Scott Ritter lays out the rationale to point a finger to the Ukrainians—army and police— as the perpetrators of the Bucha massacres, a retaliation against civilians sympathetic to Russians, part of their “cleansing operation”, while also providing grist for the disinformation mill that has been working double time to stain the name of Russia.
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It’s quite roable that the “Bucha massacre” is a naked Western/Kiev false flag, but no one in the Western media, always obeisant to Empire, is suggesting what should be obvious. If you get your news about the Ukraine war from the mainstream media in the United States, you’ve been inundated with uncorroborated reports of the brutal and unconscionable war crimes the Russian military is committing in cities like Bucha and Mariupol. The possibility that pro-Ukrainian propaganda could be responsible for these reports is never broached or even considered.
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GLENN GREENWALD—Prior to the U.S.’s jumping directly into this war, those questions were never meaningfully considered. Instead, the emotions deliberately stoked by the relentless media attention to the horrors of this war — horrors which, contrary to the West’s media propaganda, are common to all wars, including its own — left little to no space for public discussion of those questions. The only acceptable modes of expression in U.S. discourse were to pronounce that the Russian invasion was unjustified, and, using parlance which the 2011 version of Chris Hayes correctly dismissed as adolescent, that Putin is a “bad guy.”
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The mainstream media’s full court press to demonize the Nobel Prize-winning drug Ivermectin as “horse de-wormer” and marginalize advocates of the medication as a COVID treatment has become genuinely pathological. Despite CNN’s in-house physician Sanjay Gupta admitting to Joe Rogan that the network shouldn’t have described Ivermectin this way, the torrent of corporate media misinformation continues apace.
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MAITREYA BHAKAL—The reason why the My Lai massacre was allowed to enter the popular US imagination was to hide America’s much larger war crimes. As Nick Turse points out in his award-winning book Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam: “Today, histories of the Vietnam War regularly discuss war crimes or civilian suffering only in the context of a single incident: the My Lai massacre… Even as that one event has become the subject of numerous books and articles, all the other atrocities perpetrated by US soldiers have essentially vanished from popular memory.”
