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Ukrainian crisis: Eight strategic recommendations BY GEAB
This crisis is well and truly a test of national leaders’ ability to grasp the tools of independence, power and peace that their fathers (the generations of politicians which ruled right until the end of the 80s basically) have put at their disposal, this united and institutionalized Europe which only remains to be put under… Continue reading
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The Kerry-Lavrov chess match By Pepe Escobar
It’s hardly a match between equals – as one is playing Monopoly while the other plays chess. It’s as if Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been postponing his checkmate, while US Secretary of State John Kerry increasingly realizes he’s facing the inevitable. Continue reading
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Lavrov: Russia has info about Ukraine’s Right Sector involved in Kiev sniper shooting
Russia has some information about Ukrainian far-right movement Right Sector involved in the shooting [by] snipers in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Sunday Time programme anchored by Irada Zeinalova on Channel One on Sunday. Pettiness of foreign sponsors of new authorities in Kiev is astonishing,… Continue reading
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Obama’s speech on Ukraine: vocal juggler at work
International media chime on Wednesday’s speech of the US President Barack Obama in Brussels made us download and scroll down the transcript. The overall impression: too many controversial statements and logical faults to take it seriously. Continue reading
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Ukraine – New Propaganda Meme: Fascists Are Russian Tools
30 March 2014 — Moon of Alabama The Right Sektor, the Ukrainian fascist paramilitary group, was the main organization which brutally fought against the riot police on Maidan square. On February 20, after an agreement was signed between president Janukovich and three opposition leaders, the police withdrew. But the Right Sektor did not want to… Continue reading
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Sanctions on Russia’s Energy Sector: Shale Gas ‘Fracking’ Will Invade Europe? By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Fracking will be “good for our country,” was a statement made by British Prime Minister David Cameron at a recent Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague according to the UK based news agency The Guardian. Cameron believes that the fracking industry will have the public’s support since reliance on Russia’s energy sources will be halted… Continue reading
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‘US desperate to isolate Russia on all fronts’ By Pepe Escobar
The Obama administration is taking no prisoners trying to “isolate” Russia on all possible fronts – with negligible results so far. Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin: Russia Must Protect Its Citizens from GMOs
Russia must protect its citizens from the use of foods derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and this can be done in compliance with the country’s obligations under the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Thursday Continue reading
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Britain seeks to make up lost ground with US over Ukraine By Julie Hyland
Lord Dannatt, the former chief of the UK’s general staff between 2006 and 2008, has called for an increase in the number of Britain’s Armed Forces. The retired Army officer, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said the change was necessary in response to events in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Obama’s speech on Ukraine: Propaganda and lies By Patrick Martin
The speech delivered by President Barack Obama in Brussels Wednesday was a call to arms for a US-NATO confrontation against Russia. With a series of lies and evasions, Obama presented a world turned upside down in which the US and European imperialists, who backed the coup in Ukraine spearheaded by fascistic forces, are the defenders… Continue reading
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Controlling the Lens: The Media War Being Fought Over Ukraine Between the Western Bloc and Russia By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Different technologies and modes of communication are used to enforce certain themes in the conflict. Language, selective words, particular expressions, specific pictures, multimedia presentations, and communication are all the ammunition for the war. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Voting At Gunpoint – The Jaw-Dropping Media Bias On Crimea By David Edwards
‘Ukraine and the West have dismissed the referendum as illegal and one that will be held at gunpoint, but Russia supports it.’ Legality was not an issue in BBC coverage of the January 2005 election held in Iraq under US-UK occupation. This was accepted on the main BBC evening news as ‘the first democratic election… Continue reading
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How Much War Does Washington Want? By Paul Craig Roberts
I doubt that the Ukraine crisis precipitated by Washington’s overthrow of the democratic government is over. Washington has won the propaganda war everywhere outside of Russia and Ukraine itself. Within Ukraine people are aware that the coup has made them worse off. The Crimea has already separated from the US puppet government in Kiev and… Continue reading
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What Really Happened in Ukraine? By Jack A. Smith
Russia has taught the United States a stern and embarrassing lesson in Ukraine as a riposte to Washington-backed regime change in Kiev, the capital. “So far,” Moscow in effect warned a thoroughly shocked Washington, “but no further.” President Vladimir Putin then annexed Crimea. Continue reading
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Russia is enemy of the Western global financial system’
Lawrence Freeman: First of all you should not believe what President Obama says. We are in a very dangerous situation that could escalate to a world war. The decisions that President Obama’s made are not his own. He is a effectively a tool of Wall Street and the British financial system, and they have declared… Continue reading
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NATO Intensifies Activities to Counter Russia By Andrei Akulov
NATO is calculating the moves to intensify the diplomatic pressure and give teeth to verbal threats as it is preparing to provoke further escalation of relations with Russia. Continue reading
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My reply to Guardian’s Shaun Walker By Jonathon Cook
Dear Shaun, I wanted to bring my readers’ attention to your response to my critique of your recent article in the Guardian headlined “Ukraine and Crimea: what is Putin thinking?”. Given that you commented late, and only on Facebook, most of those who read the critique probably never saw your reply. I am therefore posting… Continue reading
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Video: World War III Risk Due to U.S. Meddling in Ukraine!
We are being put at risk of a third world war! “General Dempsey: US ready for military response to Russia if Crimean conflict escalates” “Ukraine Crisis Could Spark Third World War, Former Communist Party Leader And President Kravchuk Warns” Continue reading
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Russia and the Ukraine Crisis: The Eurasian Project in Conflict with the Triad Imperialist Policies By Samir Amin
After the breakdown of the Soviet system, some people (in Russia in particular) thought that the “West” would not antagonize a “capitalist Russia” — just as Germany and Japan had “lost the war but won the peace.” They forgot that the Western powers supported the reconstruction of the former fascist countries precisely to face the… Continue reading
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Video: Ukraine, Endgame Of 15 Years Of NATO Expansion
Press TV has conducted an interview with Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO International Network in Chicago, about Russia’s move to take control of Ukrainian naval bases situated inside Crimea. Continue reading
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