19 March 2014 — People’s Daily Online
Ukraine has become the final battlefield in the “cold war”, and it is becoming a possibility that the crisis will trigger a second “cold war”. The Crimean parliament’s declaration of independence from Ukraine ahead of the March 16 referendum indicates that Crimea may go ahead and join Russia. The tug of war between Russia and western countries teaches us four things.
16 March 2014 — John Pilger
Washington’s role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed.
20 March 2014 — The Hampton Institute
Suggested by William Hathaway
“President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon…”– Malcolm X, December 1, 1963
20 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report
The U.S., now number one in oil and gas, is preparing to destroy Russia’s economy. “Washington will move to crush, or at least seriously disrupt, Russia under its ‘sanctions as war by other means’ machine, by targeting its energy exports, while simultaneously boosting the foreign markets for U.S. natural gas.”
20 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Not quite a month ago, I wrote that we at Black Agenda Report had received word of a new self-organized hunger strike among prisoners in Georgia’s notorious Diagnostic & Classification Prison at Jackson, the same place where Troy Davis was murdered by the state a couple years ago. We had no details beyond a single brief note and a list of prisoners who’d signed a letter. Continue reading
Thu, Mar 20, 2014 — Oriental Review
Earlier this month US President Barack Obama signed an executive order declaring “a national emergency” in view of the “actions and policies of persons — including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine – that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.” This order blocks all property and interests in the United States that belong to individuals under sanction, suspends entry into the United States, as immigrants or non-immigrants, of such persons, prohibits any type of donations to or benefitting such persons, and even forbids “any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order.” Section 10 of the order eliminates the possibility of challenging these sanctions in any court:
20 March 2014 — OurNHS
As Essex council closes the only daycare centre for dementia patients in the South of the county, its councillors cause a storm by suggesting a one-day ‘dementia cube’ workshop is a suitable alternative.
17 March 2014 — James Petras
Introduction: Protest, dissent and terrorist wars are obviously very distinct forms of expressing opposition and bringing about change. The Obama-Kerry regime claim that the opposition in Venezuela is a “protest movement” a “peaceful democratic opposition” expressing discontent with economic conditions and that the democratically elected Maduro Administration is an ‘authoritarian regime’ violently repressing dissent. Washington claims to play no part in the action of the opposition and that its pronouncements are directed at furthering democratic freedoms.
19 March 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israel to Ease Restrictions on Weapons Exports
IMEMC – The Israeli Defense Ministry is increasing the number of countries for which arms exporters will not be required to receive a special license for marketing non-classified weaponry and defense equipment. …
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20 March 2014 — RT
20 March 2014 — RT
The poor citizens of Ukraine remain poor while the world bickers with their plight, an apparent after thought.
The New Dark Age 