Most Censored of 2014: #9. US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis
US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis
Project Censored
October 1, 2014
http://www.projectcensored.org/9-us-media-hypocrisy-covering-ukraine-crisis/
Russias occupation of Crimea has caused US corporate media and government officials to call for a stern US response. Secretary of State John Kerry declaimed the Russian intervention as a nineteenth-century act in the twenty-first century. What Russias US critics seem to forget, Robert Parry reported, is the United States own history of overthrowing democratic governments, including the illegal invasion of Iraq, which Kerry supported.
Corporate media also fail to acknowledge that Putin ordered the occupation of Kiev after a coup led at least partly by neo-Nazisconditions arguably less criminal than the US invasion of Iraq, which the US legitimized with false claims. If Putin is violating international law by sending Russian troops into the Crimea after a violent coup spearheaded by neo-Nazi militias ousted Ukraines democratically elected president, wrote Parry, then why hasnt the US government turned over George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and indeed John Kerry to the International Criminal Court for their far more criminal invasion of Iraq? (In a similar vein, Noam Chomsky has written about the US occupation of Guantánamo in Cuba as another instance of the contradiction between the US position toward Russia and its own lack of respect for national sovereignty.)
Further, Ukraines democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled Kiev for his life after the coup and sought Russias help quelling the neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine, citing their oppression of the countrys native Russian population. It was only after this that Putin requested the Russian parliaments permission to deploy Russian troops in to stop the expansion of neo-Nazi control to areas that have deep historical ties to Russia.
Nevertheless, while downplaying these details, US corporate media accuse Russia of violating international law. The overriding hypocrisy of the Washington Post, Secretary Kerry and indeed nearly all of Official Washington, is their insistence that the United States actually promotes the principle of democracy or, for that matter, the rule of international law, wrote Parry. Those are at best situational ethics when it comes to advancing US interests around the world. In a subsequent report, Parry wrote that, despite evidence to the contrary, US policy makers and corporate media have intentionally neglected to report that neo-Nazi militias played a central role in the February 22, 2014, overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych. Parry reported, The US medias take on the Ukraine crisis is that a democratic revolution ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, followed by a legitimate change of government. So, to mention the key role played by neo-Nazi militias in the putsch or to note that Yanukovych was democratically electedand then illegally deposedgets you dismissed as a Russian propagandist.
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