4 March 2014 — Oriental Review
Spinoffs for the West
Ukraine is an insanely industrious country, with a fertile bread basket in the west and a highly industrialised east. If the country’s 46 million people are added to the Western alliance it would be a huge untapped market for American armament companies and German consumer goods.
4 March 2014 — Stop Imperialism
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com provides his analysis of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Draitser explains that US threats against Russia are not only superficial, they are indicative of a hypocritical US foreign policy that both sanctifies and condemns “intervention.” Draitser notes that Washington has no leverage over Moscow on this issue and that, aside from their bluff and bluster, the US is essentially powerless. Continue reading
4 March 2014 — RT
Ukrainian ultra-nationalist groups actively fought on Maidan to overthrow President Yanukovich. Now as the fierce riots in Kiev are over, they are unwilling to give up their violent ways, unleashing their “revolutionary” power against local authorities.
4 March 2014 — Voltaire Network
Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues,
How shall we do this? This is what I’d like to suggest: let’s have a conversation, rather than an interview. Therefore, I would ask you to begin by stating all your questions, I will jot them down and try to answer them, and then we will have a more detailed discussion of the specifics that interest you most.
Let’s begin.
4 March 2014 — OurKingdom
The crime of ‘being suspicious’ seems to be making a return as the state seems ever more keen to police the poor and vulnerable. The recent case of ‘stolen food’ from Iceland is a perfect example.
4 March 2014 — The Register
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and the NHS Information Centre are riding out a three-pronged privacy storm.
4 March 2014 — Voltaire Network
The Prosecutor General of Russia has opened an investigation into public calls for terrorism inside Russia posted by Dmytro Yarosh on his website.
Nazi leader Dmytro Yarosh was appointed Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (body that oversees the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces) in the Ukrainian government that emerged from the coup.
January 2014 — Voltaire Network
The European Parliament commissioned a report on the mass surveillance programs implemented in the European Union. The document lays down the data available regarding five member States (France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Sweden) and ponders about their impact on the economic system.
4 March 2014 — WSWS
The risk of war and major economic shocks in Europe continued to rise yesterday as Washington and its allies stepped up pressure on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.
4 March 2014 — WSWS
In the wake of the right-wing coup in Ukraine organized by the United States and the European powers, the American media is responding with a torrent of inflammatory war propaganda directed against Russia.
4 March 2014 — WSWS
In an order published by Attorney General Eric Holder on February 27, the Obama administration granted itself unprecedented powers to spy on and prosecute journalists. The new policy announcement directly violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom speech, or of the press…”
4 March 2014 — Andrew Gavin Marshall
After a nearly two-month break from work, I have returned full-force to working on The People’s Book Project, a crowd-funded project which has been ongoing (off and on) for the past two-plus years. The Project raises funds to subsidize my research and writing of a series of books examining the ideas, institutions and individuals of power in our world – through historical, political, economic and social realms – as well as the methods and movements of resistance against these power structures. Continue reading
3 March 2014 — Space for Peace
A couple of people have wondered if I exaggerated the possibility of war with Russia over Ukraine. I don’t think so – in fact I would suggest that the proxy war is already underway. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 