{"id":11204,"date":"2015-08-18T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11204"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:28:18","slug":"propaganda-intelligence-and-mh-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11204","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/08\/17\/propaganda-intelligence-and-mh-17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and\u00a0the U.S. government\u00a0has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management. A\u00a0case in point is the media manipulation around last year\u2019s Malaysia Airlines shoot-down over Ukraine, says\u00a0ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>During a recent interview, I was asked to express my conclusions about the July 17, 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, prompting me to take another hard look at Official Washington\u2019s dubious claims \u2013 pointing the finger of blame at eastern Ukrainian rebels and Moscow \u2013 based on shaky evidence regarding who was responsible for this terrible tragedy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Unlike serious professional investigative reporters, intelligence analysts often are required by policymakers to reach rapid judgments without the twin luxuries of enough time and conclusive evidence.\u00a0Having spent almost 30 years in the business of intelligence analysis, I have faced that uncomfortable challenge more times than I wish to remember.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/obama-russia.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12527\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/obama-russia-300x199.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the situation in Ukraine, on the South Lawn of the White House, July 29, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I know what it feels like to confront issues of considerable consequence like the shoot-down of MH-17 and the killing of 298 passengers and crew amid intense pressure to choreograph the judgments to the propagandistic music favored by senior officials who want the U.S. \u201cenemy\u201d \u2013 in this case, nuclear-armed Russia and its Western-demonized President Vladimir Putin \u2013 to somehow be responsible.\u00a0In such situations, the easiest and safest (career-wise) move is to twirl your analysis to the preferred tune or at least sit this jig\u00a0out.<\/p>\n<p>But the trust-us-it-was-Putin marathon dance has now run for 13 months \u2013 and it\u2019s getting tiresome to hear the P.R. people in the office of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper still claiming that the U.S. intelligence community has not revised or updated its analysis of the incident since July 22, 2014, just five days after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17 Exclusive:\u00a0Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and\u00a0the U.S. government\u00a0has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management. A\u00a0case in point is the media manipulation around last year\u2019s Malaysia Airlines shoot-down over Ukraine, says\u00a0ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. During a recent interview, I was asked to express my conclusions [&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":[5,6],"tags":[6963,1445,518,1426,542,655,821,843,862,865],"class_list":["post-11204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-malaysia","tag-mh17","tag-misinformation","tag-moscow","tag-propaganda","tag-ukraine","tag-us-government","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204","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=11204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11205,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions\/11205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}