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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>The Putin-Did-It Conspiracy Theory<br><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The Times’ editorial doesn’t give much reason for hope that America’s upside-down “group think” has righted itself in any meaningful way. In the mainstream media’s latest repeat of the Iraq-WMD fiasco, the Times and virtually every other major news outlet remain committed to a dangerous misreading of the facts about Ukraine.</span></i><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Robert Parry: ‘Group-Thinking’ the World into a New War</span></i><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Robert Parry <<a href="http://consortiumnews.com/tag/robert-parry/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>http://consortiumnews.com/tag/robert-parry/</span></a>>, Consortium News <<a href="http://consortiumnews.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>http://consortiumnews.com</span></a>><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>15 February 15 | The original falsehood behind the Iraq War was that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and intended to use them against America either directly or by giving them to al-Qaeda. The opening lie about the Ukraine crisis was that Russian President Vladimir Putin instigated the conflict as part of some Hitlerian plan to conquer much of Europe.</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Yet, while the Hussein-WMD claim was hard for the common citizen to assess because it was supposedly supported by U.S. intelligence information that was kept secret, the Putin-Ukraine lie collapses under the most cursory examination based simply of what’s publicly known and what makes sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Investigative reporter Robert Parry <<a href="http://consortiumnews.com/tag/robert-parry/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>http://consortiumnews.com/tag/robert-parry/</span></a>> broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his new book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in <a href="https://org.salsalabs.com/o/1868/t/12126/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=1037" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>print here</span></a> or as an e-book (from <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/americas-stolen-narrative?keyword=americas+stolen+narrative&store=ebook&iehack=%E2%98%A0" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>barnesandnoble.com</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Full story … <a href="http://evergreenedigest.org/putin-did-it-conspiracy-theory" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>http://evergreenedigest.org/putin-did-it-conspiracy-theory</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Related:</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Robert Parry: ‘Group-Thinking’ the World into a New War, Robert Parry, <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/30/group-thinking-the-world-into-a-new-war/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>ConsortiumNews.org </span></a> / Rise Up Times <<a href="http://riseuptimes.org" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>http://riseuptimes.org</span></a>><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The armchair warriors of Official Washington are eager for a new war, this time with Russia over Ukraine, and they are operating from the same sort of mindless “group think” and hostility to dissent that proved so disastrous in Iraq.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Paul Craig Roberts: Russia In The Cross Hairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Full story ... <a href="http://evergreenedigest.org/robert-parry-%e2%80%98group-thinking%e2%80%99-world-new-war" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>http://evergreenedigest.org/robert-parry-‘group-thinking’-world-new-war</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>