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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 01:17 AM Mar 2014

Turning Ukrainian Fascists into "Freedom Fighters":Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands

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March 19, 2014
Turning Ukrainian Fascists into "Freedom Fighters"

Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands

by ERIC SOMMER

Hey U.S. mass media journalists: A large number of you writing in outlets like CNN, Fox News, New York Times, and Washington Post have blood on your hands. It may initially sound exagerative, but you are complicit in mass murder. In the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi war criminals at the end of WW II, the prosecution powerfully argued that those journalists who use propaganda to prepare the public to accept war crimes are themselves also guilty of those crimes.

As the Nuremberg prosecutor stated: “The use made by the Nazi conspirators of psychological warfare is well known. Before each major aggression, with some few exceptions based on expediency, they initiated a press campaign calculated to weaken their victims and to prepare the German people psychologically for the attack….In the propaganda system of the Hitler State it was the daily press and the radio that were the most important weapons.¡±”

During the run-up to the Iraq war – an unprovoked war of aggression - many of you endlessly repeated, without proper critique or doubt, the false Bush Administrations claims that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that this somehow justified military invasion.

By helping to manufacture the consent of the public for that war, and by helping to intimidate opponents of the war, you were complict in sending thousands of young American men and women abroad to kill and be killed; thousands of them died, tens or hundreds of thousands were injured or mentally traumatized, not to mention up to a million Iraquis who died as a result of the war.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/19/why-us-journalists-have-blood-on-their-hands/

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Turning Ukrainian Fascists into "Freedom Fighters":Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2014 OP
I had no idea he declared John Demjanjuk a hero who was “fighting for truth.” Catherina Mar 2014 #1
This Salon piece is a real keeper, Catherina. It needs to be seen by many. Thanks. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2014 #2
Hmmm. . . .excellent NEWS. . . . h2ebits Mar 2014 #3

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
1. I had no idea he declared John Demjanjuk a hero who was “fighting for truth.”
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 02:42 AM
Mar 2014

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Tyahnybok "praised John Demjarijuk, convicted as a participant in the murder of 30,000 people in Nazi concentration camps, as a hero"?
"His assistant has founded a think-tank called ‘the Joseph Goebbels Political Research Center, named after Nazi Germany’s head propagandist"?

I remember reading about the other stuff and their Joseph Goebbels Political Research Center but I'd forgotten that his assistant founded it. I'm going to look for a link about Tyahnybok praising John Demjanjuk, but that's no surprise because he's a bone fide, card-carrying Nazi.

Just found it:

One of the “Big Three” political parties behind the protests is the ultra-nationalist Svoboda, whose leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, has called for the liberation of his country from the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.” After the 2010 conviction of the Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk for his supporting role in the death of nearly 30,000 people at the Sobibor camp, Tyahnybok rushed to Germany to declare him a hero who was “fighting for truth.” In the Ukrainian parliament, where Svoboda holds an unprecedented 37 seats, Tyahnybok’s deputy Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn is fond of quoting Joseph Goebbels – he has even founded a think tank originally called “the Joseph Goebbels Political Research Center.” According to Per Anders Rudling, a leading academic expert on European neo-fascism, the self-described “socialist nationalist” Mykhalchyshyn is the main link between Svoboda’s official wing and neo-Nazi militias like Right Sector.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/


How reassuring to have this guy now "Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Informatization and Information Technologies".



How *cute*. He's wearing an 88 Lapel pin? 88 stands for H H (letter 8 of the alphabet H) and is the neoNazi / White Power symbol for "Heil Hitler"



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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
2. This Salon piece is a real keeper, Catherina. It needs to be seen by many. Thanks. n/t
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 03:37 AM
Mar 2014

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h2ebits

(632 posts)
3. Hmmm. . . .excellent NEWS. . . .
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 01:05 PM
Mar 2014

What an amazingly difficult situation for the world to deal with. This article certainly paints a horse of a different color than what we have been fed by the media. Now that we all have more knowledge of what is occurring, it's time to get involved in bringing the details to light to get a more rounded view of the problems.

I've posted the article to my Facebook page and encourage everyone to help get the word out in whatever manner they have at their disposal.

Thanks, Judi, for posting here.

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