{"id":9906,"date":"2015-07-10T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2015-07-10T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:04:11","slug":"mh-17-case-slips-into-propaganda-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9906","title":{"rendered":"MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog<\/a><\/h3>\n

Exclusive:\u00a0Almost a year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people. Yet, instead of a transparent investigation seeking justice, the case became a propaganda game of finger-pointing, with the CIA\u00a0withholding key evidence all the better to blame Russia, reports Robert Parry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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<\/span>The Dutch investigation into\u00a0the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine last July\u00a0has failed to uncover conclusive proof of precisely who was responsible for the deaths of the 298 passengers and crew but is expected to point suspicions toward the ethnic Russian rebels, fitting with the West\u2019s long-running anti-Russian propaganda campaign.<\/p>\n

A source who has been briefed on the outlines of the investigation said some U.S. intelligence analysts have reached a contrary conclusion and place the blame on \u201crogue\u201d elements of the Ukrainian government operating out of a circle of hard-liners around one of Ukraine\u2019s oligarchs. Yet, according to this source, the U.S. analysts will demur on the Dutch findings, letting them stand without public challenge.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the Ukraine crisis, propaganda and \u201cinformation warfare\u201d have overridden any honest presentation of reality \u2013 and the mystery around the MH-17 disaster has now slipped\u00a0into that haze of charge and counter-charge. Many investigative journalists, including myself,\u00a0have been rebuffed<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in repeated efforts to get verifiable proof about the case or even informational briefings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In that sense, the MH-17 case stands as an outlier to the usual openness that surrounds inquiries into airline disasters. The Obama administration\u2019s behavior has been particularly curious, with its rush to judgment five days after the July 17, 2014 shoot-down, citing sketchy social media posts to implicate the ethnic Russian rebels and indirectly the Russian government but then refusing requests for updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog Exclusive:\u00a0Almost a year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people. Yet, instead of a transparent investigation seeking justice, the case became a propaganda game of finger-pointing, with the CIA\u00a0withholding key evidence all the better to blame Russia, reports Robert Parry. The Dutch […]<\/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":[6963,1445,1321,518,1426,553,655,694,710,821,827],"class_list":["post-9906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-malaysia","tag-mh-17","tag-mh17","tag-misinformation","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-secrecy","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906","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=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9907,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions\/9907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}