{"id":51315,"date":"2014-12-22T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=51315"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:08","slug":"putin-shot-down-a-plane-putin-shot-down-a-what-never-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/12\/putin-shot-down-a-plane-putin-shot-down-a-what-never-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Shot Down a Plane! Putin Shot Down a \u2026 What? Never Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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18 Dec 2014 – <\/em>Search for \u201cMalaysian Airlines Flight 17\u2033 on the New York Times <\/em>website and you\u2019ll find<\/a> a page promoting three articles from July [2014], two hyping the idea that Russia did it and one just focused on the horror of it.<\/p>\n

Below that you\u2019ll find 109 articles arranged from newest to oldest. The newest<\/a> is from December 10th and consists of 4 sentences that convey little. The next<\/a> is from November and all about an inappropriate tweet. The next half dozen take us back through September and we\u2019re little the wiser for it.<\/p>\n

Yet the world outside of the U.S. media is full<\/a> of evidence<\/a> suggesting that<\/a> Russia did not do it.<\/p>\n

The silence is deafening. Dutch plans to produce a dubious report by next summer are being outpaced by steps<\/a> toward war.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a petition<\/a> that concerned people are signing:<\/p>\n

Call for Independent Inquiry of the Airplane Crash in Ukraine and Its Catastrophic Aftermath<\/strong><\/p>\n

To: <\/strong>All the heads of states of NATO countries, and of Russia and the Ukraine, to Ban-ki Moon and the heads of states of countries on the UN Security Council<\/p>\n

With the U.S. and Russia in possession of over 15,000 of the world\u2019s 16,400 nuclear weapons, humanity can ill-afford to stand by and permit these conflicting views of history and opposing assessments of the facts on the ground to lead to a 21st Century military confrontation between the great powers and their allies.\u00a0 While sadly acknowledging the trauma suffered by the countries of Eastern Europe from years of Soviet occupation, and understanding their desire for the protection of the NATO military alliance, we the signers of this global call to action also note that the Russian people lost 20 million people during WWII to the Nazi onslaught and are understandably wary of NATO expansion to their borders in a hostile environment.\u00a0\u00a0 Russia has lost the protection of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which the US abandoned in 2001, and warily observes missile bases metastasizing ever closer to its borders in new NATO member states, while the US rejects repeated Russian efforts for negotiations on a treaty to ban weapons in space, or Russia\u2019s prior application for membership in NATO.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For these reasons, we the peoples, as members of Civil Society, Non-Governmental Organizations, and global citizens, committed to peace and nuclear disarmament, demand that an independent international inquiry be commissioned to review events in Ukraine leading up to the Malaysian jet crash and of the procedures being used to review the catastrophic aftermath.\u00a0 The inquiry should factually determine the cause of the accident and hold responsible parties accountable to the families of the victims and the citizens of the world who fervently desire peace and a peaceful settlement of any existing conflicts.\u00a0 It should include a fair and balanced presentation of what led to the deterioration of U.S. \u2013Russian relations and the new hostile and polarized posture that the U.S. and Russia with their allies find themselves in today.<\/em><\/p>\n

The UN Security Council, with US and Russian agreement, has already passed Resolution 2166 addressing the Malaysian jet crash, demanding accountability, full access to the site and a halt to military activity which has been painfully disregarded at various times since the incident.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the provisions of SC Res 2166 notes that the Council \u201c[s]upports efforts to establish a full, thorough and independent international investigation into the incident in accordance with international civil aviation guidelines.\u201d\u00a0 Further, the 1909 revised Convention on the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes adopted at the 1899 Hague International Peace Conference has been used successfully to resolve issues between states so that war was avoided in the past.\u00a0 Both Russia and Ukraine are parties to the Convention.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Regardless of the forum where the evidence is gathered and fairly evaluated, we the undersigned urge that the facts be known as to how we got to this unfortunate state of affairs on our planet today and what might be the solutions.\u00a0 We urge Russia and Ukraine as well as their allies and partners to engage in diplomacy and negotiations, not war and hostile alienating actions.\u00a0\u00a0 The world can little afford the trillions of dollars in military spending and trillions and trillions of brain cells wasted on war when our very Earth is under stress and needs the critical attention of our best minds and thinking and the abundance of resources mindlessly diverted to war to be made available for the challenge confronting us to create a livable future for life on earth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why is this important?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important because there is so much misinformation and disinformation in the media that we are careening towards a new cold war with Russia over this.<\/p>\n

Initial Signatories for petition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Organizations for Identification Only)<\/em><\/p>\n

Hon. Douglas Roche, OC, Canada
\nDavid Swanson, co-founder, World Beyond War
\nBruce Gagnon,\u00a0 Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space
\nAlice Slater, JD, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NY
\nProfessor Francis A. Boyle, University of Illinois College of Law
\nNatasha Mayers, Union of Maine Visual Artists
\nDavid Hartsough, co-founder, World Beyond War
\nLarry Dansinger, Resources for Organizing and Social Change
\nEllen Judd, Project Peacemakers
\nColeen Rowley, Women Against Military Madness
\nMedea Benjamin, Code Pink
\nBrian Noyes Pulling, M. Div.
\nAnni Cooper, Peaceworks
\nKevin Zeese, Popular Resistance
\nLeah Bolger, CDR, USN (Ret), Veterans for Peace
\nRaymond McGovern, former CIA analyst, VA
\nMargaret Flowers, Popular Resistance
\nGloria McMillan, Tucson Balkan Peace Support Group
\nEllen E. Barfield, Veterans for Peace
\nCecile Pineda, author. Devil\u2019s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step
\nJill McManus
\nSteve Leeper, Visiting professor, Hiroshima Jogakuin University,Nagasaki University
\nKyoto University of Art and Design
\nWilliam H. Slavick, Pax Christi Maine
\nHelen Caldicott, Helen Caldicott Foundation
\nDavid Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
\nBrigadier Vijai K Nair, VSM [Retd] Ph.D. , Magoo Strategic Infotech Pvt Ltd
\nKevin Martin,\u00a0 Peace Action
\nCarol Reilly Urner, Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom
\nAnn E. Ruthsdottir
\nKay Cumbow
\nSteven Starr, Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility
\nTiffany Tool,\u00a0 Peaceworkers
\nSukla Sen, Committee for Communal Amnity, Mumbai India
\nJoan Russow, PhD, Coordinator, Global Compliance Research Project
\nRob Mulford, Veterans for Peace, North Star Chapter, Alaska
\nJacqueline Cabasso,\u00a0 Western States Legal Foundation, United for Peace and Justice
\nIngeborg Breines, Co-president International Peace Bureau
\nJudith LeBlanc, Peace Action
\nFelicity Ruby
\nJerry\u00a0 Stein,\u00a0 The Peace Farm, Amarillo , Texas
\nMichael Andregg, professor, St. Paul, Minnesota
\nElizabeth Murray,\u00a0 Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, National Intelligence Council, ret.: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Washington
\nRobert Shetterly, artist,\u00a0 \u201cAmericans Who Tell the Truth,\u201d Maine
\nKatharine Gun, United Kingdom
\nDave Webb, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, UK
\nAmber Garland, St. Paul, Minnesota
\nJohn Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus
\nBeverly Bailey, Richfield, Minnesota
\nJoseph Gerson,\u00a0 Convener, Working Group for Peace & Demiitarization in Asia and the Pacific
\nStephen McKeown, Richfield, Minnesota
\nDominique Lalanne,\u00a0 France
\nBill Rood, Rochester, Minnesota
\nTom Klammer, radio host, Kansas City, Missouri
\nBarbara Vaile, Minneapolis, Minnesota
\nMali Lightfoot, Helen Caldicott Foundation
\nTony Henderson, spokesperson for universal humanism, Hong Kong
\nDarlene M. Coffman, Rochester, Minnesota
\nSister Gladys Schmitz, Mankato, Minnesota
\nEdward Loomis, NSA Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)
\nJ. Kirk Wiebe, NSA Senior Analyst (ret.), MD
\nWilliam Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
\nJill Stein, Green Party 2012 Presidential nominee
\nCheri Honkala, Green Shadow Cabinet
\nEd Asner
\nNorman Solomon, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
\nAgneta Norberg, Sweden
\nRick Rosoff, Stop NATO
\nKathleen Sullivan, Hibakusha Stories
\nMichael Eisenscher, US Labor Against the War
\nClare Coss, playwright
\nJean-Marie Matagne, President, Action des Citoyens pour le D\u00e9sarmement Nucl\u00e9aire (France)
\nCarolyn Rusti Eisenberg, United for Peace and Justice<\/p>\n

Add your name<\/a>.<\/p>\n

______________________________<\/p>\n

World Beyond War is a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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