{"article":{"id":272279,"heading":"New York Times Editors Still Outrageously Blame Russia for Kiev's Downing MH17","author":"Stephen Lendman","created":"2015-07-23 17:06:12","modified":"2015-07-23 17:06:12","last_modified":"Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:06:12","article":"<p>New York Times Editors Still Outrageously Blame Russia for Kiev's Downing MH17 <br><br> The Times is a notorious lying machine - suppressing hard truths, proliferating state propaganda, deplorable managed news misinformation and Big Lies. <br><br> Neither Russia or Donbass freedom fighters had anything to do with downing MH17. One or more Kiev junta warplanes destroyed it - either with cannon fire or an air-to-air missile. <br><br> Evidence available so far suggests no other possibility. Most important is what could Russia or Donbass rebels hope to gain by downing a civilian aircraft unrelated to ongoing conflict, killing everyone on board? <br><br> Nothing whatever! Washington, its Western partners and US-installed Kiev fascists benefit greatly if able to blame them for their own criminality.  <br><br> Media scoundrels like Times editors serve wealth, power and privileged interests exclusively. Systematically proliferating Big Lies at the expense of hard truths &nbsp;is longstanding Times policy - a deplorable record of reader betrayal. <br><br> Times Russia bashing is irresponsible and intense - proliferating willfully concocted false information, part of its support for Washington's imperial agenda, featuring endless wars of aggression against peaceful nations threatening no one. <br><br> On July 23, Times editors headlined \"Russia's Empty Gesture on the Downed Malaysian Jet\" - irresponsibly bashing Putin's call for initiating an objective independent investigation leading to holding responsible parties accountable, in accordance with Security Council Resolution 2166 mandated proper investigatory requirements not implemented. <br><br> The Dutch-led investigation ignores International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards. Since MH17's July 17, 2014 downing, an irresponsible anti-Russia drumbeat followed - led by media scoundrels spreading Big Lies. <br><br> Times editors shamelessly act in consort with other likeminded presstitutes instead of publishing hard truths. They pronounced Russia and Donbass freedom fighters guilty by accusation. <br><br> They support establishing an illegitimate Western kangaroo tribunal prosecuting their officials. They accused Moscow of trying \"to interfere with the inquiry.\" <br><br> They bashed Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin responsibly criticizing a US-manipulated Western attempt to establish a tribunal they control - calling their scheme a \"grandiose political show\" with no legitimacy whatever. <br><br> They repeated tired old discredited Big Lies about Russia annexing Crimea and invading Ukraine with troops in unmarked uniforms fighting Ukrainian forces. <br><br> \"&hellip;President Vladimir Putin has baldly denied the obvious fact (sic) that Russian forces are fully engaged in the fighting inside Ukraine,\" they blustered - despite no one able to find them using sophisticated satellite images, ground intelligence or other means. <br><br> Times editors ludicrously claim \"(n)obody outside Russia believes\" US-directed, funded and armed Ukrainian troops continue waging naked aggression against their own people wanting fundamental freedoms they're denied. <br><br> Putin wants Ukraine \"remain(ing) a broken mess,\" they absurdly claimed. Washington bears full responsibility for last year's coup Times editors won't acknowledge. <br><br> They support the fantasy of democracy in Kiev - ignoring an illegitimate, overtly Nazi-infested fascist regime waging dirty war on Donbass residents. You can't make this stuff up, or conceal disgraceful NYT propaganda masquerading as real journalism. <br><br> Its editors are right about one thing. Relatives of MH17 victims \"deserve answers and justice.\" They're delusional claiming a US-manipulated Western tribunal will deliver fair, unbiased rulings the whole world wants to hear. <br><br> Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.  <br><br> His new book as editor and contributor is titled \"Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.\" <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a> <br><br> Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.  <br><br> Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. <br><br> It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/p>\n","contact":"lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net","link":"sjlendman.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"NYT","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/07\/272279.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}