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Czech President Says ‘Only Poorly Informed People’ Don’t Know About Ukraine Coup
Eric Zuesse
The Czech Republic’s President Milos Zeman said, in an interview, in the January 3rd edition of Prague’s daily newspaper Pravo, that Czechs who think of the overthrow of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych, on 22 February 2014, as having been like Czechoslovakia’s authentically democratic “Velvet Revolution” are seeing it in a profoundly false light, because, (as Russian Television translated his statement into English) "Maidan was not a democratic revolution.” He said that this is the reason why Ukraine now is in a condition of “civil war,” in which the residents of the Donbass region in Ukraine’s southeast have broken away from the Ukrainian Government.
INF Infowar
by Stephen Lendman
The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) formally is called The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. It mandates eliminating nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges from 500 - 5,500 kilometers (300 - 3,400 miles).
Treaty provisions currently apply to America, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Excluding Pentagon naval nuclear missiles.
As well as arsenals of nuclear armed Britain, China, France, India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan.
Washington and Moscow accuse each other of INF violations. US administration allegations cite a Russian ballistic missile Moscow says has intercontinental range.
As well as Russia's R-500 land-based cruise missile. Able to destroy ballistic missile and air defense systems.
Including sea-based Aegis BMD ones. Posing a potential serious threat to Russian security.
How Bloomberg ‘News’ Lies
Eric Zuesse
On December 31st, Josh Rogin of Bloomberg ‘News’ headlined “Inside Obama’s Secret Outreach to Russia,” and his opening sentence ‘reported’ on “the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown little interest in … halting his aggression in neighboring Ukraine.” That ‘reporter’ from Bloomberg ‘News’ was ‘reporting’ from only sources inside the U.S. Administration — only from individuals who are hired by and who represent Barack Obama, none who are hired by and who represent Obama’s enemy Vladimir Putin; and so the question naturally arises as to whether Rogin and Bloomberg ‘News’ are ‘reporting’ propaganda, or are they instead reporting news (as is claimed by Bloomberg ‘News’)?
Let's not kid ourselves: The UNSC will not give us a state
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
It is really lamentable that the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to manage the Palestinian Question disastrously.
The latest failed effort to get the UN Security Council (UNSC) to designate a time-ceiling for ending the decades-old Israeli occupation is an expression of the disastrous mismanagement of our just cause by the PA.
It simply shows that the PA neither learns from others' mistakes nor from its own.
The UN, after all, has had more than 60 years to give the Palestinians any semblance of justice, but to no avail. The reason behind this monumental moral failure is simple. The world order is not based on justice and morality. It is rather based on military might and political power.
Perfect Storm Conditions Threaten Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed Ukraine heading for disaster. Facing fascist dictatorship. Civil war. Mass impoverishment.
Extreme deprivation. Troubled nuclear reactors. Possible bankruptcy. Even economic collapse.
A nation rife with problems. Plundered for profit. IMF-style complicit with corrupt Kiev officials.
In October, the Russia Insider web site headlined "Organ Harvesting in Ukraine: Troubling Revelations."
Saying "(b)odies of dead Ukrainian soldiers found with their stomachs cut open and organs missing."
Their hearts, kidneys and livers harvested. For huge sums recipients willingly pay.
Most Ukrainian Soldiers Don't Want to Fight
by Stephen Lendman
Ukraine is America's newest colony. A dagger targeting Russia's heartland. Run by fascist putschists. With no legitimacy whatever.
Waging war on their own people. Risking greater central European conflict. Perhaps direct confrontation with Russia. Supported by US-dominated NATO.
Dirty war against Donbas continues. Despite illegitimate oligarch president Petro Poroshenko's "regime of silence."
A US stooge. Installed to serve Western interests. At the expense of his own people. Impoverished before Washington's coup.
Cuba Bashing
by Stephen Lendman
It's longstanding. Long ago it wore thin. It continues. Even from supportive embargo-lifting media.
In October, New York Times editors expressed support for lifting it. Calling it "senseless." Wanting diplomatic relations established. After over half a century without them.
At the same time, outrageously calling Cuba an "authoritarian government that harasses and detains dissidents. (M)any fear speaking openly and demanding greater rights."
After Obama's outreach, Times editors called Cuba "a repressive police state." Polar opposite hard truths. Its government insists it has no political prisoners.
Why Palestinian Sovereignty Matters
by Stephen Lendman
New Year's day 2015 in Occupied Palestine changed nothing. Israeli viciousness as extreme as on most other days.
A Palestinian man was crushed to death. At an Israeli checkpoint. Near Tulkarem. Ahmad Samih Bdeir headed for work inside Israel.
Muhammad Yakoub died the same way last year. At the same checkpoint. Passing through takes hours.
Israeli soldiers control things. Palestinians treated like cattle. Herded into metal pens. Unable to leave once inside. Until permitted to enter Israel.
2015: The Year We Build Power Together
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The Year Starts With the Potential of a Major Victory of the People Over Corporate Power, but We Must Unite to Win It
The major task for the social movement: 2015 the Year We Build Power Together.
In 2014 we saw tremendous growth of the movement across numerous fronts of struggle – worker rights and the wages,racism and policing, climate , the environment and extreme energy extraction, building a
wer together” means working together as a movement of movements to build on the progress of 2014 when people created a larger and bolder movement. We build together because our issues are all connected and unified power is when we are strongest.
The Year Ahead
by Stephen Lendman
Understanding what's ongoing is perhaps the best way to assess what's coming. What's happening in real time is grim.
So is next year's outlook. More of the same and then some. Wars without end. Punishing neoliberal harshness.
Police state crackdowns on nonbelievers. Big Brother watching everyone. Freedom eroding in plain sight.
America bears full responsibility for horrific global conflicts. Rogue EU collaborators and Israel share it. Partners in high crimes against humanity.
Under or unreported. Largely out of sight and mind. Ongoing without end. In multiple war theaters. Washington's dirty hands manipulating things.
Permanent war is official US policy. One country after another is attacked, ravaged and destroyed. Turned to rubble. Killing millions. By wars and their aftermath. Including human exploitation. Deep impoverishment. Extreme deprivation.
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