12 May 2014 — SCG News
Day: May 13, 2014
‘Americans need to realize Ukraine crisis happened because of US’
13 May 2014 — RT
RT: Washington has deemed the referendum in east Ukraine illegal. However, a huge number of people turned out to vote. Shouldn’t their opinions count for something?
Fascists burning people alive in Odessa, Nazism on the rise in Europe: Is this the democracy the Western world proposes for Ukraine?
13 May 2014 — Stop NATO — Interfax
Pushkov hopes to hear PACE assessment of materials on fight in Odesa sent to it by Russia
MOSCOW: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) may assess the materials sent to PACE by Russia on Tuesday – pictures of burnt and shot victims of the clashes in Odesa on May 2, State Duma international affairs committee head Alexei Pushkov said.
Ukraine News Links 13 May 2014
13 May 2014 3:27:19 PM — williambowles.info
Russia calls for impartial and transparent international investigation into Odessa tragedy (ITAR-TASS)
Russia’s FM urges to immediately launch OSCE roadmap on crisis settlement in Ukraine (ITAR-TASS)
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles: The American occupation of West Jerusalem
1 May 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Further Attacks and Abductions in West Bank
IMEMC – Israeli violations against the Palestinian people and their property continued throughout the day, on Monday May 12, 2014, with attacks and abductions occuring in various regions of the West Bank, including Qalqilia, Jenin and Bethlehem. …
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Event: People’s Europe versus Corporate Europe: What should the Left be demanding of Europe?
13 May 2014 — Peoples Parliament
From the proposed TTIP trade deal, to fracking and the privatisation of our NHS, the EU too often operates in the corporate interest. Across Europe we are faced with the choice of neoliberal technocrats or far-right nationalists.
Welcome to Nulandistan: A Multimedia Look at What the US and EU Have Unleashed on Ukraine By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
13 May 2014 — Global Research
The Yatsenyuk regime’s anti-terrorism operations in the southern and eastern oblasts (region) of Ukraine are really a use of martial force against Ukrainian civilians opposed to the coup-installed regime in Kiev. Predominately peaceful Ukrainian citizens opposing the coup leaders and not “armed separatists” have been the main target of the regime’s militias.
US military legal argument for current wars: ‘Self-defense’ is whatever we say By Carl Herman
13 May 2014 — Washington’sBlog
“The basis for the United States’ use of force… is, therefore, the Article 51 right of individual or collective self-defense.” – Operational Law Handbook 2012, Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School, page 6.
The US Army’s official law handbook provides an excellent historical and legal summary of when wars are lawful self-defense and unlawful War of Aggression in a seven-page Chapter One.
What took place in Odessa on May 2? By Stefan Steinberg
13 May 2014 — WSWS
New information, eyewitness testimony, photos and videos reveal the extent of the massacre carried out by fascist forces in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on May 2.
Blackwater mercenaries direct Kiev regime’s crackdown in Ukraine By Alex Lantier
12 May 2014 — WSWS
Hundreds of US mercenaries are directing the repression of pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine by the fascist forces of the NATO puppet regime in Kiev, according to German media reports.
Ukraine: The waiting game By Pepe Escobar
12 May 2014 — Asia Times
Everything one needs to know about mediocre political elites allegedly representing the “values” of Western civilization has been laid bare by their reaction to the referendums in Donetsk and Lugansk.