Anyone who still thinks that Russia or Putin was responsible for shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 
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should read this assessment by Ray McGovern, a 30-year veteran of the C.I.A. and U.S. Army intelligence, and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), and 
think again. . .

  Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17  

Exclusive: Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and the U.S. government has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management. 

A case in point is the media manipulation around last year’s Malaysia Airlines shoot-down over Ukraine, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

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One of many interesting comments to this article in Consortium News comes from Bryan Hemming. It is worth reading his link at the end.

Bryan Hemming

August 18, 2015 at 3:04 am

What is particularly disturbing is the way mainstream Western journalists have been so eager to push the U.S. government narrative. Few, if any, have bothered to do any independent investigation of their own, appearing to rely on the usual government bullhorns for their information.

Shaun Walker of the Guardian has been particularly active in this department, often writing stuff that is so transparently false you could believe he might be laughing at his readers for swallowing such guff. I dissected one of his pieces for Off-Guardian.

http://off-guardian.org/2015/07/14/shaun-walker-renews-mh17-propaganda-offensive/