⬆️ Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world
Tue 13 May 2014 15.30 EDT
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".
Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven".
The name of "our" enemy has changed over the years, from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any society independent of western power and occupying strategically useful or resource-rich territory, or merely offering an alternative to US domination. The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All are subjected to a western media campaign of vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin.
Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington's planned seizure of Russia's historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century.
But Nato's military encirclement has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained "pariah" role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.
Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking an accommodation with Washington and the EU, by withdrawing Russian troops from the Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend's provocative referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of Ukraine's population – have long sought a democratic federation that reflects the country's ethnic diversity and is both autonomous of Kiev and independent of Moscow. Most are neither "separatists" nor "rebels", as the western media calls them, but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland.
Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and FBI setting up a "security structure" that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup.
Tue 13 May 2014 15.30 EDT
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".
Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven".
The name of "our" enemy has changed over the years, from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any society independent of western power and occupying strategically useful or resource-rich territory, or merely offering an alternative to US domination. The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All are subjected to a western media campaign of vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin.
Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington's planned seizure of Russia's historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century.
But Nato's military encirclement has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained "pariah" role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.
Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking an accommodation with Washington and the EU, by withdrawing Russian troops from the Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend's provocative referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of Ukraine's population – have long sought a democratic federation that reflects the country's ethnic diversity and is both autonomous of Kiev and independent of Moscow. Most are neither "separatists" nor "rebels", as the western media calls them, but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland.
Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and FBI setting up a "security structure" that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup.
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How Zelensky Lost Four Territories to Russia by not Conceding One
If Zelensky accepted the Minsk II Agreements, Crimea would have remained Russian, Donetsk & Lugansk would have been autonomous states within Ukraine, and Zaporizhzia & Kherson would have remained in Ukraine.
By not accepting the Minsk II Peace Agreements Zelensky has lost not only Donetsk & Lugansk but two more regions of Ukraine, Zaporizhzia and Kherson, which look as though they will be integrated into the Russian Federation in a week or so.
It doesn't take a military genius to understand that if Ukraine has not regained these territories with its full army, Russia adding 300,000 soldiers means they never will.
Zelensky's warmongering has therefore lost two plus two extra territories, while a negotiated peace would have reintegrated two autonomous states back within Ukraine by conceding Crimea.
Peace was the better choice for Ukraine, this seems beyond question in any rational discussion.
If Zelensky accepted the Minsk II Agreements, Crimea would have remained Russian, Donetsk & Lugansk would have been autonomous states within Ukraine, and Zaporizhzia & Kherson would have remained in Ukraine.
By not accepting the Minsk II Peace Agreements Zelensky has lost not only Donetsk & Lugansk but two more regions of Ukraine, Zaporizhzia and Kherson, which look as though they will be integrated into the Russian Federation in a week or so.
It doesn't take a military genius to understand that if Ukraine has not regained these territories with its full army, Russia adding 300,000 soldiers means they never will.
Zelensky's warmongering has therefore lost two plus two extra territories, while a negotiated peace would have reintegrated two autonomous states back within Ukraine by conceding Crimea.
Peace was the better choice for Ukraine, this seems beyond question in any rational discussion.
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Ukranazi policemen from the 115th Schutzmannschaft Battalion pose with their banner, 1943.
It would seem that after joining the Germans, who burned Ukrainian villages, these soldiers should have been branded traitors to their people forever.
But such kind of beasts is honored as heroes in modern Ukraine.
It would seem that after joining the Germans, who burned Ukrainian villages, these soldiers should have been branded traitors to their people forever.
But such kind of beasts is honored as heroes in modern Ukraine.
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Lavrov: Don't you understand Russian? It's high time to learn! 😉
Some statements from Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov:
Crisis phenomena are increasing, the situation in the field of international security is rapidly deteriorating - Lavrov
The West, instead of an honest dialogue and search for compromises, goes to crude provocations and dramatizations — Lavrov
The United States and its allies do not give anyone the freedom of choice, they threaten and twist the hands of everyone who dares to think independently, demand threats to join anti—Russian sanctions - Lavrov
The West, led by Washington, sends an intimidating signal to all other countries: "Anyone who dares to disobey can be next" - Lavrov
Now the West has thrown a tantrum over referendums in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson region, but referendums are a reaction to Zelensky's call for Russians to get out of Ukraine - Lavrov
Russian Russians, were we supposed to put up with Kiev's policy of a total ban on the Russian language, education, Russian media and culture, with demands to expel Russians from Crimea, declaring war against Donbass? — Lavrov
Contrary to elementary common sense, Washington and Brussels have aggravated the crisis situation by declaring economic war on Russia. The result is an increase in gas and food prices around the world — Lavrov
Official Russophobia has acquired unprecedented and grotesque proportions in the West - Lavrov
Under the slogan of Indo-Pacific Strategies, closed formats are being created that undermine the entire open and inclusive regional architecture that has been developing for decades around ASEAN - Lavrov
The US sets the task of subjugating Asian spaces - Lavrov
By proclaiming victory in the Cold War, Washington has elevated itself almost to the rank of the messenger of God on Earth, who has no obligations, but only "sacred" rights to act with impunity — Lavrov
The formation of sovereign states ready to defend national interests leads to the formation of an equal, socially oriented and sustainable multipolar architecture - Sergey Lavrov
Crisis phenomena are increasing, the situation in the field of international security is rapidly deteriorating - Lavrov
The West, instead of an honest dialogue and search for compromises, goes to crude provocations and dramatizations — Lavrov
The United States and its allies do not give anyone the freedom of choice, they threaten and twist the hands of everyone who dares to think independently, demand threats to join anti—Russian sanctions - Lavrov
The West, led by Washington, sends an intimidating signal to all other countries: "Anyone who dares to disobey can be next" - Lavrov
Now the West has thrown a tantrum over referendums in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson region, but referendums are a reaction to Zelensky's call for Russians to get out of Ukraine - Lavrov
Russian Russians, were we supposed to put up with Kiev's policy of a total ban on the Russian language, education, Russian media and culture, with demands to expel Russians from Crimea, declaring war against Donbass? — Lavrov
Contrary to elementary common sense, Washington and Brussels have aggravated the crisis situation by declaring economic war on Russia. The result is an increase in gas and food prices around the world — Lavrov
Official Russophobia has acquired unprecedented and grotesque proportions in the West - Lavrov
Under the slogan of Indo-Pacific Strategies, closed formats are being created that undermine the entire open and inclusive regional architecture that has been developing for decades around ASEAN - Lavrov
The US sets the task of subjugating Asian spaces - Lavrov
By proclaiming victory in the Cold War, Washington has elevated itself almost to the rank of the messenger of God on Earth, who has no obligations, but only "sacred" rights to act with impunity — Lavrov
The formation of sovereign states ready to defend national interests leads to the formation of an equal, socially oriented and sustainable multipolar architecture - Sergey Lavrov
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🌟 The SCO in Samarkand and the UN General Assembly have demonstrated how virtually the whole Global South outside of NATOstan does not demonize Russia.
Geopolitical tectonic plates are reelin’ and rockin’, and the sound is heard all around the world, as the twin baby bears DPR and LPR plus Kherson and Zaporozhye vote on their referendums. Irretrievable fact: by the end of next week Russia most certainly will be on the way to add over 100,000 km2 and over 5 million people to the Federation.
Denis Pushilin, head of the DPR, summed it all up: “We’re going home”.
The baby bears are coming to Mama 🐻
#China #Russophobia #SCO #UN
Geopolitical tectonic plates are reelin’ and rockin’, and the sound is heard all around the world, as the twin baby bears DPR and LPR plus Kherson and Zaporozhye vote on their referendums. Irretrievable fact: by the end of next week Russia most certainly will be on the way to add over 100,000 km2 and over 5 million people to the Federation.
Denis Pushilin, head of the DPR, summed it all up: “We’re going home”.
#China #Russophobia #SCO #UN
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All the Young Dudes, Carry the (Russian) News
The SCO in Samarkand and the UN General Assembly have demonstrated how virtually the whole Global South outside of NATOstan does not demonize Russia. Geopolitical tectonic plates are reelin’ and rockin’, and the sound is heard all around the world, as the…
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Lavrov's UNGA address
- Instead of dialogue & compromise there is disinformation, dramatisation & provocation
- West undermines trust in intl justice
- Unipolar world serves "golden billion" at expense of Asia, Africa and Latin America
- Washington creates geopolitical process to retain its dominance - thinks it's "Lord God on Earth"
- We all remember Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya - far from US shores where hundreds of thousands died
- Name one country US entered by force and life became better
- Illegal sanctions are political blackmail - deny civilians essential goods
- Western incompetence, Kiev's war against its own people left Russia no choice but to protect Russians in Donbass
- Operation complies with UN Charter Article 51 on mutual assistance treaty
- NATO declared Russia immediate threat en route to total US dominance, China long-term
- Russia wants UNSC expansion to include India, Brazil - increase profile of Africa
- Attempts being made to hide US biological programmes around the world
- Instead of dialogue & compromise there is disinformation, dramatisation & provocation
- West undermines trust in intl justice
- Unipolar world serves "golden billion" at expense of Asia, Africa and Latin America
- Washington creates geopolitical process to retain its dominance - thinks it's "Lord God on Earth"
- We all remember Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya - far from US shores where hundreds of thousands died
- Name one country US entered by force and life became better
- Illegal sanctions are political blackmail - deny civilians essential goods
- Western incompetence, Kiev's war against its own people left Russia no choice but to protect Russians in Donbass
- Operation complies with UN Charter Article 51 on mutual assistance treaty
- NATO declared Russia immediate threat en route to total US dominance, China long-term
- Russia wants UNSC expansion to include India, Brazil - increase profile of Africa
- Attempts being made to hide US biological programmes around the world
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Macron Puts Ukraine Conflict Down to... Covid-19 Isolation?
The French President was giving an interview to CNN when he made the bizarre claim that the conflict may have been triggered by 'quarantine'-induced resentment??
Emmanuel Macron said he "has no rational explanation..." so he apparently decided to come up with a totally irrational one.
“It seems to me that this is a combination of hostility, a strategy of hegemony in the region and, I would say, the consequences of COVID-19, isolation.”
Macron did however mention NATO's expansion throughout the 90s not giving Russia "respect."
The French President was giving an interview to CNN when he made the bizarre claim that the conflict may have been triggered by 'quarantine'-induced resentment??
Emmanuel Macron said he "has no rational explanation..." so he apparently decided to come up with a totally irrational one.
“It seems to me that this is a combination of hostility, a strategy of hegemony in the region and, I would say, the consequences of COVID-19, isolation.”
Macron did however mention NATO's expansion throughout the 90s not giving Russia "respect."
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⚡️ The attack on the hotel where the RT film crew was located was carried out from the HIMARS MLRS.
Two rockets were fired at the hotel, one of them was shot down. According to preliminary data, local politician Aleksey Zhuravko (Deputy of Verkhovna Rada ,5th & 6th convocation ) died.
“Remember, Ukraine said that every strike is coordinated with Washington. This means that the United States agreed on a strike on Zhuravko and on the hotel where civilians and journalists lived, ”RT military correspondent Murad @msgazdiev Gazdiev reports.
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Two rockets were fired at the hotel, one of them was shot down. According to preliminary data, local politician Aleksey Zhuravko (Deputy of Verkhovna Rada ,5th & 6th convocation ) died.
“Remember, Ukraine said that every strike is coordinated with Washington. This means that the United States agreed on a strike on Zhuravko and on the hotel where civilians and journalists lived, ”RT military correspondent Murad @msgazdiev Gazdiev reports.
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⚡️⚡️⚡️Ukrainian missile hit the hotel where RT military envoy Murad @msgazdiev Gazdiyev's film crew was staying:
"As you can see, there is not much left of the room. I was sleeping in this place."
All our targets. The cameraman Mikhail was crushed by the concrete slabs, but miraculously he survived and was almost unharmed.
After the blast the guys helped to get people out from under the rubble: "This is the room next to mine, now we can see the guy downstairs.
In addition, the explosion damaged vehicles standing near the hotel, including the SUV of our war correspondents. Though battered, the vehicle is still running.
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"As you can see, there is not much left of the room. I was sleeping in this place."
All our targets. The cameraman Mikhail was crushed by the concrete slabs, but miraculously he survived and was almost unharmed.
After the blast the guys helped to get people out from under the rubble: "This is the room next to mine, now we can see the guy downstairs.
In addition, the explosion damaged vehicles standing near the hotel, including the SUV of our war correspondents. Though battered, the vehicle is still running.
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In Alchevsk, LNR, a referendum polling station had to move to a bomb shelter due to shelling.
According to the commission's chairwoman, Olena Kravchenko, this morning there were bursts near the polling station.
Update : 6 HIMARs missiles were used in the attack.
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According to the commission's chairwoman, Olena Kravchenko, this morning there were bursts near the polling station.
Update : 6 HIMARs missiles were used in the attack.
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Forwarded from Eva Karene Bartlett (Yeva)
I was in Gorlovka today to watch people in that hard-hit northern city cast their votes, and to speak to them about their opinions on the referendum. Echoes of yesterday: they want peace, an end to Ukraine's shelling of their city for over 8 years, they want to join Russia...(videos to follow when I have time to subtitle & upload).
The city was being shelled before I arrived, but not heavily while there. Early this morning, however, a district of the city was shelled around 6 am, the shell landing near a city bus & exploding its windows, particularly the windshield in front of the driver's seat. Fortunately, he was luckier than the central Donetsk driver 2 days ago who was destroyed by the Ukrainian-fired shell, along with 5 other civilians in the area.
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The city was being shelled before I arrived, but not heavily while there. Early this morning, however, a district of the city was shelled around 6 am, the shell landing near a city bus & exploding its windows, particularly the windshield in front of the driver's seat. Fortunately, he was luckier than the central Donetsk driver 2 days ago who was destroyed by the Ukrainian-fired shell, along with 5 other civilians in the area.
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