{"id":245151,"date":"2023-10-02T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=245151"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:20:11","slug":"ukraine-on-fire-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/ukraine-on-fire-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20 Aug 2021 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014&#8217;s Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ukraine on Fire&#8221; by Igor Lopatonok provides a historical perspective for the deep divisions in the region which lead to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow of democratically elected Yanukovych. Covered by Western media as a people&#8217;s revolution, it was in fact a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat scripted and staged by nationalist groups and the U.S. State Department. Investigative journalist Robert Parry reveals how U.S.-funded political NGOs and media companies have emerged since the 80s replacing the CIA in promoting the US geopolitical agenda abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Oliver Stone interviews Ukraine\u2019s legally elected president Viktor Yanukovych, who in the 2010 election got 12,5 million votes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine on Fire\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKcmNGvaDUs?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Aug 2021 &#8211; This video provides a historical perspective for the deep divisions in the region which lead to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow of Yanukovych. Producer Oliver Stone interviews Ukraine\u2019s legally elected president Viktor Yanukovych, who in the 2010 election got 12,5 million votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[2126,393,1268,91,818,278,961,70,481],"class_list":["post-245151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-color-revolution","tag-coup","tag-european-union","tag-nato","tag-proxy-war","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245157,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245151\/revisions\/245157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}