Robert Parry: NYT Whites Out Ukraine’s Brown Shirts
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/02/11/nyt-whites-out-ukraines-brown-shirts/Exclusive: The New York Times has been more biased on the Ukraine crisis – endlessly promoting State Department propaganda – than when it published false Iraqi WMD stories last decade. Case in point: a story from Mariupol hailing the Azov battalion without noting its neo-Nazi fighters, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
In covering the Ukraine crisis, the New York Times continues its descent into becoming little more than a propaganda organ for the U.S. State Department and the Kiev regime, again refusing to acknowledge the role of neo-Nazi militias in the civil war against ethnic Russians in the east.
On Wednesday, the Times published a long article by Rick Lyman that presented the situation in the port city of Mariupol as if the advance by ethnic Russian rebels amounted to the arrival of barbarians at the gate while the inhabitants were being bravely defended by the forces of civilization. But then the article cites the key role in that defense played by the Azov battalion.
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Though the article provides much color and detail – and quotes an Azov leader prominently – it leaves out one salient and well-known fact about the Azov battalion, that it is composed of neo-Nazis who display the Swastika, SS markings and other Nazi symbols.
But this inconvenient truth – that neo-Nazis have been central to Kiev’s “self-defense forces” from last February’s coup to the present – would presumably disrupt the desired propaganda message. So the New York Times just ignores it and refers to Azov as simply a “volunteer unit.”
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So, why did the New York Times excise this well-documented history as it touted the Azov battalion to its readers on Wednesday? Isn’t the role of neo-Nazis newsworthy? In other contexts, the Times is quick to note and condemn any sign of a Nazi resurgence in Europe. However, in Ukraine, where neo-Nazis, such as Andriy Parubiy served as the coup regime’s first national security chief and neo-Nazi militias are at the center of regime’s military operations, the Times goes silent on the subject.
It can’t be because the Times is unaware of what has been extensively reported about the Azov battalion. The Times could even find a brief reference in one of its own prior stories. The only logical answer is that the Times is committed to a propaganda position on the Ukraine crisis and doesn’t want the facts to get in the way of its preferred storyline.
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I missed you 
That is what we have to watch out for. It is a tactic that will be used in the upcoming elections against the Left, but from the Right, that is their MO of course, and sadly, from some now on the left.
I assume when I see such personal attacks that they are unable to refute the content they appear to want to distract from.
The left needs to be aware of these tactics, too often we ignore them or react as they intend for us to react, take the bait, go on the defensive. The Left needs to be on the offensive from now on.
We need to study these tactics and learn how to USE them to OUR advantage. Just imo of course! 
He is "afraid of no man"!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4337158
Lol, intelligence, integrity and honesty are definitely qualities that are extremely attractive.
Nastiness and constant negativity, not so much!
Nahh.. just kidding. it shows you've got it going on... 
LMAO
Because I dont buy US propaganda, I guess that also makes me a "putin lover" here too. I cant believe the Reagan 80's Cold War propaganda being posted here on a daily basis. We should all hate Russia and commies and leftists. Its like Im in a wayback time machine reading this garbage over and over again.
I bet he gave me one too. 
I have no doubt your hearts came from Putin also, Polly!
Did I ever tell you that I once received some flower bouquets from Saddam? He wasn't a big spender like Pootie Poot though!
And poor me, who was supposed to have his babies!, got zilch ....... squat .......... nada.
What a lovely bunch of hearts! 
But you are welcome
Some of the best posters on DU are getting regularly shut down, and I'm not fond of it. Scootaloo got shut out for a month. You got shut out for a couple of weeks. People with strong opinions getting shut down makes DU suck.
me with their ugly labels or keep me quiet. I have things to say, and I'll say them.
You rock, Polly 
And I'm glad your post wasn't hidden ....... that was just a strange alert. 
"If you don't argue against every instance of x, then all your arguments against x in a given situation are invalid."
One size fits all! Don't worry about particular circumstances, just be mindlessly consistent! Damn, man, that sounds like the philosophy of a WW1 general, not a thinking human being. That's just an unbelievably stupid, and dishonest, line of argument.
As for the specific situation under discussion, it's quite possible to be concerned with far right militias in Ukraine vs. far right militias in the US. Why? For starters, the ones in Ukraine are backed by the government, which is backed by the US. Except possibly on a local level, I don't know of any systematic program to aid right-wing militias in the US. In fact, I'm well aware of multiple federal and state agencies that consider that particular group of people to be both hostile and dangerous. Given that, I am stumped as to why you'd bring up militias in the US except to deflect the discussion from Ukraine.
As for why someone could be hesitant, or even opposed, to the current intervention in Ukraine, there are reasons that don't involve Mr. Snowden or your pointless namechecking of Mr. Orwell. For instance, a person might consider that Europe is in very bad shape. Does pushing a conflict between Europe and Russia help that situation? Does it help Germany, considered the strongest economy in the region, to largely cut off trade with one of its largest trading partners? Ultimately, what do you gain in Ukraine?
Anyway, unlike most on this board, I haven't picked a team on this issue. I think American involvement will be problematic (for us) at best and the potential gains minimal. I'm not worried about Putin rolling across Europe, as is so often implied on this board, because the old Red Army is dead. He doesn't have the manpower or the resources. He's a problem on his borders, at most. This pathetic imitation of Cold War forms on DU is ridiculous. I've seen the domino theory, now applied to Putin, trotted out daily by people I'm sure who would mock the same if discussed in the context of Vietnam. I've seen HUAC style tactics ("Are you now or have you ever been..."
pushed by proponents of a Ukrainian intervention. That one makes me a bit sick. If you sound like Tricky Dick, you're clearly doing it wrong.
supporting these extremists:
U.S. Senator John McCain, right, meets Ukrainian opposition leaders Arseniy Yatsenyuk, left, and Oleh Tyahnybok in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013.
Oleh Tyahnaybok is the leader of the neo nazi party, Svoboda.
[link: http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12#ixzz3RVTRXud1|John McCain Went To Ukraine And Stood On Stage With A Man Accused Of Being An Anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi]
So much on this everywhere, except in the NYT it seems. One more, but there is plenty of info about the Kiev Coup Govt's embrace of these neo-nazis. McCain and Nuland seem right at home with them, but what else could we expect from a warmonger and a neocon?
Ukraine Ethnic Purity Extremists [Neo Nazis threaten Russians, Jews, non-whites]
Nuland with the neo nazi leader
Nice friends the neocons have. But when you're plotting a coup, I guess you take what you can get, or something.
And that is 'our guy Yatze' in the photo also. That's what Nuland called him. And what a coincidence, that's what she got, her guy, after the coup.
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It's been proven on this board over and over.
Seeing No Neo-Nazi Militias in Ukraine
September 8, 2014
“The fighting for Donetsk has taken on a lethal pattern: The regular army bombards separatist positions from afar, followed by chaotic, violent assaults by some of the half-dozen or so paramilitary groups surrounding Donetsk who are willing to plunge into urban combat,” the Times reported.
“Officials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag.” [See Consortiumnews.com’s “NYT Discovers Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis at War.”]
The conservative London Telegraph offered more details about the Azov battalion in an article by correspondent Tom Parfitt, who wrote: “Kiev’s use of volunteer paramilitaries to stamp out the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk ‘people’s republics’… should send a shiver down Europe’s spine.
And much more: https://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/08/seeing-no-neo-nazi-militias-in-ukraine/
The bias is so strong that the mainstream media has largely ignored the remarkable story of the Kiev regime willfully dispatching Nazi storm troopers to kill ethnic Russians in the east, something that hasn’t happened in Europe since World War II.
For Western news organizations that are quick to note the slightest uptick in neo-Nazism in Europe, there has been a willful blindness to Kiev’s premeditated use of what amount to Nazi death squads undertaking house-to-house killings in eastern Ukraine. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Seeing No Neo-Nazi Militias in Ukraine.”]
The Russian government has repeatedly protested these death-squad operations and other crimes committed by the Kiev regime, but the U.S. mainstream media is so in the tank for the western Ukrainians that it has suppressed this aspect of the crisis, typically burying references to the neo-Nazi militias at the end of stories or dismissing these accounts as “Russian propaganda.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/02/06/nuclear-war-and-clashing-ukraine-narratives/
The Azov battalion uses the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf''s Hook) symbol on its banner (Tom Parfitt)
Asked about his Nazi sympathies, he said: “After the First World World War, Germany was a total mess and Hitler rebuilt it: he built houses and roads, put in telephone lines, and created jobs. I respect that.” Homosexuality is a mental illness and the scale of the Holocaust “is a big question”, he added.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine-crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html
Following the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 in East Ukraine, before an investigation has been even begun, and although it is equally likely that the Ukrainian Government could have possibly carried out the act, Timothy Garton Ash already had all the answers. In his article for the New York Times titled "‘Protecting’ Russians in Ukraine Has Fatal Consequences", Ash traced the roots of the current crisis in Ukraine to a speech made by Vladimir Putin while serving as a deputy mayor of St. Petersburg in 1994. Ash explains that Putin argued then that the collapse of the USSR left 25 million Russians outside the Russian Federation without protection and that therefore this speech was an indication that Putin will intervene in neighboring countries to protect Russians there, when faced in danger. From this it follows, according to Ash, that it is Putin’s alleged actions to aid rebels in East Ukraine that are responsible for the toppling of the jet.
http://original.antiwar.com/joshua_tartakovsky/2014/08/15/mass-killing-in-east-ukraine-and-the-failure-of-liberal-intellectuals/
"Subhumans"! - when have we heard that before. I lost family members fighting the last freak that considered millions of human beings subhumans, one tortured and murdered in one of his camps at the very start of the war, just a kid, really. That you defend fascists and people like this makes me absolutely SICK. And 'nuked'? What the fuck kind of animal calls for that? Ukrainian CITIZENS who don't recognize an illegally coup-sponsored gov't and don't wish to live under austerity? People who defend this, why? I believe I know, and it's beyond ugly. You might want to reconsider all your insults against people just trying to get at the real truth, because you're failing miserably at anything resembling reality.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024613019
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6202547
(And btw .... why was it necessary to install a new Finance Minister, a former U.S. diplomat who took Ukrainian citizenship in December 2014 "who had been in charge of a U.S.-taxpayer-financed $150 million Ukrainian investment fund which involved substantial insider dealings?"
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/02/06/nuclear-war-and-clashing-ukraine-narratives/
There is a strong far right nationalist movement and many of them are in the current government.
Svoboda (political party)
The All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнське об’єднання «Свобода», Vseukrayinske obyednannia "Svoboda" , translated as Freedom, is a Ukrainian nationalist political party.[2] The party won in the late October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election 6 seats; losing 30 seats of the 37 seats (its first seats in the Ukrainian Parliament[8]) it had won in the 2012 parliamentary election.[nb 1][11][12] From 27 February 2014 till 12 November 2014 three members of the party held positions in Ukraine's government.[13]
The party was founded in 1991 as the Social-National Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Соціал-національна партія України and acts as a populist proponent of nationalism and anti-communism. It is positioned on the right of the Ukrainian political spectrum,[2][14][15][16] and some scholars classify them as far right.[4][17][18][19] Scholars and journalists disagree over Svoboda's politics, some stating members of Svoboda are fascistic or anti-semitic,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26] while other scholars and media, as well as Svoboda itself, state that its politics are nationalist, but not fascistic or antisemitic.[27][28][29][30][31][32]
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Svoboda has been described as an anti-Semitic and sometimes a Neo-Nazi party by some journalists,[133][139][155] organizations that monitor hate speech,[156] Jewish organizations,[157][158] and political opponents.[56]
Svoboda advisor Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn started a blog called "‘Joseph Goebbels Political Research Centre" in 2005, later changing "Joseph Goebbels" to "Ernst Jünger."[2] Mykhalchyshyn wrote a book in 2010 citing works by Nazi theorists Ernst Röhm, Gregor Strasser and Goebbels.[54][139][159] Elsewhere Mykhalchyshyn referred to the Holocaust as a "period of Light in history".[160]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_%28political_party%29#Allegations_of_neo-nazism_and_political_extremism`
the penchant to attack whistle blowers and journalists is a bit um.. strange..No Nazi's in Kiev's government, nope.
I posted an OP yesterday after reading several congressional Dems were encouraging Obama to send arms to Ukraine's military, which includes neo-nazi militias.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026207125#post11
It shouldn't surprise us there are now neo-nazi militias on the border of Russia.
Someone thinks he won the presidency and conducts his own foreign policy. Sound familiar?
John McCain stands with Neo-Nazi leader and Ukrainian politician Oleh Tyahnybok
attention as I knew they would.
Because the only people who could find Parry's writing despicable must be Nazis!
So cute
are in bed with Ukrainian Neo-Nazis!
How adorable
in the morning.
Especially when it decimates a bad argument 
