US media keeps silence about murders in Ukraine as well as US Department of State (Stephen Cohen)

The historian believes Kiev's actions in the east of the country illegitimate. Kiev's 'anti-terrorist' policy is creating a climate of fear in the attacked cities. Terrified by shelling and bombing, by helicopters and fighter jets in the sky, families are hiding in cellars and other dark shelters. Even The New York Times which, similarly to the other leading US media, avoids mentioning the atrocities reported about Slavyansk survivors who are living like in the Middle Ages. Meanwhile, a growing number of refugees, mostly women and children, are crossing the border to Russia, Cohen writes. He also disagrees with downplaying the role of Ukrainian nationalists in the development of the crisis.
He criticises US champions of Kiev for claiming that Ukrainian neo-Nazis are just turned-on nationalists, a kind of Euro-populists, who do not enjoy people's support and consequently are of no importance.

He is against comparing Putin with Nazis. "Well-known Americans, such as Hillary Clinton, Zbigniew Brzezinski or George Will, are comparing Putin to Hitler....

The expert is urging Americans to act. "Today when Ukraine is approaching a humanitarian catastrophe Obama and Kerry seem to have disappeared as statesmen. They have stepped in the background leaving the floor to lower-rank officials, only from time to time speaking about Kiev's and Washington's good intentions and Putin's responsibility for the violence," Cohen says.

Cohen believes that Obama's administration justifies Ukrainian authorities' crimes. Following the bloody events in Odessa, Obama welcomed the Ukrainian government's 'restraint'. After that the US administration blocked Russia's initiative for a UN humanitarian corridor between East Ukraine and Russia.

Cohen also criticizes the US media. "During the Ukrainian crisis they are behaving just as narrow-mindedly and evasively as the White House and the Department of State. They are smoothing over the atrocities and on the whole are relying on information coming from Washington and Kiev," Cohen says.................http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_07_03/US-media-keeps-silence-about-murders-in-Ukraine-as-well-as-US-Department-of-State-Stephen-Cohen-8209/.U7TajJWZ9qA.blogger
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• US is responsible for escalation of crisis in Ukraine. - Stephen Cohen