May 16, 2014
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NATO Invitations Fuelled Neo-Fascism In Ukraine, Georgia: Russian Foreign Minister
“The current crisis started, the seeds for the current crisis were sown in 2008 in April during the NATO Summit in Bucharest, when NATO leaders stated in a declaration that Georgia and Ukraine will be in NATO,” Lavrov said. Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit
Finance in today’s world has become war by non-military means. Its object is the same as that of military conquest: appropriation of land and basic infrastructure, and the rents that can be extracted as tribute. In today’s world this is taken mainly in the form of debt service and privatization. That is how neoliberalism works,… Continue reading
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90% of All Deaths In War Are CIVILIANS
To support its world-wide empire at the turn of the 19th century, Great Britain adopted the “two power standard,” which called for the Royal Navy to be equal to the combined strength of the next two largest navies in the world. The United States has more than doubled that standard as regards budgets, and yet… Continue reading
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Public Health Experts Identify Militarism as Threat By David Swanson
“Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq. During the 20th century, 190 million deaths could be directly and… Continue reading
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Despite round table talks, Ukrainian regime escalates crackdown By Johannes Stern
As the cable makes clear, the US and its European allies, including Germany, knew that the installation of a pro-European and pro-NATO government in Kiev would provoke opposition both inside Ukraine and from Russia. This response—which has taken the form of a separatist rebellion in the east, and the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian… Continue reading
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UK parliament attempts to restore confidence in intelligence agencies By Paul Mitchell
A report published last week by the UK parliament’s Home Affairs Committee (HAC) declares the current system of monitoring the British intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ “not fit for purpose.” Continue reading
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In the service of imperialism: Right-wing “intellectuals” gather in Kiev By David North
A group of right-wing academics, journalists, pro-war human-rights activists, and specialists in “discourse” are gathering in Kiev this coming weekend (May 16–19). The purpose of the meeting—headed by Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University and Leon Wieseltier, the neo-con literary editor of the New Republic—is to bestow political and moral respectability on the Ukrainian regime… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 16 May 2014
16 May 2014 — williambowles.info How NATO Jabs Russia on Ukraine (SCF) SINOGRAPH Ukraine creates arc of chaos (Asia Times) Moscow regrets that UN report on Ukraine justifies punitive operation in southeast (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 May 2014: On Nakba Day, Israelis Forced to Confront a Guilty Secret
15 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterThousands Mark Nakba Anniversary with Rallies in Israel, West Bank and GazaIMEMC – Palestinians commemorated, today, the 66th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948, by participating in a series of nonviolent actions in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, pre-1948 occupied lands and diasporas. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 