Ukraine is burning, it is going to the dogs; it has been taken over by an illegitimate government engorged with fascists, neo-Nazis and simple pro-Western opportunists, as well as countless EU and US-sponsored members of…
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The U.S.-European “Left’s” tepid – and even supportive – response to NATO’s destabilization of Ukraine reveals the deep workings of white supremacy on the “western” mind. We face the specter of a “left-right convergence” to…
Last week Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill approving a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia. The bill will likely receive the president’s signature within days. If you think this is…
US to violate own laws by financially aiding Ukraine’s coup-installed govt – Moscow US Secretary of State John Kerry (C), Oleksandr Turchynov, Parliament Speaker and Ukraine’s interim President (L) and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk…
Outside observers fail to understand the role divisions within Ukraine itself have played in the crisis there. Click to enlarge the cartoon. Drawing by Konstantin Maler As U.S.-Russia tensions mount over Ukraine and…
The self-righteousness of the West’s new Russia-bashers is astonishing. Are Western diplomats and media outlets being serious when they accuse the Russian government of launching a new Cold War? Do they really believe their own…
But Gershman added that Ukraine was really only an interim step to an even bigger prize — the removal of the strong-willed and independent-minded Putin, who, Gershman added, “may find himself on the losing end…
“Washington and Brussels … used a Nazi coup, carried out by insurgents, terrorists and politicians of Euromaidan to serve the geopolitical interests of the West.” – Natalia Vitrenko, The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine The…
Greece In The Grips of Economic Depression Today, March 27, 2014, the IMF released the broad outlines of its terms and conditions for loans and other measures for the Ukrainian economy. What those…
The first lesson, and it’s a very old one, is that violent protest does work, and also sinister tricks such as having your own snipers shoot at police and fellow protesters. Without this ramping up of mayhem and bloodshed, the Ukrainian government would not have been discredited, destabilized and finally overthrown. The shock troops for this violence, the masked thugs at the frontline, didn’t come out of nowhere. Primarily made up of young men from the Right Sector, they had been preparing for a long time for this confrontation with the government. For years, they had been honing their skills at marksmanship, urban warfare and hand-to-hand combat. In this, they are not unlike American militias, though more mature in development. By clearly becoming outlaws, they had reached the point of no return, so it was victory or else, for had they lost, savage retribution from their enemy would be their lot.