Maidan
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Obama’s Dumbest Plan Yet: The Coup in Ukraine By Mike Whitney
As you probably know by now, Obama and Co. have ousted Ukraine’s democratically-elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, with the help of ultra-right, paramilitary, neo-Nazi gangs who seized and burned government offices, killed riot police, and spread mayhem and terror across the country. These are America’s new allies in the Great Game, the grand plan to “pivot… Continue reading
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The costs you are about to pay in Ukraine, President Obama
Yesterday the United States lost the propaganda war on Ukraine. President Obama made a reluctant and senseless statement which Washington Post entitled “There will be costs”. Continue reading
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Ukraine: “Go West, Young Man” By Jeffrey Sommers & Michael Hudson
“Let them loot.” That is the demand of the West when its NGO subsidiaries firebomb government buildings, murder policemen and loot the arms depots of military forts. Kiev is the equivalent of Kosovo as a Slavic city-of-origin. Are we seeing a replay? Continue reading
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Will NATO annex Ukraine? By Pepe Escobar
Anyone who believes Washington is deeply enamored of ‘democracy’ in Ukraine must hit eBay, where Saddam Hussein’s WMDs have been found, and are on sale to the highest bidder. Continue reading
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Sleepwalking Again By Paul Craig Roberts
On the 100th Anniversary of World War 1, the Western powers are again sleepwalking into destructive conflict. Hegemonic ambition has Washington interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine, but developments seem to be moving beyond Washington’s control. Continue reading
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Western-backed Ukrainian opposition seizes power in fascist-led putsch By Chris Marsden
The intervention of the United States, Germany, France and other European powers in Ukraine led to a putsch by far-right forces on Saturday. The negotiated settlement that Foreign Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, Laurent Fabius of France, and Radoslaw Sikorski of Poland imposed in Kiev, aiming to provide a semi-legal façade for the opposition’s power… Continue reading
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War in Ukraine: What is its Hidden Purpose? By Alexander Boytsov
American geostrategists want Ukraine to be destabilized. Their real intention is not to drag the country into the association with the European Union, but rather to prevent of any kind of its integration with the Eurasian Union. Americans are sure that in case they succeed all Moscow’s efforts aimed at integration in the post-Soviet space… Continue reading
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Canada funding Ukrainian armed opposition
The transaction took place 17 February 2014, the day before the assault on Maidan Square by the armed opposition. Continue reading
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Ukraine: Sick Fascist Filth, Gangland Violence As Political Opposition By Richard Rozoff
With the release of a recent conversation between the US ambassador to Ukraine and Victoria Nuland plotting the downfall of the current legitimate elected government in Kiev, it is clear who is behind the attempted coup in Ukraine. US backed “activists” with sniper rifles and hand guns are openly firing on police something that would… Continue reading
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15 terrifying images which show that Kiev is a real warzone
Corpses on the streets, burning police trucks and military-clad rioters beating law enforcement officers to death with clubs. This collection of visuals proves the words ‘peaceful protests’ are inapplicable to Kiev. Dressed in camouflage and toting firearms, the radicals have high-jacked peaceful protests in the Ukrainian capital. They represent the far-right wing of the Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Fake images in Ukraine
The images of a naked Ukrainian prisoner in the snow, surrounded by police forces taunting him, have been spread around the world. They show the brutality of the regime that the glorious activists of Maidan Square are trying to overthrow. There is only one problem: at the end of the footage, Andrei Dubrovik can be… Continue reading
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Maidan activists trained by NATO in 2006
7 February 2014 — Voltaire Network A group of young Maidan Square protesters, members of the Nazi organization Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO), were trained in NATO terrorist camps in Estonia, in 2006. The training included manufacturing and handling of explosives, as well as shooting. These young people went to fight alongside Georgian forces during their Continue reading
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Ukraine on the Verge of Civil War: Blood on the Maidan By Mark Hackard
Ukraine is teetering on the verge of civil war, and as usual Western media haven’t been particularly helpful in shedding light on the unravelling situation. Aside from evocative photos of clashes between legion-like formations of Berkut riot police and their rough nationalist opponents on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), about all we can expect from… Continue reading