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This makes two posts in a row I’ve handed over to Caitlin Johnstone, corporate mass media being incapable of telling the truth<\/strong> <\/a>on matters vital to power. Not just oligarch ownership – Murdoch at the Times, Bezos at the Washington Post – but dependency on advertising and\/or rich donors combine to prevent this. That’s before we drill down to the corporate realities of organisational cultures which keep journalists eager to please editors; editors eager to please proprietors.<\/p>\n And it’s before we get to the direct pressures – appeals to ‘patriotism’ … exclusion of ‘hostile’ journalists from the inside track of military\/intelligence briefings … rewards to ‘friendly’ ones <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> … outright censorship <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> – applied by state agencies.<\/p>\n But on this the most globally threatening crisis of my life, an elephant of mythic stature has wandered into the room; an elephant so huge and stubbornly ‘there’ as to be glimpsable even through the tiny slit of that room’s Overton Window.<\/p>\n As I argued in Ukraine in La La Land<\/strong><\/a> …<\/p>\n … the Ukraine narrative is easily and simply punctured. The problem is not that the arguments are complex and non-intuitive. The problem is that no matter how ridiculous and evidence-defiant the mainstream narrative on Ukraine is, its foundations have been carefully laid over years if not decades … Who cares that the emperor is naked? Everyone has packed and gone to La La Land, a finger in each ear …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This being so, mainstream media’s sole option in respect of a war which may at any moment go nuclear is to ignore the glaring evidence pointing at Washington’s supreme culpability, so as to prop up that narrative less by actively lying – though this assuredly happens, primarily through the recycling of allegations from intelligence services and think tanks funded by the military industrial complex <\/strong><\/a><\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> – than by studiously ignoring that evidential glare.<\/p>\n So if something less removed from the truth is what we’re after, we must turn to sources which do not ignore it. Caitlin Johnstone for one. On May 10 she wrote<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n As we hydroplane toward the toward the\u00a0brink of nuclear armageddon<\/a><\/strong> while<\/span>\u00a0Bono and the Edge<\/span>\u00a0play U2 songs in Kyiv<\/a><\/strong>, it\u2019s probably worth taking a moment to highlight the fact that this entire war could have been avoided if the US had simply pledged military protection for Zelensky against the far right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact.<\/span><\/p>\n To be clear, what we are indulging in here is entirely an act of fantasy. In imagining what would have happened if the US had pledged to protect the Ukrainian government from an undemocratic violent overthrow at the hands of fascists instead of waging a horrific proxy war, we are imagining a world in which the US government acts in the highest interest of all instead of working continuously to dominate the planet no matter how much madness and cruelty it needs to inflict upon humanity. A world in which the US hadn\u2019t been taking steps toward the orchestration of this proxy war<\/span>\u00a0for many years<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n With that out of the way, it\u2019s just a simple fact that for a fraction of the military firepower the US is pouring into Ukraine right now, it could have prevented the entire war by simply protecting Ukrainian democracy from the undemocratic impulses of the worst people in that country.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/nato-enlargment-mark-2.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe US Could\u2019ve Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From\u00a0Nazis<\/span><\/h3>\n