Ukraine
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Patrons of Ukraine’s Nazi Putschists Spook Russia with Sanctions: Diplomatic Bluff By Andrey Areshev
As the events in and around Ukraine unfold, the reaction of some Western circles becomes close to hysteria. The resistance to the fascist putsch staged in Crimea and Novorussia (New Russia) has evoked unparalleled anxiety in the ranks of European, and, especially, US diplomats. Continue reading
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Has Russia Invaded Ukraine? By Paul Craig Roberts
5 March 2014 — Information Clearing House Propaganda Rules The News Gerald Celente calls the Western media “presstitutes,” an ingenuous term that I often use. Presstitutes sell themselves to Washington for access and government sources and to keep their jobs. Ever since the corrupt Clinton regime permitted the concentration of the US media, there has… Continue reading
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Leaked Telephone Conversation: Ukraine Sniper Killings of “Opposition Protesters” Ordered by “Opposition Leaders”, Blamed on Yanukovych
Based on the release of a controversial leaked telephone conversation, we are now in a position to confirm that the Kiev Maidan Independence Square February 20 sniper shootings directed against innocent civilians were ordered by opposition leaders integrated by Neo-Nazi elements. Continue reading
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Ukraine, Intervention, and America’s Doublethink
With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should… Continue reading
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Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked call on Kiev snipers
Estonian foreign ministry has confirmed the recording of his conversation with EU foreign policy chief is authentic. Urmas Paet said that snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were hired by Maidan leaders. Continue reading
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Six Cold-War-era coup d’états that the Euromaidan leaders should know about
From the early 1950s until 2000 the United States supported a number of quasi-fascist regimes in the so-called “Third World.” Guided by the Monroe Doctrine, the US Department of State and its intelligence agencies funded right-wing opposition leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Infusions of American money to military juntas around the world during… Continue reading
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Divide and conquer: West replays old partition game in Ukraine (II) By Rakesh KRISHNAN SIMHA (India)
Ukraine is an insanely industrious country, with a fertile bread basket in the west and a highly industrialised east. If the country’s 46 million people are added to the Western alliance it would be a huge untapped market for American armament companies and German consumer goods. Continue reading
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Video: Moscow vs Washington in Ukraine
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com provides his analysis of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Draitser explains that US threats against Russia are not only superficial, they are indicative of a hypocritical US foreign policy that both sanctifies and condemns “intervention.” Draitser notes that Washington has no leverage over Moscow on this issue and that, aside from… Continue reading
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12 videos showing why southeast Ukraine fears and stands up to radical nationalists
Ukrainian ultra-nationalist groups actively fought on Maidan to overthrow President Yanukovich. Now as the fierce riots in Kiev are over, they are unwilling to give up their violent ways, unleashing their “revolutionary” power against local authorities. Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin answers journalists’ questions on the situation in Ukraine By Vladimir Putin
How shall we do this? This is what I’d like to suggest: let’s have a conversation, rather than an interview. Therefore, I would ask you to begin by stating all your questions, I will jot them down and try to answer them, and then we will have a more detailed discussion of the specifics that… Continue reading
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Russia opens criminal case against new Ukrainian leader on terrorism charges
The Prosecutor General of Russia has opened an investigation into public calls for terrorism inside Russia posted by Dmytro Yarosh on his website. Nazi leader Dmytro Yarosh was appointed Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (body that oversees the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces) in the Ukrainian government that emerged… Continue reading
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US steps up pressure on Russia amid growing risk of war over Ukraine By Stefan Steinberg
The military standoff between Ukraine and Russia continued to escalate. The Western-backed, anti-Russian regime that came to power in Kiev last month in a fascist-led putsch began sending out mobilization orders to 1 million reservists, anticipating a possible war with Russia. Continue reading
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US media escalates propaganda offensive on Ukraine
In the wake of the right-wing coup in Ukraine organized by the United States and the European powers, the American media is responding with a torrent of inflammatory war propaganda directed against Russia. Continue reading
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Lighting the Fires for Chaos in Ukraine By Bruce Gagnon
Two of the first things that happened following the US led coup d’etat in Ukraine was the “new government” declaring that the Russian language would be outlawed in the country (which has millions of Russians in it) and that the ban on Nazi symbols and ideology would be lifted. It cannot be said often enough… Continue reading
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Ukraine & Egypt: A tale of two coups By Eric Walberg
In the latest color revolution, it was not an army but a rump parliament that pulled the plug on the elected president on a wave of protest, pushing out Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovich on 22 February. He apologized from exile in the Russian city of Rostov-on-the-Don for his weakness during the uprising, but his fate was… Continue reading
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US Government Caught Funding The Coup In Ukraine
Just hours after last weekend’s ouster of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, one of Pierre Omidyar’s newest hires at national security blog “The Intercept,” was already digging for the truth. Continue reading
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USAID got Maidan coup up and running – media
The US online whistleblower magazine Pando has leaked documents that suggest the American government in the form of US Agency for International Development (USAID) could have played the role of force multiplier in the overthrow of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych, having funded a host of opposition groups prior to the revolution. Continue reading
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Reichstag Fire in Kiev
On 23 February of this year in Kiev there took place a coup d’état in which armed neo-Nazi militants surrounded and took over Parliament and forced the parliamentarians, under duress, to replace the elected government with opposition figures who were supported and promoted by the EU representatives and the US State Department. Representatives of the… Continue reading
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675,000 Ukrainians Pour Into Russia As ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ Looms
Itar-Tass news agency reported that “In just the past two months (January-February) of this year…675,000 Ukrainian citizens have entered Russian territory”. On Sunday, the border guard service said Russian authorities have identified definite signs that a “humanitarian catastrophe” is brewing in Ukraine. “If ‘revolutionary chaos’ in Ukraine continues, hundreds of thousands of refugees will flow… Continue reading
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The Rape of Ukraine: Phase Two Begins By F. William Engdahl
Yanukovich’s “crime” according to protest leaders was that he rejected an EU offer of a vaguely-defined associate EU membership that offered little to Ukraine in favor of a concrete deal with Russia that gave immediate €15 billion debt relief and a huge reduction in Russian gas import prices. Washington at that point went into high… Continue reading
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