{"id":61278,"date":"2015-07-20T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=61278"},"modified":"2015-07-20T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:50:02","slug":"mh17-one-year-on-what-really-happened-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/07\/mh17-one-year-on-what-really-happened-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"MH17 One Year On: What Really Happened and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

17 Jul 2015 – <\/em>This month marks the one year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 \u2013 an\u00a0incident that took place against a backdrop of a brutal proxy war \u2013 pitting Kiev and its supporters in\u00a0Washington DC, the EU and NATO \u2013\u00a0against\u00a0rebel forces in eastern Ukraine and Russia. As with most 21st<\/sup> century conflicts, truth has been the first casualty of war here.<\/p>\n

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Source: Internet<\/p><\/div>\n

Last July, 21WIRE\u00a0released its own\u00a0preliminary investigation<\/a> into the disaster. That post\u00a0still remains one of the most successful\u00a0articles in the site\u2019s history.\u00a0One year on, we\u2019ll revisit and review many of those key points and attempt many of the reamining\u00a0unanswered questions\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

On July 17, 2014, flight MH17 traveling east from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia \u2013 crashed near the village of Grabovo, and on the outskirts of\u00a0the town of Torez just outside of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, approximately 40 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border.<\/p>\n

To call this situation volatile would almost be an understatement. A pivotal event such as this could easily be used as \u00a0a pretext for escalating not only a New Cold War between the West and Russia, but also a hot war<\/em>. Only six months previously<\/a>, the Ukraine\u00a0found itself in the throes of\u00a0a western-backed coup<\/em>\u00a0d\u2019\u00e9tat<\/em>\u00a0in Kiev which tore the country apart. This\u00a0was quickly followed by a snap referendum in Crimea, where voters\u00a0opted for\u00a0secession from the Ukraine and into the relatively secure arms of the Russian Federation. The west cried foul and so began a\u00a0new grudge match. Arguably, tensions between the west and Moscow have been at their highest since the apex of the Cold War during\u00a0the east-west Soviet era. Needless to say, with MH17 the stakes could not be any higher, and regarding the west, it was obvious who<\/em> would be assigned the blame for this tragedy.<\/p>\n

More than any other incident, this one was flushed out firstly through public relations channels, and then secondly through official government bodies. From the onset the West took its position by claiming it had \u201cproof\u201d that \u2018Russian-backed rebels\u2019 were responsible for shooting down the passenger airliner. Immediately after the incident took place, the western government-media complex insisted that the murder weapon was a Russian-made BUK Surface to Air Missile system.<\/p>\n

Continue reading the report in the Original \u2013 21stcenturywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17 Jul 2015 – This month marks the one year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 \u2013 an incident that took place against a backdrop of a brutal proxy war \u2013 pitting Kiev and its supporters in Washington DC, the EU and NATO \u2013 against rebel forces in eastern Ukraine and Russia. As with most 21st century conflicts, truth has been the first casualty of war here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61278","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=61278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}