Caitlin Johnstone: Official Behind Media Reports of Russian Atrocities Fired By Ukrainian Parliament

You’d think this might have made the BBC main news bulletins or Reuters daily briefing, seeing as allegations of Russian atrocities have resulted in more weapons, but No.
So frustrating that nearly everyone I know believes the “News” to be objective and balanced.
Keep up the good work.

The sad thing is that “stupid propaganda” works, after a fashion. What percentage of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 attacks? Huge. Thus “responsible press” may add some remarks like “not fully confirmed” or “according to Ukrainian authorities” and folks will assemble news into a picture without “cognitive dissonance”, that is, we support Ukraine because/thus they are good and try to do maximal harm to Russia because/thus they are bad.

“Thus” and “because” are conflated. All weasel-like texts like “according to … authorities” or “unconfirmed” etc. are deleted from the reader or listener mind if they do not harmonize with the already formed picture of the world, and additional causalities are added. I do not recall Bush Jr. and his official LITERALLY saying that Saddam was responsible for 9/11, but because Iraq was attacked BECAUSE of 9/11, it meant that either he was responsible or our government is evil, and it is so much nicer to believe that the government tries to do its best, even if not always correctly. If the government is evil, we are in danger of getting paranoid, developing ulcers, ticks etc., and if the government tries to do its best, but the results are, hm, disappointing, we can sleep well and in a year or two vote for another party that will fix that.

That said, people who read Consortium News are of the type that has difficulties removing pieces discordant with the vision “our government tries its best” and adding supportive pieces to that picture, and perhaps are more resistant to psychosomatic consequences of living in a dangerous world. Propaganda aims to keep people of that sort as a small minority.

And this was their top “human rights” official?

Oh, Uncle Sam-dim, behold what moldy passel of nuts you have nosed out & made junior partner this time so you can shove your schnozzola in, butinski-wise, in gormless search of yet another plundered feedbag?

“Denisova’s name featured just the other day in my own critique of the western media’s blind-faith regurgitation of Ukrainian government assertions when multiple western media outlets parroted her unevidenced claims about two Russians raping a one-year-old baby to death.”
Does anyone remember the atrocity propaganda about incubators babies being thrown on the floor at a Kuwaiti Hospital used to garner support for the George Bush Sr administration’s first Gulf war with Iraq? The point is that if the US wants a war, it will provide an excuse and Americans suck it up like candy. WMD’s anyone?

The firing is a (weak) attempt by the US/Ukrainian government to create plausible deniability of the fact that it is the source of the torrent of lies manufactured to sell this US war of aggression. Apparently the US is somewhat concerned that even the brain dead, ignorant and foolish American people “might” become at least a tiny bit suspicious of these outrageously sensationalist claims. I doubt that the Hegemon has much to worry about. I have witnessed a half century of US wars of aggression being successfully sold to these fools with lies. As far as I can tell, most of the fools are still waving their damn Ukrainian flags and cheering for unlimited US support for this latest disaster. But, of course, it is not a disaster for the thieves who run the show. They are, once again, being greatly enriched. And the politicians are, in turn, receiving their share of the loot. And the Hegemon’s effort to maintain its unipolar position in the world is being advanced — for the moment. No one in Washington seems to have taken into account the longer term effects of the boomerang effect of its sanctions. No surprise there. And then there is that little matter of possible nuclear annihilation, which only those with a functioning brain worry about.