NP: Is America Training Neonazis in Ukraine?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

There's been a steady drum-beat of war-mongering from the New York Times, in particular. It's staggering to me that any American who's lived through the heavy-handed war propaganda of the last two decades(100s of babies ripped from incubators by Saddam's troops, yellow cake, weapons of mass destruction, etc.) would be unable to parse this current shameful campaign, where American interests aren't even remotely at stake. The cool thing about recognizing propaganda for what it is: you don't have to be a supporter of the autocrat-du-jour in order to call it out. 

Laura



-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>Sent: Jul 7, 2015 11:57 AM
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: NP: Is America Training Neonazis in Ukraine?
>
>While everyone is talking about Greece and the limits of comedy (the 
>lost second part of the "Poetics", anyone?), I may be forgiven if I 
>address my very own pet NP-topic.
>
>Even the Daily Beast which is firmly on the side of those framing the 
>conflict as "Russian aggression" begins to ask questions:
>
>'There are no doubts about the neo-Nazi and white supremacist background 
>of the Azov Battalion, a militia that has positioned itself at the 
>forefront of the fight against Russian-backed separatists in eastern 
>Ukraine. As the founder and head of the battalion Andriy Biletsky once 
>put it, “The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is 
>to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival.”
>
>That Russian President Vladimir Putin and his propagandists exploit this 
>fact, using it to build support for their aggression and to undermine 
>the international effort to help Ukraine defend its independence, is 
>undeniable. But knowing that, and wanting to resist that, does not 
>resolve some very important questions about the basic facts.
>
>What is the relationship of the U.S. government to these people? Is it 
>training them? Might it arm them? Is this, like the Afghan war of the 
>1980s, one of those cases where we aid and abet the kind of monsters who 
>eventually become our enemies? Concerns about that possibility have been 
>growing on Capitol Hill.'
>
>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/04/is-the-u-s-training-neo-nazis-in-ukraine.html
>
>There are 70 years of history leading up to this, of course, but 
>unfortunately the author seems to have never heard of Operation 
>Bloodstone, Operation Aerodynamic, "Nightingale" etc.
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