I'd like to believe there is some line past which the national media go in distorting reality. The problem is there doesn't seem to be any evidence for that line.

We're told the Russian military committed an atrocity in a city called Bucha in Ukraine. They certainly may have.

The problem is this event is being reported by the same people who have lied over and over about the same kind of event before, with the same apparent motivations (manufacturing consent for military intervention), using the same kinds of evidence:

Satellite images - Colin Powell brought satellite images to the U.N. "proving" Iraq had WMD.

Testimony from "random" civilians - We heard about "babies snatched from incubators" by the Iraqi military from one such "random civilian." She turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, telling a bogus "atrocity propaganda" story for the express purpose of manufacturing support for the first Iraq War

Pictures of the bodies -  We were shown pictures of the bodies on multiple occasions as evidence of Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons attacks on his own people in Syria. Many of these turned out to be fake, as did at least one of the chemical weapons attacks itself. As high-ranking an official as Gen. James Mattis admitted years later there is no evidence Assad perpetrated those attacks which were real, almost certainly perpetrated by the "moderate rebels" the U.S. was funding in its regime change attempt in Syria.

This last piece of information is especially relevant because, with the alleged Russian massacre in Bucha, we're again asked to believe that the party to the conflict with the least to gain and the most to lose by doing so (the Russians) committed the atrocity. At the same time, we're asked to dismiss out of hand that the party with the most to gain and least to lose (the Ukrainians) may have perpetrated the atroclty instead.

In today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom, I speak with Janice Kortkamp, an independent, completely self-funded/crowd-funded journalist who made seven trips to Syria 2016-19. She was there on the ground during one of the DC empire's airstrikes in response to the bogus Assad chemical weapons attacks. 

She spent over three years talking to Syrians from all walks of life. Unsurprisingly, the story she tells is strikingly different than the one NBC, CNN, WaPo, etc. told you. And once your memory is refreshed about the lies told about Syria, you may take a different view on the "reporting" on Ukraine.

I have links to her website and some of her writing on the show notes page.

Joe Lauria at Consortium News relates some rather glaring problems with the Bucha narrative. He points out the Bucha mayor was in a rather jubilant mood on March 31 when he announced the Russians had left Bucha, which we assume he wouldn't be if there were bodies lying in the streets all around him when he made his announcement.

Then, there is the presence of the Azov Battalion, whose members are seen in some of the first pictures announcing the atrocity. What were they up to in the two days between the mayor's jubilant March 31 announcement and April 2? They are known for reprisals against Ukrainian civilians for all sorts of reasons under the general umbrella of "disloyalty" or "treason," not to mention simply being an ethnic Russian.

Those interested in further escalation and U.S. involvement in Ukraine certainly have a vested interest in the public believing Russia committed an atrocity in Bucha.

As usual with stories like these, the media is uniform in its judgment and  reports the incident using identical words and phrases across multiple, supposedly competing outlets, as if those words and phrases all came from the same source, just as they have in the past pushing narratives that turned out to be false.

Believing them in the past has led the public to support disastrous wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and too many other countries to name. It would seem wise to reject the current narrative without further, independent proof before allowing the empire to add Ukraine -meaning war with nuclear-armed Russia - to the list.

David Morgan says Ukraine is just another "bankers' war." Certainly, the weaponization of the U.S. dollar has been at the center of the U.S./NATO response to Russia's invasion. 

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