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US-Ukraine loan ‘final rape and plunder by the West’
The law approved by Congress to grant a one billion dollar loan to Ukraine is only a loan guarantee and will not even dent Ukraine’s huge debts, 25 billion of which must be paid this year, William Engdahl, a geopolitical analyst, told RT. Continue reading
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CIA torture and the threat of dictatorship By Patrick Martin
Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the US ruling elite as a whole is guilty of war crimes for which it must be held accountable. Continue reading
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Media Narrative: Witnessing Boston’s Mass Casualty Event By James F. Tracy
In recent developments, US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that federal authorities will “seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is found guilty of the Boston Marathon bombing last April.” This article by professor James Tracy first published in the week following the bombings, sheds light on the nature of this tragic… Continue reading
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CIA’s lies on Libya: Benghazi protest never happened
A CIA Libya Station Chief has admitted that the government agency has lied about Libya, as the Benghazi protest never took place. Before the Benghazi news buzzed around the world, the station chief for the CIA reported to his superiors located in Washington that no type of spontaneous protest ever happened. Continue reading
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The Boston Bombing Web of Lies: Selected Articles By Julie Lévesque
In recent developments, United States Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that “federal authorities will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is found guilty of the Boston Marathon bombing last April.” Below is a GR’s Julie Levesque’s analysis and selection of GR articles published in the immediate wake of the April 2013… Continue reading
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Why Obama paid a visit to Riyadh? By Alexander Orlov
The deterioration of the situation in Ukraine made substantial changes in the agenda of talks of U.S. President Obama with Saudi leadership in Riyadh on March 28 this year. The main subject of the discussion included the situation around Ukraine, possible joint steps to decrease energy prices, in order to weaken Russia’s economy, promotion of… Continue reading
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Video: The Hypocrisy of US Calling for Enforcement of International Law
1 April 2014 — The Real News Network Michael Ratner: President Obama tries to condemn Russia’s annexation of Crimea by justifying the illegal US invasion of Iraq Continue reading
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The Crimean Crisis and US Hypocrisy. “War of Words” to Justify Outright Aggression By Kourosh Ziabari
The war of words between Russia and the United States is soaring these days over the sovereignty of the Crimean peninsula, and the White House officials are constantly directing accusations and excruciating verbal attacks against Kremlin in what seems to be the most serious dispute between Moscow and the West in the recent years. Continue reading
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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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Secrets About Suspected Israeli Theft of U.S. Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material Declassified
On March 18, 2014 ISCAP, the highest declassification authority in the U.S., released 84 pages (PDF) of formerly secret information about investigations into the illegal diversion of weapons-grade nuclear material from a Pennsylvania plant into the clandestine Israeli nuclear weapons program. Continue reading
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New evidence of US intelligence links to Boston Marathon bomber By Nick Barrickman
Last Friday, lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect charged with detonating pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of last year’s Boston Marathon, alleged in a court statement that FBI agents had attempted to force Dzhokhar’s older brother Tamerlan to inform on the Chechen and Muslim community in the Boston area, contributing to the latter’s… Continue reading
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Target: Ukraine – How foreign intervention is tearing the country apart By grtv
As geopolitical analysts from across the board explain, the Ukrainian coup has been deliberately provoked by outside agents to promote a combination of US, EU, NATO and IMF interests. Perhaps more worrying than the interference itself are its potential implications. As Russia’s every move is now being scrutinized for a possible military response to the… 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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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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The heavy imprint of America's 'light footprint’ in Africa By Nick Turse
New documents reveal the blinding pace of US military operations in Africa as the Pentagon prepares for future wars. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities. 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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Obama Expands Bush’s Fascist Domestic and International Infrastructure By Glen Ford
President Obama has thrown international law into history’s dustbin, torn up the U.S. Bill of Rights, and is mapping millions for possible future detention. “One court order + one suspect number + three hops = everybody remotely involved in anti-war activity.” 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
