Tag: ukraine
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Sucked Into Distractions
from antiwar.com: It’s funny how so many people in the peace and justice movement, in which I’ve been an active participant for the past decade, have been sucked into various distractions in recent years. This didn’t happen very often during the Bush presidency. The most recent distraction is the Bowe Bergdahl fiasco, which is pure…
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Voting Opens in Eastern Ukraine Poll
from smh.com.au: Voting opened across a swath of eastern Ukraine on Sunday morning in a separatist referendum, a wild venture in geopolitics that far outweighs its estimated cost – just $US1000 ($1068), according to rebel organisers.
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Corbett Report Interview: Rick Rozoff Calls Out the NATO Warmongers
from corbettreport.com: As Ukraine remains on a knife-edge of military tension, the NATO forces continue their Eastern European expansion and military provocations. In this must-listen interview, Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO International breaks down the history of NATO’s global partnership program, its decades-long build-up in Eastern Europe, the people and organizations in whom the fate…
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F$%k the EU! (The EU is F*#ked) – The Geneva Business Insider
from corbettreport.com: David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider joins The Corbett Report once again to discuss the latest in economics, finance, geopolitics and society. This month they tackle the ongoing Ukrainian crisis and how it will inevitably backfire on the EU and the US, the so-called European recovery, and the European immigration issue.
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#Ukraine Suffers Deadliest Day in Months; 34 Killed in #Odessa
from washingtonpost.com: Ukraine suffered its bloodiest day in nearly three months on Friday, with at least nine people killed when the army launched its first major assault on a rebel stronghold and 34 killed in clashes between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian mobs in the Black Sea port city of Odessa.
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Explaining Ukraine: History, Nationhood and the New World Order
from globalresearch.ca: Numerous papers in the alternative, dissident public sphere have recently discussed the plight of Ukraine. I will address one after the other all the answers: some to questions never asked, some to complement what others – typically the propaganda machine – have left out, consciously or not, while airing just the preferred part…
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China’s Little Known Security Stakes In Ukraine
By Monish Gulati | eurasiareview.com: The Chinese position on the Ukraine crisis and the Russian intervention in Crimea has been described as being of “studied ambiguity”, and one of the objectives of this policy was to balance interests in both Russia and Ukraine. The discussion on Chinese interests in Ukraine has largely centered on military…
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Ukraine Crisis: New World Order? It’s Just Like the Old One
from telegraph.co.uk: Here we are again, facing Russia across the barricades. How did that happen? Only five minutes ago, the West was celebrating the collapse of Soviet communism: a historic victory which had been achieved without a shot being fired. Russia would now join the free world as a capitalist economy, with something like democratic…
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Anti-Semitic Fliers in Eastern Ukraine Denounced
from religion.blogs.cnn.com: U.S. officials Thursday denounced what one called a “grotesque” leaflet ordering Jews in one eastern Ukrainian city to register with a government office, but the Jewish community there dismissed it as a “provocation.” The fliers were handed out by masked men in front the main synagogue in Donetsk, where pro-Russian protesters have declared…
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NATO Chief Calls on Russia to Stop Destabilising Ukraine
from theguardian.com: The Nato chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has joined the US and UK in issuing an urgent public call on Russia to de-escalate tensions in the Ukraine, as pro-Russia separatists remained in control of government buildings in the country’s east. “I call on Russia to de-escalate the crisis, to pull back its troops ……
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The Great Decoupling: How the West is Engineering its Own Downfall
This is an article from The Corbett Report Subscriber, the weekly e-newsletter for members of corbettreport.com. Please support this website and this work by signing up for a Corbett Report membership today for as little as 100 Japanese Yen ($1 US) per month. CLICK HERE for details. from corbettreport.com: Reports out of Moscow indicate that…
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Why U.S. Fracking Companies Are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
from alternet.org: The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe. As part of escalating anti-Russian hysteria, two bills have been introduced into the US Congress – one in the House of Representatives ( H.R. 6), one in the Senate…
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Greystone Denies Its ‘Mercenaries’ Are In Ukraine
from abcnews.go.com: The Russian government today claimed there are more than 100 American “mercenaries” from a defense contracting company disguised as Ukrainian troops in the embattled former Soviet nation, a claim the American firm and top U.S. officials deny. The Russian Foreign Ministry made the allegation in a statement today that accused Ukrainian military forces…

