23 May 2014 — National Security Archive
U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election
Nixon Alerted in Advance to Date of Coup, Retired CIA Operative Writes in Foreign Affairs
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23 May 2014 — WSWS
The New York Times, which from the outset of the Ukrainian crisis has tailored its coverage slavishly to the line of the US State Department, spelled out its vision for a “democratic Ukraine” Wednesday in an editorial entitled “A Critical Election in Ukraine.”
23 May 2014 — Vineyard of the Saker
Introduction:
I have been asked by The Saker to share my view of the current conflict in the Ukraine. I will provide no information that is not publicly available if one wants to dig and one is observant with the many videos available on the internet amongst other places.
23 May 2014 — ITAR-TASS
The city of Sloviansk (Ukraine’s Donetsk region) and adjoining settlements have again been subjected to intense artillery fire in which several [d]welling houses have been destroyed. The local people’s militia claim that an attack on a block post in the area of the Karlovka settlement (30 km from Donetsk towards Dnepropetrovsk) was repelled on Friday. According to the self-defence forces, “more than 10 gunmen were killed” in the clash that continued for about three hours.
22 May 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Hunger Striking Detainee Facing Serious Health Conditions
IMEMC – [Thursday, May 22, 2014] The International Red Cross – Palestine Branch has informed the family of detainee Ayman Tbeish, from the southern west Bank city of Hebron, that their hunger-striking son could die at any given moment. …
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23 May 2014 13:56:57 — williambowles.info
Putin ‘to respect’ Ukraine vote (BBC)
West reluctant to help Russia release LifeNews journalists — human rights ombudsman (ITAR-TASS)
Russia will respect choice made by Ukrainians on May 25 – Putin (Voice of Russia)
23 May 2014 — WSWS
Remarking on social conditions at the end of the 18th century, Thomas Paine wrote, “The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye is like dead and living bodies chained together.”
The New Dark Age 