Introduction by Roger Annis
July 21, 2014–Two articles by Robert Parry of Consortium News, published on July 20 and 21, raise serious concerns and doubts about the integrity of a needed, thorough and impartial inquiry into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17.
Parry’s article today slams U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for a “reckless rush to judgement” as voiced by Kerry on the Sunday, July 20 television talk show circuit in the United States. Parry writes, “[Kerry] essentially dictated the outcome of an inquiry that risks pushing the world into a new and dangerous Cold War.”
And in his article the previous day, July 20, Parry writes, “In the recent past, this sort of sloppy American journalism has led to mass slaughters in Iraq – and has contributed to near U.S. wars on Syria and Iran – but now the stakes are much higher… this sort of recklessness is careening the world toward a very dangerous moment, conceivably its last.”
The July 20 article raises questions of why the U.S. is not providing satellite imagery or other evidence of what missile systems, exactly, were present in Ukraine and who was controlling them. “Instead of pressing for these kinds of details, the U.S. mainstream press has simply passed on the propaganda coming from the Ukrainian government and the U.S. State Department, including hyping the fact that the Buk system is “Russian-made”, a rather meaningless fact that gets endlessly repeated.”
Two other articles that provide important context to events have appeared recently :
* Punishing Russia for the MH17 tragedy will not help Ukraine, by Oliver Bullough,
The Guardian, July 20, 2014
* MH17 and its aftermath: ‘ordinary Russians are horrified and frightened’, by Natalia
Antonova, The Guardian, July 19, 2014
* * *
Kerry’s latest reckless rush to judgment
By Robert Parry, Consortium News, Monday, July 21, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry boasts that as a former prosecutor, he knows he has a strong case against the eastern Ukrainian rebels and their backers in Russia in pinning last Thursday’s shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on them, even without the benefit of a formal investigation…
Read the full article on Consortium News, here.
What did U.S. spy satellites see in Ukraine?
By Robert Parry, Consortium News, Sunday, July 20, 201
In the heat of the U.S. media’s latest war hysteria – rushing to pin blame for the crash of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin – there is the same absence of professional skepticism that has marked similar stampedes on Iraq, Syria and elsewhere – with key questions not being asked or answered.
The dog-not-barking question on the catastrophe over Ukraine is: what did the U.S. surveillance satellite imagery show? It’s hard to believe that – with the attention that U.S. intelligence has concentrated on eastern Ukraine for the past half year that the alleged trucking of several large Buk anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia to Ukraine and then back to Russia didn’t show up somewhere…
Read the full article on Consortium News, here.
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