Ukraine
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The West tightens noose around Ukraine’s Economy By Olga Shedrova
Economy in doldrums, the Kiev junta is urgently reviving cooperation with the International Monetary Fund. On March 4 a team from the IMF was in Kiev to study the books and consider a loan. Kiev hopes to get the first $3 billion in a month. Yatsenyuk rushed to assure the West that Ukraine is ready… Continue reading
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US, Europe step up pressure as Ukrainian crisis intensifies By Peter Symonds
In a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday, Obama issued what amounted to an ultimatum for a complete capitulation. He insisted that Russia recognise and negotiate with the pro-Western regime installed in Kiev via a fascist-led coup, withdraw all troops from Crimea and open the door to “international monitors.” Continue reading
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The Ukrainian Pendulum By Israel Shamir
The stakes are high in the Ukraine: after the coup, as Crimea and Donbas asserted their right to self determination, American and Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory, both under cover. Continue reading
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Liz Wahl Russia Today anchor who quit on air is a liar with zero credibility By Lee Rogers
Yesterday Liz Wahl one of their American news anchors out of Washington DC decided to quit live on air protesting what she claimed was RT’s slanted pro-Russian, pro-Putin news coverage. Amazingly just hours later, Wahl was on CNN talking with Anderson Cooper on his nightly cable news show AC 360 about her decision to quit. Continue reading
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Ukrainian Communists Condemn Violence and the US, EU for Orchestrating a Coup with Fascists
In reality, they say, there is a fight for power among oligarchic clans in Ukraine, and for the Presidency in particular. Calling the current events a “coup”, the CPU points to the creation of parallel institutions of power by the opposition groups, fuelling the conflict and provoking stronger responses from the authorities. Continue reading
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Denying the Far-Right Role in the Ukrainian Revolution By Jim Naureckas
Some commentators on the Ukraine crisis seem so convinced that it must be a struggle between good guys and bad guys that they’re willing to ignore evidence that there’s anything problematic about their chosen side. Continue reading
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Ukraine far-right leader demands govt open arsenals for radical groups
In an ultimatum, Yarosh demanded that the government gives to his group the access to a part of weapons and military equipment, as well as several military training centers “for quality training for Right Sector fighters.” Continue reading
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BBC Now Admits: Armed Nazis Led “Revolution” in Kiev, Ukraine By Tony Cartalucci
A BBC Newsnight short titled, “Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine,” reveals xenophobic Jew-hating nationalists, armed and leading the mobs in Kiev, directly contradicting months of Western media narratives portraying the rabble as aspiring for “freedom,” “democracy,” and “closer ties with the West,” with the most absurd example being the “I am Ukrainian” propaganda reel. Continue reading
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The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun By Paul Craig Roberts
Before anything approaching stability and legitimacy has been obtained for the puppet government put in power by the Washington orchestrated coup against the legitimate, elected Ukraine government, the Western looters are already at work. Naive protesters who believed the propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of their pension… Continue reading
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Ukraine: Secretive Neo-Nazi Military Organization Involved in Euromaidan Snyper Shootings By F. William Engdahl
An legitimately-elected (said by all international monitors) Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovich, has been driven from office, forced to flee as a war criminal after more than three months of violent protest and terrorist killings by so-called opposition. Continue reading
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Whitewashing Ukraine’s Nazi collaborators ‘morally repulsive’ – Russia’s UN envoy
“It is deeply disturbing that the followers of [Stepan] Bandera are openly marching these days in Ukraine, displaying his portraits and fascist insignia, and are wielding considerable political power in Kiev,” Vitaly Churkin said after Thursday’s Security Council meeting in response to response to comments made earlier by Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Yury Sergeyev. Continue reading
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Phone Wrecks: The Secret Agenda of Ashton and Nuland Revealed By Wayne Madsen
Two war-mongering women who represent the West’s foreign policy apparatus, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and EU official and onetime British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activist Catherine Ashton, have seen their secret agenda for Ukraine revealed as a result of leaked phone conversations. Continue reading
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The crisis in Ukraine and the dissolution of the Soviet Union By Peter Schwarz
It is becoming clearer every day that the United States and Germany instigated the crisis in Ukraine, installing a right-wing nationalist regime completely subservient to Washington and NATO, with the intention of provoking a confrontation with Russia. Continue reading
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Maidan Square Snipers: Agents Provocateurs
The fairly annoyed Minister attested that Dr. Olga Bogomolets (famous dermatologist involved in the Maidan Square protests) confirmed to him that individuals linked to the pro-European opposition – and not members of the security forces loyal to President Yanukovych – had fired on both protesters and police to fuel riots and overthrow the government. Continue reading
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Ukraine: Georgian Background to the Western “Invasion” Hysteria
Recalling similar fabrications regarding Georgia’s aggression versus Russia and examining existing Russo-Ukrainian strategic relations before Western-backed mobs overthrew the government in Kiev, we can see there is no “invasion” at all. Continue reading
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Putin’s ‘Delusions’ and Double Standards By Peter Hart
An effective propaganda system will either mostly disappear inconvenient facts, or allow this information to surface if it comes out of the mouth of an enemy leader who is said to be out of touch with reality. Continue reading
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“Democratization” and Anti-Semitism in Ukraine: Neo-Nazi Symbols become “The New Normal” By Julie Lévesque
In the following video filmed in the Ukrainian Parliament and posted in late December 2013, we can clearly see on the pillars two flags which are listed in the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) “Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos”: the White power flag and the Confederate flag. Continue reading
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The fascist danger in Ukraine By Julie Hyland
A politically sinister propaganda offensive is underway in the media to either deny the involvement of fascists in the US-backed coup in Ukraine or present their role as a marginal and insignificant detail. Continue reading
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About Abby Martin, Liz Wahl and media wars
These days it takes a lot of courage to work for RT. Never before have I seen RT and its journalists bullied like this. See for yourselves what they did to poor Abby. First, she openly voiced disagreement with Russia’s stance on air – and was virtually made an American hero. But then Abby reminded… Continue reading
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Video: Ukraine Divided
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on CrossTalk to debate the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Draitser provides his analysis of recent developments on the ground and what they mean for the conflict moving forward. He explains some of the key geopolitical and economic issues at stake, noting the integral role of the US-EU-NATO powers in fomenting… Continue reading
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