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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/18/ukmh-a18.htmlWhy have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?
By Niles Williamson
18 August 2014
The deafening silence of the US media and government about the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 one month ago reeks of a cover-up.
In the hours and days immediately after the crash, without a single shred of evidence, US officials alleged that the passenger jet was shot down by an SA-11 ground-to-air missile fired from pro-Russian separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine. They launched a political campaign to obtain harsh economic sanctions against Russia and strengthen NATOs military posture in Eastern Europe.
Picking up on the scent, the CIA attack dogs in the US and European media blamed the crash squarely on Russian President Vladimir Putin. The cover of the July 28 print edition of German news magazine Der Spiegel showed the images of MH17 victims surrounding bold red text reading Stoppt Putin Jetzt! (Stop Putin Now!). A July 26 editorial in the Economist declared Putin to be the author of MH17s destruction, while the magazine ghoulishly superimposed Putins face over a spider web on its front cover, denouncing Putins web of lies.
Anyone comparing the medias demonization of Putin with their treatment of Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi had to conclude that Washington was launching a campaign for regime change in Russia like those it carried out in Libya and Iraqthis time, recklessly pushing the United States towards war with a nuclear-armed power, Russia.
Having built up the crash into a casus belli against Russia, however, the US media suddenly dropped the matter completely. The New York Times has not found it fit to print a word on the MH17 crash since August 7.
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customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)The other Malaysian airliner has been out of the headlines for awhile, too. Some new discovery can kick things up a bit, but I don't think we're going to hear anything more about either aircraft.
FSogol
(45,555 posts)Cayenne
(480 posts)FSogol
(45,555 posts)or more articles written in the past 24-72 hours on the subject.
PS. All of the sources are more reliable that caca that flows out of wsws
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)While internet investigators have found out it wasn't really held in Russia!
Nobody is or was going to war with Russia.
And Generalisimo Francisco Franco is STILL DEAD!
Amonester
(11,541 posts)their lawsuit(s?) to.
That will take a lot of time to figure out, if you want to know who will pay (back) their pending bills.
How old are you? How many years do you expect having in front of you?
Climate change might extinct us all before these bills will ever get settled...
Cayenne
(480 posts)Bullet holes were supposedly found.
The Ukrainians claim destroying parts of a convoy and there is no evidence of that either. Were did that go.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)He was trying to hit Putin's plane, but he missed.
Send an email to Victoria Nuland. She's the one who concocted the devious plot.
elias49
(4,259 posts)To the best of my knowledge, the black boxes are in the UK. How long does it take to get data off them? As long as it takes to finalize the story that it was Ukranian 'separatists'...takes a lot of work to build a lie sometimes. Takes longer than the truth.