Blame Obama for the Shooting Down of MH17

As one of the heroes of the neocons, President Harry Truman famously put it: "the buck stops here" and in the frenzy to blame the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over a freaking war zone on Thursday (what the hell was it doing there?) on the reviled and demonized Vladimir Putin our pathetic excuse for a media is blaming the wrong president. The responsibility for the loss of the lives of the passengers of that ill-fated jetliner can be parked directly at the foot of US President Barack H. Obama for it was he who signed off on the series of events that culminated in the disaster in the first place. Were the prince of petulance not so intent at avenging his wounded pride over Russia's saving Edward Snowden from being waterboarded more times than Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Putin's pissing on the parade of bombing Damascus last September there would be no civil war in Ukraine in the first place.

Libertarian icon Ron Paul sums it up very nicely in his piece "What the Media Won’t Report About Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17" that is available at Antiwar.com and I excerpt from the good doctor:

While western media outlets rush to repeat government propaganda on the event, there are a few things they will not report.

They will not report that the crisis in Ukraine started late last year, when EU and US-supported protesters plotted the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych. Without US-sponsored “regime change,” it is unlikely that hundreds would have been killed in the unrest that followed. Nor would the Malaysian Airlines crash have happened.

The media has reported that the plane must have been shot down by Russian forces or Russian-backed separatists, because the missile that reportedly brought down the plane was Russian made. But they will not report that the Ukrainian government also uses the exact same Russian-made weapons.

They will not report that the post-coup government in Kiev has, according to OSCE monitors, killed 250 people in the breakaway Lugansk region since June, including 20 killed as government forces bombed the city center the day after the plane crash! Most of these are civilians and together they roughly equal the number killed in the plane crash. By contrast, Russia has killed no one in Ukraine, and the separatists have struck largely military, not civilian, targets.

They will not report that the US has strongly backed the Ukrainian government in these attacks on civilians, which a State Department spokeswoman called “measured and moderate.”

They will not report that neither Russia nor the separatists in eastern Ukraine have anything to gain but everything to lose by shooting down a passenger liner full of civilians.

They will not report that the Ukrainian government has much to gain by pinning the attack on Russia, and that the Ukrainian prime minister has already expressed his pleasure that Russia is being blamed for the attack.

I have admired the former Congressman for his principled stance against the evils of the warfare state and his set of stones for daring to speak out against Bush and Cheney's wars of aggression back when critics were branded as "traitors", "terrorist sympathizers" and worse and would face the equivalent of being "necklaced" for daring to stand up and be counted when it mattered the most. I will never forget Ron Paul's brutal smackdown of Mr. 9/11 himself, Rudy Giuliani in that Republican debate and then assigning the fascist former Big Apple mayor, a neocon favorite a reading list. Congressman Paul was vilified by the same scum-infested, corrupt, warmongering media types that are busily selling the latest load of Obama's horse manure about Ukraine - all the while covering up the war crimes of the US backed Israeli despot Bibi Netanyahu and his wanton slaughter of civilians in Gaza.

The propaganda is shameless, from the loud-mouthed lout of a Vice President Joe Biden - a fucking embarrassment to decent Americans - and his juvenile attacks on Putin as "not having a soul" to the endless proclamations of the pope of hope and change and his evidence-deficient charges that Russia's president was personally responsible for the attack despite the unspeakable fact that Obama is the one backing ruthless neo-Nazi death squad filth engaged in ethnic cleansing while the Kiev junta uses the military against civilians. 

This is what it is to be an American during a time of rampant corruption, imperial hubris, national blindness (as well as stupidity) and an addiction to the drug of American exceptionalism that is as potent as black tar heroin. It is sick and shameful to watch these scumbags in the Obama regime and the neocon rats nest at Foggy Bottom continue to lie with zero regard to the long-term consequences even if those consequences end up leading willfully ignorant and brainwashed Americans into the flaming abyss of World War III and imminent nuclear catastrophe.

Obama is a punk but the office of the presidency seems to attract that type like flies to a pile of rotting corpses these days and unlike when Harry Truman took responsibility the serpentine, conniving, Teflon coated bullshit salesman Obama does anything but adhere to the "buck stops here" principle.

Two and a half years left until we can be rid of this most loathsome of leaders, that is if he doesn't succeed in getting us all incinerated in a nuclear apocalypse first.

Obama's Willing Executioners

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu once again bombing Gaza back to the stone age and the ongoing ISIS related fighting in Iraq the situation in Ukraine has slipped through the cracks. Not that the US state-corporate media has bothered to tell the truth about the Obama backed coup government in Kiev and it's neo-Nazi muscle anyway but Americans are being hoodwinked into lining up behind what is increasingly becoming a campaign of the use of the military against civilians as well as ethnic cleansing operations. In the myriad of foreign policy disasters under the Obama regime the situation in Ukraine is by far the worst as not only was it completely unnecessary - the neocons at the State Department, led by Hillary Clinton leftovers like former Dick Cheney advisor Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland as well as veteran provocateurs like Senator John McCain decided to stick it to Russian leader Vladimir Putin while he was occupied with the Sochi Winter Olympics.

What was a legitimate protest movement against the corrupt oligarch leader in Kiev, Viktor Yanukovych was hijacked by goons including the extremist political parties Right Sektor and Svoboda (McCain's neo-Nazi pals) who introduced violence into the Euromaiden protests which after much US support including the ever loathsome Nuland passing out cookies in a public relations appearance toppled the sitting leader, chasing him from the country in fear for his life. A still mysterious sniper attack ignited the final push against Yanukovych (an intercepted phone call between the EU's Catherine Ashton and the Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet sites medical information that the shots that killed protesters and police came from the same direction) and Nuland's (Mrs. Robert Kagan) hand-picked successor, Arseniy “Yats” Yatsenyuk and a junta government was installed. "Yats" and his illegitimately installed government were clumsy at public relations and the US-EU-NATO Axis of Aggression got caught with their pants down when the prize of the hostile takeover, Crimea along with Russia's Black Sea naval base was lost after Crimeans voted to extend a big middle finger to the junta in Kiev and rejoin Russia. Similar unrest followed in the east of what is a divided country, half of which shares and identity with Russia and the memories of the bad old days of World War II and the killing spree carried out by Nazi collaborators is well known.

East Ukraine naturally rebelled after the US backed junta immediately decreed that Russian language was banned and things just went downward from there. Rather than get into a long rehashing of the past six months suffice it to say that the breakaway of the east into a separate republic was never going to be tolerated ether from the fascist and neo-Nazi goons in the new government nor by the corporate and global finance backers of the overthrown. From Nuland's own lips the US had sunk around $5 billion in American taxpayer dollars into opening up Ukraine to IMF austerity programs and corporate exploitation and the delivery of the merchandise minus that huge chunk that is Crimea was already intolerable, there was no way that the east was going to be lost as well even if those who did not want to be absorbed into the rapacious, bloodsucking maw of the resource plundering west had to be killed.

The commencement of "anti-terrorist operations" was announced by the occupying government shortly after being visited by CIA Director John Brennan and Vice President Joe Biden (whose son scored a gig with Ukraine's largest gas company shortly after daddy left) and soon reports of killings, such as the atrocity at the Odessa trade union building back in may began to trickle in although largely ignored by the US media and sugar-coated in the UK. The trade union incident was particularly horrific in that the victims weren't legitimate military targets (if such a thing exists) and were tortured and murdered by extremist hordes before the building itself was set ablaze as the crowd outside changed "burn Colorado burn" - a reference to striped pro-Russian commemorative ribbons derisively sneered upon by right-wing Ukies as the Colorado potato beetle . There was no truthful acknowledgement of this from the Obama regime and the pocket press other than to resort to their standard lies of blaming everything on Putin and that the slaughter in Odessa was some sort of Russian false flag and not the explosion of deep-seated Nazi sentimentality.

The Odessa incident is when the Rubicon was crossed and it was assured that the anti-fascist, anti-austerity uprising in the east would not given in lest they meet the same fate. The history of Nazi slaughter and barbarity in Ukraine is well understood by the people there and when influential members of the US backed regime as well as parts of the citizenry openly embrace the infamous Nazi collaborator Stephan Bandera, a fiendish monster if there ever were one. The USA! USA! USA! has never had too many reservations about backing extremist elements to further the interests of American corporations and imperial expansion and this is particularly so with the Nazis, a long and sordid history exists and can be read about in Christopher Simpson's "Blowback" which has just recently come back into print as an e-book, a part of the new Forbidden Bookshelf series. Most Americans, particularly those weaned on the always triumphal WW II movies, television series, books and video games have no inkling that the extablishment not only danced with Nazis but fornicated with them after war, assimilating many into the intelligence apparatus and science fields where they could put their knowledge once used to further Hitler's dreams of conquest to use for good old Uncle Scam.

But I digress..

The initial coup regime was given a face lift with the bogus election of western puppet Petro Poroshenko aka The Chocolate King who immediately escalated the "anti-terrorist operations" in the east and jacked up the rhetoric, even vowing to take back Crimea. The bloodshed has increased and any killing of Kiev backed military personnel (a thing that occasionally occurs in war zones)  is threatened by Porky. After last week's pulverizing of a unit in a rebel rocket barrage the  puppet leader, increasingly sounding like Hitler vowed that “For every life of our servicemen, the rebels will pay with tens and hundreds of their own” - Lidice anyone? The death toll is about to explode and Ukrainian bosses have promised "a nasty surprise" to anti-Kiev holdouts, one can only shudder at what this may be but the vengeance will be severe. And the US regime just continues to support these maniacs.

I always read the great work of Robert Parry at Consortium News, he has provided some of the best reporting on Ukriane available and I excerpt from his recent piece "Itching for a Genocide":

Western Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist operation” against rebels in Eastern Ukraine has the makings of what could degenerate from scattered atrocities to ethnic cleansing to genocide. It already is a nasty war to suppress an ethnic minority through the use of military force, complete with references to the targeted population as insects and animals.

Traditionally, the U.S. government protests such violence and even intervenes militarily to stop it, such as the cases of Kosovo in the 1990s and Libya in 2011. In the Kosovo case, the U.S. government supported the arrest and trial of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic on war crimes charges and later backed Kosovo’s outright secession from Serbia. In the Libyan case, a U.S.-directed bombing campaign helped overthrow Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi who was then captured and murdered.

But the Obama administration, especially the U.S. State Department, is gung-ho in favor of Western Ukraine’s military assault on Eastern Ukraine where many ethnic Russians objected to the overthrow of elected President Viktor Yanukovych in a violent Feb. 22 coup. Yanukovych came from the East, which was also his political base.

Despite the disturbing circumstances surrounding the coup, including the role of neo-Nazi militias in forcing Yanukovych and his officials to flee for their lives, the U.S. State Department immediately embraced the new authorities as “legitimate.” The mainstream U.S. news media also clambered onboard the pro-coup bandwagon.

Over the ensuing months, both the State Department and the U.S. press corps have consistently presented a one-sided narrative that portrayed the coup makers as white-hatted “pro-democracy” protesters and denounced anyone opposed to the coup as black-hatted supporters of “Russian aggression.”

The key role of neo-Nazi “brown shirts” was whited out of the official U.S. picture despite the fact that the interim regime gave these far-right ultranationalists – admirers of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera – at least four ministries, including national security, in recognition of their crucial contribution in overthrowing Yanukovych.

However, the propaganda role of the State Department and the mainstream U.S. press is now taking on a darker coloration as the Kiev regime vows to crush the ethnic Russian resistance in Eastern Ukraine, raising the prospect of widespread civilian deaths, ethnic cleansing and even the possibility of genocide.

Obama has always been open as to his admiration for Ronald Reagan and now just like the Gipper he has his very own death squads prowling Ukraine and coordinating with the military. In a recent post at the progressive website OpEd News by George Eliason, an American living in Ukraine the writer states:

On the first day of the 'liberation' 116 people between 25-40 were killed without charge or trial. The executions are still going on in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Witnesses say one man was strapped to an APC by his feet and dragged, then thrown into a car and taken away. Crews with dogs search the apartments, and without even asking any questions shoot people in front of their families. One person that escaped reported seeing a six year old he knew nailed to a sign post, as the soldier laughing. The father ran out of the building and was shot as he begged for his child's life. Another child, just 3 years old was crucified on a bulletin board by Kiev Bandera and his mother was forced to watch. The mother was then dragged around by a tank. The woman was the wife of a militia member.

 Residents of Slavyansk are being forced to prove their loyalty to the government. To do this they provide information on their "former" family and friends that supported the militia, including phone, social media, addresses, and photos. One woman in Slovyansk, in a bid to prove her loyalty to the junta, murdered her own husband. Corpses lie uncollected in the streets, apartments, and houses. Survivors are being processed through 'filtration' (i.e., concentration) camps, according to people who escaped the 'liberation' of Slovyansk.

 Confirmation of this level of atrocity comes from a fighter with Kiev's Donbass battalion: Oleg Dube (Oak). In a cleansing operation in Nikolaevka he wrote on his Facebook page that there were only civilians and no militia in the town. The battalion cleansed the town by throwing grenades into the houses and shooting anything that moved. Dube claims to have watched unarmed residents shot down in the street. According to him he complained to hiscommander Simon Semenchenko. His commander had him arrested and taken to their base in Donetsk.(Semenchenko is currently involved in an organ trafficking investigation involving junta leaders.)

This is gruesome if true, particularly the part about the crucifixion of the small child to a bulletin board, it may be just ugly disinformation but then again, considering the Nazi worship of the militias operating in the east - Obama's neo-Nazi militias - he now owns them - such atrocities can't easily be dismissed. The story of this latest abominable outburst of cruelty also appeared at the website The Vineyard of the Saker. 

I am increasingly beginning to agree that Obama is in the long run going to prove to be far worse than Bush, even in all of the bloody atrocities unleashed in Iraq by the Shock and Awe attack at least Dubya never threw in with Nazis. 

It’s Like 2002-2003 All Over Again With Crazed Rush to War

If the strident and dishonest nature of the rhetoric and behavior emanating out of the kingdom of Mordor that sits along the Potomac with the incessant propaganda campaign against Russia seems familiar all one has to do is to recall early 2003 while the Bushreich was building the case for the "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq. While the daily onslaught of lies don't include references to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, trans-Atlantic chemical weapon spewing gliders, mobile chemical weapons labs or apocalyptic conjecture the likes of war criminal Condoleezza Rice's "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" it is every bit the equal. By the time that President George W. Bush ascended the dais to lie to the American people during his 2003 State of the Union address about that yellow cake Uranium that the "New Hitler" of that time had purchased from Africa the coming attack and invasion of that country which did not even remotely threaten the US was already a done deal.

Barack Obama has now like Colonel Walter Kurtz reached the end of the river with his ongoing jihad against Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the indignity of having NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden snatched from the talons of his henchman Attorney General Eric Holder and subsequent granting of asylum in Russia was the first injury to the great one's massive ego. Putin's sweeping in to derail what was an all but imminent beginning of bombing and missile strikes against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on the basis of nothing more than lies about the gassing of civilians was a running dropkick in the nuts and that September 11th New York Times editorial that denounced the mockery that is American exceptionalism was a burning ember embedded in the craw of Obama and the neocons. The annexation of Crimea after an obviously US instigated overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Ukraine in which the west backed a tool of the global finance mafia installed with the assistance of neo-Nazi thugs despite warnings from the narcissist in chief was too much. Now Obama has going completely off the rails and has like the stammering moron Secretary of State John Kerry resorted to revisionist history to attack Putin. It was a stunning and unbelievable thing to hear the other day when El Presidente actually invoked Bush's illegal war in Iraq, widely acknowledged as perhaps the greatest military blunder in US history in a positive manner to make a point during a speech in Brussels.

Obama, who is as notoriously thin-skinned as he is incompetent has been goaded and egged on every step of the way by the neocons both within his administration and without. Nowhere has the hectoring of Obama been more constant nor as loud as at the Washington Post, now having shed the cloak of being a journalistic entity and exposing itself as a propaganda organ of the Deep State the WaPo has led the charge damning Obama for his failure to crush Putin and as the Ukraine debacle drags on I seriously expect to see an editorial board demand for the nuking of Moscow. Those are the times in which we live, yesterday the criminal Congress stole away from economically disadvantaged citizens of the United States who they deny appropriate levels for food stamps and refuse to extend long term unemployment to bestow billions upon the neo-Nazi infested occupying government in Ukraine. Still it is now good enough for the neocons nor their flagship beltway megaphone.

The latest mouthy coward to launch a jeremiad from the WaPo bunker is none other than Robert Kagan, the arch neocon and the husband of Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland with this breathtaking battery of bullshit from which I excerpt:

Whether one likes President Obama’s conduct of foreign policy or not, the common assumption is that the administration is at least giving the American people the foreign policy they want. The majority of Americans have opposed any meaningful U.S. role in Syria, have wanted to lessen U.S. involvement in the Middle East generally, are eager to see the “tide of war” recede and would like to focus on “nation-building at home.” Until now, the president generally has catered to and encouraged this public mood, so one presumes that he has succeeded, if nothing else, in gaining the public’s approval.

Yet, surprisingly, he hasn’t. The president’s approval ratings on foreign policy are dismal. According to the most recent CBS News poll, only 36 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing on foreign policy, while 49 percent disapprove. This was consistent with other polls over the past year. A November poll by the Pew Research Center showed 34 percent approval on foreign policy vs. 56 percent disapproval. The CBS poll showed a higher percentage of Americans approving of Obama’s economic policies (39 percent) and a higher percentage approving his handling of health care (41 percent). Foreign policy is the most unpopular thing Obama is doing right now. And lest one think that foreign policy is never a winner, Bill Clinton’s foreign policy ratings at roughly the same point in his second term were quite good — 57 percent approval; 34 percent disapproval — and Ronald Reagan’s rating was more than 50 percent at a similar point in his presidency. That leaves Obama in the company of George W. Bush — not the first-term Bush whose ratings were consistently high but the second-term Bush mired in the worst phase of the Iraq war.

AND

For many decades Americans thought of their nation as special. They were the self-proclaimed “leader of the free world,” the “indispensable nation,” the No. 1 superpower. It was a source of pride. Now, pundits and prognosticators are telling them that those days are over, that it is time for the United States to seek more modest goals commensurate with its declining power. And they have a president committed to this task. He has shown little nostalgia for the days of U.S. leadership and at times seems to conceive it as his job to deal with the “reality” of decline.

Perhaps this is what they want from him. But it is not something they will thank him for. To follow a leader to triumph inspires loyalty, gratitude and affection. Following a leader in retreat inspires no such emotions.

Now THAT is the definition of shamelessness. Invoking George W. Bush’s unpopularity for a war that Kagan himself was instrumental in selling to the bad seed of President George Herbert Walker Bush, a man who understood that the neocons were “crazies” despite his destined for historical infamy Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. In the typical haughty and sneering manner of the elitist neocons Kagan also considers the average American views towards war to be contemptible and not worth considering, his fellow neocon ideologue William Kristol recently bashed a "war weary" America in similar fashion. Kagan's condescension is at least somewhat justified in that the vast majority of Americans are idiots - the lofty status afforded to the neocons who are now resurgent as well as their failure to resist any of the corruption, surveillance and now the giveaway of billions to an unelected gaggle of puppets of the global finance mafia in Ukraine is a testament to that.

Kagan also falsely spins Obama's rapidly sinking approval rating to suit the needs of the neocons while omitting that the man is a duplicitous flip-flopper who stands for nothing but burnishing his own legacy, presides over the most intrusive surveillance apparatus in the history of the planet and has from day one been in over his head. Throw in the five years of racist animosity over a black man being elected president that is prevalent within the dregs of society and has been stoked relentlessly by dog whistle politics and outside big money groups as well as the worst Congress in history and you can see that Kagan like all of the neocons is full of bullshit.

There are many reasons why Obama's popularity rating is sinking faster than whale shit and his spinning of the attack and invasion of Iraq to fit the false narrative that has been constructed about Putin and Ukraine is but one of them. Mr. Kagan can just go and fuck himself, like all of the other cowards who constantly advocate for wars in which the children of American mothers will be fed into the meat grinder in order to satisfy their own arrogance and as serious systemic error in affording scum like the neocons the legitimacy that the do not deserve.