Why the Secrecy on the Mh17 Investigation

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Weekend Edition December 19-21, 2014

A Wider Geopolitical Agenda

Why the Secrecy on the Mh17 Investigation

by JAMES O'NEILL

On 17 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over the Eastern Ukraine.
Although the precise circumstances were at that point unknown the western media were quick to blame Ukrainian “rebels”.  The means by which MH17 was destroyed, the media alleged, was a surface to air BUK missile supplied to the “rebels” by Russia.  For a host of reasons it was almost certainly not a BUK missile that caused the crash.  The stage was set however, for a demonization of Russia in general as the alleged supplier of the missile, and President Vladimir Putin in particular.  The relentless propaganda enforcing this view has continued unabated to this day, although the evidential foundation for the allegations remains at best remote. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/19/why-the-secrecy-on-the-mh17-investigation/print