February 28, 2023

The Washington Post suggests that newsrooms must shun ‘objectivity’ to build trust

By Rajan Laad

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Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor of The Washington Post and professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, recently attempted to make a case against objectivity in the pages of the Washington Post.

You read that correctly, a senior newsman is now against objectivity.

His January 30 piece launches as follows:

“…Increasingly, reporters, editors, and media critics argue that the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality.

They point out that the standard was dictated over decades by male editors in predominantly White newsrooms and reinforced their own view of the world.”

Even objectivity is being examined through the prism of race and being shunned attack because these standards were founded by Caucasians.

Will Downey Jr. also shun travel by airplanes, or usage of the light bulb, or the telephone, or the refrigerator, and any other amenities because they were invented by Caucasian men?

Downey Jr. himself is an octogenarian Caucasian man.

Perhaps this racist act of self-flagellation is meant to appease woke groups in academia and the media.

How unfortunate that a veteran has become a follower of the groupthink rather than a standard-bearer of at least an effort toward objectivity who can elighten everyone about the righteous path.

The piece continues:

“…pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading “bothsidesism” in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects.

And, in today’s diversifying newsrooms, they feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work.”

While reporting, it is essential to know all possible perspectives before presenting the facts. In the past, that was Journalism 101.

If A slaps B, a report based on B’s version of the events is incomplete. Reporters must also interview A, witnesses, and those who previously knew A and B. Perhaps we learn that B was relentlessly harassing A, causing A struck him out of frustration. This isn’t a defense of A but an essential context to facts.

This is a standard that should prevail for all reporting irrespective of the identity of the individuals being covered.

Downie Jr. then claims that under the leadership of editors such as Ben Bradlee, his generation of journalists began challenging the powerful.

He cites the Watergate story that he worked on claiming it “spawned widespread national investigative reporting that continues today.”

Downie Jr. claims that all through his career as an editor, he never understood what “objectivity” meant and didn’t consider it a standard.

This reveals why the WaPo has faltered so badly.…

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/the_washington_post_suggests_that_newsrooms_must_shun_objectivity_to_build_trust.html

>>18423298

2/3

Perplexingly, Downie Jr claims his goals were instead "accuracy, fairness, nonpartisanship, accountability and the pursuit of truth.”

Does he not realize all of these lead to objectivity?

Downie Jr writes that he followed Bradlee by insisting that WaPo journalists abstain from political activity or advocacy.

But he forgets to mention that Bradlee himself was very close to JFK. Perhaps Bradlee's pro-Democrat stance motivated him to target Republican President Nixon, who had won an election by a landslide, decimating his Democrat opponent.

Downie Jr. complains that the mainstream news media is coping with “digital disruption, along with increasing competition from misinformation on cable television and the internet.”

What he is actually upset about is their lack of monopoly over the news narrative.

Downie Jr went on to unknowingly expose his bias by citing every overstated spurious claim usually made by far-left MSNBC pundits to claim that America is going through an upheaval.

“…discrimination against and abuse of women; persistent racism and white nationalism; police brutality and killings; the treatment of LGBTQ+ people; income inequality and social problems; immigration and the treatment of immigrants; the causes and effects of climate change; voting rights and election inequality; and even the very survival of our democracy.”

Downey Jr. then consulted with his colleagues in the business, such as WaPo executive editor Sally Buzbee, the San Francisco Chronicle editor-in-chief Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, USAToday editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, Los Angeles Times editor Kevin Merida, and CBS's Claudia Milne, etc. to confirm his bias.

They all refer to the importance of diversity of gender, ethnic origins, race, culture, LGBTQ+, etc. to replace objectivity.

Downey Jr. also recommends a diversity of economic, educational, geographic, and social backgrounds.

As always, they exclude the most important kind of diversity which is the diversity of perspective.

The only diversity of thinking is among left, far left, and socialist.

This is because being factual is no longer the goal.

In the current climate, if they discover a colleague who is liberal but isn’t as committed to the cause, that colleague is harassed and purged out of their system.

Dissenting views are forbidden in modern news rooms.

These outlets are mouthpieces for the Democrats and willingly and knowingly carried hoaxes such as Trump-Russia collusion or the January 6 insurrection or various other hoaxes about Trump.

Hiring Trump supporters would resolve the problem, they would debunks all their hoaxes.

The goal wasn’t to report facts, but to force Trump out of the office and now to force Trump out of politics.

But the likes of Downey Jr. fail to see this as a bias.In their sanctimonious minds, Trump is the problem and it is their duty to use all means possible to force him out of politics….

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/the_washington_post_suggests_that_newsrooms_must_shun_objectivity_to_build_trust.html

>>18423300

3/3

One of the experts said that journalists should not be activists. If this was standard, most of the mainstream media newsrooms would be rendered empty.

Downey Jr concedes that ‘some mission-driven operations might well choose to allow social media and political activity with their core values.’

He fails to comprehend that ‘mission-driven operations’ isn’t an anomaly but a norm.

Since matters have gone totally haywire, we should revisit the fundamentals.

Objectivity is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “considering only facts and without being influenced by personal feelings or opinions.”

Objectivity must always be the guiding principle while reporting.

Since it is humanly impossible to be completely objective because reporting will be tainted by perspective, the editorial team gets involved to ask the right questions to ensure that the content is factual as possible.

Alas, objectivity is no longer considered an aspirational goal.

While claiming to prescribe remedial measures to improve reporting in the mainstream media, Downey Jr, unknowingly revealed the issues that plague it.

The modern newsroom is an echo chamber from top to bottom where each attempts to outdo the next to demonstrate their loyalty to the Democrat party and other far-left causes.

They have also developed a subscriber base that pays to be an extension of the echo chamber.

But they just do not see it and think they aren’t going far enough in their partisan display.

They are attacking objectivity which should be the basis and fundamental goal of reporting.

The self-righteous such as Downey Jr. seldom demonstrates any self-awareness, nor do they comprehend the irony of their words or actions.

As news consumers, you have no option but to assume all that you read and watch in the mainstream media is false until proven true.

Abstaining totally from the mainstream media may also be a good idea, it is better to be uninformed rather than misinformed.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/the_washington_post_suggests_that_newsrooms_must_shun_objectivity_to_build_trust.html

28 Feb, 2023 11:33

Unidentified drone crashes near Moscow

A UAV has reportedly fallen near a Gazprom gas compression station, says Moscow region governor

Unidentified drone crashes near Moscow

Unverified photo posted on social media allegedly showing drone that crashed in Moscow region on Tuesday.

An unmanned aerial vehicle has crash-landed near a Gazprom gas facility in the Kolomna region near Moscow, Governor Andrey Vorobyov reported on Tuesday. According to the official, the unidentified drone came down near the village of Gubastovo and appears to have been targeting civilian infrastructure, but failed to cause any damage or casualties.

The governor added that security services and other agencies are investigating the incident and that there is no danger to the population. Earlier media reports also stated that emergency services and bomb squads had been dispatched to the area.

Gazprom has also confirmed the incident, with the management of the Voskresensk gas compressor station telling Russian media that the “drone fell near us, but did not affect our operation at all.” They added that the issue is currently under the jurisdiction of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Photos allegedly depicting the drone in question have started circulating on social media, however there has yet to be any official confirmation of the authenticity of these images.

The news comes after Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday thatKiev attempted to use drones to attack civilian infrastructurein the southern region of Krasnodar and the Republic of Adygea. It’s noteworthy that the UAVs were suppressed by the electronic warfare units of the Russian Armed Forces. According to the ministry, both drones lost control and deviated from their flight paths, failing to cause damage to any civilian infrastructure facilities.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572190-unidentified-drone-crash-moscow/

28 Feb, 2023 09:44

US preparing false flag chemical attacks in Ukraine – Moscow

The Americans believe a provocation won't be properly investigated due to the fighting, Russian military alleges

The US is preparing to stage false flag chemical attacks in Ukraine to pin theblame on Moscow for the use of banned toxic agents, the chief of Russia’s Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense troops, Igor Kirillov, has said.

The Americans believe that the international community wouldn’t be able to organize an effective investigation of such “provocations”due to the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, which would allow Washington to escape responsibility, Kirillov said during a briefing on Tuesday.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has obtained information thata train with a cargo of chemical substances in one of its cars had apparently arrived in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kramatorsk in Donbass on February 10,the commander said.

The 16 metal boxes with special markings that suggest they contained BZ (3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate) incapacitating agent as well as CS (chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile) and CR (dibenzoxazepine) harassing 'riot-control' agents, were accompanied by the “citizens of foreign nations,” he also alleged.

According to Kirillov,the chemicals were unloaded at a local metallurgical plantunder the supervision of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and put on US-supplied armored vehicles that later moved out towards a contact as part of a convoy.

Russia also established thateleven cars with specially marked shrapnel ammunitionwere unloaded in Kramatorsk on February 19, the commander said. The shells of this type had been previously upgraded in the US to be able to deliver harassing chemical substances, he added.

NATO has also planned a large delivery of means of chemical protection to Ukraine, including hundreds of antidotes for various toxic substances, Kirillov is also alleging.

“The facts of simultaneous delivery of toxic chemicals and means of protection against them indicate an attempt to carry out large-scale provocations using the BZ military-grade psychoactive chemical agent during the conflict,” he said.

Despite announcing the depletion of all of its stocks of BZ back in 1990, theUS has preserved samples of the toxic agent, which causes acute psychosis, disorientation, hallucinations and memory impairment. Washington maintains the capability to produce the substance in significant quantities, the commander claimed.

If a provocation using chemical weapons is carried out in Donbass, “the true culprits will be identified and held accountable," Kirillov warned.

Russian forces in the area have all the means to promptly detect the use of toxic agents and to contain such incidents, he assured Tuesday's briefing, adding that they can identify not just the substance being deployed but also the country where it was produced.

Under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) of 1997, to which the US, Ukraine and Russia are all signatories. The document bans their militaries from even using riot-control agents or tear gas, despite them being allowed in law enforcement.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572187-ukraine-chemical-attacks-us/

28 Feb, 2023 08:20

Airspace over St. Petersburg closed amid ‘UFO’ reports

The city's Pulkovo airport stopped accepting civilian flights, authorities announced

The airspace near St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, was briefly closed off on Tuesday morning due to the appearance of an unidentified flying object in the area, media have reported.

The flights were halted for around an hour before resuming in full, the city’s authorities announced on Telegram. “The airspace above St. Petersburg is open – all temporary restrictions have been lifted,” they said.

Earlier on Tuesday, the city authorities announced that Pulkovo International Airport has stopped accepting civilian flights, but didn’t reveal the reason for the move.

The Pulkovo administration said that flights will be delayed at least until noon local time (9am GMT). The airport and all its other services are operating as normal, it added.

According to Baza news outlet,jets were scrambled in the airas the so-called Kovyor (carpet) plan was activated in St. Petersburg. The plan is initiated in the event of an illegal incursion by an aircraft or UFO into the country’s airspace, according to the outlet.

Local outlet Fontanka claimed that the Defense Ministry had told Pulkovo’s administration that an unidentified flying object had been detected between 160km and 200km outside St. Petersburg. According to the procedure, the airport has to stop accepting flights in the event of such an incident.

© FlightRadar24

A source told Ria-Novosti news agency that airspace around the city began reopening shortly after noon. Newspaper Kommersant reported that national air traffic regulator Rosaviatsia has told carriers that restrictions around St Petersburg have been lifted.

Data from website Flightradar24 has also suggested that planes have started to return to the airspace around the city.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572177-saint-petersburg-ufo-jets/

28 Feb, 2023 07:29

Water issues hit two Crimean communities

Two malfunctions in one day have affected tens of thousands of people on the peninsula

Two cities in Russia's Crimean peninsula experienced water supply outages on Tuesday, with tens of thousands of residents denied service.

Over 120,000 people in the western resort city of Yevpatoria were left without water after a malfunction at the central conduit in the nearby village of Pribrezhnoye, media reported, citing the local government.

The city administration has introduced rationing and canceled school classes, while repair crews deal with the pressure drop.

A second incident affected the northern town of Krasnoperekopsk, where some 25,000 people live, as well as at least four nearby villages, according to the utility responsible for the service. Some 10 meters of the damaged conduit will reportedly need to be replaced.

Crimea rejoined Russia in 2014, after its residents rejected an armed coup in Kiev and voted in a referendum to break away from Ukraine and move under Russian sovereignty.

The Ukrainian government considers the peninsula as its own territory and has pledged to retake it by military force. President Vladimir Zelensky declared last week that Kiev was making “military steps” in preparation for an attack on Crimea.

Freshwater security has been a hot-button issue for the peninsula, since Ukraine decided to cut deliveries via a canal, which comes from the river Dnieper and accounted for some 85% of supplies at the time. The situation was alleviated amid the ongoing armed conflict, when Russian troops seized control of the key waterway and restored the flow.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572167-crimea-water-supply-disruption/

28 Feb, 2023 09:07

Russia does not double-deal – Malian PM

Moscow respects the African nation and is a reliable partner, Choguel Kokalla Maiga said

Russia has helped to turn the tide in Mali’s fight against terrorism and has proven that it does not have ulterior motives in its involvement, the African nation’s acting prime minister has said.

“The terror has moved to the other camp. Terrorists no longer instill fear in Malians. On the contrary, the Malian Army scares the terrorists,” Choguel Kokalla Maiga told RIA Novosti.

He credited Russian military assistance for this change in the interview published on Tuesday, and praised Moscow’s approach in dealing with his government. Russia “is a reliable partner and does not double-deal,” he said.

Its assistance is not limited to military hardware, Maiga stated. Russian supplies of food, fertilizers and energy to Mali are growing, and the two governments are working on boosting trade further. Moscow has also offered a 20% discount on market price for some key products, he added.

“We don’t want to be hostage to other states, who would decide whether or not to deliver fuel to our nation and whether or not there would be food on Malians’ tables,” he said.

The prime minister also rebuked the EU for its attitude towards his country, reiterating his criticism of European Council President Charles Michel. In an interview with the French media earlier this month, Michel accused Mali’s transitional authorities ofbreaking with “traditional partners, and particularly with European partners,” and claimed that “the consequence is a state that is collapsing.”Bamako dismissed the remarks as part of a “disinformation campaign.”

Maiga noted that politicians in Europe tended to make “really laughable statements to the media,” and that his government was not limited in terms of foreign partnerships.

“Those who want to cooperate with Mali should take a note from Russia and respect our principles,” he suggested.

He also reiterated an assessment by his foreign minister that theEU “was to be blamed for the destruction of Libya, which was the major cause of the escalation of terrorism in Africa,” particularly in the region of Sahel.

France and the UK were the primary driversbehind NATO’s 2011 bombing campaign, which ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Militias and arms smugglers looted the national military’s weapons depots amid the conflict. Libya remains fractured more than a decade later.

https://www.rt.com/africa/572178-mali-pm-russia-terrorism/

28 Feb, 2023 10:21

Concerns mounting over Ukraine aid – top US official

Both Republicans and Democrats “are starting to question” Washington’s support for Kiev, Victoria Nuland noted

US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are having second thoughts about providing Ukraine with various types of aid amid its conflict with Russia, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland acknowledged on Monday.

Speaking during a panel discussion hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce, Nuland was asked to comment on the political split in Washington regarding support for Kiev.

The State Department official attempted to downplay friction on the matter, noting that the US “has contributed more than $30 billionto the security, economic prosperity, and humanitarian situation in Ukraine.”

“You can’t do that without overwhelming support of both parties in the Congress,” she added.

However, she proceeded to admit that “on the fringes of both parties, folks are starting to question, but fundamentally, when you look at how this issue is polling around the country, Americans hate a bully.”

According to Nuland, US citizens “understand that if we don’t stop this war here, if we don’t restore international law and respect for the UN Charter, then this thing [will] just keep going.” (We don’t live by what the UN says Nuland)

Nuland’s remarks come as an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released earlier this month found that 48% of Americans support the US providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29% opposed and 22% remaining on the fence. This is a 12% drop compared to a similar poll in May 2022, when 60% of US adults said they favored American military support for Ukraine.

In recent months, some Republicans have repeatedly called for an audit of US aid to Ukraine, with a relevant resolution narrowly defeated in the House of Representatives in early December. However, in early February,a dozen Republicans in Congress put forward the “Ukraine Fatigue Resolution” calling on Washington to end its military and financial aid to Kiev.

According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, between January 2022 and January 2023, the US government committed some $77.5 billion to Ukraine, with a sizable part of this sum constituting military aid.

Russia has repeatedly warned the West against arming Ukraine, saying it would only prolong the conflict. On Tuesday, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that, by supporting Ukraine, NATO had become fully involved in hostilities between Moscow and Kiev, adding that the US-led military bloc “is no longer acting as our conditional opponent, but as our enemy.”

https://www.rt.com/news/572189-nuland-aid-ukraine-us-concerns/

Anons we need sone serious memes of Nuland as the Wicked Witch of the West

28 Feb, 2023 12:28

Sanctions against Russia dubbed ‘poison’ for EU

The bloc’s new restrictions only increase its dependence on direct competitors, according to Moscow

EU sanctions against Russia are missing the mark and instead chipping away at the bloc’s economic independence, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.

She slammed the tenth package of EU sanctions, which was unveiled on Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s military campaign against Ukraine. The measures targeted Russia’s banking sector and sought to curb its access to dual-use and advanced technologies.

Each consecutive sanctions package clearly demonstrates one thing: anti-Russia restrictions are instruments that did not work.

Zakharova said she agreed with Josep Borrell, the EU’s top diplomat, who earlier this month described therestrictions as “slow-acting but certain poison.”

“The only thing is that they, first of all, ‘kill’ the economic sovereignty of the European Union. The EU can slap itself with any number of restrictions regarding trade with Russia;this will only increase its dependence on its direct competitors,” she explained.

Zakharova also blasted the bloc’s crackdown on Russian media, noting that Brussels was “deliberately destroying the foundations of democratic society, undermining the principles and values the EU was built on in the first place.”

The spokeswoman also offered a reminder that “the EU, the US and their satellites found themselves alone” in imposing sanctions on Russia.

“The rest of the world… did not join any of the ‘packages’, rejecting restrictions as illegal,hurting the global economy and undermining food and energy security,” she said, adding that the EU’s threats to punish those who refuse to comply with the sanctions would only strengthen global opposition to what “essentially is the neo-colonial dictatorial policy of the West.”

Since the start of the Ukraine crisis, the EU has imposed restrictions on a total of 1,473 individuals and 205 entities that the bloc said undermined Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Russian President Vladimir Putin has described this campaign as “a full-blown sanctions war,” adding thatit had failed to bring about the collapse of the nation’s economy.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572196-sanctions-russia-eu-poison/

>>18423370

She gave the go ahead for the Azov Nazis to shoot 100 innocent protestors to escalate the coup

>>18423398

(I can’t say definitively she gave the go ahead but this article indicated those in the west who pushed the coup gave the go ahead, so she planned and directed the coup)

6 Feb, 2023 07:57

The Maidan sniper killings were pivotal for the 2014 Kiev coup – why is research into the massacre being censored in the West? 1/2

Evidence that external forces were involved has been suppressed for ‘political reasons’

Political scientist Ivan Katchanovski – of the University of Ottawa – has revealed that a paper he produced outlining evidence that theFebruary 2014 massacre of Ukrainian protesters by sniper fire, a defining moment of the Western-backed Maidan coup, was not published by an academic journal for “political reasons.”

‘The evidence is solid’

In a lengthy Twitter thread posted on January 6, Katchanovski first laid out the circumstances behind the rejection of his article, and thebombshell evidence included in it.The paper was initially accepted with minor revisions after peer review, and the journal's editor offered a glowing appraisal of his work, writing:

“There is no doubt that this paper is exceptional in many ways. It offers evidence against the mainstream narrative of the regime change in Ukraine in 2014… It seems to me that the evidence the study produces in favour of its interpretation on who was behind the massacre of the protesters and the police during the ‘Euromaidan’ mass protests on February 18-20, 2014, in Ukraine, is solid. On this there is also consensus among the two reviewers.”

As the editor noted, themassacre was a “politically crucial development,” which led to the “transition of powers in the country” from the freely elected Viktor Yanukovich to the illegitimate and rabidly nationalistic administration of Aleksandr Turchinov, a former security services chief. It was endlessly cited in Western media as a symbol of the brutality of Ukraine’s government and an unprovoked attack on innocent pro-WesternMaidan protesters, who allegedly sought nothing more than democracy and freedom.

Rumors that the killings were a false flag intended to inflame tensions among the vast crowds filling Maidan, and provoke violence against the authorities, began circulating immediately.

No serious investigation into what happened was ever conducted by the Western media, with all claims that the sniper attacks were an inside job dismissed as Kremlin “disinformation.” However, even NATO’s Atlantic Council adjunct admitted in 2020 that the massacre was unsolved and that this “cast a shadow over Ukraine.”

Ask the witnesses

It may not remain unsolved for much longer though, due to an ongoing trial of policemen at the scene on the fateful day. The legal action has been unfolding for well over a year and has received no mainstream news attention at all outside Ukraine. Katchanovski drew heavily on witness testimony and video evidence that has emerged over the course of the trial in his suppressed paper.

For example, 51 protesters wounded during the incident testified at the trial that they wereshot by snipers from Maidan-controlled buildings, and/or witnessed snipersthere. Many spoke of snipers in buildings controlled by Maidan protesters shooting at police. This is consistent with other evidence collected by Katchanovski, such as 14 separate videos of snipers in protester-controlled buildings, 10 of which clearly feature far-right gunmen in the Hotel Ukraina aiming at crowds below.

In all,300 witnesses have told much the same story. Synchronized videos show that the specific time and direction of shots fired by the police not only didn’t coincide with the killings of specific Maidan protesters, but that authorities aimed at walls, trees, lampposts, and even the ground, simply to disperse crowds.…

https://www.rt.com/russia/570921-maidan-sniper-killings-censorship/

>>18423464

2/2

Among those targeted by apparently Maidan-aligned snipers were journalists at Germany’s ARD. They weren’t the only Western news station in town at the time – so too were Belgian reporters, who not only filmed Maidan protestersscreaming towards Hotel Ukraina for snipers not to shoot them, but also participants being actively lured to the killing zone. This incendiary footage was never broadcast.

CNN likewise filmed far-right elements firing at police from behind Maidan barricades, then hunting for positions to shoot from the 11th floor of the Hotel Ukraina, minutes before the __BBC filmed snipers shooting protesters from a room where a far-right MP was staying-. The network opted not to report this at the time.

We needn’t rely purely on video footage. Over the course of the trial, no fewer than 14 self-confessed members ofMaidan sniper groups testified they had explicitly received massacre orders, Katchanovski claims. By contrast, no police officer at the scene has said they were directed to kill unarmed protesters, no minister has come forward to blow the whistle on such a scheme, and no evidence Yanukovich approved of the killings has ever emerged.

Separate from the trial, leaders of the far-right Svoboda party haveopenly stated that Western government representatives expressly told them before the massacrethat they would start calling for Yanukovich’s ouster once casualties among protesters reached a certain number.

This figure was even ••actively discussed by both sides – were five enough, or 20? Or even 100?== The latter was the final total reported, and indeed led to calls for the Ukrainian government’s abdication.

***

Katchanovski previously published a landmark study on the Maidan massacre in 2021, which has been referenced over 100 times by scholars and experts, already making him one of most cited political scientists specializing in Ukraine, according to Google Scholar.

Whatever the nature and source of the political pressure applied to the journal that led to the censoring of the dynamite paper, the move may well backfire massively, in the spirit of the Streisand Effect. Indeed, it could help the truth of what happened on those deadly days come out, and assist in those responsible for the killings being brought to justice.

It should also prompt a wider reconsideration of the nature of Maidan too, and the government it produced. The banning of opposition parties, attacks on the Orthodox Church, the closure of dissident media outlets, and the war on Russian culture and language are all consequences.

https://www.rt.com/russia/570921-maidan-sniper-killings-censorship/

>>18423473

PDF study mentioned in article 76 pages,call to dig anons

==Political scientist Ivan Katchanovski – of the University of Ottawa –

has revealed that a paper he produced outlining evidence that theFebruary 2014 massacre of Ukrainian protesters by sniper fire, a defining moment of the Western-backed Maidan coup, was not published by an academic journal for “political reasons.”

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan-Katchanovski/publication/356691143_The_Maidan_Massacre_in_Ukraine_Revelations_from_Trials_and_Investigation/links/61a90e3f29948f41dbbc300f/The-Maidan-Massacre-in-Ukraine-Revelations-from-Trials-and-Investigation.pdf?origin=publication_detail

>>18423491

The Professor that released this report above has tons if evidence on this twitter thread, like to thread reader

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1611196287122116609.html

van Katchanovski

@I_Katchanovski

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Jan 6

51 out of 72 wounded Maidan protesters, with whose shooting Berkut policemen are charged, testified at Maidan massacre trial & investigation in #Ukraine thatthey were shot by snipers from Maidan-controlled buildingsand/or witnessed snipers there. 14/

https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1611430454250602496?s=20

Youtube

Maidan massacre trialand investigation testimonies by 47 wounded protesters about Maidan snipers

https://youtu.be/sx9P7IlU0ow

>>18423504

notable

The SC better rule against this, there is no where in the Constitution that the President can arbitrarily pay the bills of citizens and especially not to bribe them to vote for his party. Its the very definition of discrimination and criminal bribing, probably RICO also

>>18423510

Are you retarded? Or 8 years old? WTF cares if red text fails. Do some research for a change

>>18423477

Spidy sense says very likely

>>18423440

A lot pf these companies are going to have class action lawsuits, I said it the day the government released the mandate, they always planned on transferring blame to the companies. Lawsuits against the federal gov will take down this stinking gov, but happen soon before Joe torches the whole country

>>18423430

I hope she dies an ugly brutal death or in Gitmo lodged with the muslims

>>18423404

McCain, Lindsey Graham Visit Military Outpost in Ukraine

Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:20 PM

Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Amy Klobuchar on Saturday joined Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko in a photograph taken at a Ukraine military base, where they traveled to wish the soldiers a happy new year.

The Ukraine president tweeted the photograph with McCain, R-Ariz.; Graham, R-SC; and Klobuchar, D-Minn.:

https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/mccain-graham-visit-ukraine/2016/12/31/id/766286/