MH17

There’s no doubt that the number of vetoes used at the Security Council has fallen since the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the USSR – while the number of resolutions, in particular unanimous resolutions, has grown exponentially over the same period, suggesting a co-operative and working Security Council. Yet the veto remains and arguments continue as to how and when it is used. The debate has evolved beyond national interests to include observing the letter, or the spirit, of the UN Charter, and protecting the most vulnerable at times of humanitarian crisis.

By Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch | September 30, 2016 The investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over two years ago always had the flavour of pre-emption, caked with assumptions of premature adjudication. Neither side, be it the assembled Joint Investigation Team, nor those on the Russian side, was going to budge on […]

RT | September 29, 2016 An international inquiry has found that MH17 was taken down from within rebel-held territories by a BUK system transported from Russia. However, some uncertainty over it lingers – investigators withheld key evidence citing security concerns. During the presentation of its findings, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) stated that it would […]

RT | September 28, 2016 The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that investigators probing the MH17 crash allowed Ukraine to fabricate evidence, turning the case to its advantage, while denying Moscow any comprehensive role in the inquiry. “Russia suggested working together from the start and relying on the facts only,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria […]

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A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire

21st Century Wire says…
This past week was the two year anniversary of the downing of Flight MH17 in Ukraine, so we will be presenting a triple bill of three documentary films which offer a vast different view than the western media’s mainstream depiction of this crucial historical event – in the hopes of raising more questions, and getting some answers as to what really happened on July 17, 2014.
‘Reflections on MH17’

OffGuardian | July 14, 2016 If Luke Harding’s wild-eyed narcissism was less in tune with the current western agenda then his editors at the Guardian might be taking him aside and quietly suggesting counselling and medication. But things being as they are, his narratives of battling Demon Russia and its Empire of Evil tend to […]

By John Helmer | Dances With Bears | June 15, 2016 President Barack Obama and his advisors spent at least a week, and as much as three weeks, planning to send up to 9,000 combat troops into eastern Ukraine, on the border with Russia, following the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 two years ago. […]

Despite the majority of Europeans and their ELECTED leaders opposing it, Brussels continues to implement Washington DC and NATO’s foreign policy objectives

 
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire