There’s an odor of prejudice in how the mainstream U.S. news media treats the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, as if they are mindless beings, easily duped “minions” of Vladimir Putin. But this bias reflects more negatively on the U.S. press than on the people who are being insulted, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry […]
By Ron Paul: In several eastern Ukrainian towns over the past week, the military opened fire on its own citizens. Dozens may have been killed in the violence. Although the US government generally condemns a country’s use of military force against its own population, especially if they are unarmed protesters, this time the US administration […]
The unelected Ukrainian leader Oleksander Turchinov warned pro-Russian eastern regions they would be stepping into the abyss if they voted for self-rule on Sunday in a referendum that has raised Western fears of a slide to full civil war. Barricades of tires and scrap metal blocked streets in the port city of Mariupol and in […]
John Kerry repeats them ad nauseam. They come in country reports. They’re in press releases. They’re in daily briefings. May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. It reminds governments of their obligation to support it. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; […]
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the Russian interception and leak of her now-infamous call to US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoff Pyatt. The call consisted of the two plotting to install a US puppet government in Ukraine after overthrowing the current, democratically elected government. The Obama Administration had been falsely blaming Russia to the moment the […]
Russia’s drills on the border with Ukraine do not contradict the Geneva agreements, the Russian delegation said in a statement on Monday during talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, Interfax reports. “The Geneva agreements do not stipulate restrictions on activities of the Russian armed forces within its national boundaries,” the document said. […]
The Obama regime, wallowing in hubris and arrogance, has recklessly escalated the Ukrainian crisis into a crisis with Russia. Whether intentionally or stupidly, Washington’s propagandistic lies are driving the crisis to war. Unwilling to listen to any more of Washington’s senseless threats, Moscow no longer accepts telephone calls from Obama and US top officials. The […]
BBC Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the links between the new Ukrainian government and Neo-Nazis. [youtube 5SBo0akeDMY nolink] The European and American public are being systematically lied to about the Ukraine crisis. [youtube fWkfpGCAAuw nolink]
The CIA director was sent to Kiev to launch a military suppression of the Russian separatists in the eastern and southern portions of Ukraine, former Russian territories for the most part that were foolishly attached to the Ukraine in the early years of Soviet rule. Obama’s plan to grab Ukraine overlooked that the Russian and […]
NYU Russian Studies Professor Stephen Cohen explains the reaction of Russia’s President regarding the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych. Professor Cohen makes a very valid case for Putin’s reaction to the NATO expansionist strategy of the past fifteen years. Russia’s tolerance of past NATO aggression and continuous testing of Russia’s resolve […]
