LEGENDARY BRITISH JOURNALIST: You've been 'fed steady diet of propaganda rubbish' about Ukraine and 'the invented Russian menace'

Not since the Iraq War and those notoriously elusive 'weapons of mass destruction' have the people of America and Europe been told bigger lies by their warmongering political leaders.

Peter Hitchens, in an Op-Ed published by the Daily Mail, says he learned long ago that governments specialize in lying and in getting others, especially the mainstream corporate media, to lie for them.

“It is what they do,” he writes. And yet, seldom has he seen such a massive cloud of lies as we face now with regard to the war in Ukraine.

He writes:

“There has been nothing like it since we were all lied to about the Iraq invasion, with bilge about fictional ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’. The liars were caught. And they learned from it. They learned to lie more skillfully.”

I’ve been writing about many of the same things, trying to dispel the same lies about Ukraine, but for someone as noteworthy as Hitchens to step forward and join the fray of truth-tellers, that’s significant. Hitchens, a legendary British author and journalist, has been covering the West’s foreign policy toward Russia for 47 years. He’s a major critic of Putin and Putin’s style of governance, so nobody can call him a “…