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04-16-2014, 02:31 PM
Full article here: http://nyyrc.com/blog/2014/04/and-the-pulitzer-goes-to-a-spy/
On Monday, April 14, 2014, the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American journalism, was awarded (http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/pulitzer-greenwald-poitras-snowden/) to the Washington Post and (UK’s) The Guardian for their coverage related to the revelations of spy, Edward Snowden. Apparently, for those on the Pulitzer committee, it’s still ethical to betray your country and carry water for the Russian military and intelligence.
Still ethical? Yes.
At a press conference held at the Women’s National Republican Club prior to the announcement, Accuracy in Media, a journalistic watchdog based in Washington, D.C., recounted the circumstances around another Pulitzer Prize, to Walter Duranty. Speaking at the event was Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid, and Walter Zaryckji, Executive Director of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations (http://usukrainianrelations.org/index.php).
Walter Duranty was a New York Times correspondent in Eastern Europe in the 1930s. While there, he intentionally obscured and apologized for Stalin’s forced famine of Ukraine. This was proved beyond a reasonable doubt (http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff818.htm) through the Kliefoth memorandum (http://johndietrichbooks.blogspot.com/2013/07/kleifoth-memo.html), which recorded Duranty’s admission to a U.S. State Department official that he strictly reported the official Soviet explanation of the Ukrainian famine . It is estimated that approximately 7 million Ukrainians perished from 1932-33, because Stalin decided to decimate the Ukrainian population and resettle the land with ethnic Russians.
It is hard to imagine that the Pulitzer Prize went to a genocide obscurantist, but Zaryckji explained that Roosevelt had made it known that his administration would normalize relations with Soviet Russia. The infiltration of Roosevelt’s so-called “Brain Trust” by Stalinist agents is recorded in thousands of declassified documents and subsequent scholarship. Famously described by Whittaker Chambers in his thrilling autobiography, Witness, high level officials, such as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, and senior diplomat Alger Hiss, actively manipulated Washington’s actions towards the Soviet Union, to the benefit of Stalin. For his whitewashing of Stalin’s famine, for his treachery, Duranty was among the most popular journalists in the time of the New Deal.
As explained by Kincaid, the Snowden “revelations” have already caused irreparable harm to the national security interest of the United States. For example, American military officials were caught off guard by the buildup of Russian armed forces at the Ukrainian border. It seems the Russian military has made good use of Snowden’s information, and leveraged it to invade a sovereign country. Until the intelligence holes are identified and secured, it is likely that Russia will continue to hide their military maneuvers, and also know what NATO will do before they actually do it.
In July (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2013/07/anna-chapman-russian-spy-offers-to-marry-ed-snowden/), this blog noted several obvious tipoffs that Snowden was not merely acting out of a concern for privacy. Among them was an analysis (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2013/08/nyyrc-talking-points-august-2013/) of the countries offering Snowden political asylum, which have strong political and economic interests relating to the FARC, a cocaine-funded terrorist group/political party that was founded with the assistance of the Soviets in the 1960s; and the fact that Russian spy Anna Chapman had tweeted (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-russian-spy-hots-snowden-article-1.1389534) that she wanted to marry Snowden.
Regarding the current invasion of the Ukraine, Zarickji recalled the original Stalin plan, which had four steps:
1) Eliminate the Ukrainian Mind (Intelligentsia)
2) Eliminate the Ukrainian Soul (Clergy)
3) Eliminate the Ukrainian Body (i.e., the remaining Ukrainians)
4) Resettle the land with ethnic Russians.
This was a deliberate program of genocide. You might call it Russian lebensraum (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2014/03/geopolitik-russias-foreign-policy-plans-explained/).
Given the nostalgia that the current Russian Nationalists have for Stalin and his manner of politics, especially the fascist Aleksandr Dugin (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2013/08/who-is-aleksandr-dugin/) (who has praised the German S.S., the perpetrators of the Holocaust), is it really too much to ask of the Pulitzer committee not to give the award to modern day Walter Durantys?
For the record, the Pulitzer committee has refused (http://www.pulitzer.org/durantypressrelease) to revoke the award to Duranty.
Note: No group in the country has done more to expose Putin’s propaganda, on the right and left, than Accuracy in Media. You can visit their website here: www.aim.org (http://www.aim.org).
On Monday, April 14, 2014, the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American journalism, was awarded (http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/pulitzer-greenwald-poitras-snowden/) to the Washington Post and (UK’s) The Guardian for their coverage related to the revelations of spy, Edward Snowden. Apparently, for those on the Pulitzer committee, it’s still ethical to betray your country and carry water for the Russian military and intelligence.
Still ethical? Yes.
At a press conference held at the Women’s National Republican Club prior to the announcement, Accuracy in Media, a journalistic watchdog based in Washington, D.C., recounted the circumstances around another Pulitzer Prize, to Walter Duranty. Speaking at the event was Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid, and Walter Zaryckji, Executive Director of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations (http://usukrainianrelations.org/index.php).
Walter Duranty was a New York Times correspondent in Eastern Europe in the 1930s. While there, he intentionally obscured and apologized for Stalin’s forced famine of Ukraine. This was proved beyond a reasonable doubt (http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff818.htm) through the Kliefoth memorandum (http://johndietrichbooks.blogspot.com/2013/07/kleifoth-memo.html), which recorded Duranty’s admission to a U.S. State Department official that he strictly reported the official Soviet explanation of the Ukrainian famine . It is estimated that approximately 7 million Ukrainians perished from 1932-33, because Stalin decided to decimate the Ukrainian population and resettle the land with ethnic Russians.
It is hard to imagine that the Pulitzer Prize went to a genocide obscurantist, but Zaryckji explained that Roosevelt had made it known that his administration would normalize relations with Soviet Russia. The infiltration of Roosevelt’s so-called “Brain Trust” by Stalinist agents is recorded in thousands of declassified documents and subsequent scholarship. Famously described by Whittaker Chambers in his thrilling autobiography, Witness, high level officials, such as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, and senior diplomat Alger Hiss, actively manipulated Washington’s actions towards the Soviet Union, to the benefit of Stalin. For his whitewashing of Stalin’s famine, for his treachery, Duranty was among the most popular journalists in the time of the New Deal.
As explained by Kincaid, the Snowden “revelations” have already caused irreparable harm to the national security interest of the United States. For example, American military officials were caught off guard by the buildup of Russian armed forces at the Ukrainian border. It seems the Russian military has made good use of Snowden’s information, and leveraged it to invade a sovereign country. Until the intelligence holes are identified and secured, it is likely that Russia will continue to hide their military maneuvers, and also know what NATO will do before they actually do it.
In July (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2013/07/anna-chapman-russian-spy-offers-to-marry-ed-snowden/), this blog noted several obvious tipoffs that Snowden was not merely acting out of a concern for privacy. Among them was an analysis (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2013/08/nyyrc-talking-points-august-2013/) of the countries offering Snowden political asylum, which have strong political and economic interests relating to the FARC, a cocaine-funded terrorist group/political party that was founded with the assistance of the Soviets in the 1960s; and the fact that Russian spy Anna Chapman had tweeted (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-russian-spy-hots-snowden-article-1.1389534) that she wanted to marry Snowden.
Regarding the current invasion of the Ukraine, Zarickji recalled the original Stalin plan, which had four steps:
1) Eliminate the Ukrainian Mind (Intelligentsia)
2) Eliminate the Ukrainian Soul (Clergy)
3) Eliminate the Ukrainian Body (i.e., the remaining Ukrainians)
4) Resettle the land with ethnic Russians.
This was a deliberate program of genocide. You might call it Russian lebensraum (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2014/03/geopolitik-russias-foreign-policy-plans-explained/).
Given the nostalgia that the current Russian Nationalists have for Stalin and his manner of politics, especially the fascist Aleksandr Dugin (http://nyyrc.com/blog/2013/08/who-is-aleksandr-dugin/) (who has praised the German S.S., the perpetrators of the Holocaust), is it really too much to ask of the Pulitzer committee not to give the award to modern day Walter Durantys?
For the record, the Pulitzer committee has refused (http://www.pulitzer.org/durantypressrelease) to revoke the award to Duranty.
Note: No group in the country has done more to expose Putin’s propaganda, on the right and left, than Accuracy in Media. You can visit their website here: www.aim.org (http://www.aim.org).