3 June 2014 — FAIR Blog
There is a tendency to believe that Russian president Vladimir Putin is orchestrating the unrest in eastern Ukraine, sending in irregular Russian forces to stir up pro-Russian separatist sentiment.
Day: June 3, 2014
Meet the Press’s Snowden Debate: Traitor or Criminal? By Peter Hart
Confirmed: Ukrainian air force fired over 150 missiles at Lugansk, bombed admin HQ
3 June 2014 — RT
A Ukrainian fighter flies above Lugansk during a battle between resistance fighters and the Ukrainian National Guard in June 2, 2014 (RIA Novosti / Evgeny Biyatov)
Ukraine News Links 2-3 June 2014
3 June 2014 18:18:10 — williambowles.info
Lugansk on Fire: Ukrainian City Becomes Target for Aviation Strikes (SCF)
Coup d’État in Disguise: Washington’s New World Order “Democratization” Template (Global Research)
Ukraine receives only non-lethal weapons from NATO countries — defense minister (ITAR-TASS)
Lugansk on Fire: Ukrainian City Becomes Target for Aviation Strikes By Adam Nishimenko
3 June 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Lugansk is the capital of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. As the civil war was raging in the Ukraine’s east, the city had never seen real combat until recently. The relative calm became a thing of the past on June 2 as the self-defense formations of Lugansk People’s Republic tried to hold negotiations with border guards detachment located near-by. The soldiers were told to give in arms and go home or switch sides.
Why there is no Russian military intervention in the Ukraine
3 June 2014 — Vineyard of the Saker
Translation of the “must read” article of worldcrisis.ru explaining why there is no Russian intervention in the Ukraine
The Sino-Russian Gas Deal: Psychological Warfare in Financial Markets By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
3 June 2014 — Global Research
A natural gas deal between Russia and China was in the works for a long time, so why all the fuss over its unveiling?
“Appalling” service by private firm leaves NHS patients without drugs By Melanie Newman
3 June 2014 — ourNHS
Healthcare watchdogs and patient groups slam private equity owned ‘Healthcare at Home’ whose failures are leaving frightened patients waiting for desperately needed drugs.
Monsanto Slammed for ‘Fraudulent’ EU Patent on Non-GMO Tomatoes
3 June 2014 — Sustainable Pulse
Representatives of the international coalition No Patents on Seeds! from France, Germany and Spain have filed an opposition against a European patent held by Monsanto on conventionally bred tomatoes (EP1812575). The patent claims tomatoes with a natural resistance to a fungal disease called botrytis. The original tomatoes used for this patent came from the international gene bank in Gatersleben, Germany. It was already known that these plants had the desired resistance and they were simply crossed with other tomato plants. Monsanto then produced a cleverly worded patent in order to create the impression that genetic engineering had been used to produce the tomatoes and to make it look ‘inventive’.
Video: Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb
2 June 2014 — The Greanville Post
Perhaps the most under-reported important story of our time
Typical of our time, and where our species’ head is at (a very dark tunnel…) although on YouTube, and free to be viewed by one and all, it has gotten under 60,000 views.
By contrast, the stupid gangnam dance craze has just topped 2 billion views. Two billion visits, folks. Talk about a misled, miseducated, self-indulgent species. —PG
REVEALED: GCHQ’s BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE By Duncan Campbell
3 June 2014 — The Register
Snowden leaks that UK.gov suppressed Exclusive Above-top-secret details of Britain’s covert surveillance programme – including the location of a clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East – have so far remained secret, despite being leaked by fugitive NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden. Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in possession of these facts, have declined to reveal them. Today, however, the Register publishes them in full.
Venezuela Exposes Plot to Assassinate President Maduro
3 June 2014 — VSC
VENEZUELA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN EMERGENCY E-UPDATE
1. Venezuelan Government Exposes Plot to Assasinate President Maduro
2. US House of Representatives Ignores Latin American Consensus & Passes Sanctions Against Venezuela
3. ANALYSIS: Rejecting US Claims That The Venezuelan State Sanctions Human Rights Abuses
Washington boasts of military buildup against China By Bill Van Auken
3 June 2014 — WSWS
If anyone was fooled by the media analyses portraying President Barack Obama’s speech at West Point last week as a turn toward “moderation” and “restraint,” or tempted to think that the World Socialist Web Site was exaggerating in describing the address as a blueprint for “permanent and global war in pursuit of the interests of the US financial elite,” they only need read the bellicose tirade delivered by his defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, in Singapore on Saturday.
UK referred to International Criminal Court for war crimes in Iraq By Jean Shaoul
3 June 2014 — WSWS
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has accepted the complaint lodged in January alleging that UK military personnel committed war crimes against Iraqis in their custody between 2003 and 2008. She has ordered a preliminary investigation.
The New Dark Age 