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Month: March 2014
Venezuela at the crossroads
Article originally written in Spanish for the latest issue of the Chilean anarchist paper Solidaridad- The recent events that have shaken Venezuela reflect not only the level of interference that the USA maintains in the region or the pervasive coup-mongering trend in the Venezuelan elite which knows by heart the manual of the Chilean coup more »
Global Militarism in now Capitalism's greatest economic engine
Global Military Spending Is Now an Integral Part of Capitalism by Richard Seymour – 7 March, 1014 – common dreans China has embarked on a sequence of double-digit increases in defence spending. (Photograph: Chinafotopress/Getty Images)China’s surge in military spending gains headlines, partly because of the ominous implications regarding its regional contest with Japan, but it’s more »
Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination
Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination by Paul Craig Roberts – Voltaire Network – 8 March 2014 The White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously and foolishly that it is “against international law” for Crimea to exercise self-determination. [1] Self-determination, as used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington’s empire but is not permissible more »
US hypocrisy over ‘Russian aggression’ in Ukraine
US hypocrisy over ‘Russian aggression’ in Ukraine Nile Bowie – March, 2014 – RT As divisions deepen between the eastern and western regions of Ukraine, the backers of the putsch regime in Kiev portray Russia as a reckless aggressor to absolve their own responsibility for engineering the crisis. While denunciations of Moscow have streamed out more »
Ukraine is About Oil. So Was World War I
Ukraine is About Oil. So Was World War I by Robert Freeman – 8 March, 2014 – common dreams Pro-Russian supporters wave Russian flags to welcome the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva, entering Sevastopol bay in September 10, 2008. (Photo: AFP)Ukraine is a lot more portentous than it appears. It is more »
Brainwashed, the indoctrinated West
Brainwashed – The Indoctrinated West by ANDRE VLTCHEK – 7 March, 2014 – counter punch Is it really possible that the European public has no clue what was done to Ukraine? Are the men and women of the continent that lives in hallucination, that it is well educated and well informed, really unaware how its more »
Kissinger warns of unpredictible consequences in Ukraine
Kissinger thinks Ukraine should be more like Finland Voltaire Network – 9 March 2014 In an opinion article published by the Washington Post, Dr. Henry Kissinger takes a position on the Ukrainian crisis. After stating that Ukraine, as a state, can not survive either as an ally of Russia, or as an ally of the more »
Nuclear terrorism Cold War projections and the fascist future of Ukraine
“…if in Washington people throwing Molotov cocktails are marching on Congress—and these people are headed for the Ukrainian Congress—if these people have barricaded the entrance to the White House and are throwing rocks at the White House security guard, would President Obama withdraw his security forces?” — New York University Professor Emeritus Stephen Cohen US, more »
The Looting of Ukraine Has Begun
According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. It more »