Mariupol Liberated… Western Media Silence Amid Their Big Lie Exposure
Editorial, Strategic Culture, May 13, 2022
Photo: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
The Western news media were made to look like laughing stocks this week with the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the Black Sea port city in southern Ukraine. Not just laughing stocks, but actually proponents of deceitful war propaganda. This should be a matter of excruciatingly deep shame for the Western media and indeed the basis for future prosecution over war crimes complicity. Up to 100 civilians were released from the sprawling industrial factory and taken into care by Russian forces in conjunction with UN rescue officials and the ICRC. Their testimonies flatly contradict the claims that were being blared by Western news media for several weeks. Amplifying the narrative of the NATO-backed Kiev regime, the Western media had been making out that the civilians were voluntarily in the Azovstal plant to help defend it along with Ukrainian soldiers. The Russian military surrounding the factory was said to be besieging the site and threatening the safety of civilians. However, it turns out, based on their own testimonies, that the civilians were being held hostage as human shields by the Ukrainian combatants. While the Western media had been extolling the “heroic” defenders of the Azovstal factory, it has now become apparent that these “heroes” were grossly violating laws of war by systematically using non-combatants as human sandbags to deter a Russian assault. We should not be surprised by the criminal and degenerate conduct. For the “brave defenders” at the Azovstal plant that the Western media have been eulogizing are none other than the Nazi-affiliated Azov battalion. These militants are the frontline troops of the Ukrainian armed forces. They have been trained and armed by NATO powers including the US, Britain, Canada and Poland. There is speculation that there may even be NATO special forces still holed up in the steel plant along with their Azov battalion charges.
It remains to be seen what the residual 1k militants in the factory will do now that their siege is finally doomed. One of the fighters even put out a bizarre appeal this week to SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk to help mediate their escape. How appropriate for the weird times we live in! Contrary to Western media claims, the Ukrainian forces have been routinely using schools, hospitals, residential apartments, and other civilian centers as cover for fighting against Russian troops. The sudden fall-off in Western media coverage this week is in stark contrast to the near-hysterical saturation reporting in previous weeks when it was being claimed that the Ukrainian port city was cruelly besieged by Russian forces. Consumers of Western media were led to believe that Russia’s military was about to perpetrate a heinous crime of mass murder. The hysteria being generated is part of the manufacturing of consent from the public for Western governments to funnel taxpayer money and military aid to prop up the Kiev regime. This week, the Biden administration is set to send a $40b military aid package to the Kiev regime; this largesse is while one million Americans have died from the Covid-19 pandemic.
For anyone who has been seriously following the conflict in Ukraine it is obvious that Western governments and media have been a total travesty in what they are claiming about that country. The regime in Kiev that seized power in 2014 through a CIA-backed coup against an elected president has actually been an international disgrace only given cover by the Western media and fawning Western governments. The regime may currently have a Jewish president as a figurehead, but for eight years it has been infested with Nazis, fascists and other anti-Russian radicals. This regime and its foot soldiers in the Azov battalion and other such formations openly glorify the memory of WW2 collaborators with the Third Reich in the prosecution of its Final Solution genocide. The Western media had previously acknowledged the “Nazi problem” in Ukraine. But since the US-led NATO bloc ramped up its war agenda against Russia over the past six months, all such pejorative mention of the Kiev regime has been expunged. The Western public is inculcated to believe that Washington and its European allies are defending democracy in Ukraine. The conflict has been completely shorn of any factual context, from the origins of the Kiev coup to the past eight years of relentless deadly aggression against the Russian-speaking people in the breakaway Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk
A major reason why Moscow ordered the military intervention into Ukraine on Feb 24 was to defend the Russian people of the southeast Donbass region from the ravages of the NATO-backed Kiev regime forces and their Nazi hatred. Nearly three months on, the Donbass provinces have been largely liberated by the Russian military. The Azov Nazis have been pushed back. The southern port city of Mariupol is a key strategic gain to link up the Donbass territory under the control of Russian forces in alliance with the armies of the LDPR. The Western media tell their consumers that Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has been a failure; that it has involved massive war crimes; that the “brave defenders” are holding out. The facts are that the Kiev regime has callously and cynically used its own population as cannon fodder to cling on to power and as emotive pawns to facilitate the NATO weaponizing of the country as a catspaw against Russia. That is exactly what the NATO powers want.
The US and its NATO accomplices, the ultimate architects of this conflict, are funneling tens of billions of dollars into the Ukraine, supplying covert forces and military intelligence that is recklessly risking a direct conflict with nuclear-armed Russia. One can be bamboozled by the cornucopia of narratives and propaganda. The Bucha (false-flag) massacre that allegedly happened in March was a classic example of media gaslighting psyops, as was the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol, all covertly perpetrated by NATO-backed Nazis but blamed on Russia by the Western media. But perhaps the clearest test case of lies from facts surely is the liberation of Mariupol by Russia. The city is returning to normal after weeks of heavy fighting. Humanitarian aid is being provided by Russian forces in coordination with the UN and ICRC. As with other parts of liberated Donbass, civilians are expressing relief and gratitude for having gotten rid of militants who had been holding them under siege with their hateful Nazi ideology
There is a vivid parallel with Syria’s northern city of Aleppo when it was liberated by Russian forces in late 2016 from jihadist militants. Recall how for weeks before Aleppo was retaken, the Western media were declaring that a bloodbath was imminent against innocent civilians and “brave rebels.” Just like Mariupol and the rest of the Donbass, the civilian population has been liberated from a siege of terror that Western-backed proxies had imposed. In the case of Aleppo, Western media conspicuously did not follow up on their tall stories and wild claims. When did they ever visit Aleppo to find out what became of the civilians under siege? It is therefore fitting, albeit damning, that Western media have suddenly dropped their coverage of Ukraine this week. It is truly astounding how such Western media have reacted. There is a mass denial of reality because otherwise, they are exposing themselves as the liars and purveyors of propaganda that they shamelessly are. Why aren’t the BBC and CNN and so on in Mariupol, Donetsk and Lugansk to enquire about people’s conditions and views? That’s because the Western media would be exposing themselves as witting conduits of war propaganda. It is more prudent for them to simply just shut up and pretend nothing has happened. The dogs bark and the Western media caravan trundles on … to some other dutiful destination.
Is it any wonder that Western governments are massively censoring all critical, independent media? Searching the internet now just brings up approved Western media sources. Hardly any Russian media views are permitted and neither are critical, independent Western perspectives. This draconian suppression of free speech and information by the West is part of their war propaganda campaign aimed at giving the warmongering media free rein to spout their preposterous and pernicious lies unchecked. The implications are shocking. Western states are devolving into totalitarian regimes that at the same time have the audacity to pontificate about democracy and freedom. They largely get away with this absurd audacity because the profiteering corporate media are bought and paid for to be dutifully dumb and obsequious. There is an increasingly vicious circle of toxic Western militarism aided and abetted by so-called media that more accurately should be referred to as the “ministry of truth.” There are many nails going into the coffin of Western corporate-controlled media as far as their public credibility and respect are concerned. Another nail just slammed in this week from the exposure of their Big Lie about Mariupol.
Empire of Bioweapon Lies
Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, May 13 2022
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
– TS Eliot, The Waste Land: I. The Burial of the Dead, 1922
This glimpse of “fear in a handful of dust” already ranks as one the prime breakthroughs of the young 21st century, presented this week by Chief of Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Force Igor Kirillov. The provisional results of evidence being collected about the work of US bioweapons in Ukraine are simply astonishing. These are the main takeaways. US bioweapon ideologues comprise the leadership of the Democrat Party. By linking with non-governmental biotechnology organizations, using the investment funds of the Clintons, Rockefellers, Soros and Biden, they profited from additional campaign financing, all duly concealed. In parallel, they assembled the legislative basis for financing the bioweapons program directly from the federal budget. COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna, as well as Merck and Gilead, of Donald “known unknowns” fame, and affiliated with the Pentagon, were directly involved. US specialists tested new drugs in the Ukraine biolabs in circumvention of international safety standards. According to Kirillov:
Western companies seriously reduce the costs of research programs and gain significant competitive advantages. Along with US pharmaceutical companies and Pentagon contractors, Ukrainian government agencies are involved in military biotechnology activities, whose main tasks are to conceal illegal activities, conduct field and clinical trials and provide the necessary biomaterial.
The Pentagon, Kirillov pointed out, expanded its research potential not only in terms of producing biological weapons, but also gathering information on antibiotic resistance and the presence of antibodies to certain diseases among the population in specific regions. The testing ground in Ukraine was practically outside the control of the so-called “international community.” These findings, amply documented, suggest a vast “legitimized” bioweapon racket reaching the highest levels of the American body politic. There’s no doubt the Russians plan to thoroughly unmask it for the benefit of world public opinion, starting with a War Crimes Tribunal to be set up this summer, most probably in Donetsk.
An ongoing US bioweapons program in Ukraine was one of the Top Three reasons that led to the launch of Operation Z, side by side with preventing an imminent NATO-managed blitzkrieg against Donbass and Kiev’s desire to restart a nuclear weapons program. These are Top Three red lines for Russia. The strength of the collected evidence may directly correlate with what was largely interpreted as a carefully measured Victory Day speech by President Putin. The Kremlin does not bluff. It will certainly privilege the meticulous presentation of bioweapon facts on the ground over grandstanding rhetoric. Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky announced Russia’s demand for an open meeting of the UNSC to present further evidence related to US biolabs in Ukraine. Even if the meeting would be vetoed by the US, the evidence will be entered by Russia on the UN records. These developments provide an extra indication there’s absolutely no space left for diplomacy between Russia and the US/collective West, as Polyansky himself suggested when commenting the possible accession of Ukraine to the EU:
The situation has changed after Borrell’s statement that this war should be won on the battleground, and after the fact that the EU is the leader in deliveries of arms.
It gets worse. The next chapter is Finland’s drive to join NATO. The Americans gamble that Finland and Sweden joining NATO will totally discredit Putin’s Operation Z as having accomplished next to nothing strategically: after all, in the near future, potential US hypersonic missiles stationed in Finland and Sweden will be very close to Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Meanwhile, Russian unmasking of the bioweapon racket will drive a toxic section of American political elites to turbocharge their warmongering. It’s all following a carefully-calculated script. First, these bioweapon-supervising “elites” ordered the massive Kiev shelling of Donbas in early February. That forced the Kremlin’s hand, pushing it to launch Operation Z. We should always remember that the ultimate goal in the US plan of training Ukrainians for war since 2014 was to alienate Germany from Russia, as Germany de facto controls Euroland economically. Imperial control of the oceans allows the Empire to strangle Germany at will into subservience by cutting them off from Russian energy, as the British did to Germany in WW2 when Britannia ruled the waves. The Wehrmacht could not supply their mechanized army with fuel. Now, in theory, Germany and the EU will have to look to the seas and total US dependency for their natural resources.
The remote-controlled Kiev regime dominated by SBU fanatics and Azov neo-Nazis is making it even harder by shutting off all natural gas from Russia through Ukraine into Europe, reducing the flow by more than one third. That translates as US-enforced blackmail to force the EU to increase the Ukro-weaponizing against Russia. The practical consequences for Germany and the EU will be dire in terms of shut-down industries and cost of home heating and electrical power. Russia, meanwhile, will rely on a bolstered Pipelineistan maze to China and East Asia as well as high-speed rail to transport all its natural resources. Blowback against the Americans is not off-limits, though. Stranger things have happened. If gas transit to Europe via Ukraine is totally cut off, there are no alternatives. And that, assuming there are working IQs in Berlin, would open the way for a renegotiation on the future of Nord Stream 2. As the head of the Energy Development Center Kirill Melnikov notes:
The Yamal-Europe gas pipeline is practically idle, and one of the Nord Stream 2 lines is also ready for operation, though the German regulator has not issued permission for its launch yet.
That prompted Melnikov to a priceless comment:
If purchases remain the same, Germany will probably need to urgently allow the launch of one of the Nord Stream 2 lines in order to replace the Ukrainian transit route.
No-one ever lost money betting on the astonishing stupidity permeating Eurocrat decision levels. Even facing economic suicide, the EU is desperate to “abandon” Russian oil. Yet a full ban is impossible, because of energy-deprived Eastern Europe. Every impartial energy analyst knows replacing Russian oil is DOA, for a number of reasons: the OPEC+ deal; the ghastly divide between Washington and Riyadh; the never-ending JCPoA renegotiation, where the Americans behave like headless chickens; and the crucial fact, beyond the understanding of EUrocrats, that European oil refineries are designed to use oil from the Urals. So just when we thought we could enjoy the summer by watching Europe commit hara-kiri, it’s time to stock up on those Aperol Spritz. Get ready for a new hit series, season 1: Inside the American bioweapon racket.
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