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When Will Americans Come to Their Senses? By Diana Johnstone
Five years ago, I wrote a paper for a Belgrade conference commemorating the tenth anniversary of the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. In that paper I stressed that the disintegration of Yugoslavia had been used as an experimental laboratory to perfect various techniques that would subsequently be used in so-called “color revolutions” or… Continue reading
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Can Washington Overthrow Three Governments at the Same Time? By Thierry Meyssan
The power of a state is measured by its ability to defend itself and to attack on one or more fronts. In this context, Washington is trying for the first time to show it can overthrow three governments simultaneously: Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela. If it succeeds, no government would be henceforth able to resist it. Continue reading
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Obama’s Imaginary Foreign Policy ‘Caution’ By Peter Hart
Given that elite media consider Sen. John McCain’s foreign policy opinions worthy of serious attention, it’s not surprising that the critique of Obama from the right–that he hasn’t used, or threatened to use, military force often enough–is considered the rational basis for a news article. Continue reading
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The new Gladio in Ukraine By Manlio Dinucci
Looking back to the coup in Kiev and the information provided in our columns during the course of the events, Manlio Dinucci describes a decades-old device used by the United States and NATO as it appears today: a new “Gladio,” that is to say a secret military structure capable of manipulating political facts. Continue reading
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West’s antiquated unipolar world collides with the East’s vision of a multipolar future By Tony Cartalucci
For years the West has been cultivating a proxy political machine inside of Ukraine for the purpose of peeling the nation away from its historical and socioeconomic ties to Russia. The deep relationship between Western corporate-financier interests on Wall Street and in London and the opposition in Ukraine are best summarized in PR Weeks “Analysis:… Continue reading
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Ukraine and the “Americanization of the European Project”: Towards a New Iron Curtain To Fall on the EU?
When, in November 2013, Russia asked the EU for tripartite negotiations on the Ukraine’s free trade agreements with its two neighbours in order to find areas of common ground for all parties directly concerned (1), what was at stake was stability, integrity and independence for the Ukraine and that it should remain as the natural… Continue reading
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Video: McCain, Ukraine, and the Political Game
Draitser explains that McCain speaks for the neocon establishment and their Cold War mentality, and that his role is to inflame US opinion as much as possible. Draitser notes that much of this is in relation to domestic US politics and the fact that the US has, not for the first time, been out-maneuvered by… Continue reading
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US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll
The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece. Continue reading
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Did the U.S. Deploy Snipers Against Peaceful Occupy Protesters?
Was the Government Prepared to Deploy Snipers If the Occupy Protests Gained Momentum? Snipers are commonly used as “false flag” terrorists to disrupt peaceful protests. The FBI treated the peaceful protesters at the Occupy protests as terrorists. Continue reading
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Anti-Russia propaganda and the fabrication of a new pro-war consensus By Alex Lantier
Since Crimea voted last Sunday to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia, US officials and the American media have mounted a deafening propaganda campaign, posturing as defenders of world peace, the rights of small nations and international law in opposition to Russia. In this campaign, no lie told to justify support for the Ukrainian regime… Continue reading
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How Crimea plays in Beijing By Pepe Escobar
Ukraine has become the final battlefield in the “cold war”, and it is becoming a possibility that the crisis will trigger a second “cold war”. The Crimean parliament’s declaration of independence from Ukraine ahead of the March 16 referendum indicates that Crimea may go ahead and join Russia. The tug of war between Russia and… Continue reading
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The forgotten coup – and how the godfather rules from Canberra to Kiev By john Pilger
Washington’s role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed. Continue reading
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Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality By Colin Jenkins
An extensive 2006 report by the United Nations Human Rights Committee concluded that, in the United States, the “War on Terror” has “created a generalized climate of impunity for law enforcement officers, and contributed to the erosion of what few accountability mechanisms exist for civilian control over law enforcement agencies. As a result, police brutality… Continue reading
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U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission By Glen Ford
The U.S., now number one in oil and gas, is preparing to destroy Russia’s economy. “Washington will move to crush, or at least seriously disrupt, Russia under its ‘sanctions as war by other means’ machine, by targeting its energy exports, while simultaneously boosting the foreign markets for U.S. natural gas.” Continue reading
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Ukraine: Washington sanctioning Democracy and hailing Nazism
Earlier this month US President Barack Obama signed an executive order declaring “a national emergency” in view of the “actions and policies of persons — including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine – that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its… Continue reading
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Economy as a weapon By Manlio Dinucci
The heavy debt of Ukraine is a catastrophe for the European Union, which will have to take it on at least partially, but it is a boon to Washington: Kiev will be forced to comply with all the IMF demands and to privatize what can still be privatized, for the greater good of corporations. Continue reading
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War threats against Russia and the social crisis in the United States By Joseph Kishore
Once again, the American people are faced with a full-scale propaganda drive for war. The crisis in Ukraine, set off by a US- and European-backed putsch one month ago, has been followed by a campaign against Russia over the referendum in Crimea that includes economic sanctions and a threatened military response by NATO. Continue reading
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Media’s Reporting on Ukraine as Terrible as It Was on Iraq
After Giving Mea Culpas for Horrible Iraq Coverage, Media Does the Exact Same Thing On Ukraine Continue reading
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Obama Backs Down on Crimea By Mike Whitney
The Obama administration suffered its worst foreign policy defeat in 5 years on Sunday when the people of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to reject Washington’s Nazi-backed junta government in Kiev and join the Russian Federation. The balloting, in which more than 93 percent of voters “approved splitting off and joining Russia” reflects the strong ethnic, cultural… Continue reading