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by Stephen Lendman
August 24 marks Ukraine's 23rd Independence Day since first commemorated on July 16, 1991.
An August 24, 1991 parliamentary Ukraine Declaration of Independence Act created an independent state.
On August 26, 1991, monuments of communist heroes were removed from public places. October Revolution Square was renamed Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square).
Since 1992, Independence Day is celebrated on August 24. Obama's new friends orchestrated events this year.
They're putschist, racist, xenophobic, ultranationalist, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi-infested fascists. They control things.
They include a rogue's gallery of societal misfits. They have no legitimacy whatever.
Washington elevated them to power. Ukraine's democratically elected government was ousted. Mob rule replaced it.
by Stephen Lendman
War without mercy is official Israeli policy. Rule of law principles don't matter.
Throughout its entire history, Israel waged genocidal war on Palestine.
Its 1947-48 War of Independence prioritized an exclusive Jewish state with no Arab presence.
Strategy was by any means possible. It included mass murder, destruction and forced displacement.
According to historian Ilan Pappe, Israeli policy involved "large-scale intimidation; laying siege to and bombarding villages and population centres; setting fire to homes, properties and goods; expulsion; demolition; and finally, planting mines among the rubble to prevent any of the expelled inhabitants from returning."
by Stephen Lendman
In early 2011, Obama initiated proxy war on Syria. It remains ongoing.
Insurgent extremists are recruited, funded, trained, armed and imported from dozens of countries.
Key NATO partners, rogue Arab states and Israel are involved. The same dirty game repeats with disturbing regularity.
Washington targets all independent states. It wants pro-Western stooge regimes replacing them.
It wants unchallenged global control. Direct and proxy wars of aggression are waged for it. Syria remains in the eye of the storm.
Ongoing conflict isn't civil. Not when mostly imported proxies are used. Most Syrians deplore violence.
They oppose internal and external groups committing it. They want peaceful conflict resolution.
They support Bashir Assad overwhelmingly. In a June 3, 2014 election independently judged open, free and fair, they reelected him by an 88.7% majority.
Michael Thomas, State of the Nation 2014
The Ferguson Saga: Another OBAMA ‘Production’ Designed To Distract, Divert And Deceive
Life has a way of creating the Perfect Storm at times which serves many purposes on many levels. Kind of like an intensely dramatic Hollywood production that captures the imagination of the public, so much so that everyone’s talking about … and learning from it … and being imperceptibly influenced by it.
In Ferguson there is a confluence of circumstances — some manmade (manufactured by those with an agenda) and some created by the ‘Universe’ — which were just waiting for an opportunity to explode into what has now become labelled an … … … I N T E R N A T I O N A L I N C I D E N T !
Eric Zuesse
America’s ‘news’ media do not let the victims of Ukraine’s civil war — the people who are dying and being driven out from the southeastern regions of that country by the new Ukrainian Government — speak, and tell their story. Scenes will therefore be posted below from an admittedly overlong amateur video from southeastern Ukraine, in which they have been allowed to tell their story. This is being done here since U.S. ‘news’ media apparently don’t consider it something that you would want to know, and since you should be allowed to judge for yourself whether it is or not, and to judge why it’s not being reported on the ‘news’ sources that our ‘democracy’ offers to ‘inform’ America’s public about public affairs. It is also being done because these still photos from the documentary summarize this over-long documentary’s important narrative. You are welcomed to click onto the link above to see the entire 82-minute documentary.
by Stephen Lendman
War without mercy in Ukraine rages. Washington offers full support and encouragement.
Obama's new friends are ruthless. They're illegitimate neo-Nazi infested fascists.
They're murdering their own citizens. Donbass region residents face daily bombing and shelling.
Over 2,000 were killed. Many others were injured. Hundreds of thousands are internally or externally displaced.
Conditions are dire. A humanitarian crisis persists. Things go from bad to worse.
Lugansk residents have no electricity or running water. Food, medical supplies and other essentials to life are in short supply.
Mary Shaw
James Foley was a much stronger journalist than I could ever hope to be. Foley went missing in Syria in 2012, and it appears that he remained stoic right through the last words he spoke on video just before his brutal beheading by an Islamic State terrorist thug.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), "Islamic State kidnaps, kills, and threatens journalists wherever it holds sway. Syria is the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, with at least 70 killed covering the conflict."
Amnesty International (AI) has called Foley's murder a war crime. "Those who carried out the killing and those who ordered it must face justice," said Margaret Huang, AIUSA's Deputy Executive Director of Campaigns and Programs.
James Petras
Introduction
The Obama Administration actively pressured Europe to impose harsh sanctions on Russia in order to defend the violent takeover (‘regime change’) in the Ukraine. England, France, Germany and the rest of the European regimes gave in to Washington’s demands. Russia responded by imposing reciprocal sanctions, especially on agriculture goods, and is establishing alternative trading partners and increasing trade with China, Iran, Latin America and Africa.
The sanctions policies occur at a time when Europe’s economies are in deep economic crisis, exacerbating long-term stagnation and chronic recession. This paper will identify and analyze the crisis and how US-led sanctions policy is fracturing the European Union. Secondly, we will analyze how Washington’s militarist imperial policies undermine Europe economically and destabilize the rest of the world militarily. Thirdly, we will discuss how the European leaders are prodded by Washington, to put it crudely, through an aggressive ‘buggering process’, to surrender their economic sovereignty and how capitulation to the US project in the Ukraine will lead to their long-term decline and decay. Finally, we will discuss the long-term perspectives for a re-aligned world economy where military conflicts can result in large-scale changes.
by Stephen Lendman
Israel threatens press freedom. Repressive Knesset legislation targets speech, assembly, association, and the right to dissent. So does Kafkaesque justice.
Military censorship bans, buries or sanitizes information about its crimes of war and against humanity it wants suppressed.
It willfully suppresses what everyone needs to know. It does so on the spurious pretext of national security.
It gags foreign correspondents. It forces them to abide by a Censorship Agreement. Its main provisions are:
Michael Collins
What will prevent this leadership of the "free world" from attacking their own citizens or denying those citizens humanitarian aid when they are in need? For them, the Ukraine is just practice.
For weeks now, all involved parties have known of the humanitarian crisis in the Donbass region of Ukraine. The Ukraine's Kiev government created the crisis by attacking its own citizens, a process that began on July 1 at the order of the United States agent and puppet, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) declared the situation a humanitarian emergency and outlined the aid required. Russia put together a 280-truck convoy of needed aid and headed for the border with Ukraine. Ukraine border guards halted the convoy. They accused Russia of planting weapons in the trucks. When Russia offered inspections and ride along privileges to Ukraine officials, along with ICRC and EU representatives, nothing changed. It was clear to Russia that the delays by the Kiev government were a ploy to allow further attacks on the millions living in and around Donetsk and Lugansk, millions in desperate need of water, food, medical supplies and power. (Image: Donetsk citizens hide from Kiev government bombardment. Colonel Cassad English)
Russia finally had enough and told the convoy to proceed across the border. The statement below makes clear the rationale. (Full statement below) The other point that is perfectly clear is this: if the convey is attacked, the attackers will be held responsible. That should be taken as a threat to decimate any Ukraine forces that are held responsible.
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