Mission Imperative: Why the West and Kiev Regime Must Kill the Truth
Finian
Cunningham
2
February, 2014
The
detention, incommunicado, of two female Russian journalists over the
weekend by Kiev’s secret police, the SBU, was said to be on the
grounds of «national security». That admission by the Kiev
authorities, ironically, reveals more than is intended. Journalists
«armed» only with cameras threatening national security, you may
ask? Yes, you better believe it – because any truth being reported
about the nature of the Western-backed Kiev regime and its military
onslaught in eastern Ukraine is indeed a very real «security threat»
– the threat of being exposed for war crimes and unlawful
aggression towards Russia. The legal consequences for the Kiev regime
and its Western patrons would be devastating.
The
two journalists were named as correspondent Elizaveta Khramtsova and
photographer Natalia Kalysheva, who both work for LifeNews based
in Moscow. The media outlet’s director Markian Lubkovsky reportedly
said he only found out about the detention of his staff after one of
them managed to make a hurried phone call before they were
«disappeared». Their whereabouts was not known even after several
hours from them having been taken into detention. That amounts to
abduction and is a grave abuse of international law. Russia’s
foreign ministry has demanded that the pair be released immediately.
The Kiev-based SBU reportedly would only confirm that the two women
will be «expelled in the near future» and that they would be denied
future entry into Ukraine.
A
second aspect for this heavy-handed treatment of Russian journalists
is this: the absolute imperative prevention of the West’s false
propaganda against Russia over the Ukraine conflict being completely
exposed. More than 80 Russian professional journalists have been
expelled from Ukrainian territory since the conflict erupted last
year. At least four have been killed by live fire from the Kiev
forces. What are the Kiev regime and its Western supporters afraid
of?
Washington
and its European allies, as well as the NATO military alliance, have
for months been churning out claims and bald assertions that Russia
has invaded eastern Ukraine with thousands of troops and mechanised
divisions. These provocative claims of Russian «aggression» have
been amplified, unswervingly and without the slightest investigation
or verification, by all Western mainstream media outlets, including
the BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, CNN and the New York Times.
Strangely,
these multi-million-dollar Western media corporations do not seem to
have the resources to send teams of reporters and camera crews into
the eastern Ukraine conflict zones of Donetsk and Luhansk to give
appropriate extensive coverage. You would think such an assignment
would a basic priority, given the supposed duty to report on extreme
violence and also given the all-out-war implications of Western
accusations against Moscow. Instead, Western corporate media rely
inordinately, and tellingly, on the US State Department, NATO and
dubious Kiev regime «sources».
Never
perhaps has a war on the European landmass been so under-reported in
the real sense of proper reporting. Why such a dearth of on-location
news? Again, what are they afraid of? Why the studied reluctance by
Western media to find out «the story»? And a big story at that.
In
fact, on the rare occasion that the Western media bother to report
from the Ukraine conflict location, the information uncovered tends
to contradict, or at least not substantiate, the Western grand
narrative that claims it’s all Russia’s fault for stealthily
subverting Ukraine. On countless occasions, the august New York Times
– America’s supposed finest bastion of journalism – has been
found fabricating or peddling uncorroborated claims of Russian
military presence in Ukraine. NYT’s reporters have also confirmed
in one rare report from the location – albeit in an oblique way –
that the self-defence militia of Donetsk and Luhansk are manned by
local inhabitants, not Russian covert forces, and that the militia
are not secretly being armed by the Russian state. Yet this basic
fact has not stopped the NYT from, at all other times, peddling
rumour and innuendo that fit with the anti-Russian narrative. In
another rare report, post-Minsk ceasefire, the NYT also confirmed
that the Western-backed Kiev military was shelling indiscriminately,
without knowing the coordinates of enemy self-defence fighters.
The
NYT jokingly referred in that report to the Kiev artillery using
«fire and forget» practices. Bear in mind that nearly 5,000 people
have been killed since the Kiev regime launched its offensive 10
months ago. Over half of the victims are civilians and many of them
have been killed from indiscriminate shelling by Kiev’s army and
National Guard units, firing on residential centres with rockets,
mortars and ballistic missiles. The town of Gorlovka near Donetsk
provides a snapshot of the whole criminal story, with nearly 100
civilians, including young children, dying from incessant shelling of
houses, apartments, churches, hospitals, schools and public spaces by
Kiev’s military since last April.
So,
now are approaching what the West and its Kiev puppet-regime fear
most. Because such a perspective gets straight to the point: Russia
has not invaded eastern Ukraine. Russia has not sent in tanks,
artillery units, howitzers, or truckloads of assault riffles and
rocket launchers. Humanitarian aid convoys are the only thing that
Moscow has supplied.
Russian
citizens who might be fighting in eastern Ukraine are private
volunteers who have, of their own volition and at their own personal
expense, taken the initiative to join the ethnic Russian self-defence
militia as an act of solidarity with the Donbas people, with whom
Russia has centuries of kinship with. The voluntary nature of these
Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine has even been admitted –
inadvertently – in a report by the CIA-directed news/propaganda
outlet, Radio Free Europe (see previous SCF editions of this column
for more details on the above NYT and RFE reports, published on this
site on May 7, 2014 and October 29, 2014, respectively).
Further
to the salient point is that the Nazi-adulating regime in Kiev –
brought to power in an illegal Western-sponsored coup last February –
is committing huge crimes against humanity, including disposal of
victims in mass graves and the use of cluster bombs on civilians
centres. This regime is not a «pro-democracy movement» as the West
mendaciously and outrageously pretends. It is propped up and allowed
to continue its criminal offensive through billions of dollars of
financial and military aid from Washington and Brussels, courtesy of
Western taxpayers’ money.
Western
governments, NATO and the Western news media thus stand accused of
sponsoring, or being complicit in, state terrorism in eastern
Ukraine. Western media complicity in distorting facts, suppressing
the truth, and concealing systematic crimes is in itself a grave war
crime under international law. There is no difference between the
crimes of Josef Goebbels’ Nazi propaganda ministry and the
functioning of the Western corporate news media. Both are guilty of
facilitating war crimes and state terrorism, despite the latter’s
pretensions of objectivity and independence.
Apart
from rare, unintended Western admissions of the real situation in
Ukraine, the only sources who are actually providing a semblance of
the truth of the full Western-backed horror are citizen-bloggers from
the eastern regions, as well as the self-declared independent
authorities of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics – who
have refused to recognise the legitimacy of the Western-sponsored
junta headed up by oligarch-president Petro Poroshenko and the
CIA-asset prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
A
third reputable source for information out of Ukraine’s killing
fields and its blockaded eastern regions are Russian journalists.
When three separate sources tell a consistent story then that is
significant and one can reliably take it as a fair approximation of
«the truth». As already noted, nearly 80 Russian journalists
working for accredited news organisations have been detained by
Kiev’s secret police and four have been killed in violent
circumstances in eastern Ukraine. Video evidence and witness accounts
indicate that these media workers were deliberately targeted by
Kiev’s military – yet another war crime under international law.
You can imagine the hue and cry if, say, BBC journalists were somehow
shot dead or blown up by Russian forces. We would never hear the end
of it. But when the Western-backed Kiev regime kills Russian
journalists, well, that’s deemed not newsworthy by Western media.
The twisted prejudice is probably that the Russian journos are
«Kremlin spies» and therefore deserve it.
The
targeting of journalists in Ukraine is a stark exposure of the West’s
fraudulent claims of venerating the right to free speech, which the
West made such a song and dance about over the massacre at the
Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris last month.
But,
more importantly, the genuine operation of independent media coverage
in Ukraine is a mortal threat to the existence of the Western-backed
regime. That’s because it would illuminate the criminality of the
junta and the collusion of Western governments and media in propping
up the criminals. It would otherwise expose the odious Western
narrative of trying to criminalise Russia as being entirely false and
riven with lies. Western sanctions against Russia and the US-led NATO
drumbeat of war would be seen for what they are: stacked up and
framed on an edifice of falsehood, distortion and meretricious lies.
It would turn out that it is not Moscow that should be sanctioned; it
is Washington, Berlin, Paris and London and those other European
governments that are backing this criminal regime in Kiev.
There
is a huge amount at stake in the West’s propaganda war against
Russia. If Western propaganda were to be exposed then Western
governments and media organisations should be prosecuted for gross
breaches of international law, including capital offences and
inciting a wider war with Russia. And Russia should likewise be
compensated with billions of dollars for this unlawful aggression,
including economic damages and defamation. Also, if the mass of
people in the West were to know the full extent of their governments’
and media’s criminality there would be hell to pay on the streets.
That
is why Russian and other independent journalists must be – at all
costs – killed, abducted, intimidated or deported from Ukraine by
this Western-backed regime. The West cannot afford – absolutely
cannot afford – to let the facts get in the way of their «story»
that seeks to criminalise Russia.
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