{"id":27438,"date":"2017-10-30T07:21:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27438"},"modified":"2017-10-30T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:21:43","slug":"does-russia-produce-fake-news-or-does-america-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27438","title":{"rendered":"Does Russia Produce \u2018Fake News\u2019? Or Does America? Or Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does Russia Produce \u2018Fake News\u2019? Or Does America? Or Both?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The biggest difference between American and Russian news-reporting has been a simple factual issue between the two sides, on what incident started the \u2018New Cold War\u2019 between the U.S. and Russia. (The original Cold War was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and had an ideological, capitalist-versus-communist, alleged basis, but this one doesn\u2019t \u2014 so, it\u2019s not really a \u2018New Cold War\u2019; it is quite different, but it might be even more deadly.) <\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. and its allies say that what started it was in March 2014<\/b> when \u201cRussia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine\u201d and \u201cthe invasion of Crimea\u201d<\/span><\/a> and Russia\u2019s \u201cconquest of land\u201d<\/span><\/a> by means of that \u201cinvasion,\u201d sparked America\u2019s sanctions against Russia and NATO\u2019s military buildup along Russia\u2019s borders; but Russia says that what started it was in February 2014<\/b> when Ukraine was victimized, as Russian Television reported it, on 13 March 2014<\/span><\/a>, by:<\/span><\/p>\n

an armed coup. The Maidan do not appoint these people; rather, it\u2019s the US that does it. It\u2019s enough to look at the newly appointed officials: Parubiy, Gvozd, Nalyvaichenko are all people who followed somebody else\u2019s orders, the orders of the US, not even Europe. They are directly linked to the American intelligence.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In the American account, Ukrainian democracy started<\/i><\/b> when the democratically elected President of Ukraine was overthrown in February 2014; in the Russian account, Ukrainian democracy ended<\/i><\/b> when the democratically elected President of Ukraine was overthrown in February 2014, and only after (and in response to) that, did two regions (Crimea and Donbass, both of which had voted more than 75% for that man) break away from, and refuse to be governed by, the newly installed Ukrainian Government, which was now being imposed upon them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Does Russia Produce \u2018Fake News\u2019? Or Does America? Or Both? The biggest difference between American and Russian news-reporting has been a simple factual issue between the two sides, on what incident started the \u2018New Cold War\u2019 between the U.S. and Russia. (The original Cold War was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and had […]<\/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":[1949,149,4394,2779,512,553,570,694,742,821,5510],"class_list":["post-27438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-america","tag-cold-war","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-fake-news","tag-media","tag-nato","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438","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=27438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27439,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions\/27439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}