boils down to a few
highly-questionable social media clips gathered right after the incident, plus
several out-of-date low-resolution satellite photos taken from a private
company (DigitalGlobe) along with
a bevy of ‘trust us’ statements.
Nonetheless, despite the lack of solid, verified and
credible evidence, the current narrative
has now been embedded firmly in the media cycle and nearly everyone on the
streets of the
US, UK and most European nations will tell you that Putin and/or Russia was
responsible.
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