Western Client Regime in Ukraine Shells Red Cross Office, Killing Administrator

The Kiev regime has been shelling the cities of the eastern Ukraine that it doesn't control for months. Now it has hit the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the breakaway city of Donetsk with a number of artillery shells, indicating the attack was deliberate. A 38 year old Swiss national, cut down in the prime of life, was murdered in the bombardment. His name was Laurent DuPasquier.

The Kiev regime no doubt wants to terrorize the Red Cross and other organizations out of the east in order to more rapidly starve and freeze the inhabitants of the region into submission.

How's that for an atrocity? If the “rebels” (those who reject the coup regime) had done it, you could be sure the Western media would be screeching about it. But it was their boys, so there's barely a mention.

Here's how the self-anointed U.S. “newspaper of record,” the haute bourgeois New York Times “covered” it.

The New York Times ran a one-inch blurb about it. On a page that's 22 inches by 12 inches, one column inch by 3 and a half inches across. It was one of five items under “World Briefing,” a section taking up a sixth of page A11 October 3rd. [1]

If high-handedly dismissing this atrocity as insignificant wasn't bad enough, the Times compounds its crime by trying to disguise the culprits' identities. “It was not immediately clear who fired the shells at the office, which is in the city's center. The fighting in eastern Ukraine has not abated despite a cease-fire agreement.” The End. Bylined “Andrew Roth.”

Yeah, maybe the rebels are shelling the city they control. That makes sense.

On the other hand, it apparently was “immediately clear” that rebels shot down that Malaysian airliner earlier this year. (Only now it's turning out it may have been regime jet fighters. But while the Malaysian press ran that story, the U.S. media didn't.) [2]

Bending over backwards to protect their allies isn't new for the Times. For example, when an American cop egregiously murders a black or Hispanic, the Times explanation is that “the gun went off.” Guns shoot themselves, didn't you know? Likewise, the Times is a big fan of U.S.-backed dictators.

On the other hand, when official enemies are accused of wrongdoing, the shrieks of media outrage rise to the very heavens. We can guess how the Times would handle the story if a rebel shell hypothetically hit a Red Cross office in Kiev. (Kiev of course isn't under bombardment.) The headline would run across the top of Page One.

How do you like your hypocritical double-standards? Straight-up, or with a chaser of moral condemnation for the “bad” guys?

Speaking of atrocities, Reuters posted a video October 1st about the Kiev cabal shelling a school playground. See “Ukraine shelling hits school playground, killing at least 10 people.”

1] The Times managed to commit two crimes in the same “World Briefing” section. Another item mentions in similarly exiguous fashion the terrorist murder of a Venezuelan lawmaker in his home. CIA plot, anyone? Fascist terrorism is one of the “tools” in the U.S. “toolbox.” See “Is U.S. Behind Terrorist Assassination of Charismatic Venezuelan Legislator?”

2] See “US analysts conclude MH17 downed by aircraft," August 7th, 2014, in the Malaysian New Straits Times, a paper with close ties to the Malaysian government. The article mistakenly identified Robert Parry as an AP reporter. He was once, in the past. But being too honest a journalist to last there, he has had to become an independent journalist. This Western media has shown its usual incredible lockstep discipline in ignoring the story completely. Who needs a state-controlled media when a “free” press functions exactly the same as one?

Obviously the U.S. corporate propaganda system doesn't want any questioning or doubt about the U.S. line that the rebels shot down the airliner. So far, the public evidence is mixed on what happened. The Russians released radar tracks purporting to show Kiev regime jets chasing the airliner. Stephen Cohen, a retired American professor of Russian history, says that the Kiev regime has never released the recordings of the communications from the airliner crew, and the British won't reveal the black box contents. The Dutch are claiming the rebels shot down the plane. And there's those audio tapes the Kiev regime made public purportedly of rebels talking about their missile shooting down the plane, which in the tapes they express surprise when they discover at the crash site that it was a civilian airliner