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<span class="cat-date-line4">By Robert Parry, <a
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<p><em>Sen. John McCain appearing with Ukrainian rightists at a
pre-coup rally in Kiev.</em></p>
<p><b>Exclusive: </b>The mainstream U.S. media continues to sell
the American people a one-sided storyline on the Ukraine crisis
as the Kiev regime celebrates a key military victory at
Slovyansk, an eastern city at the center of ethnic Russian
resistance to last February’s violent coup that ousted elected
President Yanukovych, writes Robert Parry.</p>
<p>By Robert Parry</p>
<p>As you read or watch the mainstream U.S. media’s accounts of
the Ukrainian government’s military offensive against ethnic
Russians in East Ukraine, it’s worth remembering that these MSM
outlets have been feeding Americans a highly biased narrative of
the crisis non-stop from the beginning.</p>
<p>For instance, New York Times correspondent David M. Herszenhorn
included in a largely celebratory <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/world/europe/ukraine-and-rebels-clash-in-slovyansk.html?ref=world">account</a>
of the Ukrainian blitzkrieg that overwhelmed ethnic Russian
positions in the town of Slovyansk on Saturday this summary of
the conflict’s background:</p>
<p>“The separatist rebellion is the latest, bloodiest chapter in a
crisis that began in November after Viktor F. Yanukovych, then
Ukraine’s president, rejected a trade accord he had promised to
sign with the European Union in favor of closer ties with
Russia. Protesters took to the streets of Kiev, eventually
driving Mr. Yanukovych from office. Within a week, Russia
invaded Crimea, then annexed the peninsula.”</p>
<p>Herszenhorn, like nearly all his MSM colleagues, simply can’t
find it within himself to display the journalistic integrity
needed to present an evenhanded and unbiased explication of how
this crisis unfolded. Instead, it’s all about blaming Ukraine’s
elected President Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir
Putin for everything.</p>
<p>Always absent is the fact that the EU’s trade accord came with
a draconian International Monetary Fund austerity plan attached,
a prescription to inflict even more pain on the people of
Ukraine who have suffered under a post-Soviet economic system
dominated by a handful of corrupt oligarchs. The IMF plan would
have simply hit the average Ukrainian even harder — with
elimination of heating subsidies and devaluation of their
currency – while the Ukrainian oligarchs and their Western
financial backers would have escaped the pain, as usual. In
rejecting the IMF scheme, Yanukovych opted for a more generous
$15 billion loan deal from Moscow.</p>
<p><b>Blind to the Neo-Nazis</b></p>
<p>Herszenhorn’s narrative also excludes the key role of neo-Nazi
militias that were organized in 100-man units to serve as the
tip of the spear in the Feb. 22 coup that drove Yanukovych and
his government from power. In recognition of their key role in
the coup, the neo-Nazis were awarded several ministries in the
new government, including the office of national security.</p>
<p>Then, there is the cherished MSM tale of the Russian “invasion”
of Crimea, which – unlike every other “invasion” in history –
did not involve military forces crossing an international
border. Russian troops were already stationed in Crimea under an
agreement with Ukraine’s government. And, the impetus for
Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and rejoining Russia came from
the local government and the Crimean people, not from Russian
military force. But repetition of the words “invasion” and
“annexation” is needed to elicit the desired revulsion from the
American people.</p>
<p>It’s also never noted that after the Feb. 22 coup, the new
regime dutifully approved the harsh IMF austerity plan that even
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk – the new leader hand-picked by
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland – acknowledged
was “very unpopular, very difficult, very tough.”</p>
<p>All in all, the Ukraine case has been a curious example of
U.S.–backed “democracy promotion” – overthrowing a
democratically elected leader so a coup regime could impose a
“very unpopular” austerity plan on an already suffering
population. [For details, see Consortiumnews.com’s “<a
href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/02/ukrainians-get-imfs-bitter-medicine/">Ukrainians
Get IMF’s Bitter Medicine</a>.”]</p>
<p><b>Among the Worst</b></p>
<p>The Times’ Herszenhorn has been among the most biased of a long
list of biased MSM correspondents who have enforced the false
narrative about Ukraine. Indeed, the oppressive “group think” –
blending State Department propaganda with its amen chorus of the
MSM – has made formulating any rational policy toward Russia and
Ukraine politically impossible in Official Washington.</p>
<p>It seems that the safe career play is always to go for the most
extreme examples of Russian perfidy. For instance, in mid-April,
the Times published a front-page <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/world/europe/russia-is-quick-to-bend-truth-about-ukraine.html?hp&_r=0">story</a>
by Herszenhorn excoriating Russian Prime Minister Dmitri
Medvedev for engaging in clumsy propaganda.</p>
<p>In the article entitled “Russia Is Quick To Bend Truth About
Ukraine,” Herszenhorn mocked Medvedev for making a Facebook
posting that “was bleak and full of dread,” including noting
that “blood has been spilled in Ukraine again” and adding that
“the threat of civil war looms.”</p>
<p>The Times article continued, “He [Medvedev] pleaded with
Ukrainians to decide their own future ‘without usurpers,
nationalists and bandits, without tanks or armored vehicles –
and without secret visits by the C.I.A. director.’ And so began
another day of bluster and hyperbole, of the misinformation,
exaggerations, conspiracy theories, overheated rhetoric and,
occasionally, outright lies about the political crisis in
Ukraine that have emanated from the highest echelons of the
Kremlin and reverberated on state-controlled Russian television,
hour after hour, day after day, week after week.”</p>
<p>This argumentative “news” story spilled from the front page to
the top half of an inside page, but Herszenhorn never managed to
mention that there was nothing false in what Medvedev wrote.
Indeed, as the bloodshed has grown worse and a civil war has
become obvious, you might say Medvedev was tragically prescient.</p>
<p>It was also the much-maligned Russian press that first reported
the secret visit of CIA Director John Brennan to Kiev. Though
the White House later <a
href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/04/14/obama-john-brennan-kiev-russia-ukraine-jay-carney/7705755/">confirmed</a>
that report, Herszenhorn cited Medvedev’s reference to it in the
context of “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” Nowhere
in the long article did the Times inform its readers that, yes,
the CIA director did make a secret visit to Ukraine.</p>
<p>Now, as the Kiev regime celebrates its bloody conquest of the
eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk, it might be advisable for
Americans who don’t want to continue being deceived by U.S.
government/media propaganda to recognize – and reject – these
one-sided and false narratives. [For more details, see
Consortiumnews.com’s “<a
href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/16/ukraine-through-the-us-looking-glass/">Ukraine,
Though the US ‘Looking Glass’</a>” or The Nation’s “<a
href="http://www.thenation.com/article/180466/silence-american-hawks-about-kievs-atrocities">The
Silence of America’s Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities.</a>”]</p>
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