{"id":10177,"date":"2015-07-18T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10177"},"modified":"2015-07-18T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:25:35","slug":"mh-17-mystery-a-new-tonkin-gulf-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10177","title":{"rendered":"MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/07\/17\/mh-17-mystery-a-new-tonkin-gulf-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0In 1964, the Tonkin Gulf incident was used to justify the Vietnam War although U.S. intelligence quickly knew\u00a0the facts were not what the U.S. government claimed. Now, the MH-17 case is being exploited to justify a\u00a0new Cold War as U.S. intelligence again is silent about what it knows, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>One year ago, the world experienced what could become the Tonkin Gulf incident of World War III, the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. As with the dubious naval clash off the coast of North Vietnam in 1964, which helped launch the Vietnam War, U.S. officials quickly seized on the MH-17 crash for its emotional and propaganda appeal \u2013 and used it to ratchet up tensions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Shocked at\u00a0the thought of 298 innocent people plunging to their deaths from 33,000 feet last July 17,\u00a0the world recoiled in horror, a fury that was then focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin. With Putin\u2019s face emblazoned on magazine covers, the European Union got in line behind the U.S.-backed coup regime in Ukraine and endorsed\u00a0economic sanctions\u00a0to punish Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/buk-missiles.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12457\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/buk-missiles-300x225.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"Russian-made Buk anti-missile battery.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the year that has followed, the U.S. government has continued to escalate tensions with Russia, supporting the Ukrainian regime in its brutal \u201canti-terrorism operation\u201d that has slaughtered thousands of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. The authorities in Kiev have even dispatched neo-Nazi and ultranationalist militias, supported by jihadists called \u201cbrothers\u201d of the Islamic State, to act as the\u00a0tip of the spear. [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/07\/07\/ukraine-merges-nazis-and-islamists\/\"><u>Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists.<\/u><\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case? Exclusive:\u00a0In 1964, the Tonkin Gulf incident was used to justify the Vietnam War although U.S. intelligence quickly knew\u00a0the facts were not what the U.S. government claimed. Now, the MH-17 case is being exploited to justify a\u00a0new Cold War as U.S. intelligence again is silent about what it knows, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,279,296,1321,518,7203,694,7368,821,3603,834,6766,862],"class_list":["post-10177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-eu","tag-false-flag","tag-mh-17","tag-mh17","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-tonkin-gulf","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-coup","tag-us","tag-vietnam-war","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10178,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177\/revisions\/10178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}