I see to tell the lie that this was "the western media" reporting that the name of the journalist who wrote that is carefully omitted from the screenshot, the notorious John Pilger.
A tragic figure who descended into becoming a journslistic charlatan and fraudster, defending the likes of Slobodan Milosevic, Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin, and furiously denying their amply documented war crimes.
And I mean charlatan and fraudster in the strict sense in that he said things he knew to be untrue, and withheld things he
knew to be true and material, and did it for decades, for ideological reasons.
He fabricated his conclusions in order to accord with his premises. He became a polemicist who went out looking for what he wanted to find, he completely gave over proper investigative journalism.
Didn't he.
And apart from the likes of the Guardian occassionally, the only outlets that would publish his apologetics for repressive regimes in his latter years were those obscure far-left websites beloved of a certain type.
Whereas there was in actual fact plenty of actual investigative journalism reporting on the realities of Russia and Ukraine back in 2014 (Pilger and other non serious polemicists cut from his mould always bat for the Soviets whatever the issue, no difference between then and now).
Whereas the "Western Media" in truth reported in 2014 as follows:
No, Ukraine's right-wing agitators are not fascist anti-Semites. But Russia wants them to be.
As life returns to normal in Kiev, Luke Harding encounters frustration over Russian claims of a fascist coup
www.theguardian.com
Historians link Ukraine with Nazis
time.com
BBC Kiev correspondent David Stern considers the importance of Ukraine's far right, labelled by Russia as fascists.
www.bbc.com
"... The ultra-nationalists, and their extreme right fringe, are a small part of the overall campaign - a subgroup of a minority. They are concentrated primarily amid the tents, barricades and self-defence units of the Maidan, the shorthand term for the movement's core..."
David Stern reports from Kiev on the influence of the far right in Ukraine, and the failure of officials and the media to tackle it.
www.bbc.com
"... Ever since Ukraine's February revolution, the Kremlin has characterised the new leaders in Kiev as a "fascist junta" made up of neo-Nazis and anti-Semites, set on persecuting, if not eradicating, the Russian-speaking population.
This is demonstrably false. Far-right parties failed to pass a 5% barrier to enter parliament, although if they had banded together, and not split their vote, they would have probably slipped past the threshold.
Only one government minister has links to nationalist parties - though he is in no way a neo-Nazi or fascist...".
etc.
kyivindependent.com
