Obamas Propagandistic UN Address Excerpts from an article by Robert Parry in OpEd News: During President Barack Obamas first term, he generally was careful in making comments about world affairs -- not that he was always completely honest but he was circumspect about outright lying. Over the past two years, however, he appears to have lost any such inhibitions. Thats the case even when he is engaged in something as serious as addressing the United Nations General Assembly on issues of war or peace as occurred both last year and this year. In September 2013, Obama made what he knew was a deceptive comment about the mysterious Sarin gas attack in Syria a month earlier. He did something similar on Wednesday in describing the Ukraine crisis. Regarding the Sarin case, Obama knew before his 2013 speech that many of his own intelligence analysts believed Syrian rebels were behind the Aug. 21 attack that killed several hundred people outside Damascus. These analysts suspected the incident was part of a scheme to blame the government of President Bashar al-Assad and get the U.S. military to attack Assads forces. Similarly, Obama knew the complex reality in Ukraine when he took to the podium on Wednesday. He knew that the crisis was instigated not by Russia but by the European Union and the United States. He knew that the elected President Viktor Yanukovych had been targeted for regime change by officials within the U.S. State Department, led by neoconservative Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who literally hand-picked the new leadership with the aid of U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt who described the need to midwife this thing. Obama knew that Nuland had told Ukrainian business leaders that the U.S. government had invested $5 billion in support of their European aspirations and that the U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy had subsidized scores of non-governmental organizations to help destabilize the Yanukovych government. He also knew the key role played by Ukraines neo-Nazi militias in seizing presidential buildings on Feb. 22 and forcing Yanukovychs officials to flee for their lives. Obama was aware, too, that the ethnic Russians of eastern Ukraine had rejected this coup regime and rose up in resistance to the imposition of what many saw as illegitimate authority. He knew that the people of Crimea -- faced with this coup regime in Kiev -- voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia, a move the Russian government supported and accepted. Obama knew that the Kiev regime brutalized southern and eastern Ukraine, with the regimes activists burning alive dozens of ethnic Russian protesters in Odessa and its military killing thousands with heavy weaponry fired into towns and cities of eastern Ukraine. The coup regime in Kiev even dispatched Nazi militias, such as the Azov battalion, to engage in bloody street fighting -- the first time since World War II that any government had deployed armed Nazi forces to attack a European population. Obama knew that, too. Obama also knew that some of his own intelligence analysts had concluded that extremist elements within the Ukrainian government were probably responsible for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, possibly using anti-aircraft missiles deployed close to rebel-controlled territory and aided by one or more Ukrainian fighter planes in the air. Obama knew, too, that the Ukrainian military attacked the crash site, driving investigators away and apparently setting fire to a wheat field containing remnants of the plane. ============================================ As I’ve said on numerous occasions, don’t believe what governments and polticians say, but what they do. As Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report said, “Obama is not the lesser of two evils, he is the most effective evil”.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:00:02 +0000
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