Corporate media parrots the Azov Battalion
The Western corporate media has embraced Ukrainian neo-Nazis as “sources of information” as it fulfils its role as a cheerleader for imperialist war.
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The Western corporate media has embraced Ukrainian neo-Nazis as “sources of information” as it fulfils its role as a cheerleader for imperialist war.
Russia has sought to justify its invasion, saying neo-Nazis have seized power in Kyiv. Ukraine and the West have rubbished the charge. What is the de-Nazification that Putin wants in Ukraine?
PolicyMany Western journalists I meet tell me there are not many Nazis in Ukraine. At least no more than in a Western country such as Australia. I don’t argue. I have no proofs of the numbers and THEY have no proofs of the numbers either. But we can run an estimate.
The far-right neo-Nazi group has expanded to be part of Ukraine’s armed forces, a street militia and a political party.
Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members Time 1/7/2021 SIMON SHUSTER/KYIV, UKRAINE © Maxim Dondyuk for TIME Recruits training in August 2019 with the military wing of Ukraine’s far-right Azov movement, which has inspired white supremacists from around the world. The snow had just melted on the streets of Kyiv when Shawn Fuller, a U.S. Navy veteran, arrived in the early spring of 2018, his roller suitcase clattering over the pavestones of the Ukrainian capital. On the western edge of town, he found the addre...