March 2014
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Ukraine: U.S. Pulls Back, Agrees To Russian Demands
There was another phone call today between Secretary of State Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. The call came after a strategy meeting on Ukraine in the White House. During the call Kerry agreed to Russian demands for a federalization of the Ukraine in which the federal states will have a strong autonomy against… Continue reading
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Don't Pray for Venezuela: The Struggle Against Contemporary Fascism By Chris Gilbert
The fascists who operate today in Venezuela — to say nothing of those active in the Ukraine, Greece, or Colombia — are by no means a historical aberration. Only if we take one of capitalism’s key myths at face value must we imagine that our current society is the wondrous culmination of a teleological evolutionary… Continue reading
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3 immigration facts you need to share
We asked you why your friends or neighbours are tempted to vote UKIP, and one answer led by a mile: They’re being persuaded by UKIP’s strong anti-immigration stance. Continue reading
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Imperialist hypocrisy on Crimea By Joseph Kishore
Sunday’s referendum in Crimea has been accompanied by a torrent of denunciations from the Obama administration and the American media. It is being seized upon to escalate the imperialist offensive in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, whose ultimate aim is regime change or war against Russia. Continue reading
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Germany threatened “massive damage” to Russia ahead of Crimea referendum By Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier
Ahead of Sunday’s referendum on the independence of Crimea, Berlin and Washington are escalating a campaign of threats and sanctions against Russia, risking civil war in Ukraine and war with Russia itself. Continue reading
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Will Twisted History of Georgian War Facilitate a Repetition? By Steve Rendall
When the US press takes sides, the necessary lionizing of allies and demonizing of opponents begins in earnest. And so the fascists and antisemites in Ukraine’s current “pro-West” government are downplayed or ignored, as is the US hypocrisy that denounces Russia’s military adventures while supporting the violent ouster of a democratic, if odious, Ukrainian government. Continue reading
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Obama Declares Self-Determination to Be a Threat to US National Security By Paul Craig Roberts
In his March 6 Executive Order, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine,” Obama declares that support for Crimean self-determination constitutes “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.” Continue reading
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95.7% of Crimeans Give the Finger to the White House Tyrant By Paul Craig Roberts
In an unprecedented turnout unmatched by any Western election, Crimeans voted 95.7% to join Russia. As I pointed out earlier today, under the twisted logic of Washington Crimea has never been a part of Ukraine as Russians were not allowed to vote when the Soviet dictator Khrushchev stuck the Russian province of Crimea into Ukraine… Continue reading
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America’s Oligarch Strategy
At US behest, Austria arrested a Ukrainian oligarch named Dmytro Firtash in Vienna on some corruption and bribery charge that appears to be involved tangentially with the United States…Firtash’s problem is that the US identified him with the Yanukovych camp and close to Russia because of his gas dealings. It also looks like Firtash moved… Continue reading
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The future of care.data hangs in the balance By Jane Fae
The future of care.data hangs in the balance. In the last week, rival proposals from government and by critics, have offered parliament radically different diagnoses – and cures – for the malaise now afflicting the scheme. In the end, though, the question remains: is this all too little, too late? Can care.data recover from here? Continue reading
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With 100% ballots counted, 96.77% of Crimeans vote to re-unite with Russia – Crimean election chief
The latest updates from Crimea’s election authority show that 96.77% of the voters who cast their ballots in Sunday’s referendum supported Crimea’s reunification with Russia. “The number of the votes cast in the Crimea-wide referendum in favor of reunification with Russia as an entity of the Russian Federation is 1.233,002 million, or 96.77 percent,” Crimea’s… Continue reading
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The New York Times deploys C.J. Chivers to Ukraine By Patrick Martin
A particularly foul and provocative article in the New York Times this weekend portrays the Russian military forces and pro-Russian militiamen in Crimea as a rampaging horde, using guns and whips to suppress popular opposition to a possible annexation of the Crimean region by Russia. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 March 2014: Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and injure dozens of Palestinians
16 March 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center$170m Loss for Israeli Water Firm as BDS Spreads SouthwardIMEMC – In the latest success for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, authorities in Buenos Aires, Argentina, have suspended a proposed $170m water treatment plant deal with Israeli state water firm,… Continue reading
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Ukraine: CANVAS, US-Financed “Color Revolution Training Group” Orchestrated Protesters By William Engdahl
Ukraine Protests Carefully Orchestrated: The Role of CANVAS, US-Financed “Color Revolution Training Group”: Canvas, formerly Otpor, received significant money from the US State Department in 2000 to stage the first successful Color Revolution against Slobodan Milosovic in then-Yugoslavia. Since then they have been transformed into a full-time “revolution consultancy” for the US, posing as a… Continue reading
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Big Oil’s “Sore Losers” Lead the Drive to War in Ukraine By Mike Whitney
Following a 13 year rampage that has reduced large swathes of Central Asia and the Middle East to anarchy and ruin, the US military juggernaut has finally met its match on a small peninsula in southeastern Ukraine that serves as the primary operating base for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Crimea is the door through which… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 March 2014
15 March 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterA National Summit that prompts National Governments to ActIMEMC – Public discussion on the Palestinian/Israeli crisis, which has diminished in recent years, received a powerful impetus with The National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship, March 7 at the National Press Club, Washington, DC.… Continue reading
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Video: Leeto Thale vibes at Albany Theatre, London
15 March 2014 — YouTube Uploaded on 16 Apr 2009 Top Spoken word artist and vibeologist Leeto Thale blesses an audience at the famous Albany Theatre, London as part of the ‘Conversations’ expose devised by the poet/actor/songstress Zena Edwards and renowned saxophonist Soweto Kinch. Filmed by Kungadred and Beyonder, editor – kungadred. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9-15 March 2014: Ukraine-Crimea / Georgia-NATO / Syria-Ukraine
15 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation Crimea: Right for Self-Determination or Memory Losses Striking Germans 15.03.2014 | 00:00 | Natalia MEDEN Germans appear to suffer from lapses of memory. The politicians have forgotten the way their country was united. They were adamant and ready to go to any length to achieve this goal making cede the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 March 2014: Anger as Cameron superglues UK to Israel
14 March 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterGaza Truce Firms Up After 2-day Flare-upIMEMC – Hamas ignored by Egypt on ceasefire (AFP/Ma’an) A truce declared by Gaza militants appears to be largely holding, on Friday, with the Israeli military reporting a single rocket fired after two days of tit-for-tat violence. … Continue reading
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Ukraine: Truth – the First Casualty
The nationalist uprising in Kiev, at least in part stage-managed from Washington and Brussels with that accustomed mixture of arrogance and duplicity last seen in the build up to previous imperial exercises – from the invasion of Iraq and Libya to Saakashvilli’s disastrous attack on South Ossetia as encouraged by the Washington Neocons – is… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 