March 2014
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My reply to Guardian’s Shaun Walker By Jonathon Cook
Dear Shaun, I wanted to bring my readers’ attention to your response to my critique of your recent article in the Guardian headlined “Ukraine and Crimea: what is Putin thinking?”. Given that you commented late, and only on Facebook, most of those who read the critique probably never saw your reply. I am therefore posting… Continue reading
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Ukraine: The Corporate Annexation. “For Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto, It’s a Gold Mine of Profits” By JP Sottile
As the US and EU apply sanctions on Russia over its annexation’ of Crimea, JP Sottile reveals the corporate annexation of Ukraine. For Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto, there’s a gold mine of profits to be made from agri-business and energy exploitation. Continue reading
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Will El Salvador become another Venezuela? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Inspired by the US-backed anti-government protests in Venezuela, El Salvador’s oligarchs are preparing to follow the same strategy. Continue reading
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Ukraine: Recalling Night of Long Knives By Olga Shedrova
Historic parallels are a risky thing, but the similarity between the past and our times is stunning. The Kiev junta – Maidan armed groups relationship and the bloody events known in the history of Germany as the Night of Long Knives are by and large the same stories. Continue reading
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Ukrainian Junta and Maidan By Alexander Gaponenko
The newly installed regime in Kiev does not control the situation neither in the country, nor in the capital. At the beginning of March the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ukraine Security Service declared an amnesty for those who give in illegally held arms. The deadline was March 21, the plans failed. Even according… Continue reading
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Egypt on the verge of a social explosion By Jean Shaoul
The purpose of the military junta’s savage repression of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), expressed most recently in the mass death sentence handed down March 24 against 529 of its members, is not just the elimination of its main bourgeois political rival. It is aimed at intimidating and suppressing opposition to what the military-backed government has… Continue reading
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Video: Media 'Staged' Syria Chemical Attack
BBC ‘total fabrication from beginning to end’ of Syria ‘atrocity. CIA caught infiltrating CNN, and Operation Mockingbird is back. The Truthseeker interviews, UK Member of Parliament George Galloway; Illinois University Professor of International Law Francis Boyle; investigative reporter John Helmer and ordinary Syrians. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 March 2014: Tourism as a tool to erase Palestinian identity
25 March 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterJapan: “Settlements Violate International Law”IMEMC – The Japanese government issued a statement strongly denouncing recent Israeli plans to build hundreds of units, for Jewish settlers, in occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. … Continue reading
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Video: World War III Risk Due to U.S. Meddling in Ukraine!
We are being put at risk of a third world war! “General Dempsey: US ready for military response to Russia if Crimean conflict escalates” “Ukraine Crisis Could Spark Third World War, Former Communist Party Leader And President Kravchuk Warns” Continue reading
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Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev By Steve Weissman
If the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland had not said “Fuck the EU,” few outsiders at the time would have heard of Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, the man on the other end of her famously bugged telephone call. But now Washington’s man in Kiev is gaining fame as the face of the CIA-style “destabilization campaign” that… Continue reading
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Skewed NHS stats are big business By Ewen Speed
Increasingly commercialised NHS data collection is being inappropriately used in ways that could jeopardise hospitals’ futures. Is it any wonder staff might feel under pressure to skew the stats? Continue reading
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Russia and the Ukraine Crisis: The Eurasian Project in Conflict with the Triad Imperialist Policies By Samir Amin
After the breakdown of the Soviet system, some people (in Russia in particular) thought that the “West” would not antagonize a “capitalist Russia” — just as Germany and Japan had “lost the war but won the peace.” They forgot that the Western powers supported the reconstruction of the former fascist countries precisely to face the… Continue reading
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Video: Ukraine, Endgame Of 15 Years Of NATO Expansion
Press TV has conducted an interview with Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO International Network in Chicago, about Russia’s move to take control of Ukrainian naval bases situated inside Crimea. Continue reading
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Video: NATO Planning War On Transdniester – Analyst
NATO’s deployment of troops along the Russian border with Ukraine is a sign of the military alliance’s plan for attacking Moldova’s breakaway province of Transnistria, an analyst tells Press TV. Continue reading
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The Strategy of the Venezuelan Opposition and How it Works By Steve Ellner
The strategy and tactics of the Venezuelan opposition is a replay of events that took place leading up to the coup against Hugo Chávez on April 11, 2002 and is similar (although in some ways quite different) from the script that has been used in the Ukraine and elsewhere. The blatant distortions and in some… Continue reading
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Hatred Towards Russians Boiling Over or Yulia Timoshenko «Gone Fishing» By Boris Novoseltsev
Yulia Timoshenko is back into politics. Her phone conversation with Nestor Shufrych, former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (their close personal ties are an open secret), was uploaded on YouTube on March 24. A part of the recorded talk was devoted to Crimea. Timoshenko admitted it took place, though… Continue reading
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“Saudi trump card” in the American game in Ukraine By Igor Nikolayev
Having exhausted the possibilities of direct pressure on Russia in connection with the events in the Crimea and Ukraine, Washington floated its strategic reserve – the potential of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies. White House appealed to the leadership of these countries to contribute with $ 15 billion in the package “urgent economic assistance”… Continue reading
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NATO: Coming to terms with America’s Frankenstein monster
The fifteenth anniversary of NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia, a barbaric and illegal act that mocked international law, provides an opportunity to consider the ultimate purpose of the US-led military machine. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 