Ukraine elections betray Western bias

[Ladybast]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8CF314BD-0BD9-4A59-89B6-95E989034DFE.htm

Ukraine elections betray Western bias
By Lawrence Smallman

Wednesday 01 December 2004, 7:55 Makka Time, 4:55 GMT

Western media are misrepresenting the Ukrainian election crisis as a conflict between the forces of democracy and dictatorship, according to numerous political analysts.

Without providing evidence that Viktor Yushchenko won the election, newspapers and pundits in the US and Europe all but insist that the West's opposition candidate has been robbed of the presidency.

Although huge rallies in support of pro-Russian presidential candidate and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich barely make it to television screens, audiences around the Western world have probably all seen the laser-lit, plasma-screened Yushchenko rock concerts.

Speaking to Aljazeera.net on Tuesday, international relations expert Bulent Gokay, a senior researcher at Keele University in Britain, pointed out that a worryingly obvious fact is being overlooked.

(more}

[podnoi]

1. Another link -Not as simple as presented by the media

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1362593,00.html

[bin.dare]

4. don't get fooled (again)

from

http://www.counterpunch.org/volatile12012004.html

What passes for a democratic revolution in Ukraine is nothing more than a U.S. staged coup d'etat, very similar to the one the Bush administration backed in Georgia last year, which toppled Eduard Shevardnadze and helped to further pave the way for U.S. ambitions in the region. (1)

[enough]

2. Guardian: "US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1360080,00.html

US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev

Ian Traynor
Friday November 26, 2004

snip>

But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.

Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.

snip>

The Democratic party's National Democratic Institute, the Republican party's International Republican Institute, the US state department and USAid are the main agencies involved in these grassroots campaigns as well as the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George Soros's open society institute.

more>

[PATRICK]

3. George Soros

spent all that money here promoting various types of ABB and neglected entirely any defensive measures against fraud?!!

Anyway, what other countries are on the "to do" list anywhere else in the world beside the Soviet Union sphere? Aristide was not such a democratic putsch so I gather old and tried but true coups are still in order in OUR sphere of influence- including America.