{"id":50042,"date":"2014-11-24T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=50042"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:30","slug":"why-does-the-west-allow-the-ukrainian-government-to-write-the-official-report-on-the-shoot-down-of-mh-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/11\/why-does-the-west-allow-the-ukrainian-government-to-write-the-official-report-on-the-shoot-down-of-mh-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does the West Allow the Ukrainian Government to Write the Official Report on the Shoot-Down of MH-17?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are only two suspects in the shoot-down of the MH-17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on\u00a0July 17th: the separatist rebels, whom the Ukrainian Government charge had shot it down mistaking it for one of the Ukrainian Air Force bombers that routinely drop bombs onto the separatists and their families and\u00a0indiscriminately onto everyone else in that region<\/a>;\u00a0or otherwise<\/strong>\u00a0the Ukrainian Air Force itself, as a means for President Obama to be able to win increased international sanctions against Russia for Russia\u2019s support of those blamed rebels.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it, and that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

One of these two suspects, the Ukrainian Government, was granted by the other three member-states of the official MH-17 \u2018investigating\u2019 commission, a veto-power over anything that\u2019s written into that \u2018investigating\u2019 report.<\/p>\n

In other words, basically what exists is this:<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Government gets to write the official \u2018investigation\u2019 report on that \u2018accident.\u2019 The other three Obama-allied nations will place their signatures onto it \u2014 or else there simply won\u2019t be any such \u2018final report.\u2019<\/p>\n

This agreement on Ukraine\u2019s veto-power was signed on\u00a0August 8th, by Ukraine, Australia, Belgium, and Netherlands, the four member-nations of the official \u2018investigation.\u2019<\/p>\n

This fact, of a Ukrainian veto, was made public on\u00a0August 12th, in\u00a0an obscure Ukrainian announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, on\u00a0August 23rd,\u00a0the first English-language news report on it was published at Global Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The very next day, the present writer\u00a0published a news-report placing that secret agreement into a fuller context<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, just today, on November 20th,\u00a0Russian Television has reported<\/a>\u00a0that the four-member \u2018investigating\u2019 team are still refusing to say anything about the earlier news reports that the Ukrainian Government possesses this veto-power.<\/p>\n

Do Western Governments, and their now (in the wake of\u00a0Obama\u2019s coup<\/a>) client-state of Ukraine, really think that the public are so stupid as not to recognize that this is an admission by the West (i.e., by the U.S. President and his various international stooges) that Russia was framed by themselves and their colleague U.S. client-states, into those economic sanctions?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the basic question, now, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

How many \u2018reporters\u2019 in the Western \u2018news\u2019 media are asking it? Why do their bosses refuse to allow them to ask it?<\/p>\n

Here is why: If \u2018journalists\u2019 don\u2019t report it, then who\u2019s to blame, for the public\u2019s not knowing it, isn\u2019t really their respective public (as any elite likes to claim: \u201cDemocracy is really just mobocracy\u201d), but is instead those \u2018news\u2019 media themselves, for hiding this important information from them. So: that\u2019s what the \u2018news\u2019-elite wants \u2014 an ignorant or misinformed public, a public that can be led around by the nose, like animals to their slaughter.<\/p>\n

Western diplomacy has become a scam, basically.\u00a0Russia faces economic sanctions for what Obama did<\/a>. And that\u2019s the news that none of the Western \u2018news\u2019 media will report.<\/p>\n

This cover-up of that scam is, itself, very big news. How will Western \u2018news\u2019 media cover it? Or will they instead cover-up the cover-up; and, to the extent that they report about it at all, will they charge that the authentic news-reports about the matter, such as this one, are \u2018mere opinion pieces, not really news-stories at all,\u2019 and so simply ignore the solidly documented facts that are reported in these news-stories?<\/p>\n

However, is it really fair to expect the public to form truth-based opinions about things of which they are intentionally being kept ignorant, and even outright deceived (such as\u00a0whether the sanctions against Russia are based on what they were told they were<\/a>)?<\/p>\n

Is the problem really democracy, as so many executives in the \u2018news\u2019 business say? Or is it actually oligarchy itself: that this \u2018democracy\u2019 is merely fake?<\/p>\n

Will the Western \u2018news\u2019 media please, just for once, stand up and answer that? Or will they instead merely ignore it, as they ignore other vital truths?<\/p>\n

How much longer can the public accept being raped by the press, and by their allegedly \u2018democratic\u2019 government?<\/p>\n

How much longer\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0 they, in fact, accept it?<\/p>\n

But how can they\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0 accept it, if they are being constantly lied-to? Is that what the Western press will continue to do?<\/p>\n

Big news can have big consequences. But not so long as it\u2019s still being kept secret, and lied-about.<\/p>\n

________________________<\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0<\/em>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are only two suspects in the shoot-down of the MH-17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on July 17 [2014]. One of these two suspects, the Ukrainian Government, was granted by the other three member-states of the official MH-17 ‘investigating’ commission, a veto-power over anything that’s written into that ‘investigating’ report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50042","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=50042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}