Ukraine
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America’s Oligarch Strategy
At US behest, Austria arrested a Ukrainian oligarch named Dmytro Firtash in Vienna on some corruption and bribery charge that appears to be involved tangentially with the United States…Firtash’s problem is that the US identified him with the Yanukovych camp and close to Russia because of his gas dealings. It also looks like Firtash moved… Continue reading
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With 100% ballots counted, 96.77% of Crimeans vote to re-unite with Russia – Crimean election chief
The latest updates from Crimea’s election authority show that 96.77% of the voters who cast their ballots in Sunday’s referendum supported Crimea’s reunification with Russia. “The number of the votes cast in the Crimea-wide referendum in favor of reunification with Russia as an entity of the Russian Federation is 1.233,002 million, or 96.77 percent,” Crimea’s… Continue reading
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The New York Times deploys C.J. Chivers to Ukraine By Patrick Martin
A particularly foul and provocative article in the New York Times this weekend portrays the Russian military forces and pro-Russian militiamen in Crimea as a rampaging horde, using guns and whips to suppress popular opposition to a possible annexation of the Crimean region by Russia. Continue reading
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Ukraine: CANVAS, US-Financed “Color Revolution Training Group” Orchestrated Protesters By William Engdahl
Ukraine Protests Carefully Orchestrated: The Role of CANVAS, US-Financed “Color Revolution Training Group”: Canvas, formerly Otpor, received significant money from the US State Department in 2000 to stage the first successful Color Revolution against Slobodan Milosovic in then-Yugoslavia. Since then they have been transformed into a full-time “revolution consultancy” for the US, posing as a… Continue reading
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Big Oil’s “Sore Losers” Lead the Drive to War in Ukraine By Mike Whitney
Following a 13 year rampage that has reduced large swathes of Central Asia and the Middle East to anarchy and ruin, the US military juggernaut has finally met its match on a small peninsula in southeastern Ukraine that serves as the primary operating base for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Crimea is the door through which… Continue reading
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Ukraine: Truth – the First Casualty
The nationalist uprising in Kiev, at least in part stage-managed from Washington and Brussels with that accustomed mixture of arrogance and duplicity last seen in the build up to previous imperial exercises – from the invasion of Iraq and Libya to Saakashvilli’s disastrous attack on South Ossetia as encouraged by the Washington Neocons – is… Continue reading
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Audio: Ukraine, Western Media, and Liberal Imperialism By Eric Draitser
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on Bullet Points with Navid Nasr to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. They examine the recent history leading up to the current conflict including the “Orange Revolution” of 2004 and the key individuals from that movement impacting the situaiton today. Eric and Navid also touch upon a range of… Continue reading
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Right Sector (neo-Nazi) Leaflet for Eastern Ukraine
Right Sector: 3. Locals who permanently reside on streets named after “criminal Communist regime” must submit their IDs to custom office departments. 4. You must vacate all buildings located nearby military facilities and administrative buildings. 5. You must provide People’s Self-Defense units with your living space. Continue reading
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Alex Callinicos: An imperialist apologist writes on Ukraine By Chris Marsden
Alex Callinicos is the theoretical leader of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain and a senior lecturer at Kings College London. His most recent writings on Ukraine mark him out definitively as a pliant tool of imperialist intrigue, ready to employ any lie, no matter how brazen, in order to facilitate the predatory activities of… Continue reading
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The new Great (Threat) Game in Eurasia By Pepe Escobar
In Ukraine, the West supported an unconstitutional putsch against an elected government perpetrated, among others, by fascist/neo-nazi storm troopers (Svoboda, Right Sector) instrumentalized by US intelligence. After a Russian counterpunch, US President Barack Obama proclaimed that any referendum in Crimea would “violate the Ukrainian constitution and violate international law.” Continue reading
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Ukraine: ‘Pravy Sektor’ and ‘White Al-Qaeda’ – two sides of the same coin By Anna Filimonova
12 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation The situation in Ukraine is not changing by the day, but by the hour. The junta that has come to power as a result of the coup d’état organised from the outside is made up of fragmented, loosely-connected parts. Tymoshenko and Turchynov are fading into the background, not to… Continue reading
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Kiev snipers shooting from bldg controlled by Maidan forces –Ex-Ukraine security chief
Former chief of Ukraine’s Security Service has confirmed allegations that snipers who killed dozens of people during the violent unrest in Kiev operated from a building controlled by the opposition on Maidan square. Continue reading
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Ukraine Between Popular Uprising for Democracy and Fascist Putsch By David Mandel
Let’s begin with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s version. One can think what one likes about deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, but his election in 2012 was recognized as legitimate by international observers and, after a certain hesitation, by the defeated candidate, Yulia Timoshenko. In fact, relatively honest elections were just about the only positive… Continue reading
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Civil War Looms in Ukraine? Regime Calls for Military Mobilization, IMF Austerity Measures By Alex Lantier
The Kiev regime’s unelected president, Oleksandr Turchynov, called for military mobilization and the formation of a new National Guard. He said, “It’s necessary to create the National Guard on the basis of Ukrainian troops, whose purpose will be to protect the country and citizens against all criminals, external and internal aggression. It’s necessary to announce… Continue reading
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Obama’s Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the Boomerang Effect By Prof. James Petras
In the biggest power grab since George Bush seized Eastern Europe and converted it into a NATO bastion confronting Russia, the Obama regime, together with the EU, financed and organized a violent putsch in the Ukraine which established a puppet regime in Kiev. Continue reading
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Video: Exposing Propaganda: NGO Documents Plan Ukraine War
NGOs caught forging documents for war, insider warns all NGOs infiltrated; ‘Independent military observers’ for EU-based group OSCE again turned away in Crimea, OSCE branded one more ‘vulgar instrument’ for foreign interests; and CNN buys the latest State Department hoax. Continue reading
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From the Archives: Cold War crisis in Ukraine Control of oil, key Grand Chessboard ‘pivot’ at stake By Larry Chin
Why does Ukraine merit such furious and violent scrambling by the various parties? Whichever powers manage to prevail will hold the key to the control of Eurasian oil and energy, the political control of the Eurasian corridor itself, and the survival of Russia as a nation. Continue reading
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Nuland, Ashton, “Klitsch”, “Yats” and…Oleh Tyahnybok?
Pepe Escobar put me onto these pictures, both taken a few weeks before the new ruling troika’s accession to power in late February. Victoria Nuland in the first, Baroness Ashton in the other. Pretty clear from these formal portraits that a formal anointment by the US and the West was underway. The three are Yarsenyi… Continue reading
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Putin Speaks: Straighforward Answers. The West Triggered the Crisis in Ukraine. Why? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Americans have not experienced political leadership or an independent media for such a long time that they will be amazed at the straightforward answers from the Russian President and by media asking real questions, some of which show the influence of Washington’s propaganda. Continue reading
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Syria, Ukraine: One Antiterrorist Front By Boris Dolgov
10 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation The February armed coup in Ukraine has repeated the Syrian scenario in the Russia’s brotherly nation. It was a result of the actions planned in advance using both «soft» and «tough» power directed from outside. The very same scenario has been staged by the West in Yugoslavia, Libya. For… Continue reading
