Ukraine’s President Poroshenko has tapped another international “carpetbagger” to rule his people, ex-Georgian President Saakashvili, a neocon hero wanted in his homeland for embezzlement and human rights abuses who now governs Odessa, reports Robert Parry. http://consortiumnews.com/2015/06/02/neocon-fugitive-given-ukraine-province
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Russia scrambles jets against US destroyer in Black Sea
June 1, 2015
With truly staggering recklessness, NATO is deploying warships and warplanes to the Arctic, Baltic, and Black Seas surrounding Russia. This creates a situation where minor navigational miscalculations could lead to the sinking of a US warship, a US missile strike…
Enforcing the Ukraine ‘Group Think’
May 11, 2015
Robert Parry, Consortium News It may be fitting that the U.S.-funded Radio Liberty would be the latest media outlet to join in the bashing of an American academic who dares to disagree with U.S. policies on Ukraine, which have included…
One year after massacre: Odessa resists fascist occupation
April 30, 2015
A vivid snapshot of life and rebellion under the US-installed fascists in Odessa. By Greg Butterfield One year after 48 anti-fascist activists died by bullets, flames and beating at the hands of Ukrainian neo-Nazi gangs, Odessa is a city living…
Washington Choreographing All-Out War with Russia?
April 27, 2015
A good, if worrying, appraisal of the current situation in Ukraine from Finian Cunningham: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41690.htm Of particular concern is that some of the 300 US troops currently in Ukraine have moved to ‘training’ positions only 20-30km from the conflict zone.…
Paul Craig Roberts: Demonization of Russia makes reducing nuclear threat impossible
April 18, 2015
Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury & Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, on how the demonisation of Russia in the US media, coupled with hair-trigger nuclear weapons, put the whole world at risk. Did…
How Close to the Red Button? Nato Spy-Plane Intercepted by Russian Fighter Jet
April 16, 2015
‘Confrontation Between NATO and Russian Aircraft Threatens an Already Fragile Situation’ How many small steps away from sparking a nuclear war was this? Will we shortly see a pretext for full scale war, using the same reliable media channels that…
Noam Chomsky: We’re facing a new Cold War
April 15, 2015
The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin’s Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes http://www.salon.com/2015/04/15/noam_chomsky_were_facing_a_new_cold_war_partner/
Ukraine- History Professor Lays Bare the $5bn US-led Coup
April 15, 2015
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/14/ukraine-the-truth/ ‘Ukraine – The Truth’ by Gary Leupp, Professor of History at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He explains the workings of the coup managed by Victoria Nuland: US Assistant Secretary of State, “who just so happens to be Jewish, representing the…
French intelligence: no evidence of Russian invasion
April 12, 2015
French military intelligence can find no evidence that Russia was about to invade Ukraine, despite NATO claims to the contrary. This is detailed in committee minutes from 25 Mar 2015 on the National Assembly website (English version via Google Translate).…