NYT Is Lost in Its Ukraine Propaganda

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/NYT-Is-Lost-in-Its-Ukraine-by-Robert-Parry-Crisis_Neocons_New-York-Times_Political-150124-110.html



Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2014.

NYT Is Lost in Its Ukraine Propaganda
By Robert Parry
OpEdNews Op Eds 1/24/2015 at 18:48:31

In late February, a conference is scheduled in New York City to discuss the risk of nuclear war if computers reach the level of artificial intelligence and take decisions out of human hands. But there is already the old-fashioned danger of nuclear war, started by human miscalculation, fed by hubris and propaganda.

That possible scenario is playing out in Ukraine, where the European Union and the United States provoked a political crisis on Russia's border in November 2013, then backed a coup d'etat in February 2014 and have presented a one-sided account of the ensuing civil war, blaming everything on Russia.

Possibly the worst purveyor of this Cold War-style propaganda has been the New York Times, which has given its readers a steady diet of biased reporting and analysis, including now accusing the Russians for a resurgence in the fighting.

One way the Times has falsified the Ukraine narrative is by dating the origins of the crisis to several months after the crisis actually began. So, the lead story in Saturday's editions ignored the actual chronology of events and started the clock with the appearance of Russian troops in Crimea in spring 2014.

[Fred Sanders]

1. History always only begins when you want it to if propaganda is your goal. Some recall the coup.

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Some must never learn of it, so getting folks lost in the factual thickets is mandatory.

I value free speech, but not if the speech is full of half truths and missing entire chapters.

The Candy King may be a good buddy of the West, Oligarths of a Feather, but, then again, the West is also good friends of a geriatric little Wahibi Dictator/King in an enslaved desert nation that allows zero dissent and flogs free speech openly in the streets.

Did you know the new King, same as the old King, does not permit civilians in his presence?

And that the Candy King is a complete idiot beholden to his armed militias, also know as the
Ukrainian "army"? Also, that he loves candy?

If the NY OP is accurate at all it would mean accepting that America is not being highly hypocritical in so many ways one loses count, but for example - where in the Arabian sands on this coming Tuesday is there any evidence of American high hypocrisy?

Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?

"As violent disorders at the Maidan grew worse -- with well-organized neo-Nazi militias hurling firebombs at police -- the State Department and U.S. news media blamed Yanukovych. On Feb. 20, when mysterious snipers -- apparently firing from positions controlled by the neo-Nazi Right Sektor -- shot to death police officers and protesters, the situation spun out of control -- and the American press again blamed Yanukovych.

Though Yanukovych signed a Feb. 21 agreement with three European countries accepting reduced powers and early elections, that was not enough for the coup-makers. On Feb. 22, a putsch, spearheaded by neo-Nazi militias, forced Yanukovych and his officials to flee for their lives.

Remarkably, however, when the Times pretended to review this history in a January 2015 article, the Times ignored the extraordinary evidence of a U.S.-backed coup -- including the scores of NED political projects, McCain's cheerleading and Nuland's plotting. The Times simply informed its readers that there was no coup. [See Consortiumnews.com's "NYT Still Pretends No Coup in Ukraine]"

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/06/nyt-still-pretends-no-coup-in-ukraine/

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No more pretending, we are not Republicans.

[zeemike]

2. Nailed it.

The NYT is just an other propaganda outfit that has a pedigree of journalism to make us think it is the truth.

[jeff47]

3. I'm gonna wait for RT to tell me what to think.

'Cause propaganda only comes from sources that don't say mean things about the US!