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Ukraine and the pro-imperialist intellectuals By Alex Lantier
The “Open letter on the future of Ukraine” issued by a group of Western academics and foreign policy operatives is a vile defense of the ongoing far-right protests in Ukraine supported by Washington and the European Union (EU). It peddles the old lie, repeated over nearly a quarter century of imperialist wars and interventions in… 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
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Outsourcing Haiti: How Disaster Relief Became a Disaster of its Own By Jake Johnston
Outsourcing the construction drove the price up, since international companies had to fly in, rent hotels and cars, and spend USAID allowances for food and cost-of-living expenses. To incentivize working in Haiti, the U.S. government also gave contractors and employees “danger pay” and “hardship pay,” increasing their salaries by over 50 percent. With all these… Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: What’s Really Going On in Ukraine? By Andy Dilks
You’d be forgiven for knowing very little about the unrest in Ukraine – the violence, the rioting on the streets, the armed protesters storming government buildings amidst plumes of thick black smoke rising from makeshift barricades. Most of the public have once again been Beibered by the mainstream media – the arrest of this precocious,… Continue reading
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Canvas: The Belgrade US-Financed Training Group Behind the Carefully-Orchestrated Kiev Protests By William ENGDAHL
The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Continue reading
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The Destabilization of Africa. A Machiavellian Intrigue of Colossal Proportions By Carla Stea
One can only question the “coincidental” nature of these violent inter-ethnic occurrences in many previously stable African countries. Recalling that Russian President Putin prohibited USAID and particular Western NGO’s from operating in Russia, one can only conclude that he was trying to spare Russia from the fate observed in too many African countries, and elsewhere. Continue reading
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ALAN GROSS CASE SPOTLIGHTS U.S. DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS IN CUBA
The U.S. government has “between five to seven different transition plans” for Cuba, and the USAID-sponsored “Democracy” program aimed at the Castro government is “an operational activity” that demands “continuous discretion,” according to documents filed in court this week, and posted today by the National Security Archive. The records were filed by Development Alternatives Inc… Continue reading
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World Food Program in Somalia: Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death? By Thomas C. Mountain
To hear the corporate media tell it, the Shabab resistance in Somalia is to blame for the drought and famine. But ten million people are threatened in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia, largely populated by ethnic Somalis, many of whom are at war with the Ethiopian dictatorship. Ethiopia restricts the movements of foreigners in… Continue reading
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U.S. Agency Sabotages Haiti Earthquake Aid By Glen Ford
It was the unkindest cut of all. A U.S. Agency for International Development report claims Haiti, the United Nations and the Red Cross all conspired to exaggerate the death and displacement toll from last year’s earthquake. In doing so, it ‘calls into question both Haiti’s financial needs and the trustworthiness of its government.’ There are… Continue reading
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Ecuador President Defiant After Failed Coup
1 October, 2010 — The Real News Network Wilpert: Right-wing forces use recession, President Correa’s faltering popularity to launch failed coup http://therealnews.com/scripts/player/player.swf 1st collector for Ecuador President Defiant After Failed Coup Follow my videos on vodpod Bio Gregory Wilpert is a sociologist, freelance journalist, editor of Venezuelanalysis.com, and author of the recently published book, Changing Continue reading
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Venezolana de Televisión, "Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa Rescued by Armed Forces"
1 October, 2010 — MRZine From the Carondelet Palace, President Correa expressed his condemnation of the attitude of police. He congratulated the people for their courage. With such loyalty no one can defeat us, he said. He thanked the world leaders and organizations that expressed their support for the government. He declared that Ecuador will Continue reading
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Buying Venezuela’s Press With U.S. Tax Dollars By Jeremy Bigwood
Until now, the State Department has hidden its role in funding the Venezuelan news media, one of the opposition’s most powerful weapons against President Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian movement. The PADF, serving as an intermediary, effectively removed the government’s fingerprints from the money. Yet, as noted in a State Department document titled “Bureau/Program Specific… Continue reading
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The “Evil Guys List”? “Free Journalism” in the Service of US Foreign Policy: The Role of Reporters without Borders By F. William Engdahl
An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF) has just named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, China’s President Hu Jintao, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko to their list of Forty Worst Predators of Press Freedom for 2010. Most significant about their list of… Continue reading
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HLLN 30 March, 2010: Delatour, Clinton, Free Trade and the lost of over 830,000 rural jobs to wage slavery sweatshops/Haiti: Stuck in a Trap | What Bill Clinton's Mea Culpa Should Mean
The U.S.-promoted agricultural policies, such as forcing Haitian rice farmers to compete against U.S.-subsidized agribusiness, cost an estimated 830,000 rural jobs. Real jobs where the people of Haiti actually made more, relatively speaking than .38 cents an hour, owned more land, had better shelter and security in the countryside and ate food from the land… Continue reading
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HLLN 22 March, 2010: Haiti & Africa: The Horrors of Humanitarian Aid | Bipartisan oppression of Haiti- Clinton/Bush together in an occupied Haiti where majority party and masses excluded, banned from elections since Bush Regime change 2004
USAID paid at least $160 million of its total Haiti-related expenditures to the Defense Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, two local U.S. search and rescue teams and, in at least two instances, itself. Tens of millions more went to U.S.-based aid groups…much of that bought food and other necessities for Haitians, often from U.S.… Continue reading
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Haiti and the Aid Racket: How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation By ASHLEY SMITH
So far, the relief effort has only managed to provide 270,000 people with basic shelters like tents. More than 1 million people still have little access to food and water and have to scrape by to find sustenance. Even worse, because the relief operation is so inefficient, Haitians report that some of the food spends… Continue reading
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Changing Haiti's Paradigm: Haitians must rebuild Haiti not the failed Internationals
A domestic Marshall Plan must be initiated to rebuild the Haitian capital devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake, but this plan must come without the colonial mischief that has been used to undermine and destabilize the Western hemisphere’s first independent Black republic. That was the message from panelists at a Feb. 27 Saviours’ Day 2010… Continue reading
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Assassinated CIA agents worked for "contractor" active in Venezuela… By Eva Golinger
At least eight US citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan on Wednesday … a suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base (FOL) Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that the eight dead were all civilian… Continue reading
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“Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama, is Preparing for War in South America”; Interview with Eva Golinger By Mike Whitney
The US media is very critical of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He’s frequently denounced as “anti-American”, a “leftist strongman”, and a dictator. Can you briefly summarize some of the positive social, economic and judicial changes for which Chavez is mainly responsible? Continue reading
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Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Part 2 of this essay on “The Origins of World War III” analyzes the colour revolutions as being a key stratagem in imposing the US-led New World Order. The “colour revolution” or “soft” revolution strategy is a covert political tactic of expanding NATO and US influence to the borders of Russia and even China; following… Continue reading
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