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/
Catherina
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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 Germanys 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:
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"
Rec'd
Judi Lynn
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h2ebits
(632 posts)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.