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The world has never seen and heard so much naked propaganda and outright prevarication by the MSM in one month!<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ukraine: Behind the Wall of Propaganda<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by James Perloff<\/p>\n

It happened almost overnight. After two years of COVID dominating the world\u2019s headlines, Ukraine seamlessly took center stage.<\/p>\n

Like most Americans, I am not an \u201cexpert\u201d on Ukraine. But enough information has accumulated to form some conclusions based on a \u201cpreponderance of evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scenario has been depicted in mainstream media as nothing more than an \u201cunprovoked\u201d invasion by Russia. Furthermore, it was a David vs. Goliad match, and nearly everyone loves to root for the underdog.\u00a0 Putin was a Hitler, a mad dog bent on world conquest; Ukraine would only be his first ambition. Here is how\u00a0The Economist<\/em>\u00a0portrayed him on its cover:
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AOL chose to compare him to Stalin:
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The American government\u2019s response was no less theatrical. As with the media, no attempt was made to actually investigate Russia\u2019s motives or to hear their side of the story. Normally, the first step to take, when another country misbehaves, is diplomacy. But there was no effort to negotiate. Instead, the swift response of the United States and its allies, was sanctions, followed in short order by direct military aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

As we will see, however:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Since the CIA-backed coup of 2014, which overthrew the legitimately elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych (who had refused loans from the IMF), the Ukrainian government has been a puppet of the West.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s intervention in Ukraine was justified on several premises:<\/p>\n

\u2022 When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, it was assured that NATO would not move further East. But NATO repeatedly broke its promise. Ukraine is now a NATO partner, and was scheduled to become a full NATO member. Since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had requested nuclear weapons, this represented a security threat to Russia on its immediate border.<\/p>\n

\u2022 As now admitted by the U.S., some 30 U.S. biolabs were operating in Ukraine, many working on dangerous pathogens, representing a further threat to Russian security.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ukrainian forces were committing atrocities against civilians in Eastern Ukraine, especially ethnic Russians, and the territory of Donbass had formally requested assistance from Russia.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Russian forces are moving slowly in Ukraine\u2014not because they are weak (as claimed by the U.S. media) but because they want to preserve Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure and are concerned only with confronting hostile military forces, not civilians. But there\u2019s much more. Hang on. This article will consist of text, graphics, and videos; most of the latter are very short (1 or 2 minutes). I have noted the length of each. The overall video content may make this post slow to load for a few people, depending on their device and Internet connection. If a video doesn\u2019t play on the first click, click again.<\/p>\n

The West Has a Short Memory: America\u2019s\/NATO\u2019S War History<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Anyone caught up in the current TV war propaganda should remember what General Wesley Clark revealed he was told at the Pentagon after 9\/11. 2 minutes.<\/p>\n