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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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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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After Syria, Ruling AKP Provokes Ukraine
Turkish FM Davuto?lu met with the coup leaders in Kiev. The Ruling AKP, a pawn of imperialist war lobbies, is provoking the Crimean Turks and Tatars in Kiev like it provoked Syria by supporting al-Qaeda linked terrorists Continue reading
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Ukraine’s “Brown Shirt Revolution”: Part of a US -NATO -EU Plan to Break up Russia? By Francis A. Boyle and John Robles
It is a fact that since 9-11-2001, the US Government has been in the business of destroying countries and using NATO as it principle instrument. That was stated more than a decade ago by then US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and later by General Wesley Clark. Continue reading
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Russia Under Attack. “Neocon Ideologues are Pushing the World toward Destruction” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
In a number of my articles I have explained that the Soviet Union served as a constraint on US power. The Soviet collapse unleashed the neoconservative drive for US world hegemony. Russia under Putin, China, and Iran are the only constraints on the neoconservative agenda. Continue reading
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Book Review: War on Libya: Not a Humanitarian Intervention By Edward S. Herman
Maximilian Forte’s book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (Montreal: Baraka Books, 2012), is another powerful (and hence marginalized) study of the imperial powers in violent action, and with painful results, but supported by the UN, media, NGOs and a significant body of liberals and leftists who had… Continue reading
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The Secret War in Libya By Eric Draitser
The battles currently raging in the South of Libya are no mere tribal clashes. Instead, they represent a possible burgeoning alliance between black Libyan ethnic groups and pro-Gaddafi forces intent upon liberating their country of a neocolonial NATO-installed government. Continue reading
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Syria’s Hospitals targeted by NATO-backed Armed Groups By Prof. Tim Anderson
Since 2011 NATO-backed armed groups have systematically attacked more than two thirds of Syria’s public hospitals, and have murdered, kidnapped or injured more than 300 health workers. Continue reading
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The struggle for Ukraine made in Europe By Peter Schwarz
The current wave of protests in Ukraine bears the label “Made in Germany,” “Made in the EU” and “Made in America.” The Western media has gone to great lengths to portray the demonstrations in Kiev as a struggle for democracy and the rule of law. In fact, they are part of a conflict over geostrategic… Continue reading
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NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council Organized and Financed the Death of 120,000 Syrians By Thierry Meyssan
What has been happening in Syria for the past three years? According to NATO and GCC media reports, the “regime” has shed blood to suppress a democratic revolution. However this version is contradicted by the current support for the government estimated at, according to sources, between 60 and 90 % of the population. Continue reading
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Truth as an Issue By Thierry Meyssan
What has been happening in Syria for the past three years? According to NATO and GCC media reports, the “regime” has shed blood to suppress a democratic revolution. However this version is contradicted by the current support for the government estimated at, according to sources, between 60 and 90 % of the population. The truth… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The Able Archer 83 Sourcebook
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of Able Archer 83, a NATO exercise that utilized “new nuclear weapons release procedures” to simulate the transition from conventional to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Although US officials saw Able Archer 83 as a routine exercise, it resulted in an “unprecedented Soviet reaction” which US… Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 30 October – 3 November 2013: Voodoo Economics and Friends of Imperialism
3 November 2013 — Global Research US Attacks Germany’s Economic Policies. Washington Views with Growing Alarm the Emergence of Germany as the Economic Powerhouse of Europe, Andre Damon, November 03, 2013 Continue reading
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Now NATO is getting in on the digital snooping racket
Why is it compulsory that the state, or this case the military confab known as NATO, to have to hijack all of our digital devices throughout Europe? Is it even legal? Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 October 2013
19 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Washington Casts Blame for Expansion of Al-Qaeda on Turkey 19.10.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ It is no longer possible to conceal the obvious. The West, in its attempts to remove Bashar al-Asad from power during the years of the war in Syria, has nurtured a force so sinister… Continue reading
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NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold World Era
One of the most significant developments of the post-Cold War era, and certainly the most ominous, is the transformation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military bloc created by the United States during the genesis of the Cold War in 1949, into one that has grown to encompass the entirety of Europe, has… Continue reading
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The Nobel 'Peace Prize': A Sick Joke And A Demented Fraud By Professor Francis A. Boyle
This past week, we saw the mouthpiece of Imperialism, the Norwegian Nobel Committee award its ‘Peace Prize’ to the UN’s Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), before it’s even completed its work (if it ever will or can)! Continue reading
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Syria extremists financed by private Gulf donors carried out mass killings – HRW
At least 190 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage by Syrian rebels financed by private Gulf donors in an August 4 military offensive in the Latakia governorate, according to a Human Rights Watch report. At least 67 of the victims executed had lived in government-aligned Alawite villages, HRW said in its report,… Continue reading
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UN Has Evidence That Syrian Rebels Used Chemical Weapons By John Robles
The unified and unwavering effort by Russia has been directed at: attempting to get all of the parties in the internal conflict to come to the negotiating table, obtaining a ceasefire and an end to the violence, and preventing external players from getting involved in the Syrian conflict. The last has been the most difficult… Continue reading