By Dave Lindorff
Does this look like something rebels would do to their capital city? (
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One searches almost in vain for honest reporting on the Ukraine conflict in the US corporate media, which is simply parroting the US government position, which is that the rebels in eastern Ukraine are simply tools of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Yet the murderous shelling of the people of the rebel regions of Lugansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine is almost certainly wholly the work of an aggressive Kiev-government led Ukraine military, which has been ramping up its forces in the east in preparation for a renewed assault on the two separatist states of Lugansk and Donetsk.
Each time there is a report of shelling of either city, Lugansk or Donetsk, the US media either completely fail to mention who might be responsible, or they report that "both sides" accuse each other of being responsible, though this is clearly absurd, since even those same media also refer to Donetsk and Lugansk as "rebel-held" or "separatist-held," or as "rebel strongholds." Why, one ought to ask, would the rebels shell their own territory, much less the capitals of their respective rebel regions?
The model for how such incidents are to be reported was set on Oct. 6 by America's version of Pravda, Voice of America. In its article that day, headlined NATO Concerned about E. Ukraine Cease-Fire Violations, it states:
"The new head of NATO said the Western military alliance is concerned about the large number of violations of the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, which he indirectly blamed on pro-Russian separatists."
Following in lockstep with that approach, here's what the US media had to say about the conflict in recent weeks:
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