{"id":19866,"date":"2016-04-12T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19866"},"modified":"2016-04-12T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:43:17","slug":"yats-is-no-longer-the-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19866","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yats\u2019 Is No Longer the Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Yats\u2019 Is No Longer the Guy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In reporting on the resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the major U.S. newspapers either ignored or distorted Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland\u2019s infamous\u00a0intercepted phone call<\/u><\/a>\u00a0before the 2014 coup in which she declared \u201cYats is the guy!\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Nuland\u2019s phone call introduced many Americans to the previously obscure Yatsenyuk, its timing \u2013\u00a0a few weeks before the ouster of elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych \u2013 was never helpful to Washington\u2019s desired narrative of the Ukrainian people rising up on their own to oust a corrupt leader.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Instead, the conversation between Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt sounded like two proconsuls picking which Ukrainian politicians would lead the new government. Nuland also disparaged the less aggressive approach of the European Union with the pithy put-down: \u201cFuck the E.U.!\u201d<\/p>\n

More importantly, the intercepted call, released onto YouTube in early February 2014,\u00a0represented powerful evidence that these senior U.S. officials were plotting \u2013 or at least collaborating in \u2013 a coup d\u2019etat against Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected president. So, the U.S. government and the mainstream U.S. media have since consigned this revealing discussion to the Great Memory Hole.<\/p>\n

On Monday, in reporting on Yatsenyuk\u2019s Sunday speech in which he announced that he is stepping down, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal didn\u2019t mention the Nuland-Pyatt conversation at all.<\/p>\n

The New York Times did mention the call but misled its readers regarding its timing, making it appear as if the call followed rather than preceded the coup.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Yats\u2019 Is No Longer the Guy Exclusive:\u00a0Several weeks before Ukraine\u2019s 2014 coup, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Nuland had already picked Arseniy Yatsenyuk to be the future leader, but now \u201cYats\u201d is no longer the guy, writes Robert Parry. In reporting on the resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the major U.S. newspapers either […]<\/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":[4139,6963,7203,821,13439],"class_list":["post-19866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arseniy-yatsenuk","tag-consortium-news","tag-robert-parry","tag-ukraine","tag-victorian-nuland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866","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=19866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19867,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866\/revisions\/19867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}