The “Big Lie” in “News” “Reporting” About Ukraine and Russia!

• The “Big Lie” in “News” “Reporting” About Ukraine and Russia! 
  by Eric Zuesse, http://www.globalresearch.ca/ 
  Here it is, in purest form, via a typical ‘news’ ‘report’ from CNN:
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  “While questions about Russia’s tactics remain, its strategy has become more clear: The Kremlin appears to have decided to prevent Ukraine turning West and leaving what Russia regards as its sphere of influence.”
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  However, did the U.S., in the early 1960s, decide to accept Cuba’s having turned away from the U.S. sphere of influence that had existed under the prior, corrupt, Cuban leader, Fulgensio Batista, and Cuba’s then becoming instead a new Soviet satellite, under Fidel Castro? And, in particular, how did the U.S. feel about Cuba’s new Soviet ally trying to insert Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba, right next door to us?
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  Did we  like that?  Did we even let that happen (which would be like Ukraine’s joining NATO, and then allowing Ukraine to get U.S. missiles)? Of course not! (It was called the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.)
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  Nor will Russia let that happen to them  in Ukraine. Putin is the same on that matter as Kennedy was, when the shoes were on the other feet — Soviets were the danger to the world’s peace then in Cuba, but Americans are the danger to the world’s peace now in Ukraine.
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  And this comes already after polls, such as this one, had previously shown that, globally, the U.S. is already considered to be, by far, the most dangerous nation in the world — considerably more dangerous than Russia is.
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  Are the ‘news’ ‘reporters,’ and the editors and the producers and the other ‘news’ managers, who hire and fire those ‘news’ ‘reporters,’ really  so ignorant of the relevant history on this subject (the Cuban Missile Crisis, and its reverse analogue today in Ukraine), as they pretend to be? Of course not! But they want their public to remain that way (ignorant of it, or at least not to make the link), because the people who pay them, their advertisers, want the public’s ignorance to stay that way: trusting, even when it shouldn’t be. And we call this  (the ‘journalism’ that those masters of the ‘press’ — or propaganda — deliver to us) a ‘free press,’ as if it were, though it’s actually a capitalistically controlled press, to manipulate the public in the way that virtually all advertisers want them to be manipulated: to trust the way that things are, rather than to question — much less to oppose — it.
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  The people who own and control, and hire-and-fire, the employees at CNN, The New York Times, Fox ‘News,’ etc., have a collectively shared agenda, to portray the United States as if this country were a democracy (so that their audience will trust them — this ‘free press’ — and so that their sponsors will thereby continue to generate income from their trusting complacent market), despite America’s not being a real democracy anymore; and a crucial part of that agenda, at a time like this when the U.S. President is aiming to surround Russia with our missiles in new NATO member-states, is to portray Russia as being a dictatorship, though it’s not that anymore — it’s not even the Soviet Union anymore, nor even communist, anymore. The ideological Cold War between capitalism and communism is over, and capitalism won. Yet, the ‘news’ establishment, and the book publishers, portray Russia as if it were little or nothing but an extension of the communist U.S.S.R. in geographically truncated form. (By contrast, here’s the actual reality on that matter.)
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