The conflict of "news reports" out of Ukraine is enough to drive anyone crazy. One story relates the rejection of an artificial military junta (directed by no less than the head of the CIA) by a courageous, local, democratic protest of a huge majority of Russian speaking citizens in the East. In this version, the Russian president is a kindly father-figure who is prepared to acknowledge his long lost children and defend them against the western hordes.
Western media is united in refusing to broadcast this story, however, and the reports that are printed and aired tell of a brutal assault by Russian special forces to divide a peaceful Ukraine in preparation for military occupation. The same news networks are reporting that the elected government of Syria is dropping saran gas bombs on civilians and burning their corpses in a prison crematorium to destroy evidence. They quote the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" as their source (one man in a London apartment who hasn't been to Syria in 15 years), and play "documentaries" provided by rebel armies as "proof".
Closer to home, the leaking of Democrat emails by an angry whistle blower who hated to see Bernie Sanders railroaded out of contention for presidential candidacy has been spun into another McCarthy inquisition pretending to find "the Russians" are responsible for any and all corruption in the world.
Who are we supposed to believe? Not the western version, that's for sure.
Ever since the story of premature babies being ripped out of their incubators in Kuwait, I realize that the propaganda machine of the United States has no conscience. The artificial "War on Terror" ha;s been deeply ingrained in the American psyche - ever since their army had to massacre the native "savages" to make the country "safe". In recent history this "war on terror" has included the use of illegal imprisonment, water boarding, surgical drone strikes and threats of nuclear attack. Providing false documents and spreading disinformation has become an uncontested weapon of the American military, the largest military in history, and I, for one, am sick and tired of listening to the lies. If anyone wants to negotiate a peaceful solution to any of today's conflicts, they have to start by holding the real terrorists accountable. The United Nations should only be directed by countries who have proved their ability and commitment to peace... like Iceland, or Sweden, or ... ???
