May 27, 2014
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Ukraine News Links 26-27 May 2014
27 May 2014 18:45:31 — williambowles.info Ukraine has no plans to impose visa regime with Russia – foreign ministry (ITAR-TASS) Russia-Ukraine border, its Crimea section to be strengthened (ITAR-TASS) ‘Slaughterhouse’: Civilians die in Kiev’s ruthless military attacks one day after vote (GRAPHIC) (RT) Continue reading
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Video: Up to 100 killed in Kiev military op, Donetsk E. Ukraine – anti-govt forces
“We’ve lost more than 50 self-defense fighters,” Boroday said, as cited by RIA Novosti. “Many of the casualties are a result of two Kamaz trucks having been shelled by the Ukrainian army. The trucks were driving the wounded from the battlefield near the airport. Around 15 people died there.” Continue reading
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Ukraine: ‘Socialist prospects in south-eastern Ukraine’
There is nothing surprising about this anti-capitalist trend which has appeared, to a large extent spontaneously, among the activists of the anti-Maidan who were among the founders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The people who commissioned and sponsored the Euromaidan are the oligarchic owners of big capital, and these are also its main… Continue reading
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Video: FEEM Lecture by Anatol Lieven, King’s College London: “The Ukraine Debacle”
The recent development of the Ukrainian crisis has unveiled a series of long-neglected problems that today emerge dramatically. The complex current scenario and the difficulties in recomposing the crisis at diplomatic level show the inadequacy of EU and North American foreign policies and international relations with Russia and the former Soviet Union bloc. The possible… Continue reading
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Video: FEEM Lecture by Anatol Lieven, King's College London: "The Ukraine Debacle"
The recent development of the Ukrainian crisis has unveiled a series of long-neglected problems that today emerge dramatically. The complex current scenario and the difficulties in recomposing the crisis at diplomatic level show the inadequacy of EU and North American foreign policies and international relations with Russia and the former Soviet Union bloc. The possible… Continue reading
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Housmans Books June 2014 Newsletter
27 May 2014 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Peace News 2014 Summer Camp2. Campaign against Climate Change Cabaret Fundraiser3. Thousands needed to join Human Peace Scarf protest Continue reading
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Rather the Useful Idiot By Gavin Rae
The images from Odessa were truly horrific. Burnt corpses, a strangled pregnant woman, people jumping out of windows to their deaths. Yet perhaps the most disturbing of them all was the scene where a group of young educated looking teenage girls, draped in the Ukrainian flag, were happily making the Molotov Cocktails that would later… Continue reading
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Paul Craig Roberts: Putin sees chance to break up NATO, EU
Western propaganda about events in Ukraine has two main purposes. One is to cover up, or to distract from, Washington’s role in overthrowing the elected democratic government of Ukraine. The other is to demonize Russia. Continue reading
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New Ukraine government launches airstrikes, prepares austerity measures By Thomas Gaist
The character of the new Ukrainian government headed by billionaire oligarch Petro Poroshenko has been quickly revealed in the day since presidential elections held over the weekend: violent repression of opposition to the regime, particularly in the east, combined with brutal austerity measures directed at the entire working class. Continue reading
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Unease in UK’s political elite after Prince Charles compares Putin to Hitler By Julie Hyland
The row over Prince Charles’s comparison of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler continues to rumble. Charles is not the first to make the comparison. The false and provocative analogy was also used by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, among others. In fact, the modern-day equivalent… Continue reading
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