{"id":55081,"date":"2022-03-04T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55081"},"modified":"2022-03-16T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T04:05:52","slug":"richard-boyd-barrett-unmasks-the-western-leaders-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55081","title":{"rendered":"Unmasking Western leaders&#8217; hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><STRONG>Ex-UN Special Rapporteur: The efforts to isolate Russia are not working<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<em>March 06, 2022<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GBNrgLwUvrM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nFormer UN Special Rapporteur, Alfred de Zayas believes Venezuela is not going to be easily seduced by Washington and the efforts to isolate Russia are clearly not working.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/McDonalds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McDonalds<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Starbucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Starbucks<\/a> boycotted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a> following its 2-week assault on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a>, fine. But both are doing a fine trade supporting torture and detention without trial in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Guant%C3%A1namo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Guant\u00e1namo<\/a> for 20 years. Some principles are more equal than others. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VdyHKOyO8n\">pic.twitter.com\/VdyHKOyO8n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Moazzam Begg (@Moazzam_Begg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Moazzam_Begg\/status\/1503656208674267138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/551518-ukraine-national-guard-documents\/\">Russia claims to have discovered Ukrainian Donbass attack plan<\/A><br \/>\n<em>By RT &#8211; March 09, 2022<\/em><br \/>\nThe Russian Defense Ministry alleges that classified documents prove that Kiev planned a major Donbass offensive in March <\/p>\n<p><I>Emmanuel Macron said in a speech Wednesday it\u2019s a lie that Russia is fighting Nazis in Ukraine. But in 2014, the BBC, the NYT, the Daily Telegraph and CNN \u2014 not just CN \u2014 reported on the Nazi threat.<\/I><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2022\/03\/06\/robert-parry-when-western-media-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis\/\">When Western Media Saw Ukraine&#8217;s Neo-Nazis<\/A><br \/>\n<I>By Robert Parry, Consortium News &#8211; March 06, 2022<\/I><br \/>\nExclusive: Throughout the Ukraine crisis, the U.S. State Department and mainstream media have downplayed the role of neo-Nazis in the U.S.-backed Kiev regime, an inconvenient truth that is surfacing again as right-wing storm troopers fly neo-Nazi banners as they attack in the east, Robert Parry reports.<\/p>\n<p><em>The U.S. government and media think Nazis in Ukraine are a myth. It wasn\u2019t always the case, as Robert Parry reported in 2015.<\/em><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2022\/03\/06\/robert-parry-when-us-house-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis\/\">US House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine<\/A><br \/>\n<I>By Robert Parry, Consortium News &#8211; June 12, 2015<\/I><br \/>\nExclusive: The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people: that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2022\/03\/04\/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia\/\">How Ukraine\u2019s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia<\/A><br \/>\n<em>By Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal\u00b7- March 4, 2022<\/em><br \/>\nWhile Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s borderline-amusing that the entire bipartisan US political class spent years proclaiming that the real leader of Venezuela is &quot;President Juan Guaid\u00f3,&quot; but the minute they need something, that&#39;s instantly abandoned for: &quot;President Maduro, we&#39;d like to meet with you.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ydyemv3bGl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ydyemv3bGl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1500491333210939406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/english.almayadeen.net\/news\/politics\/russian-mod:-kiev-desperately-attempts-to-whitewash-us-funde\">Russian MoD: Kiev desperately attempts to whitewash US-funded bioweapons program<\/A><br \/>\n<em>By Al Mayadeen Net &#8211; March 06, 2022<\/em><br \/>\nSince the beginning of Russia&#8217;s operation in Ukraine, the Pentagon has been deeply concerned about the disclosure of its secret biological experiments in the country.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk\/2022\/03\/peter-hitchens-one-glorious-day-in-sevastopol-12-years-ago-i-saw-what-was-coming-thats-why-i-wont-jo.html\">PETER HITCHENS: One glorious day in Sevastopol 12 years ago, I saw what was coming. That&#8217;s why I won&#8217;t join this carnival of hypocrisy<\/A><br \/>\n<em>By Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail &#8211; March 05, 2022<\/em><br \/>\nIn a country crammed with Russians, they were trying to make Russian a second-class language. Russians who had lived there happily for decades were pressured to take Ukrainian citizenship and adopt Ukrainian versions of their Christian names. The schools were promoting a national hero, Stepan Bandera, who Russians strongly disliked and regarded as a terrorist. And they were teaching history which often had an anti-Russian tinge. Quite a few people told me they felt put upon by these policies. Why couldn&#8217;t they just be left alone?<\/p>\n<p><strong><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/05\/world\/americas\/venezuela-russia-usa.html\">U.S. Officials Travel to Venezuela, a Russia Ally, as the West Isolates Putin<\/A><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By Anatoly Kurmanaev, Natalie Kitroeff and Kenneth P. Vogel,<br \/>\nThe New York Times, March 05, 2022<\/em><br \/>\nThe trip is the highest-level visit by American officials to Caracas in years, driven by a desire to separate Russia from its remaining Latin American allies.<\/p>\n<p><I><B>venezuelanalysis.com : Twitter @venanalysis<\/B><\/I><br \/>\n&#8220;A surprising development to keep an eye on. Shows how little US foreign policy has to do with principles. Also, enlighten us here, but wasn&#8217;t this halfwit who does Zoom events from his living room [Juan Guaid\u00f3] to be the &#8220;recognized&#8221; president? Anyway, stay tuned&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>&#8220;Cuba rejects the hypocrisy and double standards&#8221;,<br \/>\nsays Cuba&#8217;s representative to the UN<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<em>March 05, 2022<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nyhvz4pLnaw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;Cuba rejects the hypocrisy and double standards&#8221;, says Cuba&#8217;s representative to the UN, &#8220;the United States and allies have used force on multiple occasions, invading sovereign states to trigger regime change&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/551382-pakistan-russia-ukraine-resolution\/\">Imran Khan hits out at West for treating Pakistanis like &#8216;slaves&#8217;<\/A><br \/>\n<em>By RT &#8211; March 06, 2022<br \/>\n<b>The country has vowed to stay neutral in Russia&#8217;s conflict with Ukraine<\/b><\/em><br \/>\nAt a rally on Sunday, Khan shot back at a March 1 letter from diplomats representing 22 missions, including countries in the European Union along with Japan, Switzerland, Canada, the UK, and Australia, which called on Pakistan to drop its neutrality and join them in condemning Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Ukraine&#8217;s far-right children&#8217;s camp: &#8216;I want to bring up a warrior&#8217;<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<em>September 05, 2017<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiBXmbkwiSw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn Ukraine, the far-right Azov militia is fighting on the frontline \u2013 and running a summer camp for children. The Guardian visited the camp and followed 16-year-old Anton through his experiences. Is Azov really a modern Hitler Youth organisation, or is it trying to prepare young Ukrainians for the tough reality that awaits them?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are so many relevant facts that run counter to the mandated narrative for which no space exists now. But it&#39;s always the same cycle with wars: it takes weeks, usually months, sometimes years for the mob inebriation to wear off, and only then does sobriety and regret emerge. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kfLsv5wJHb\">https:\/\/t.co\/kfLsv5wJHb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1500477462848888835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett unmasks the Western leaders&#8217; hypocrisy in the face of crises in different parts of the world. March 02,  2022<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<i>March 02, 2022<\/i><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wc8JsAxVqpc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIreland Parliament: Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett&#8217;s statements on the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, including the recent report of Amnesty International.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Omani sports commentator, Khalil Albaloushi, about the world&#39;s hypocrisy and double standards. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yt8IiPNRGX\">pic.twitter.com\/Yt8IiPNRGX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PALESTINE ONLINE \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@OnlinePalEng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnlinePalEng\/status\/1500174603976679424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Western Selective Outrage At War &#038; Its Victims | By Robert Inlakesh<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<i>March 04, 2022<\/i><br \/>\n<script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/u10pi0h\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_vtth99\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"vtth99\",\"div\":\"rumble_vtth99\"});<\/script><br \/>\nIs war wrong when the West is doing it? This is the question that is being posed by many who have seen the selective outrage, of late, at war in Ukraine, but silence on the wars of aggression carried out against victims who think &#038; look different to Westerners. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/11\/ultranationalism-in-ukraine-a-photo-essay\">Ultranationalism in Ukraine \u2013 a photo essay<\/A><br \/>\n<I>Photographs by Felipe Dana \/ AP &#8211; April 11, 2019<\/I><br \/>\nThe growing presence of far-right groups in Ukraine leaves the west in a quandary. The ultranationalists have played a key role in fighting Russia-backed separatist rebels and are now challenging government corruption. But they are pushing for changes that go against democratic ideals.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/01\/11\/the-us-drops-an-average-of-46-bombs-a-day-why-should-the-world-see-us-as-a-force-for-peace\/\">The U.S. drops an average of 46 bombs a day: Why should the world see us as a force for peace?<\/A><br \/>\n<em>By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies &#8211; Salon &#8211; January 11, 2022<\/em><br \/>\nOver the past 20 years, as documented in the table below, U.S. and allied air forces have dropped more than 337,000 bombs and missiles on other countries. That&#8217;s an average of 46 strikes per day for 20 years. This endless bombardment has not only been deadly and devastating for its victims but is broadly recognized as seriously undermining international peace and security and diminishing America&#8217;s standing in the world. <\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Max Blumenthal: US is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<em>February 05, 2018<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x5Uf7aooxvE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nMax Blumenthal reports that the US has provided military assistance to the Azov Battalion, known as a bastion of neo-Nazism within the Ukrainian armed forces. He also discusses US and Israeli ties to the far-right government in Poland, where neo-Nazism is on the rise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-UN Special Rapporteur: The efforts to isolate Russia are not working March 06, 2022 Former UN Special Rapporteur, Alfred de Zayas believes Venezuela is not going to be easily seduced by Washington and the efforts to isolate Russia are clearly not working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,1275,1280,1245,1615,1614],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-55081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-international","category-israel","category-palestine","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-yemen","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55081"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55180,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55081\/revisions\/55180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}