Ukraine Update April 26–29, 2014

RT: Moscow will not bargain with Kiev over Crimea's water supply
RT: Putin: Washington behind Ukraine events all along, though flying low
VOR: Kiev should refrain from military action against protesters in E. Ukraine – US ambassador
VOR: Under the guise of sanctions US trying to push Russia out of the space launch market
Mike Shedlock: Why not include the Ukrainian Federalists in talks on a solution to the Ukrainian crisis?

Sheesh, let's not get into talking with those pesky Russian-speaking folks in Eastern Ukraine or soon we'll be talking democracy and more referendums, and we all know where that will lead.

Zero Hedge: China Slams US Over Russian Sanctions
Zero Hedge: Pro-Russian Forces Storm Luhansk Police Buildings — Putschist Pres. Turkeynov accuses local police of "criminal treachery"
SCF: Russia won't repeat 'Crimea scenario' in southeastern Ukraine - Deputy FM
SCF: What makes Odessa rise in protest?
SCF: Kerry’s statement on Ukraine: A lying brief for war
Stratarisks: US Sanctions Prevent Launch of American Satellites
Daily Beast: Kerry: U.S. Taped Moscow’s Calls to Its Ukraine Spies
BBC: Pro-Russia activists seize Luhansk HQ
BBC: Russia condemns US 'Iron Curtain' sanctions
Forbes Mag: On All Of The Important Questions Ukraine Is Still Extremely Divided
Global Research: Hillary Clinton: Make the Russian People Pay for Resistance to Ukraine Junta
Marchenko Romanovich Ukrainian National Resistance Movement against the Neo-Nazi Government
Robert Parry: Why Neocons Seek to Destabilize Russia
Press TV: US troops land in Estonia for war games on Russia’s doorstep
Alex Lantier: The Ukraine Crisis and the Political Lies of the Media
Mike Whitney: Why is Putin in Washington’s Crosshairs?
VOR: US leaders, citizens detached from reality, living 'behind CNN curtain'
RT: End of defense imports to Russia would be catastrophe for Ukraine – Putin
RT: Neo-Nazis march in Lvov 'in honor' of Ukrainian Waffen SS division (PHOTOS)
RT: Blasts, fierce fighting in Donetsk between pro- and anti-Kiev demos (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Zero Hedge: Donetsk Riots Break Out In "Scenes Of Absolute Brutality"
Itar-Tass: In Lugansk, federalization supporters proclaim creation of a "people's republic"
VOR: Georgian nationalists to join crackdown on federalization protests in eastern Ukraine
MI5: Russian intelligence analysts wanted
RT: Anti-govt protesters seize TV station in eastern Ukraine, call for own channel
RT: Ukrainian special forces team caught near Donetsk
Oriental Review: Poland Trained Ukraine's EuroMaidan Thugs
BBC: Ukraine Monitors "We are guests of the Mayor (of Slaviansk)"

Telegraph: US financial showdown with Russia is more dangerous than it looks, for both sides

The United States has constructed a financial neutron bomb. For the past 12 years an elite cell at the US Treasury has been sharpening the tools of economic warfare, designing ways to bring almost any country to its knees without firing a shot. ...

Alexander Salitsky: The End of Globalization and the Economy of Russia's Conservative Project
MSN News: Pope promises to help Ukraine
How many divisions does the Pope have — er, none, but promises prayer. Might do better, though, to offer Putin sainthood if he'll just agree to talk with Kerry again.
Global News: Russia’s Lavrov accuses West of plotting to seize Ukraine
CBC: Ukraine crisis: Separatists offer observers in prisoner exchange
WaPo: As Russian forces escalate, Ukraine's influence waning
NPR: What Russia Might Gain From A Decentralized Ukraine
Christoff Lehmann: NATO’s Unconventional War Against Russia

It is this fourth-generation warfare that is being waged against Russia. It is a warfare that is as relentless as rust. It never sleeps.

It will be wide awake and eye its next objectives when the time has come that NATO finds it more useful to let the dust of Ukraine and Crimea settle and to offer Russia to become a “partner for peace” – again.

Martin Armstrong: War and Debt: Is war Putin's only option?
Global Research; New York Times Attempts to Whitewash its Role in Publishing Faked Ukraine Photos

Surely everyone knows by now that whatever relationship there is between the truth and what the NY Times, or WaPo reports is purely coincidental. What matters is the value of the story to to interests of the very rich people, like Carlos Slim or Jeff Bezos who own the paper. As someone said, anyone rich enough to own a newspaper is not fit to own one.

Paul Craig Roberts: Moving Closer To War

The crisis in Ukraine originated with Washington’s overthrow of the elected democratic government and its replacement with Washington’s hand-chosen stooges. The stooges proceeded to act in word and deed against the populations in the former Russian territories that Soviet Communist Party leaders had attached to Ukraine. The consequence of this foolish policy is agitation on the part of the Russian speaking populations to return to Russia. Crimea has already rejoined Russia, and eastern Ukraine and other parts of southern Ukraine are likely to follow.

Instead of realizing its mistake...

Why assume it's a mistake. Looks more like a bunch of war criminals launching a war, while preparing to blame the victims.

Zero Hedge: Satellite Images Reveal 15,000 Ukraine Troops, Hundreds Of Tanks Around Slavyansk
RT: Unknown gunmen land from helicopter, attack checkpoint in Donetsk region
Rick Rozoff: NATO’s Incremental But Inexorable Absorption of Ukraine
Zero Hedge: Tit For Tat: Ukraine Blocks Crimea Water Supply With Russia Set To Halt Ukraine Gas
VOR: Crimean authorities say they have fallback water supply plan, not dependent on Kiev
Itar-Tass: Ukraine halts canal water supply to Crimea
RT: Ukraine Facts Manufactured in the US of Artifactuality
LOL. This may be Russian propaganda, but its slick, its funny and its facts seem to be real facts unlike those of John Kerry and the State Department's apparently always irritable red-headed spokeswoman.
Prof. John McMurtrie: “Global Society Destruction” and The Ukraine Crisis

The “Ukraine crisis” repeats a script as old as the Cold War. The narrative features rising attacks by corporate states and media on the traditional whipping boy of Russia. As usual, “escalating the crisis” is US-led. As usual, alarm about “increasing lawless aggression” is projection of US policy itself. In fact, one more US-directed violent overthrow of an elected government has carved off the biggest country of Europe from next-door Russia.

Former US Asst. Secretary of State, Christopher Hill: Russia's Annexation of Crimea and the End of the New World Order
The usual New World Order bollocks: death to the democratic, sovereign nation state, especially Russia, and long-live the plutocratic global empire. Still its good to see the globalists facing the possibility of defeat. It may make them more hesitant about pursuing their program of universal genocide.

ABC News: Ukraine crisis: Negotiators try to secure release of detained observers, US warns of new sanctions

The separatist, self-declared mayor of Slaviansk said the observers were believed to have a spy amongst them from the pro-Western government in Kiev.

The Daily Beast: Putin Halts All Talks With White House

Itar-Tass: Kiev afraid Ukraine’s center and west may arise along with southeast — presidential nominee, Oleg Tsarov

To deescalate the conflict, in his words, the government should sit down at a roundtable and take a decision on amnesty and troops pullout. After that, it must adopt a roadmap on amendments to be made to the constitution. “We have out edition of the constitution and we are ready to present it to the government,” Tsariov said.

“It is much easier to try to reach an agreement than to kill own citizens,” he stressed.

Earlier on Friday, Tsariov said that the Kiev authorities were subordinate to the US administration. “When in a span of two weeks the CIA director, the US vice president and the head of the US Senate armed service committee pay visits to Kiev, one has an impression that Ukraine is subordinate to the American administration,” he said.

Bloombergs: Putin Warns of Consequences as Ukraine Steps Up Offensive
Washington Beacon: Pentagon: Russian Spy Ship, Tug Operating Near U.S.

It's what's known as tit-for-tat. The US puts missiles and spy planes on Russia's borders, Russia puts spy ships, missile carriers and perhaps nuclear armed subs on America's borders.

Tony Cartalucci: Unelected Regime Begins Killing Spree in Eastern Ukraine
Kyiv Post: In Eastern Ukraine "counter-terrorism" forces treated like the occupying force that they are

Zero Hedge: Ukraine Warns Putin "We Will Eliminate Invaders" After Pro-Russian Forces Down Ukraine Chopper
Ottawa Citizen: Russian sanctions have killed Canadian military satellite launch
But despite Harper's vigorous anti-Russian rhetoric, Obama continues shafting him on the Keystone XL Pipeline
Zero Hedge: Furious Russia, Downgraded To Just Above Junk By S&P, Proposes "Scorched Earth" Retaliation Against NATO Countries
WRH: Kerry draws red line on Ukraine, says ‘world’ will make Russia pay for transgressions
Zero Hedge: Spot The Two Ukraine Army Snipers

More Ukraine Posts by CanSpeccy

Aerial Discharge of Uranium and Plutonium at Fukushima: No Need for Panic

Today, Global Research has a story with the arresting title:

Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer Three Meltdowns … The Nuclear Core Has Finally Been Found … Scattered All Over Japan.

If the headline were correct, one would have to say goodbye to Japan as a place for human habitation — for all time.

However, if you go to the source for the headlined claim, which is the American Chemical Society's journal: Environmental Science and Technology you find a very different story.

First, the report states:

Black-colored road dusts were collected in high-radiation areas in Fukushima Prefecture.

So first note that the dust examined was not "scattered all over Japan," but was from "high-radiation areas in Fukushima Prefecture," which is to say those areas from which people have already been removed.

Second, the report states:

The concentrations of ^134,137Cs in all samples were exceptionally high, ranging from 0.43 to 17.7 MBq/kg, respectively.

Yes, 17.7 MBq/kg, or 17.7 thousand particle emissions per second per kilogram, is high compared with natural radiation from soils or water, but to keep things in perspective, it is less than the radiation emitted by ten millionths of a gram of radium. Moreover, Cs 134 decays by 50% within just over two years and Cs 137 decay by 50% in just over 30 years, so the contamination will decline significantly in a time considerably less than eternity.

 Third, the report states:

^239+240Pu was detected at low levels, ranging from 0.15 to 1.14 Bq/kg [and] ²³⁶U was successfully determined in the range of (0.28 to 6.74) × 10^–4 Bq/kg.

Which means if you eat a kilogram of this gunk you'd receive an internal dose of radiation from plutonium and uranium of probably less than one count per second, which is below the activity of most drinking water or healthy organic lettuce. It is also less than the radiation from Uranium in some popular mineral waters, e.g., San Pellegrino.

So yes, the radiation contamination around Fukushima is disastrous, but it is not the end either of the world or of Japan.

Altogether, the report states:

The quantities of U and ^239+240Pu emitted to the atmosphere were estimated as 3.9 × 10⁶ Bq (150 g) and 2.3 × 10⁹ Bq (580 mg), respectively.

For perspective, a liter of San Pellegrino water contains 6 micrograms of Uranium, so the 580 mg of Uranium estimated to have been spewed at Fukushima is equivalent to that contained in about 16,000 liters, or less than a truck-load, of a popular and harmless brand of mineral water. Over the area of a country the size of Japan, that is an absolutely insignificant amount.

Ukraine Update April 22–24, 2014

MCS: US war plan for Europe and Russia

A close relationship between Moscow and Europe would remove the rationale for America’s military role in NATO and thereby its political influence in Europe.

The US is prepared to plunge Europe into a war with Russia in order for Washington to preserve its hegemony over the transatlantic axis.

The key issues are the prevention of Russia and Europe developing closer trade and political ties – stemming primarily from a vast trade in energy fuels; and, secondly, the survival of the American dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

So vital are these issues for continued American hegemony that Washington is prepared to sacrifice millions of lives in a war between Russia and its so-called transatlantic European “ally”.

...The reality is that Washington has done everything to escalate this conflict, in particular between Russia and Europe, for its own selfish strategic interests. That includes, if deemed necessary by the pyromaniacs in Washington, the ignition of all-out war in Europe.

MCS: Doomed US targets China, Russia

Robert Parry: Prepping for a Ukrainian Massacre

Global Research: Does Washington want War with Russia?

In the last 48 hours, the Pentagon has announced the deployment of US paratrooper units to Poland and the three former Baltic republics of the Soviet Union—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—bringing US troops to Russia’s very border. Another American warship has been dispatched to the Black Sea and more US forces are slated to deploy to Ukraine itself this summer under an exercise known as Operation Rapid Trident.

In a series of wars with Third-World nations deploying primitive weapons, the United States has come off as an incompetent military power able to win, if at all, only by means of a long drawn out campaign of human and physical destruction achieved by the application of massive, more or less aimless, violence.

A war with Russia offers an opportunity to change that perception. Russia has an advanced military industrial complex that is intended to match that of the United States. Against Russia, the US would thus confront forces that its own military understands well and has been specifically designed to combat.

If America's ten-fold superiority in military spending gives it any kind of an edge over the Russians, a war with Russia could, therefore, be over in days or weeks, restoring to America the credibility as an imperial power that it presently so lacks.

Sky News: Gazprom Turns Up Heat On Kiev With $11bn Bill

Zero Hedge: Putin Says "Use Of Force In Ukraine Will Have Consequences" As Column Of Military Vehicles Seen Heading Toward Border

Zero Hedge: Desperate Ukraine Pleads: "Red Line Has Already Been Crossed"

Zero Hedge: Russia "Forced" To Launch Drill On Ukraine Border In Response To "NATO Build Up", Will Involve Fighter Jets

RINF: The US Plan for the Ukraine – a hypothesis

... Bottom line – the freaks in power in Kiev and the USA *know* that the eastern Ukraine is lost for them, and the purpose of the imminent attack is not to “win” against the Russian-speaking rebels or, even less so, to “win” against the Russian military, it is to trigger enough violence to force Russia to intervene. In other words, since the East is lost anyways, it is much better to lose it to the “invading Russian hordes” than to lose it to the local civilian population.

So the purpose of the next attack will not be to win, but to lose. That the Ukrainian military can still do. ...

AntiWar.com: US Promises Support for Ukraine Junta's Asssault on East Ukraine

RT: Ukraine coal miners on strike, refuse to pay Kiev coup damages bill

ABCNews: Amid Russia Warning, Ukraine Is in a Security Bind

Daily Mail: Ukraine Special forces shoot dead five pro-Moscow militants

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611946/Obama-issues-stark-warning-Russia-new-economic-sanctions-teed-unrest-continues-grow-Ukraine.html#ixzz2zondluPT Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Global Research: Shale Gas Fracking and America’s Proxy War against Russia: Joe Biden Promotes Fracking On Ukraine Trip

Justin Raimondo: Why we needed regime change in Kyiv

RT: Putin advocates single cultural space within Russian borders

This is why Russia must be smashed. We cannot have a global empire if every country strives to maintain its ethnic and cultural distinctness. Ethnic and cultural unity underlie the power of the nation state and its resistance to an international plutocracy that seeks to impose a global governance via unelected institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, the UN, Nato, the EU, the World Trade Organization, all of which are susceptible to influence by the money power.

Zero Hedge: Russia May Halt Oil Supplies On Ukraine Theft

Zero Hedge: Putin Gets Paid? IMF Agrees $17bn Loan To Ukraine

Washington's Blog: The REAL Reasons We’re Drifting Towards World War III

WUFYS: Welcome to Nulandistan

RT: Kiev must immediately deescalate east Ukraine crisis, call back troops - Moscow

The Daily Beast: Germany Helped Prep Russia for War, U.S. Sources Say

Europe acquiesced in occupation by the US after WWII out of fear of invasion and occupation by the Soviet Union. Today, Europe does not fear post-Communist Russia. In fact many Europeans respect Russia's determination to survive as a nation state by reversing a population implosion while preventing mass immigration from the Third World.

The United States occupation of Europe can only be maintained by creating a new division between East and West. Germany, apparently, is not on board. Neither, as the up-coming European elections will prove, are huge numbers of other Europeans who want governments committed to national survival not the New-Wold-Order-mandated self-genocide through the promotion of non-reproductive sex, mass immigration and multiculturalism.

Moreover, Russia is the EU's third largest single-nation trade partner and there is scope for massive expansion in that partnership. Given the choice, Europe will opt for more trade not more war. But first they have to get the deadly dangerous US Empire off their backs. To that end, German collaboration with Russia in the mutual enhancement of military capability makes good sense.

Bloomberg: Tightwad USA: Ukraine’s Unpaid Russian Gas Bills Dwarf U.S. Aid Offer

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Ukrainian leaders this week that the U.S. would provide help so that “Russia can no longer use energy as a weapon.” Biden announced $50 million in aid, an unspecified part of which would go to develop the country’s gas reserves, explore alternative energy and improve efficiency.

LOL. At $220 million, even Canada gave Ukraine more than four times as much as the tightwad USA — and that was only a gimmick to buy the Ukrainian-Canadian vote in next year's Federal election. Still, if it comes to killing Russians, the United States of Aggression will no doubt be much, much more generous.

Zero Hedge: Russia Warns West "Remove Forces"; Begins Military Exercise On Ukraine Border

ITAR TASS: Washington uses Ukraine as pawn in its big geopolitical game

UTube: US State Department Proof of Russian Involvement in East Ukraine Protest Movement

NEO: Does the CIA plan a Syrian style terror war in Ukraine?

... The mutinies among the security forces in the East must have rattled Kiev, even though they should have expected it. After all, it is a majority-Russian region. We next heard Right Sector’s Dimitry Yarosh is calling up his “army” to get ready to purify the East. Then President Turchinov strangely claimed he is deploying a reservist regiment of 350 to begin operations. Where, I ask, are the regular army units? Interim Interior Minister, Arsen Avakov, has announced the creation of special Interior ministry units based on “civilian components” all across Ukraine, in order to tackle separatist moods. On his Facebook page Avakov says Kiev is ready “to attract” 12,000 into the new force that will be given arms, equipment and supervision, and he further claims that East Ukraine will get the first taste of this unit. Does that sound like he is deploying Army units to you? Are these 12,000 Yarosh’s Right Sector thugs, or another group in addition to them? Did Brennan promise to fly in some of the CIA terror proxies they have stashed all over, like the Chechens who would be close by, and a sure bet for baiting the Russians? ...

Andrew Gavin Marshall: The West Marches East, Part 1: The U.S.-NATO Strategy to Isolate Russia

RT: Lavrov: Kiev issued 'criminal order' allowing use of weapons against civilians

Patrick Buchanan: Nationalism Not NATO Brought Down The Soviet Empire: Let The People Resolve The Ukrainian Borders, Too

While Putin may want the Russians of Ukraine and Belarus back inside a Greater Russia, does anyone think he wants Rumanians, Bulgarians, Poles, Hungarians, Czechs or Slovaks back under Moscow’s rule?

Putin knows that his own popularity, near 80 percent, is due directly to his being seen as a nationalist willing to stand up to the Americans and their claim to be sole architects of the New World Order.

...If we can view with diffidence the drive by Scotland to secede from England, Catalonia to secede from Spain, Venice to secede from Italy, and Flanders to secede from Belgium, why would the secession of the Donbass from Ukraine be a problem for us, if done democratically?

News 1130: Canadian diplomat expelled from Russia as Tension Rises Over Ukraine

So far, all comments on this story are critical of the Harper regime's crass Russophobia.

Robert Parry: The lies of the warmongering New York Times

Kevin MacDonald: Breaking up Ukraine along ethnic lines

...Ukraine had a reasonably functioning multiethnic state until the American attempts to destabilize it by supporting one side against the other. A multiethnic state could work especially, as in this case, when the peoples are closely related and the ethnic fault lines are deemphasized .... But the recent overthrow of the government by the non-Russian population makes the ethnic fault lines clear and also conflicts with the legitimate interests of Russia in territory that has been part of Russia since Catherine the Great...

Jason Ditz: Russia FM: Ukraine Crudely Violating Geneva Deal

Ron Maxwell: Not a Munich Moment

Reuters: Ukraine peace deal falters as rebels show no sign of surrender

John Helmer: Putin warns of US navy threat

Eric Margolis: AMATEUR HOUR IN UKRAINE

Ukraine April 18–21, 2014

RT: Stalin victims incl Crimean Tatars rehabilitated by Putin decree

David Stockman: Good Job, “Yats”: Why The Neocons Subverted The Ukraine

... besides baiting Obama over his tempered words about the crisis, the [Washington] Post (Jeff Bezos, Prop.) declared that “Mr. Obama and European leaders must act quickly to prevent Ukraine’s dismemberment. Missing from the president’s statement was a necessary first step: a demand that all Russian forces – regular and irregular – be withdrawn … and that Moscow recognize the authority of the new Kiev government. … If Mr. Putin does not comply, Western leaders should make clear that Russia will pay a heavy price.”

The Post editors are fond of calling for ultimatums against various countries, especially Syria and Iran, with the implication that if they don’t comply with some U.S. demand that harsh actions, including military reprisals, will follow.

But now the neocons, in their single-minded pursuit of endless “regime change” in countries that get in their way, have taken their ambitions to a dangerous new level, confronting nuclear-armed Russia with ultimatums.

Americans and others who disagree with WaPo might consider an ultimatum to Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com and owner of the the Post. End the warmongering or face a boycott of Amazon.com by those opposed to the NeoCon clique intent on using America as a sledgehammer to establish a plutocratic global empire.

The American Interest: Ukraine’s Debt And Putin’s Upper Hand

The American Interest: The Putin Doctrine: Myth, Provocation, Blackmail, or the Real Deal?

Washington Times: Tactical advantage: Russian military shows off impressive new gear

VOR: Biden confirms US backing for Neo-Nazis in Kyiv

RT: Lavrov: US should face responsibility for powers it installed in Kiev

Zero Hedge: Provocation in Eastern Ukraine

Zero Hedge: Have No Fear, Joe Biden Is Here (Or Rather, In Kiev)

Zero Hedge: John Kerry Admits Geneva "Deal" Worthless

Haaretz: Russian activists staged shooting, Ukrainian forces say

Hey, we're the people who do the false flags, not you pro-Russian, terrorists.

Rabble.ca: Harper on Russia: America's useful idiot?

China Topix: China Prepares Massive Investments in Crimea

...in a direct snub of the Americans, China will abandon a planned $5 billion solar power plant in Nevada and invest the money in Crimea, instead.

Haaretz: Ukraine synagogue reportedly firebombed

Robert Parry: Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Imperative

Alexander Orlov: US is losing its positions in the Middle East due to the Ukrainian Crisis

Poop Murdoch's London Timesey: US ready to target Russian president’s hidden $40bn stash

Not a scrap of evidence offered by The Times for its claim that Putin has a private stash of $40 billion, which seems extravagant even for a "New Hitler" (Hitlery Clinton, Registered Insult). Amazing, though, to read such driveling propaganda in what proclaims itself to be: "the UK's most read quality daily newspaper for business people". Are Britain's business people all dunderheaded fools or what?

Such references to "Putin's stash" are as ridiculous as the story about the $50 billion-dollar Sochi Olympics, peddled ad nauseam by the MSM without the slightest attempt at justification. See: Who’s Lying About the Cost of the Sochi Winter Olympics?.

Anyone interested in actual evidence of Putin's wealth might start with Wikipedia's Putin entry which is somewhat informative and apparently written by someone who is not dealing strictly in lies.

Putin evidently lives very well at state expense, but the only established evidence to support the contention that he has a stash of illegally accumulated wealth is his unconcealed possession of many expensive wrist watches. But heads of state receive many gifts, including wrist watches. For example, as Denis Healey recorded, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson appropriated a chunky gold Rolex watch that had been a gift to Denis Healey of a Pakistani chieftain, titled the Akond of Swat (Page 8, Paragraph 2).

RT: Pentagon mulls deployment as Poland asks for 10,000 troops

Ten thousand US troops woudl be just enough to start a war, far too few to win it. Russia, having 22 million males fit for military service.

Mirror: Military intervention in Ukraine risks spiralling into 'all-out war' with Russia

The Brits have an intelligence bureaucracy to tell them that?

VoltaireNet: Ukraine: Poland trained putchists two months in advance

ITAR_TASS: Provocation in Slavyansk proves Kiev’s not willing to disarm extremists - Russia’s FM

VOR: Slavyansk mayor asks Russia to send peacekeepers in wake of deadly night attack

Zero Hedge: Donetsk "Letter To Jews": An Obvious Forgery Except to John Kerry

BBC: Ukraine Nationalists Blamed for Killing at Road Check Point in Sloviansk

Tony Cartalucci: NATO's Pet Nazis Savage Ukrainian Presidential Candidate

Global Research: The Ukraine Imbroglio and the Decline of the American Empire

Yahoo: Russia Reinforces Troops on Ukraine Border

A Kremlin Spokesman said: (Ukraine) is a country where there has just been a military coup, so naturally any country is going to take particular precautionary measures in terms of ensuring its security."

He said as a sovereign state, Russia was free to deploy troops anywhere on its territory without restrictions. He denied allegations that the Russian military was interfering in events inside Ukraine territory. Those assertion were, said Peskov "completely wrong."

NY Times: U.S. Plans Military Drills in Eastern Europe

The land-force exercises the Obama administration is planning are extremely modest.
The exercise in Poland, which is expected to be announced next week, would involve a United States Army company and would last about two weeks, officials said. A company consists of about 150 soldiers.

Plus 20 Canadians. Don't forget them. LOL

NY Times: Twin Shocks Shake Foundation of German Power

NY Times: In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin

But the rise of China and other Third-World nations ready to trade with Russia and engage in re-working the global monetary order and security system has made both Obama and the "indispensable nation" increasingly dispensable to Putin if need be.

And in Germany, it must be increasingly clear that the US of A may be more dispensable than Russia.

PBS: Obama – Our forces superior to Russia's

William Lind: An Officer Corps That Can’t Score

...our officers live in a bubble. Even junior officers inhabit a world where they hear only endless, hyperbolic praise of “the world’s greatest military ever.” They feed this swill to each other and expect it from everyone else. If they don’t get it, they become angry. Senior officers’ bubbles, created by vast, sycophantic staffs, rival Xerxes’s court. Woe betide the ignorant courtier who tells the god-king something he doesn’t want to hear. (I know—I’ve done it, often.)

AmConMag: In Ukraine, Not All Uprisings Are Equal

VOR: Whatever US may do, Putin has already won - Fox News analyst

WaPo: U.S. ground troops going to Poland, defense minister says

Reuters: Russia criticizes Washington's assessment of accord on Ukraine

RT: Putin Speaks —"Against whom are you going to use the artillery and aircraft?"

Jim Dean: East Ukraine Babushkas Beat Back Kiev Coup

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Robert Parry: Ukraine and The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance

Mike Shedlock: "Insatiable" Idiocy from the Economist on What to Do About Russia; Warmongers Can't Think

The whole point of the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, The WST, the National Putz, you name it, is to prevent you from thinking by filling your mind with an enless stream of lying garbage. And the marvelous thing about the newspaper and magazine business is that people not only pay to have their immortal soul filled with trash, but actually feel intellectually and morally superior to anyone whose mind has not been so polluted.

Mike Shedlock: On the asininity of a peace accord made without consultation with one side to the dispute

Mike Shedlock: Ukraine Accord: Key Uninvited Group to Peacy Party Doesn't Like the Deal

RT: ‘Letter to Jews’, which Kerry cited, appears to be fake

RT: Kiev halts military op. in East Ukraine, promises Russian language status choice

Guardian: Pro-Russian separatists defiant as Ukraine peace moves flounder

New York Times: Ukraine Push Against Rebels Grinds to Halt

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — A military operation that the Ukrainian government said would confront pro-Russian militants in the east of the country unraveled in disarray on Wednesday with the entire contingent of 21 armored vehicles that had separated into two columns surrendering or pulling back before nightfall. It was a glaring humiliation for the new government in Kiev.

Carry the Flag: East Ukraine Jew Registration Tale Reeks of CIA Psyop

Itar-Tass: Europe understands there is no backtracking on Crimea — Russian EU ambassador

No, Russia must retreat and accept public humiliation for recovering its Black Sea naval base from the US-backed Neo-Nazis in Kyiv, otherwise the US of Arrogance would be humiliated, which can never be.

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RINF: NATO Lies About US/German Pledge Not to Move Nato Forces Eastward

Zero Hedge: Russia Confirms Troop Build-Up Near Ukraine; Warns West, More Sanctions "Absolutely Unacceptable"

BBC: Eastern Ukraine militants snub Geneva deal on crisis

John Pilger: Nato's action plan in Ukraine is right out of Dr Strangelove

Zero Hedge: Ukraine Tanks Stopped By Unarmed Woman

Zero Hedge: Ukraine "De-escalation" Voided As Pro-Russia Militia Refuse To Vacate Occupied Buildings

... the Ukraine "separatist" milita... has announced that they will only leave the occupied east Ukraine buildings if the interim government in Kiev resigns.

... in an amusing twist, the militia has flipped the Geneva agreement on its head, alleging that if they are to abide by a signed document, so should the "illegitimate" government, which as a reminder took power following a US-assisted coup, even though an explicit agreement was signed on February 21 between Ukraine and western powers previously retaining Yanukovich as president of the country, and ushering in presidential elections later in 2014.

Zero Hedge: Putin's Top 10 Q&A Quotes: "The US Will Cut Off Their Nose To Spite Their Face"

Global Research: $30 Billion Oil Pipeline to Be Built from Russia to India through Northwest China

RT: Kiev: Military operation in Ukraine southeast to go on despite Geneva agreement

RT: Obarmy — Screw the Geneva Agreement, We're Imposing More Sanctions on Russia

How the people of Ukraine deal with a criminal and incompetent leadership

According to RT, dozens of Ukrainian troops sent by the Kyiv Neo-Nazi junta to "destroy" the "terrorists" in Eastern Ukraine have surrendered their armoured vehicles and withdraw from Slavyansk.

Reports from Slavyansk say that the army troops sent to the eastern Ukrainian city for an “anti-terrorist operation” are leaving en masse. Some troops are openly voicing support for the eastern Ukrainians, while others are speaking out against a war.

According to Interfax, citing local self-defense activists, some 300 Ukrainian troops agreed to lay down their weapons and “go home” following negotiations in Slavyansk.

The common people of Ukraine thus demonstrate their superiority in intelligence and morality to that of both their US-backed Nazi leaders and the the leadership of the rest of Europe, which has failed to make the slightest constructive contribution to a solution to the Ukraine crisis created by criminal US interference in the internal affairs of the sovereign independent state of Ukraine.

Related:
RT: EU spy chief rules out Russian military presence in Ukraine
FT via Mike Shedlock: Ukraine Rebel PM, Arseney Yatsenyuk, Reports Move to Grant Greater Regional Autonomy, as Ukraine Army Units Defect to Separatists

Better hurry Arse, or the separatists will have achieved independence without aid of Kyiv's Neo-Nazties

RIA Novosti: Sanctions on Russia Would Devastate Businesses – French-Russian Commerce Group

That's what's cool about sanctions. It hits both Russia and the EU, while leaving the United States of Aggression untouched and free to gloat.

RIA Novosti: US, EU Irresponsible Policies May Unleash Civil War in Ukraine — Professor Salim Lamrani

May unleash civil war. So what? We just wanna smash those Commie Russian bastards and if we have to kill every Ukrainium first, so what? SpokesPerson for the President of the Unhinged Sociopaths of America

RIA Novosti: Ukrainian Official Claims Armored Vehicle Desertions Were Guerrilla Tactic
StrataRisks: NATO Bolsters Defenses With Air, Sea Patrols on Russia’s borders
Reuters: Pro-Russia separatists take armor, humiliating Ukraine forces

The way Reuters spins this, the Ukrainian forces were gutless wimps and the separatists humiliated them. In fact, the incident demonstrates the triumph of humanity over the murderous intentions of a sociopathic American Empire intent on seizing control of a sovereign state by means of a violent Nazi-backed coup.

Clearly the bastards in Kyiv banging on about destroying autonomy seeking Russians and Russian-speakers do not represent the will of the Ukrainian people: Vivre L'Ukraine. Out with the Nazi usurpers.

The Gurudian: Ukraine crisis: Nato to bolster forces in eastern Europe
AntiWar.com: United Sociopaths of America endorses civil war in Ukraine
Global Research: US-Backed Crackdown Threatens Civil War in Ukraine
Global Research: Ukraine: Lies and Realities – “We Can See the Wide Net of US Agents Operating in Many Key Organizations”
Jim Dean: Does the CIA plan a Syrian style terror war in Ukraine?
Zero Hedge: Tanks Flying Russian Flag Enter East Ukraine City
RT: 'US miscalculated will of Ukrainian people'
VOR: Villagers stop armored column of Ukrainian troops near Lugansk
Mike Whitney: Is Putin Being Lured Into a Trap?
RT: Anti-govt protesters seize Ukrainian APCs, army units 'switch sides' (VIDEO)
RT: Kiev military op in eastern Ukraine LIVE UPDATES

Ukraine: Catapulting the Propaganda, the National Putz and Stephen Harper, the Mighty Mouse of the North

Is this the most pathetic editorial cartoon ever, or what? I mean, a cartoon's supposed to be witty isn't it? Well not at the Putz, apparently.  Their cartoon simply catapults the propaganda in the crudest form.

In that respect, the Post cartoon is remarkably similar to the most recent statement on Ukraine from Stephen Harper, a man too autistic to engage in diplomacy, but unhesitating in reiterating Washington's unsubstantiated allegations of Russian intervention in Ukraine. The US, of course, in Harper's one-dimensional mind, is entirely free to interfere in Ukrainian affairs (to the tune of $5 billion invested in a violent Nazi-backed coup in Kyiv, as boasted of by US Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland).

Perhaps Harper's irresponsible remarks were scripted by Washington and uttered on command, as on at least one previous occasion. But Canadians would do well to seek a more independent foreign policy since, should push ever come to shove, it will then become evident that Canada has virtually zero push to oppose to Russia's shove. With fewer soldiers than Toronto has police, we'd do better to keep a low profile and avoid alienating a potentially valuable trade partner for no good moral or political end.

For example, Canada has Bombardier, the world's only manufacture of both trains and planes. Russia has a lot of ground to cover. A good match, one might think. Then there's oil, gas, pipelines and timber, major features of both the Canadian and Russian economies. Are there no opportunities for collaboration in those areas too?

There is a reason, of course, that NaPo and Stephen Harper and other NeoCon liars and killers in suits are screaming about a Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is to distract attention from four significant facts:

 First, for nearly all of the last 250 years, most Ukrainians or their ancestors were Russians.

Second, for most Ukrainians Russian is their first language.

Third, the Western Ukraine nationalists include raving Russophobic maniacs such as Presidential candidate Julia Tymoshenko who wants to nuke or machine gun every Russian.

Fourth, wages in Ukraine average $300 per month, wages in Russia average $800 per month.

The last point alone, is enough to ensure that given any democratic freedom, much of Ukraine would almost certainly opt for union with Russian.

So lies about Russia are about all that the democratic United States of Aggression and its puppets and mouth-pieces can offer to bring the people of the globalist empire to the bidding of the leadership.

The Toronto Star offers the fantastic theory that in his remarks about the situation in Ukraine Stephen Harper is attacking Putin to burnish his legacy.

The thing is, to burnish a legacy, you need a legacy to start with, something that Harper seems to be entirely without in the foreign policy field.

More likely Harper's just burnishing his chances for some comfy corporate directorships following his defeat at the next election. The Carlyle Group will perhaps oblige as they have for other political deadwood such as John Major, who cashed out handsomely after being booted from office, notwithstanding that he was better fitted for the family business of making garden gnomes than running a major corporation, let alone a country. Then there's USAID, a slush fund for "aiding" cooperative politicians.

But a real puzzle remains. Who reads the National Post? I mean, who pays two bucks every day for a dose of the crudest and most uninteresting propaganda?

But then there's the same question about the New York Times (Carlos Slim, Prop.) or WaPo (Jeff Bezos, Prop.) or the London Timesey (Poop Murdoch, Prop.). Amazing: folks pay extremely rich people and mega corporations real money to have their immortal soul stuffed with lies, gossip, pornography, and total, absolute and utter rubbish. And you can get all of that free on the Internets!

Related:
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Yahoo News: Ukraine 'on the brink of civil war': Russian PM
Zero Hedge: Putin Tells Merkel "Ukraine On The Verge Of A Civil War" As Germany Agrees To Re-Sell Russian Gas To Ukraine
Canada.com: Harper pushing to send Canadian troops to Ukraine?
Philip Giraldi: Obama’s Circle of Bad Advice

Ukraine Update: April 13–15, 2014

Mish: Specter of Civil War; Putin's Army Hiding – Not Even CNN Can Find It; Easy Solution
NEO: Putin puts Ukraine Gas Payments on Europe’s back
Zero Hedge: Courage vs. Humanity: Donetsk Locals Stop A Ukraine Tank (Video)
RT: Ukraine military storm airfield, town in eastern Ukraine, wounded reported
Reuters: Russia says Ukraine close to civil war as Kiev begins offensive
Zero Hedge: Unidentified Fighter Jets Open Fire On Kramatorsk Airfield, Casualties Reported
Paul Craig Roberts: Washington Drives The World To War

Washington, the “exceptional, indispensable country,” is committed to its hegemony over the world. Russia, China, and Iran are in the way of Washington’s hegemony and are targeted for attack.

But there's no need to make it easy for them.

For Russia to undertake a pre-emptive invasion of Ukraine would provide the US with all the justification it wants for an all-out war on Russia, which might fold very quickly under an onslaught by Nato forces equipped with what would most likely prove to be superior hardware. To suggest otherwise, as Roberts does here, looks like incitement to Russian self-destruction.

James Kunstler: All This And World War, Too?

This is turning into a Vietnam moment for the US political scene. Where are the Fullbrights and Bobby Kennedys of today who have the guts to rally US citizens against insane government behavior? What elected officials among all the bought-off Koch Brother catamites and Wall Street errand boys will stand up for reality-based principle? When will the young people of this country pull their eyeballs away from their iPhones and their heads out of their cloacal vents? When will the United States begin the long-overdue task of getting its own act together?

Moscow Times: Amid Growing Violence, Ukraine rhetoric heats up
Global Research: Is the Ukrainian Security Service a US Intelligence Unit?
RT: Putin to Obama: Stop Being a Jerk, Use Your Influence to End Violence Against People of East Ukraine
VOR: Mass protest against Kyiv junta in Kyiv

Basically, no one likes a Nazi, except, of course, John Kerry, Victoria Nuland and Barack Obama. Oh, and the puppets, Cameroon, Harper, etc.

VOR: If Kiev uses force, Russian cooperation over Ukraine will be undermined – Lavrov
RT: Kyiv Nazi Regime Seeks Aid in Responding to Terrorists Intent on Separation
The Local: German vice-chancellor warns Europe risks being dragged by you-know-who into war with Russia
RT: Twit in Kerry's office: Let's send Ukraine a whole lot of stuff for killing Russians

Maybe not so stupid if you want a war the American public will be gullible enough to blame on the Russians. After all, threatened by the prospect of US reinforcements, the Russians would be smart to start the shooting before the additional hardware (and mercenaries to operate it) arrives.

Reuters: White House confirms guy with the ugly mug in Kiev was CIA Director, Brennan

But that's OK. It was just a routine, friendly get-to-know-you visit, as we prepare new provocations against those damn Russians.

Reuters: Separatist unrest spreads in Ukraine; ultimatum ends with no crackdown
Fox News: Ukraine asks for UN peacekeepers as pro-Russia militants seize more buildings
Webster Tarpley: Modern Ukraine, a 1918 Creation of the German General Staff
Global Research: European Union: From Economic Community to Alliance of Warmongers
WSWS: German television report indicates Ukrainian Neo-Nazis responsible for lethal shootings
NEO: Ukraine: The Anti-Maidan Begins
G&M: Stevie Harper, Mighty Mouse of the North, Backs Ukraine Nazis, Warns Russia
RT: Kiev must stop war on Ukrainians – Russia’s envoy to UN
RINF: We’re All Ukrainians Now
EuroNews: Lavrov challenges ‘hypocritical’ West over Kyiv ultimatum to Ukraine protesters

The violence on Maidan, which ended with dozens and dozens of deaths – this was called a democracy. While peaceful protests going on now in the southeast (of Ukraine) is called terrorism and it is declared that armed forces will be used in a so-called ‘anti-terrorism operation’

Live Leak: Elected Ukraine President Yanukovich: CIA provoking civil war in Ukraine

Of course. Then Russia will invoke the US principle of R-2-P, the Responsibility to Protect, in this case ethnic Russians against fascist oppression, including people like Ukraine Presidential candidate Tymoshenko who wants to nuke and machine-gun all Russians. Then the US and its puppets in Britain, France and Canada – and that limp-wristed Swede guy (see below) — will declare Russia a "rogue regime." Then the business of smashing Russia can begin in earnest.

Swede Radio: Swede Foreign Minister: Crush those pro-Russian East Ukrainian anti-fascist rebels
StrataRisks: France sends spy ship to Black Sea
Washington Times: Russian fighter jet buzzes U.S. Navy destroyer in Black Sea
The photo that goes with the story does not show a Russian fighter jet, but two American fighter jets flying directly over, not 500 m away from, a US naval vessel.
RiaNovosti: Russia Seeks US Explanation for CIA Director's Visit to Ukraine – Lavrov

The project of the next administration, if it's Obama, is to smash both Russia and China. People in Europe had better wake up. That silly romantic illusion that they have about Obama is going to be suicidal... (source)
Webster Tarpley

Ukraine's Fascist President Turkynov Talks Turkey
Do as we say, not as we did in Kyiv

FTM: Russia declares war on the dollar
Yahoo: US blames Russia for Ukraine tension

Hey You Putin Person: Stop messing with our Ukraine stooges. We couped Ukraine fair and square and a coup trumps a referendum, so take your talk of democracy and the peoples rights and butt out.

Yahoo: Ukraine's ousted president puts blame on CIA
Yahoo: Ukraine says Russia waging 'war' in separatist east
RT: Kiev prepares ‘armed provocations’ to discredit pro-federation forces, Russia
Voltaire.net: Press Kit on Human Rights in Ukraine

TOUGH TURKEY:
Aleksandr Turchinov: President of the
fascist revolutionary junta has launched
a war on protesters in Eastern Ukraine.

US Media labels anti-coup protesters in Ukraine terrorists: e.g., Fix News, ABCNews. Meantime, Canada, the pipsqueak terror of the North, is gonna punish dem nasty Commie Ruskies.
Zero Hedge: Ukraine Mobilizes Military, Gives Separatists Ultimatum; Russia Slams Escalation As "Criminal", Yanukovich Warns Of Civil War
BBC: Ukraine to fight pro-Russia>
RT: Moscow slams Kiev’s military op order as ‘criminal’, calls for UN Security Council meeting

Events in south-eastern Ukraine have taken a very dangerous turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

“The Kiev authorities, who self-proclaimed themselves as a result of a coup, have embarked on the violent military suppression of the protests,” the ministry said adding that the rallies, which have gripped the Donbas region were prompted by Kiev’s disregard of the legitimate interests the people.

Moscow slammed Sunday’s order, issued by the coup-imposed acting President Aleksandr Turchinov approving a full-scale security operation in the country’s eastern regions, as “criminal”.

“Blood has already been spilled as the result of such actions in the South East.”
 
The ministry’s statement elaborated that Russia strongly condemns attempts to use brutal force against protesters and activists by involving militants from the far-right Right Sector group or other illegal armed forces.

VOR: Right Sector thugs (US Mercenaries?) arrive in Slavyansk to suppress protests
RT: Ukraine turmoil LIVE UPDATES
Moscow Times: CIA Director Held 'Secret Consultations' in Kiev on operations against separatists
Zero Hedge: One Killed in Shooting Between Ukraine Special Forces And Pro-Russia Separatists
Zero Hedge: Ukraine Prepares Military Response To Russian "Act Of Aggression"
Itar-Tass: President Vladimir Putin's letter to leaders of European countries. Full text
VOR: Israel rejects Washington's pressure over Ukraine
RT: Pro-federalization activists take over govt buildings across Eastern Ukraine
György Schwartz: The Man Behind the Mess in Ukraine
Related: Ukraine, etc. April 11–13, 2014

The Struggle Is For Control of Europe, Not Ukraine

RIA Novosti: Putin Tells US Leaders ‘Not Nice to Read Others' Mail’

Henry Stimson, US Secretary of State
(1929–1933). Chiefly remembered for saying
"Gentlemen do not read each others mail."

The US intends to drive a wedge between Europe and Russia, and is determined, therefore, to dictate an uncooperative European response to Russia's proposals for collaboration over the economic reconstruction of Ukraine. Hence, the insolent American attempt to dictate Europe's response to Putin's letter to the European heads of state.

The danger to the US from Russian–European cooperation is clear. Europe with Russia, a Christian European nation, has everything the US has and more: more economy, more people, more rockets, more resources and more room. What integration of the two would mean is an end to the US Empire and the US occupation of Europe.

That is why the United States will now deploy every means of persuasion at its command — threats, blackmail and bribery — to force Europe to confront, rather than collaborate, with Russia. To the extent that the effort succeeds, we will know the extent to which the Europe is ruled by Quislings.

The outcome is in the balance. As Zero Hedge Reports:

... As is well known by now, officials in Kiev's Western-leaning interim government say Russian forces may be preparing to cross the frontier into Ukraine on the pretext of protecting the pro-Russian activists from persecution, though Moscow denies this. And since the narrative is quite clear, and since Kiev itself has been the most desperate to escalate the conflict with Russia into outright war in hopes of getting NATO backing, it is never quite clear just who is behind any provocation.

And as if to formally accelerate the fallout Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said police would deal very firmly with the group in Slaviansk. "There is a difference between protesters and terrorists," he wrote on his Facebook page....

That's the trick, to provoke a new European civil war with European Nato forces and European Russian forces killing one another. Then the US occupation of Europe and the US Empire will be secure for another generation.

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Paul Craig Roberts: Is the US or the World Coming to an End?
Global Research: The Geopolitics of The Russia -Ukraine Gas Dispute
RT: ‘Giving out pies in Maidan not enough’: Putin urges West to really help Ukraine
Itar-Tass: Russia expects US reply to proposed agenda for meeting on Ukraine April 14
RT: Voices of Ukraine: 'Kiev, people are not cattle!'
RT: West, Kiev apply double standards to protesters in E. Ukraine – Lavrov

Ukraine, etc. April 11–13, 2014

Alexander Orlov: The Middle East within the anti-Russian plans of the White House
Global Research: Rising Tensions: Pentagon Threatens Russia and China
RIANovosti: Russia Does Not Acknowledge US Sanctions Against Iran – Russian Finance Minister
Zero Hedge: Ukraine Sends Special Forces To "Deal" With Separatists; Donetsk Police Chief Steps Down Zero Hedge: "The Liberation Of Southeast Ukraine Has Begun", Says Crimea Vice Premier
Zero Hedge: Russia Tells Ukraine It Won't "Accept" Force Against Demonstrators
Zero Hedge: Ukraine Sends Special Forces To "Deal" With Separatists; Donetsk Police Chief Steps Down
RT: Russia sets 4 conditions in return for aid to Ukraine
BBC: Ukraine gunmen seize two buildings in Sloviansk
SMH: Kiev offers more regional power to stop pro-Russian east breaking away
Gawker: The Coup of '63 as expounded by Wall St Genius Mark Gorton

Which corresponds with our own assessment of the Kennedy assassination: JFK Assassination: The 50th Anniversary.

President of Russia: Government of Russia discussion of Russia Ukraine trade relations

Vladimir Putin: The situation is certainly strange, to put it lightly, because, as you know, our partners in Europe recognise the legitimacy of today’s authorities in Kiev, but are not doing anything to support Ukraine – not a single dollar, not a single euro. The Russian Federation does not recognise the legitimacy of the powers in Kiev, but continues to provide economic support and still subsidises Ukraine’s economy with hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. Naturally, this situation cannot continue indefinitely...

Zero Hedge: Europe Folds As Putin Tells It To Pay Ukraine's Gazprom Bill, Or Else
RT: Ukraine's elite Alfa anti-terrorist unit of the security service refuses to assault protestors in Donetsk
VOR: Ukraine: Maidan snipers were 'Saakashvili's people' - Georgian general
RT: NATO’s Russian troop build-up satellite images ‘show 2013 drills’
Zero Hedge: Donetsk Creates "People's Army"
Obama Girl: The best four minute video summary of the Obama Presidency
The Daily Sheeple: 100 Facts About The Moral Collapse Of America
Cem Ertür: NATO and Turkey’s genocidal war on Syria
Robert Parry: Washington Was Lying Again: The Syrian Gas Attack
Patrick Buchanan: The New Blacklist
Club Orlov: Amerika's Sham Democracy
Finian Cunningham: Surrealpolitic
Paul Craig Roberts: Obama Issues Threats To Russia And NATO
Peter Koenig: Russia’s Petro-Ruble Challenges US Dollar Hegemony

Related:
Ukraine Update, April 7–8, 2014

The American Elite Pushing Porn: The Dirty Dozen

The following list just lobbed in from an outfit called Porn Harms. I have no idea who they are or what they do, but they seem to be against the West's descent into the abyss of self-destructive decadence, so here's their message. You can find out more at: www.PornHarms.com.

Funny thing though, when you see what PornHarms has to say about Google, for example, you wonder what they're really about. They say:

Currently, Google forces the user to manually opt-out of porn if they do not wish to be exposed to such content. However, Google has the ability to allow users to opt-in if they wish to see this. Efforts in the UK and Canada with Internet Service Providers are seeking to make porn-access an opt-in feature, rather than the default setting. GOOGLE could easily do the same.

So, apparently, they think it's fine for Google to distribute porn for profit just as long as users "opt in."

Yeah, well, no wonder the US empire is headed for Hades in a hurry.

The 2014 Dirty Dozen

Attorney General Eric Holder – Mr. Holder refuses to enforce existing federal obscenity laws against hardcore adult pornography, despite the fact that these laws have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and effectively enforced by previous attorneys general.

Verizon – Verizon pushes porn into our homes now through hardcore pay-per-view movies on FIOS, smartphones, and tablets and as an Internet Service Provider with insufficient filtering options.

Sex Week – Yale and other colleges and universities repeatedly offer Sex Week on campus. Porn stars are routinely invited to lecture and pornography that glamourizes “fantasy rape” is screened.

Google – Google’s empire thrives on porn. Porn is easily available, even to children, through YouTube, GooglePlay, Google Images and Google Ads.

Tumblr – This popular social media blogging site bombards users with porn. Users must only be 13 and the filters do not work.

50 Shades of Gray – This bestselling book series and upcoming movie are normalizing sexual violence, domination, and torture of women. Oprah Winfrey Network, Broadway and other mainstream outlets have even promoted this abusive lifestyle.

Facebook – Facebook has become a top place to trade pornography, child pornography and for sexual exploitation. Facebook’s guidelines prohibit such behavior, but the company is doing little to enforce them.

Barnes & Noble – This Fortune 500 Company is a major supplier of adult pornography and child erotica.  They regularly put pornography near the children's sections in their stores and provide free, unfiltered porn publications on their Nook e-reader.

Hilton – This hotel chain, like Hyatt, Starwood and many other top hotel chains, provides hardcore pornography movie choices. Porn channels are often the first advertisement on their in-room TVs.

Playstation – PlayStation’s live-streaming abilities are filling thousands of homes with live porn and the PlayStation Store sells hundreds of pornographic and sexually violent games.

American Library Association – The ALA encourages public libraries to keep their computers unfiltered and allow patrons, including children, to access pornography.

Cosmopolitan Magazine – The magazine is a full-on pornographic, “how-to” sex guide, encouraging women to accept the pornified culture around them. They specifically market this content to teen girls.