Monday, October 5, 2015

Dempsey in Israel, Jordan, to tie last ends before Obama decides finally on US military action in Syria

Chairman of the US Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived in Israel Monday, Aug. 12 for critical talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, followed by parallel talks in Jordan. debkafile reports he has come to lay the ground ahead of President Barack Obama’s final decision to embark on limited US military intervention in the Syria civil war.
The Obama plan, if it goes forward, would involve Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Israel, Jordan and possibly Turkey. debkafile’s Washington and military sources reveal its 11 high points - most of which were first reported exclusively in DEBKA Weekly 598 on Aug. 1:

1. US, British, French, Saudi and United Arab Emirates will establish a no-fly zone over central and southern Syria, stretching from the Jordanian-Israeli borders up to and including Damascus.

2. The Israeli Air Force will provide these forces with air cover from Syrian air space.

3. A 40-kilometer deep military buffer zone will be drawn from the Jordanian-Israeli borders up to the southern and western outskirts of Damascus. The military units controlling this zone will hold the entire area of the capital within artillery range.

4. The southern Syrian town of Deraa, where the Syrian uprising sprang up, will be declared capital of Liberated Syria.

5. President Obama has determined that there will no American troops in the buffer zone or anywhere else on Syrian soil, only special Syrian rebel forces.
6. Those forces will consist of 3,000 fighters trained in Jordan by US military instructors. They will be headed by Jordanian special forces and operate under US officers based in Jordan.

7. To host them, the US Army has just finished building in the Hashemite Kingdom a huge training camp and logistical system, debkafile’s military sources report. All the weapons and equipment required to train and arm the rebel force are already stacked there.
8. The American operational command center for the Syrian operation is already in place in Amman led by US Brig. Gen. John Wright, who at 57 is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

9. The US air force units for imposing the no-fly zone over Syria are already in position at Middle East locations and ready to go at 36 hours’ notice.

10. A Druze unit trained by US military instructors will be a key component of the special rebel force. It was put up by the million-strong community which populates 120 villages and towns in the Jabal al-Druze area of southern Syria. They are situated in a commanding position overlooking the Syrian-Jordanian-Iraqi border triangle.

11. US forces deployed in the Middle East, especially in Jordan and Israel, will stand ready for possible reprisals against American, Israeli, Jordanian or Turkish targets, if ordered by Syrian President Bashar Assad in retaliation for the no-fly and buffer zones.




Thursday, October 1, 2015

In Ukraine, Corruption Concerns Linger a Year After a Revolution

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

KIEV, Ukraine — The country is on the cliff of bankruptcy. A spate of politically motivated killings and mysterious suicides of former government officials has sown fear in the capital. Infighting has begun to splinter the pro-European majority coalition in Parliament. And a constant threat of war lingers along the Russian border.

A year after the election of Petro O. Poroshenko as president to replace the ousted Viktor F. Yanukovych, and six months after the swearing in of a new legislature, Ukraine remains deeply mired in political and economic chaos.

“Poroshenko, whether you like him or not, he’s not delivering,” said Bruce P. Jackson, the president of the Project on Transitional Democracies, an American nonprofit group. “The Ukrainian government is so weak and fragile that it is too weak to do the necessary things to build a unified and independent state.”

Efforts to forge a political settlement between the government in Kiev and Russian-backed separatists who control much of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk have hit a deadlock over procedural disputes, despite a cease-fire in February calling for decentralization of power and greater local autonomy as the linchpins of a long-term accord.

The shattered economy keeps sinking, with the G.D.P. plummeting 17.6 percent in the first quarter of 2015. Hoping to avoid default, senior officials have been in protracted negotiations with creditors, but they have failed so far to secure a deal. Officials also now fret openly that more than $40 billion pledged by the International Monetary Fund and allies, including the United States and the European Union, will not be enough to keep the country afloat.

In perhaps the greatest disappointment to the protesters who seized the center of Kiev last year, the new government led by Mr. Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk has so far failed to deliver on promises to root out endemic corruption. Instead, it has become ensnared in new allegations of misconduct and charges of political score-settling.

The Parliament, in which pro-European parties control a huge majority, voted last month to create a special committee to investigate accusations that Mr. Yatsenyuk, a suave English speaker admired in the West, and his cabinet have presided over the embezzlement of more than $325 million from the state.

The government and its supporters deny any wrongdoing and say it has gone further than any of its predecessors in trying to shake off Ukraine’s post-Soviet legacy of mismanagement and malfeasance. They point out that Parliament has adopted a slew of reform initiatives, notably an overhaul of the notoriously crooked natural gas industry and installing new leadership at the national bank.

The continuing disarray is becoming a source of friction between the Ukrainian government and its European allies, especially Germany and France, whose leaders helped broker the cease-fire and are increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of change.

“We don’t have simply Russian aggression against the victim Ukraine,” Mr. Jackson said. “We have a predictably aggressive Russia against an unpredictable and unreliable Ukraine. Ukraine is now seen as not to be trusted. What the E.U. is saying is: Where is the decentralization? Where is the commitment? Where are the reforms?”



Not surprisingly, public confidence in the government has slumped, as well.

Adding to the tumult, Mr. Poroshenko recently declared a crackdown on the country’s richest and most powerful businessmen, known as oligarchs, in a bid to curtail their influence and to win back popular support. Yet the assault risks making enemies of the country’s biggest employers, who until now have backed the government.

“When you don’t want to do anything and you don’t have anything to report on what you have already done, you need an enemy,” said Dmitry V. Firtash, a former patron of Mr. Yanukovych who is a major target in the so-called de-oligarchization campaign. “It’s very convenient to use rich people as scapegoats.”

For Kiev, there is no greater problem, and no greater test, than the as-yet futile fight against corruption. Even officials on the forefront of the effort say it has so far largely gone nowhere.

David Sakvarelidze, the deputy prosecutor general, who helped carry out sweeping changes to the judicial system in his native Georgia, has been given Ukrainian citizenship and a mandate to overhaul the prosecutor’s office.

“They are still corrupted, and no systemic changes have been made in law enforcement agencies and in courts,” Mr. Sakvarelidze said in an interview in his office in Kiev.

He described a criminal justice system that needs to be rebuilt nearly from scratch. For example, he said, there was no effective system of plea bargaining to allow prosecutors to resolve cases swiftly, and no clear goals that set national priorities in law enforcement.

“We do not have any criminal policy,” he said. “None of the prosecutors have clear guidelines.”

Instead of existing government agencies taking action, Mr. Sakvarelidze said, the Parliament has been overly focused on adopting legislation that creates even more bureaucracy.

One of the major promises to come out of the Maidan revolution was a new anticorruption bureau, which is expected to employ 700 enforcement officers. On April 16, after long delays, Mr. Poroshenko finally selected the bureau’s first director, Artem Sytnyk, a former Kiev city prosecutor.

Because of the delays, the government has been unable to deliver on pledges of swift restitution. Most notably, it has failed to recover any of the billions of dollars believed to have been stolen by the former president, Mr. Yanukovych, his family and closest associates.

Nor have Mr. Yanukovych or any of the senior officials who fled with him been arrested, with many now in Russia. Corruption investigations against other former officials and executives of state-owned companies have largely stalled.

Egor Sobolev, an organizer of last year’s protests who is now a member of Parliament and chairman of its Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction, said his panel was flooded with complaints.

“The biggest problem in the country is we do not have a real system of justice, we do not have judges, most of them are people from Yanukovych’s time, very corrupted,” he said. “The same situation with prosecutors.”

“And another problem, a very big problem,” he added, was that “Mr. Poroshenko as the president is not ready to fire them.”


Mr. Sobolev is not alone in his lack of trust in the new government. Many of the Maidan demonstrators who are now in government posts say they are uncomfortable with Mr. Poroshenko and Mr. Yatsenyuk, who were opponents of Mr. Yanukovych but also longtime veterans of the Ukrainian political system that the demonstrators wanted to dismantle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/world/europe/in-ukraine-corruption-concerns-linger-a-year-after-a-revolution.html?ref=world&_r=3



Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The genocide in Ukraine 2014-2015

This article by investigative reporter Olga Luzanova provides photographic and video evidence of the impacts of Kiev regime bombings directed against residential areas and schools in Donbass.
Civilians have been deliberately targeted.  
These war crimes have  been ignored by the mainstream media. They been not been acknowledged by  the UN Human Rights Commission. 
The fundamental rights of children have been blatantly violated by the US sponsored Kiev regime in derogation of international law.  

Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
We recall that last October, President Petro Poroshenko contrasted the prospects for Ukrainians with those of the people from the Donbass region during a speech in Odessa. In particular, the President promised:
“Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, while theirs will be holed up in basements!”
Thus far, the Ukrainian government has been doing its best to keep its word. Here is one of the children sitting in a basement in accordance with the Ukrainian President’s will.
Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
Article edited by @GBabeuf
The Acting Commander of the Perevalsk Command offered me a short tour of a little town which just happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the front-line. The Ukrainian forces had been firing towards the residential district of the town right up until the day when the Militia had mopped up Debaltsevo. We took the road which I knew very well. We drove through the town where I could see the consequences of the shelling all around. We approached the school from its rear and saw there a football pitch with a huge crater in the middle of it. Then we saw another crater from an Uragan missile near the school.


 http://www.globalresearch.ca/crimes-against-humanity-ukraine-president-poroshenko-keeps-his-word-weve-bombed-the-schools-donbass-children-dont-go-to-school/5439926

 Forty three people were reported dead officially by Kiev. According to the witnesses, and even some politicians the real data concealed by Ukrainian government reaches over a hundred people burnt alive and murdered, and two hundred forty-seven people injured on that day. R.I.P.
http://slavyangrad.org/2015/05/05/r-i-p-ukraine-may-2-2014/

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By Melissa Jones —
In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.
A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”
To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.
One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:
“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”
Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.
- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf
By Melissa Jones —
In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.
A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”
To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.
One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:
“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”
Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.
- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf

By Melissa Jones —

In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.

A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”

To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.

One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:

“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”

Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.

By Melissa Jones —
In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.
A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”
To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.
One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:
“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”
Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.
- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf
By Melissa Jones —
In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.
A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”
To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.
One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:
“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”
Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.
- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf
 To mislead the public, experts and reporters call the catastrophe “a conflict” between the Ukrainian army and “pro-Russian separatists.” Residents assert that the region’s peaceful population is being murdered on purpose, with hundreds killed or injured daily.

A 34-year-old mother wrote on February 3:

“I badly want everyone to know that the Ukrainian government wants to wipe us off the face of the Earth. They are demolishing our homes and killing our children and old folks at bus stops, in buses, in hospitals, in homes. Our children sit at home and in shelters. And they don’t show this on TV. You can only see this on the Internet. And if now America gives Ukraine lethal weapons, we will cease to exist. Ukraine is killing us with America’s help.”

If Washington’s new puppet government in Ukraine doesn’t want to wipe out the Russian Donbass people in eastern Ukraine, then why did they make the controversial decision to starve millions by cutting off access to personal money with which to buy food and essentials?

If the Ukrainian government doesn’t want to murder as many civilians as possible, then why deny entry to charitable organizations, which can bring aid to hundreds of thousands who are at risk of starvation or injuries?

Why would the U.S. send Ukraine $1 billion in weapons when on January 29 Ukraine’s top general said that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine?

A 21-year-old with a baby born in October 2014 told AFP:

“If America sends weapons, we will be exterminated—not rebel ‘separatists’ as they consider us, but peaceful and ordinary residents of the city of Donetsk. What are we guilty of? I want to live, to raise my child and to celebrate every new quiet and peaceful day, not to cry every day and pray for survival.”

Lifesaving donations marked “For Ukraine” can be sent to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 4001 17th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20011.

Melissa Jones is an independent journalist based in Virginia. She is also an activist for sound money policy and alternative health issues.

 http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798


Sunday, July 5, 2015

Moscow Warns US Not to Store Military Hardware Near Russian Border

Washington was planning to store some 1,200 pieces of heavy military equipment in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia and, possibly, in Hungary, according to media reports.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Reports pointing out at US plans to store military equipment on NATO's "eastern flank" near the Russian border indicate that Washington is aiming to undermine a key provision of the 1997 Russia-NATO Founding Act, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Western media earlier reported that Washington was planning to store some 1,200 pieces of heavy military equipment, including 250 main battle tanks, in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia and, possibly, in Hungary, "to ensure continuous training on rotation basis."
"This information confirms that the United States and its allies are seriously determined to undermine the key provision of the 1997 Russia-NATO Founding Act stipulating that NATO has pledged not to deploy substantial military forces on the territory of the above-mentioned countries on a permanent basis," the ministry said in a statement.
"This move increases the risks of US military strategy on NATO's 'eastern flank' gaining the "life of its own,' in contrast with reality and political interests of the European peoples, and developing a forward momentum that will be difficult to stop," the statement said.
NATO has been increasingly building up close to Russia's borders since Crimea broke away from Ukraine and rejoined Russia last March. The bloc has accused Moscow of illegally annexing the peninsula and providing military support to eastern Ukraine's independence supporters, engaged in fighting against Kiev.
Russia has dismissed the accusations as groundless and voiced concern that NATO's military presence can only further destabilize the region.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150615/1023401618.html 







U.S. May Position for a War Against Russia

Russia Says It Will Respond If U.S. Does So
Eric Zuesse
On Saturday, June 13th, The New York Times bannered, “U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe,” and Russia’s response to the announcement wasn’t long in coming.
The Russian equivalent of America’s Wall Street Journal and Britain’s Financial Times, which is Kommersant (or Businessperson), headlined on June 15th, “US may redeploy heavy weapons to the borders of the Russian Federation,” and reported that, “According to sources in the Russian Government, the implementation of this plan will force Moscow to post on the border with the Baltic countries Russia’s own offensive military capability that can destroy US facilities in the event of a hypothetical conflict.”
The report in the Times had noted that, “The proposal, if approved, would represent the first time since the end of the Cold War that the United States has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member nations in Eastern Europe that had once been part of the Soviet sphere of influence.” 
The Soviet Union (and its communism, which the U.S. always said was the basis for the Cold War) ended in 1991. That was the same year when the Warsaw Pact — Russia’s equivalent of NATO — also ended. In Russia, the expectation was that that would be that — there would be no more hostility between the governments of the U.S.A. and Russia. Russian leaders had assumed this, but it turned out not to be the case. (Perhaps this explains part of the reason why it turned out not to be so: Dick Cheney’s Halliburton Corporation in the 1990s estimated that Russia has enormous oil deposits.)
The U.S. has thus been expanding NATO right up to the very borders of Russia, after the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact ended in 1991. (Russia did no such thing to the United States; Russia hasn’t been trying to surround the U.S. with enemy nations.) The NATO expansion started in 1999, when U.S. President Bill Clinton brought into NATO the former Warsaw Pact member-nations of Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. Then, this threatening (if not aggressive) U.S. move, expanded even further in 2004, when U.S. President George W. Bush brought into NATO other former Warsaw Pact members: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. 
Next, in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama brought into NATO two more former Warsaw Pact nations, Albania and Croatia. 
Finally, President Obama, in a 2014 very bloody coup d’etat, overthrew the neutralist government of Ukraine, and replaced it with a government which is filled with politicians whose political heritage goes back to the pro-Hitler and rabidly anti-Russian political movements in Ukraine during World War II, and these fascist U.S.-client politicians have many times spoken of their aim being to join NATO and — with NATO’s help — to destroy Russia. America’s threat to Russia is very real.
Russian intelligence had, even earlier than Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision on 20 November 2013 to decline membership in the EU, gotten wind of the Obama Administration’s preparations ever since the Spring of 2013, to overthrow the neutralist Yanukovych and replace him with a racist-fascist anti-Russian regime in next-door Ukraine: a bunch of nazis who are Russian-hating fascists even more than they are Jew-hating fascists. They hate the Russian people. What nation wants a rabidly hostile regime like that on its doorstep? Consequently, within even less than a month after the American coup, Russia prevented America’s planned follow-on takeover of Russia’s main naval base, which is on the then-Ukrainian island of Crimea. The Soviet dictator Nikita Khruschev had donated Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, though Crimea had always been part of Russia; and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin provided, immediately after the coup, Russian protection to Crimeans, so that they could hold their own vote on whether to rejoin with Russia. Even the hard-like anti-Russian Forbes magazine commentator, Kenneth Rapoza, headlined on 20 March 2015, “One Year After Russia Annexed Crimea, Locals Prefer Moscow To Kiev,” and he reviewed several polls, some taken by U.S.-owned polling organizations, all showing almost 100% support among Crimeans for the switch back to being Russians again and no longer being subject to rule from Kiev — especially not this Russia-hating Kiev regime. Rapoza concluded simply, “At some point, the West will have to recognize Crimea’s right to self rule.” But U.S. President Obama, and his followers within the European Union, still refuse to do that. The people of Scotland are allowed to vote on whether to secede from the UK, but the people of Crimea (who never self-identified as Ukrainians nearly to the extent they self-identified as Russians) cannot do likewise? That’s what the West’s hypocritical leaders are saying — and now a World War III could result from it.
So, Obama and the EU slapped economic sanctions on Russia (for what are actually the consequences of America’s coup); and, when the new Ukrainian Government started a bombing campaign to eliminate the inhabitants in the Donbass region of Ukraine, which had voted over 90% for Viktor Yanukovych (which is the only way to get Obama’s regime-change in Ukraine to survive future elections — i.e., to get rid of the voters there) the West then blamed Russia for assisting the residents in the Donbass region to defend themselves against the exterminationist invasion from Kiev. And President Obama still insists that Ukraine seize back both Donbass and Crimea.
And this brings us to today, and, perhaps, to the brink of a U.S.-Russian war.
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Friday, July 3, 2015

Minsk Agreement 2.0 – February 12, 2015 (English)

A Set of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements

  1. Immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions of Ukraine and its strict implementation commencing at 00 h. 00 min. (Kiev), on February 15, 2015.
  1. Withdrawal of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distances in order to create a security zone with a width of at least 50 km between them for artillery systems with a calibre of 100 mm and more, and a security zone with a width of 70 km for MLRS and with a width of 140 km for MLRS “Tornado-S” “Uragan,” “Smerch” and tactical missile systems “Tochka” (“Tochka-U”):
– for the Ukrainian troops: from the actual line of contact;
– for the armed formations of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions of Ukraine: from the line of contact in accordance with the Minsk Memorandum of September 19, 2014.
The withdrawal of heavy weapons set out above shall begin no later than the second day after the cease-fire and end within 14 days.
This process will be assisted by the OSCE, with the support of the Trilateral Contact Group.
  1. On the part of the OSCE, to ensure effective monitoring and verification of the ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the first day of the withdrawal, with the use of all necessary means, including satellites, drones, radar systems and so forth.
  1. On the first day following the withdrawal to begin a dialogue with respect to the modalities of the local elections in accordance with Ukrainian legislation and the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions,” as well as with respect to the future operation of these areas on the basis of the Law.
Immediately, and not later than 30 days from the date of signing of this document, to adopt a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the specification of the territory covered by the special regime provided for in the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions”, [such territory] to be based on the line set out in the Minsk Memorandum of September 19, 2014
  1. Provide pardons and amnesties by means of enacting a law prohibiting the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that took place in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions of Ukraine.
  1. Facilitate the release and exchange of all hostages and illegally detained persons, based on the principle of “all for all”. This process must be completed no later than the fifth day following the withdrawal.
  1. Provide secure access, delivery, storage and distribution of humanitarian assistance to those in need on the basis of an international mechanism.
  1. Determination of the modalities of the full restoration of the socio-economic relations, including social transfers, such as pensions and other payments (receipts and income, timely payment of all utility bills, renewal of taxation within the legal framework of Ukraine).
To this end, Ukraine shall re-establish control over the segment of its banking system in the areas affected by conflict, and it is possible that an international mechanism to facilitate such transfers will be created.
  1. Restoration of full control by the government of Ukraine over the state border throughout the conflict zone, which shall begin on the first day following the local elections and be completed following a comprehensive political settlement ([to wit:] [1] local elections in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions on the basis of the Law of Ukraine and [2] a constitutional reform) by the end of 2015, subject to the fulfilment of Paragraph 11—in consultation and by agreement with the representatives of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group.
  1. Withdrawal of all foreign armed units, military equipment, as well as mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under the supervision of the OSCE. The disarmament of all illegal groups.
  1. Passing of a constitutional reform in Ukraine with the entry into force by the end of 2015 of a new constitution, which shall incorporate decentralization as a key element (taking into account the characteristics of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions, to be agreed upon with the representatives of these areas), as well as, before the end of 2015, adoption of permanent legislation with respect to the special status of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions in accordance with the measures specified in Note [1].
  1. On the basis of the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions”, all questions regarding local elections shall be discussed and agreed upon with the representatives of these areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group. Elections shall be held in compliance with the relevant standards of the OSCE and shall be monitored by the OSCE ODIHR.
  1. To intensify the activities of the Trilateral Contact Group, including through the establishment of working groups to implement the relevant aspects of the Minsk Agreements. [These working groups] shall reflect the composition of the Trilateral Contact Group.

Note 1:
Such measures in accordance with the Law “On the special order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions” shall include the following:
  • exemption from punishment, harassment and discrimination of individuals associated with the events that took place in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;
  • the right to linguistic self-determination;
  • participation of local governments in the appointment of the heads of prosecutorial bodies and the courts in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;
  • ability for the central executive authorities to enter into agreements regarding economic, social and cultural development of certain regions of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions with the relevant local authorities;
  • the State shall support the socio-economic development of individual regions of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;
  • facilitation by the central government of cross-border cooperation between certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions and the regions of the Russian Federation;
  • establishment of units of People’s Militia by order of local councils with the goal of maintaining public order in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;
  • the powers of local council deputies and officers elected in early elections, to be set by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in accordance with this law, may not be terminated.
 http://slavyangrad.org/2015/02/12/minsk-agreement-2-0-february-12-2015/




Thursday, June 11, 2015

Der Spiegel Apologizes to Readers over Coverage of Bellingcat MH17 Report

Under the headline "What we learn from the coverage of the Bellingcat report," Der Spiegel's online edition has published an apology for taking it at face value.

"Among our journalistic principles is the fact that we do not assess explosive news as reliable until we have received it from two trustworthy sources independent from each other."

"If we rate news so explosive that we do not want to withhold it from you, dear readers, even if we could not verify it, then we choose a careful formulation."

But this, the choosing of a careful formulation for yet to be verified explosive news, is exactly what Der Spiegel failed to do at least twice during the initial coverage of the Bellingcat MH17 report.

MORE:
http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150609/1023137858.html
http://love-anarchy.clan.su/others/DerSpiegel.pdf



Monday, June 8, 2015

Obama’s ‘G-1-plus-6′

Exclusive: As much as President Obama needs President Putin’s help on Syria, Iran and other global hotspots, he has fallen in line behind U.S. hardliners in seeking to ratchet up the confrontation over Ukraine and now is trying to bring the Europeans along at the G-7, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
By Ray McGovern
The “G-7 summit” at a resort in Germany’s picturesque Bavaria region is likely to show whether “G-7” should be called “G-1-plus-6” – number “one” being what President Barack Obama continues to call the “only indispensable country in the world”; the “six” being those countries that Russian President Vladimir Putin has labeled Washington’s “junior partners.”
The “G-7” – consisting of Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Japan, Canada and the U.S. – formerly was known as the “G-8” until Russia was booted last year after being blamed for the violent aftermath of the U.S.-sponsored coup d’etat in Kiev on Feb. 22, 2014.
Last year, the West was in high dudgeon over what it deemed “Russian aggression” and what Secretary of State John Kerry termed Russia’s “Nineteenth Century behavior.” After all, the U.S. and its allies are well known for always respecting the territorial integrity of other countries regardless of the circumstances. Okay, well, maybe not.
However, at the Bavarian summit, the U.S. is hoping to rekindle some of that old outrage to get the European Union to extend economic sanctions on Russia, though they are hurting the EU’s struggling economies, too.
The main question is whether German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, who have witnessed up-front-and-personal the behavior of Washington’s neocon policymakers and their Ukrainian puppets, will summon the courage to act like adults.
Will the leaders of Germany and France continue to bend to the U.S. diktat? Or are they more likely, this time, to stand up on their own feet and resist pressure from the U.S. and its UK lackey for continued punitive sanctions against Russia?
Merkel and Hollande have had the chance personally to take the measure of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his client relationship with the U.S. At a very different kind of summit on Feb. 11-12 in Belorussia, with U.S. representatives pointedly not invited and only Poroshenko reflecting U.S. objectives, Merkel and Hollande worked out with him and Putin the so-called “Minsk II” package agreement that included a ceasefire – which pretty much held until just recently – and a mechanism for resolving the political confrontation between the post-coup regime in Kiev and the ethnic Russian resistance in the east.
Merkel and Hollande are no political novices. And, if they know their history, they know what a Pétain or a Quisling looks like. In any case, they cannot have failed to recognize what Poroshenko looks like and how he continues to do the bidding of the neocons running U.S. policy on Ukraine, who are hell-bent on demonizing Putin and ostracizing Russia – all with little heed to the economic and longer-term security damage inflicted on “junior partners” like Germany and France.
Shortly after Minsk II was signed, the hard-line Ukrainian parliament, led by U.S. favorite Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, approved implementing legislation that was designed not to implement the political side of the agreement. A “poison pill” was inserted that, in effect, required the ethnic Russian rebels in the east to surrender before negotiations proceeded. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Ukraine’s Poison Pill for Peace Talks.”]
Sinking Peace
Poroshenko signed the law to the delight of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, the neocon operative who had hand-picked Yatsenyuk before the coup, telling U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt that “Yats is the guy” while also repudiating the European Union’s more cautious approach back then with the pithy remark, “Fuck the EU.”
Yatsenyuk remains Nuland’s go-to guy when it comes to not resolving the Ukraine crisis — and surely not restoring the pre-crisis working relationship that Obama had with Putin, a tandem that had undermined neocon dreams of more “regime change” in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Iran, by instead working on diplomatic solutions to those difficult problems.
Now, with many EU economic sanctions against Russia due to expire this month, the neocons and their clients in Ukraine understood the need to again kick-start the Putin bashing – and almost on cue there was a pre-summit uptick in ceasefire violations in southeastern Ukraine that the West’s mainstream news media predictably blamed on Putin.
However, the German and French leaders – and of course Putin – are acutely aware of which side sees advantage in wielding outrage over the increased fighting as a transparently convenient cudgel to pound Russia and demand that the U.S. “junior partners” renew the economic sanctions.
Europeans have a giant economic stake in what happens at the “G1-plus-6” summit in Bavaria. Trouble is, European press coverage of Ukraine is almost as poor as what you read in the U.S. media. Odd as it strikes me, having analyzed Soviet propaganda for decades, the U.S. fawning corporate media has recently proven to be at least as adept at spreading half-truth and lies as Pravda and Izvestia in the old Soviet days.
Because of my previous professional experience, it is hard for me to accept that President Putin’s account of what went down in Kiev since early 2014 is far more factually based than what we hear from President Obama or read in the New York Times, but it is. For instance, here are excerpts from an interview Putin gave on June 6 to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera:
“What sparked the [Ukraine] crisis? Former President Viktor Yanukovych said that he needed to think about signing Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU, possibly make some changes and hold consultations with Russia, Ukraine’s major trade and economic partner. In this connection and under this pretext riots broke out in Kiev. They were actively supported by both our European and American partners.
“Then a coup d’état followed – a totally anti-constitutional act. … The question is: what was the coup d’état for?  Why did they need to escalate the situation to a civil war? … The result that we have – a coup d’état, a civil war, hundreds of lives lost, a devastated economy and social sphere, a four-year $17.5 billion loan promised to Ukraine by the IMF and complete disintegration of economic ties with Russia…
“I would like to tell you and your readers one thing. Last year, on Feb. 21, President Yanukovych and the Ukrainian opposition signed an agreement on how to proceed, how to organize political life in the country, and on the need to hold early elections.
“They should have worked to implement this agreement, especially since three European foreign ministers signed this agreement as guarantors of its implementation. If they were used merely for the sake of appearances … they should have said [after the coup the next day], ‘You know, we did not agree to a coup d’état, so we will not support you; you should go and hold elections instead.’”
However, instead of upholding the Feb. 21, 2014 agreement, the EU – under strong pressure from Nuland and the Obama administration – hastened to recognize the “legitimacy” of the coup regime in Kiev. The Feb.21 agreement was quickly forgotten and the new Ukrainian authorities, with Yatsenyuk elevated to prime minister and right-wing extremists given key ministries, moved to crack down on the ethnic Russians in the south and east, citizens who had been Yanukovych’s political base and who resisted the unconstitutional coup.
Perhaps now is the time for Merkel and Hollande to remember that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in addition to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, mediated the Feb. 21, 2014 agreement and signed it as official witnesses. An envoy from Russian President Putin, Vladimir Lukin, was also involved but did not sign as a witness.
There may be no such thing as a guilty conscience in high-stakes diplomacy. Still, what happened just one day before the Feb. 22 coup in Kiev is a matter of record.
Would it be too much to expect of Steinmeier and Fabius to remind their bosses of this shameless piece of failed diplomacy, before Merkel and Holland cave in once again to Washington’s diktat – and to the neocons who could then rush off to a Bavarian Beirgarten to celebrate the escalation of Cold War II?
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. During his 27 years as a CIA analyst, he was chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy branch in the 60s, and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe in the 70s. McGovern now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/06/07/obamas-g-1-plus-6/
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/07/g16-opens-bavaria-will-junior-members-act-adults


VIDEO: http://armakhno.narod.ru/muzon/Gorlovka.mp4

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Canada refuses to extradite alleged Khatyn massacre accomplice to Russia

SAINT-PETERSBURG, May 27 (RAPSI) - Canadian officials have refused to extradite Vladimir Katryuk who allegedly participated in the massacre in the Belarusian village of Khatyn during World War II, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Zvyagintsev announced at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on Wednesday.
Zvyagintsev added that Katryuk was exonerated from all charges by Canada. Therefore, the country has ignored the principle “extradite or prosecute.”
Earlier, the official spokesman for the Investigative committee, Vladimir Markin, announced that Russian investigators opened a case against Katryuk. Russia, as a successor of the Soviet Union, took up the obligation to prosecute Nazi war criminals and will continue to insist on Katryuk’s extradition, Markin said.
In March 1943, Nazi collaborators massacred the entire population of Khatyn, or 149 civilians, including 75 children and minors. They also destroyed all residential buildings. The Investigative Committee representative specified that there is no statute of limitation for war crimes, according to the Charter of the Nurnberg international Military Tribunal of August 8, 1945.

http://bignews2day.com/en/news/kanada-ne-vydast-rossii-93-letnego-uchastnika-ubijstv-v-hatyni

http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20150527/273811025.html

http://tass.ru/en/world/797022



Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Civilian killed in intense Ukrainian army shelling of Donetsk despite ceasefire

At least one civilian has been killed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk after an army shell hit an apartment building amid intense fire on rebel positions. An RT correspondent says the city has seen one of its worst shellings in months.
“There was fire, shelling for about two hours and it was almost non-stop…blast after blast, you could feel the vibrations from the explosions, kilometers away from the frontline,” RT’s Murad Gazdiev said over the phone from Donetsk.

According to Gazdiev, the attack centered on northern Donetsk, where the previously contested airport is located, but at least one shell landed on a civilian building. RT’s crew rushed to the area to find out if the report was true.
“We found the residents who survived sitting outside, obviously in shock, covered in dust. One elderly man who lived on the top floor…the shell landed in his apartment. The place was almost torn apart, the walls were blasted out,” Gazdiev said, describing the scene.
 Rescue workers were still trying to find the man’s remains in the rubble, he added.

The rise in violence in eastern Ukraine comes just days after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed to “fight to the last drop of blood” against what he called “Russian aggressors” and called the internationally-recognized Minsk peace roadmap a “pseudo-peace” deal in an interview with the German TV channel ZDF. Earlier, Poroshenko’s official website quoted him as saying: “I have no doubt – we will free the [Donetsk] airport, because it is our land. And we will rebuild the airport.”
READ MORE: Poroshenko says Minsk deal ‘pseudo-peace’, vows to fight to the last drop of blood
The Donetsk Airport had been the last strategic spot occupied by Ukrainian troops in the rebel-held city before anti-government forces overran the area after eight months of siege.
Poroshenko’s statement prompted reaction from both Moscow and Washington. While the Kremlin said it “clearly violated the Minsk agreements,” US Secretary of State John Kerry advised Poroshenko to “think twice” before reigniting the conflict.
The Ukrainian president later backpedaled on his remarks about the airport, accusing the Russian press of overblowing the quote.
READ MORE: Ukrainian Parliament approves law allowing forced relocation of Russian citizens
The latest attack comes despite US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who is currently in Moscow on a Ukraine-centered visit, saying that “there is no indication from our own information or from my consultations in Kiev that anybody on the Ukrainian side, anybody in leadership…has any intention of launching new hostilities.”

 However, Daniel McAdams, the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, believes the latest spate of violence has clearly been coordinated with Kiev’s supporters in Washington.

“I think it would be very naïve to think that Poroshenko was doing that on his own. Even though we heard Kerry last week saying that Poroshenko’s vow to retake eastern Ukraine, that he should shut up about it, the US has been training Ukrainian troops, it’s been sending in dozens if not more Humvees and other equipment. They’re providing the capability of the Ukrainian National Guard and Army to attack eastern Ukraine – why should there be any surprise they’ve been emboldened by this US assistance?”
According to McAdams, there is no indication the US government has demanded that Kiev cooled down its stance on rebel-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine, while the military training and support have continued.

The shelling of Donetsk also comes on the heels of Nuland’s visit to Kiev, which is no coincidence, according to the former foreign affairs advisor to Ron Paul.

“Any time a major US official has gone to the region, some attack has happened afterward – remember the CIA [director John Brennan] was there a couple of times and attacks immediately followed. This just seems to be another of those patterns,
” McAdams argued.

http://rt.com/news/259825-civilian-killed-ukraine-shelling-donetsk/

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e38_1432628134

http://slavyangrad.org/2015/05/19/donetsk-under-massive-ukrainian-shelling-may-18-19-2015/

http://rusvesna.su/english/1431912512







Sunday, May 17, 2015

Questions Raised Over Poroshenko's Role In Valuable Kyiv Land Deal

By Maksym Savchuk and Daisy Sindelar
KYIV -- An investigation by RFE/RL shows that Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko may have used his presidential influence to shut down investigations into damage of a protected historic site caused by unauthorized construction on his private property in central Kyiv.

Two reports broadcast on RFE/RL's Ukrainian-language television program, Schemes, reveal that over the course of seven years, Poroshenko quietly a plot of protected land in Kyiv's elite Pechera district and recently quashed an inquiry into the damage of an 18th-century structure caused by construction work on his plot.

The revelations come as Poroshenko, soon to mark his first year in office, faces growing criticism for failing to divest his billion-dollar business holdings and diminish the political influence of Ukrainian oligarchs like Dmytro Firtash, who last week claimed he personally orchestrated Poroshenko's rise to the presidency.

Supporters of Poroshenko -- still one of Ukraine's richest men, with an estimated fortune of $750 million -- defend him as a "president of de-oligarchization." But his failure to honor his campaign pledge to divest himself of his assets, as well as new findings about his property holdings, may add to questions about his commitment to separating politics from property and money.

Good Neighborhood

Radialna Street is short, but it runs through some of the prettiest land in Kyiv. Located in the forested neighborhood known as Tsar's Village, it is part of the protected Pechera district that runs along the western bank of the winding Dnipro River.

The district is home to two of the city's best-known historical attractions, the St. Sophia Cathedral and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also known as the Monastery of the Caves. Both are recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and are protected under Kyiv city law, together with a 220-hectare buffer zone.

Within Tsar's Village, two plots share the address Radialna 5. One, undeveloped and strewn with debris, belongs to Poroshenko. The other, across the street, already boasts a fenced-in mansion and tennis court. It belongs to one of Poroshenko's closest friends and business partners, Ihor Kononenko.

Kononenko is a lawmaker who currently serves as deputy head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc's faction in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. Bald and solidly built, he is sometimes referred to as the bloc's "gray cardinal." But in 2009, he was a member of the Kyiv government and an ally of then-Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyy, who presided over a city vote handing the Radialna 5 plots to a company co-founded by Kononenko -- for free.

Long-Term Plan?

How does protected state land with a market value of more than $25 million get handed free of charge to a little-known company run by a city lawmaker?

Documents suggest that Kononenko had his eye on the Tsar's Village land as early as 2003. That was when he helped create Zelenbudservis-K, a private limited company that gradually laid claim to the grounds, which until then had housed the state landscaping service responsible for the St. Sophia and Pechersk grounds.

Within five years, the landscapers had been moved to their new location, far from the Pechera district in a dreary section of industrial Kyiv. Olha Krystovnikova, the facility's head agronomist, confirmed to Schemes that the landscapers had moved to the new greenhouse complex in 2008, and that they had previously been based at Radialna 5.

Google Earth images from 2008 show the landscapers' former greenhouses and storage units still standing on the Radialna plots. Now they're gone, replaced by Kononenko's mansion and Poroshenko's still-empty lot.

'Biggest' Land Scheme

In an interview with Schemes, Kononenko openly acknowledged his role in the transfer.
"I've really been dealing with this issue since 2004," he said, adding that he had acted at the behest of Chernovetskyy's mayoral predecessor, Oleksandr Omelchenko, in finding a new location for the landscapers.

With the Radialna grounds in the process of being vacated, Zelenbudservis-K -- which still held operating rights to the Tsar's Village plots -- quietly dropped its private status in 2007, reregistering as a housing cooperative society. That switch, under Ukraine's land code, allowed Zelenbudservis-K to receive ownership of the Radialna 5 land for free -- the transaction that was approved by a voting majority of Kyiv city lawmakers in April 2009.

Rights activist Oleksandr Dyadyuk says such land-acquisition schemes reached their peak under the notorious mayoralty of Chernovetskyy, a quirky millionaire who was nicknamed "Kosmos" after announcing plans to travel to space with his cat.

"Large lots of valuable land were transferred in precisely this way, through fake housing cooperative societies," Dyaduk says. Such acquisitions, including the plots at Radialna 5, were all conducted according to what he called "the biggest and most important free-appropriation land scheme in Kyiv."

Inconsistencies

There are numerous irregularities in Radialna 5's path from state greenhouse to luxury-home turf. None of the 12 members of the Zelenbudservis-K cooperative society was on the housing register, a legal step meant to ensure that free land is going to those in need. Of the 12, at least six have close ties to Poroshenko and Kononenko, including Kononenko's sister and a Poroshenko political adviser.

In addition, Oles Dovhy, the city council secretary who agreed to initiate the process of transferring the land to Zelenbudservis-K, has close ties to Poroshenko. And Ukrsel, the company that officially purchased the Radialna land from Zelenbudservis-K before selling it to Poroshenko and Kononenko, was an Odesa-based shell company liquidated shortly after the final transfer of the land in late 2009.

Most worrying to critics, however, are suggestions that Poroshenko may have since used his presidential imprimatur to shut down a probe into damage caused to a neighboring structure by unauthorized construction on his plot.

Destruction Of Relics

In 2012, employees at the Kyiv-Pechersk reserve were alarmed to see construction machinery begin excavation work at the Radialna 5 plot belonging to Poroshenko. In a letter to the Culture Ministry, the reserve's director Lubomyr Mykhaylyna expressed concern that the digging was taking place inside a UNESCO buffer zone and within meters of an early 18th-century earthen fortification that is part of the site's historic properties.

Construction is not prohibited on protected land, but it is strictly regulated. Building projects can only proceed after receiving two separate sets of approvals -- one from the Culture Ministry's cultural-heritage department, and one from archaeological experts at the National Academy of Sciences.
Preservation experts wrote directly to Poroshenko, informing him of the threat to the fortress. Construction work was finally suspended in early 2013, but not before one of the fortress's lunettes -- structural walls in the shape of a half-moon -- was partially destroyed.

At the time construction started, Poroshenko had not received permission from either the Culture Ministry or the National Academy of Science. (He ultimately received NAS approval, but only in December 2012, a month after excavation began.)
A Pechera district prosecutor quickly opened a criminal case into the lunette's destruction, citing national laws protecting monuments of cultural heritage. But on November 6, 2014 -- five months after Poroshenko's presidential inauguration -- the proceedings were closed. Olena Yakhno, a spokesperson for the Kyiv prosecutor's office, said no criminal violations were found. Eighteen days later, on November 24, Poroshenko signed off on a new declaration to resume construction at the Tsar's Village plot. (As of May, there has been no sign of work at the site.)

Poroshenko and his spokesman Svyatoslav Tseholko declined to speak to Schemes. Oleksandr Lutskyy, a former deputy mayor of Kyiv and Chernovetskyy ally authorized to speak on the president's behalf, provided RFE/RL with a copy of Poroshenko's construction declaration but later told a correspondent, "You're digging where there's nothing to dig."
* This article was corrected to clarify that the investigation into Poroshenko's actions was tied to construction-related damage to the neighboring historic structure, not his acquisition of the land. Changes were also made in order to properly describe the 18th-century structure and the relationship between Zelenbudservis-K and the landscaping group that previously occupied the plot at Radialna 5. Finally, Poroshenko's plot was incorrectly described as a hectare of land. It is 0.63 hectares; Kononenko's plot is 0.46. 
Written in Prague by Daisy Sindelar based on reporting in Kyiv by Maksym Savchuk
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-poroshenko-land-deal-questions-tsars-village/27013945.html



Thursday, May 14, 2015

Poroschenko: Kämpfen "bis zum letzten Blutstropfen"

von Dominik Rzepka
Der ukrainische Präsident Petro Poroschenko hat Russland vorgeworfen, die Militärpräsenz in seinem Land zu erhöhen. Dagegen werde sich sein Volk wehren. Die Stadt Mariupol etwa müsse geschützt werden. "Wir werden kämpfen bis zum letzten Blutstropfen", sagt er im ZDF heute journal. 
Die Zahl der russischen Einheiten in den okkupierten ukrainischen Gebieten wachse, sagte Poroschenko in dem Interview. Er fürchte, dass die Separatisten auf Geheiß von Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin einen Landweg Richtung Krim erkämpfen wollten. Insbesondere rund um die ostukrainische Stadt Mariupol wachse die Zahl russischer Soldaten, trotz des Minsker Abkommens. "Deswegen ist unsere erste Priorität der Schutz", so Poroschenko. "Wir werden es nicht zulassen, dass irgendjemand mit Waffen zu uns kommt und uns erobert."
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg habe man eine ähnliche Situation schon einmal erlebt, damals sei die Bedrohung aus dem Westen gekommen. Heute sehe man dieselbe Aggression aus dem Osten. Aus diesem Grund wolle man sich vor der unsicheren Situation schützen: "Wir werden um unser Land kämpfen bis zum letzten Bluttropfen", so Poroschenko. "Das ist unsere Erde, das ist unser Vaterland."
Poroschenko bezeichnet Minsker Abkommen als "Pseudo-Ruhe"

Poroschenko garantiert in dem Interview zugleich, dass sich sein Land an die Minsker Übereinkunft halte. "Wir sind für das Minsker Abkommen, wir sehen keine militärische Lösung des Konflikts." Sein Land habe eine Feuerpause eingelegt. "Frieden bekommen wir einzig durch die Reintegration der besetzten Bereiche, durch friedliche Gespräche und den Abzug der russischen Soldaten aus den ukrainischen Gebieten", so Poroschenko. Außerdem müsse die Grenze zu Russland geschlossen werden, OSZE-Beobachter müssten das kontrollieren.
Poroschenko kritisierte das Minsker Abkommen allerdings auch als "Pseudo-Ruhe", für die sein Land einen hohen Preis zahle. "83 Helden" seien seit der Unterzeichnung des Abkommens in der Ukraine schon gestorben, im Kampf gegen "den Aggressor". Seine angebliche Ankündigung, Donezk zurückerobern zu wollen, nannte Poroschenko "Unsinn", den man nur in russischen Zeitungen lese. Er selber sehe in Donezk aber "modernste russische Waffen", was gegen das Minsker Abkommen verstoße.
"Null Toleranz" im Kampf gegen Korruption

Kritik, er selber gieße durch nationalistische Äußerungen Öl ins Feuer des Konflikts, wies Poroschenko zurück: "Nur wenige in der Welt nennen mich und meine Regierung nationalistisch." Er ließ aber Kritik zu, die Ukraine sei eines der korruptesten Länder der Welt - zumindest zu dem Zeitpunkt, als er selber Präsident wurde. Seitdem aber habe die Ukraine große Reformfortschritte gemacht, es gebe inzwischen viele Korruptionsverfahren - etwa gegen Minister oder Vertreter der Sicherheitsdienste. "Heute zeigt die Ukraine null Toleranz zur Korruption", so Poroschenko.

http://www.heute.de/ukrainischer-praesident-poroschenko-will-kaempfen-bis-zum-letzten-blutstropfen-38431562.html










Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Deutsch Film-Bombe auf die Ereignisse in der Ukraine

Vorsicht - Warnung: Dieser Film ist unbedingt nicht für Kinder, ebenso nicht für Menschen mit schwachen Nerven - von der gezeigten Realität könnten allerdings in Kürze wir alle getroffen werden, wenn dieser Film sein Ziel nicht erreicht.

Das erste Bild !! HORROR !! "" + 21 !!! Deutsch Film-Bombe auf die Ereignisse in der Ukraine, den wahren Stand der Dinge und an Endkunden.
Lieber Miliz und Unterstützer!


Am deutschen Standort, der in 31 Sprachen der Welt sendet, platziert das Video "Ukraine: Klarheit in der Schwebe" über die reale Situation in der Ukraine und an Endkunden alles, aktiv die Verbreitung über das Internet.

 
What happened in Kiev in 2014 - http://love-anarchy.clan.su/videos/UA2014.mp4

Friday, May 8, 2015

Ucrânia: A verdade e toda a verdade

A linha oficial de Moscou sobre a Ucrânia - e não se a deve descartar só porque é o que é - é que os EUA gastaram cerca de $ 5 bilhões apoiando uma 'mudança de regime' naquele país triste e falido, o que resultou num golpe de estado (ou putsch) em Kiev em fevereiro de 2014, no qual grupos neofascistas tiveram papel chave.
Manchete da Reuters, 9 de abril: "Ucrânia decidida a associar-se à OTAN."
Manchete da Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 9 de abril: "Líder da extrema direita nomeado conselheiro militar ucraniano."
"Há mais bases navais no estado da Califórnia, que em toda a Federação Russa. (...) E, com os doidos que comandam o Departamento de Estado nos EUA sempre empenhados em promover mentiras e mais mentiras sobre o que realmente aconteceu na Ucrânia ao longo dos últimos dois anos - narrativa que uma mídia-empresa imbecilizada repete sem parar -, pode bem acontecer que, um dia, se encontrem soldados norte-americanos e os nazistas do Batalhão Azov, lado a lado, combatendo contra o povo das Repúblicas Populares de Luhansk e de Donetsk."

Mudança de regime

 A linha oficial de Moscou sobre a Ucrânia - e não se a deve descartar só porque é o que é - é que os EUA gastaram cerca de $ 5 bilhões apoiando uma 'mudança de regime' naquele país triste e falido, o que resultou num golpe de estado (ou putsch) em Kiev em fevereiro de 2014, no qual grupos neofascistas tiveram papel chave. O golpe aconteceu porque o Departamento de Estado dos EUA e o Pentágono tinham esperança de substituir o governo eleito que lá estava, por outro que empurraria a Ucrânia para dentro da OTAN, uma aliança militar desenhada, desde que foi concebida, em 1949, para desafiar a Rússia. O objetivo máximo do golpe era expulsar a Frota Russa no Mar Negro, das bases que mantém na Península da Crimeia há mais de 230 anos.

Pessoalmente, creio que é interpretação basicamente correta e qualquer ser racional logo perceberá que sim, que é verdadeira. Victoria Nuland, a bandida neoconservadora que serve como secretária-assistente de Estado para Assuntos Europeus e Eurasiáticos e é a mais alta funcionária do governo dos EUA na modelagem da política para a Ucrânia, admitiu abertamente a uma conferência internacional comercial sobre a Ucrânia, em dezembro de 2013 que Washington "já investiu mais de 5 bilhões de dólares para ajudar a Ucrânia a alcançar [o desenvolvimento de instituições democráticas] e outras metas."

Ela repetiu essas palavras numa entrevista à CNN e também a ex-secretária de Estado Madeleine Albright também repetiu a mesma coisa, com orgulho em outros noticiários. O objetivo nunca enunciado era tornar a Ucrânia membro da OTAN.

(Imaginem o que aconteceria se um alto oficial do Ministério de Relações Exteriores da Rússia se pusesse a vangloriar-se de a Rússia ter investido $ 5 bilhões de dólares para acabar com o governo eleito no México ou no Canadá, com vistas a incorporar qualquer desses países numa aliança militar liderada pelo Kremlin e em expansão. John McCain e Fox News pôr-se-iam a exigir imediato ataque atômico para aniquilar Moscou.)

A Rússia, como todos sabem, tem relativamente poucas bases navais, consideradas as dimensões do país. As que têm estão de frente para os mares de Barents e Báltico ao norte, em torno da Escandinávia. Em 1904, quando as forças russas foram atacadas pela marinha japonesa em Port Arthur na Manchúria, a Rússia teve de mandar para aquela região a frota do Báltico, numa viagem de seis meses (e que terminou na desastrosa Batalha de Tsushima). A geografia russa impõe obstáculos a que o país mantenha grandes forças navais.

Há uma base naval russa em Astrakhan, no Mar Cáspio (que, de fato, é um grande lado, pelo qual se pode velejar para o Cazaquistão, Turcomenistão, Irã ou Azerbaijão, e só, nada além disso). E há várias bases em ou perto de Vladivostok na costa do Pacífico siberiano, que permanece congelado parte do ano, além das bases na Península Kamchatka, ao norte do Japão. A Rússia mantém uma modesta base naval em Tartus no litoral sírio, e uma base logística na Baía Cam Rahn, no Vietnã. Mas as únicas bases com rápido acesso ao Mediterrâneo e portanto aos oceanos Atlântico e Índico são as localizadas em e em torno de Sevastopol na Península da Crimeia no Mar Negro.

Compare aos EUA, com suas mais de 30 bases navais gigantes nas costas leste e oeste e no Hawaii, e outras - algumas delas também gigantes - no Japão, na Itália, em Cuba, Bahrain, Diego Garcia e por todos os cantos! Há mais bases navais no estado da Califórnia, que em toda a Federação Russa.

EUA tem bases em 130 países

 Os EUA mantém pessoal militar estacionado em cerca de 130 países pelo mundo - em dois terços dos países-membros da ONU. A Rússia, por sua vez, tem forças militantes estacionadas em, pelas minhas contas, 10 países estrangeiros, oito dos quais são fronteiriços. E mesmo assim a mídia-empresa e os políticos norte-americanos apresentam a Rússia e especificamente o presidente Vladimir Putin como monstro ameaçador. (Exatamente como já fizeram com Saddam Hussein, aquela infeliz criatura manca demonizada como se fosse "um novo Hitler" - como os doidos por guerra sempre dizem, antes de atacar e bombardear qualquer um.)

Qualquer aluno de universidade nos EUA, inscrito em programa interdisciplinar de "relações internacionais" (e educado, como é norma, por cientistas políticos da escola "realista") concluirá que - deixando-se de lado a personalidade demonizada e vilãnizada de Putin - qualquer líder russo sempre insistirá em defender e preservar seus ativos militares na Criméia. Qualquer um! Defender e reter aquela propriedade histórica não é nenhuma novidade. Quem delire com tirar os russos de lá (o que inclui os falcões chefes do Partido Republicano dos EUA) é irrealista, se não estiver em morte cerebral.

Como, algum dia, algum líder russo diria à truculenta Victoria Nuland "Ótimo, isso mesmo, vá em frente e ocupe a Crimeia", entregando assim essa região da Rússia étnica - locus da Guerra da Crimeia de 1853-56 e de algumas das mais sangrentas batalhas contra os nazistas na 2ª Guerra Mundial? Que líder russo entregaria a Crimeia - locus também do histórico encontro de Yalta, entre Stálin, Roosevelt e Churchill, em fevereiro de 1945, a forças abertamente hostis à Rússia? A forças que - para piorar tudo - estão prontas a associar-se a fascistas que, na 2ª Guerra Mundial, colaboraram com os nazistas - inclusive cercando judeus para serem massacrados?

O artigo da Reuters acima citado confirma a intenção do regime que os EUA instalou no poder em Kiev de apresentar seu pedido de integração formal à OTAN. Cita Oleksander Turchynov, presidente do conselho de segurança nacional do regime de Kiev, que afirmou ao Parlamento que a integração à OTAN seria "a única garantia externa confiável" para a "soberania e integridade territorial da Ucrânia". (Como se a Rússia, que mantinha relacionamento cordial com o presidente deposto Viktor Yanukovich - o qual, nunca será demasiado repetir, foi eleito em eleições reconhecidas como legítimas e democráticas em 2010 - tivesse algum dia ameaçado a "integridade territorial" da Ucrânia ou de qualquer outro país!)

Assim se comprova a validade da principal alegação dos russos, que insistem que toda a guerra dos EUA na Ucrânia tem a ver, só, com a OTAN - a mesma OTAN que, depois da promessa que George H. W. Bush fez a Mikhail Gorbachev em 1989, de que a aliança não avançaria "uma polegada" na direção das fronteiras russas, não faz outra coisa, desde 1999, que não seja avançar para cercar a Rússia europeia. OTAN que já inclui Estônia, Latvia, Lituânia, Polônia, República Tcheca, Eslováquia, Hungria, Romênia, Bulgária, Croácia e Albânia - países os quais, todos esses, pelas regras da associação, tem de pagar 2% dos respectivos PIBs, ao esforço de "mútua defesa".

Se a OTAN não inclui os outros vizinhos da Rússia, Bielorrússia, Moldávia e Geórgia, não é por falta de tentar. A Dotação Nacional para a Democracia [orig. National Endowment for Democracy (NED)] ("organização privada, sem finalidades de lucro" que o Departamento de Estado usa para financiar operações de 'mudança de regime' pelo mundo) já fez muito, tentando arrastar também esses países para dentro da OTAN. Como se fosse a coisa mais natural do mundo, para todos os povos que vivem em país que têm fronteiras com a Rússia, sonhar com unir-se a uma aliança militar anti-Rússia!
  

Nuland e o povo ucraniano

 Os 'itens para divulgação' de Nuland, para consumo popular sobre a Ucrânia incluem a ideia segundo a qual os EUA "apoiam as aspirações europeias do povo ucraniano". Nuland ignora o fato de que o país é fundamente dividido entre leste e oeste, e que no leste o "povo ucraniano" tem substanciais "aspirações russas", não "europeias", aspirações com fundas raízes históricas, que ela não compreende, nem, de fato, faz qualquer esforço para compreender. Nuland também oculta o fato de que o apoio dos EUA a 'mudança de regime' na Ucrânia, que levou ao golpe de 22/2/ 2014, não se baseou, de fato, no apoio à entrada da Ucrânia na União Europeia.

 A União Europeia é bloco comercial que desafia os EUA e o NAFTA. Num mundo de competição imperialista por mercados e recursos, a União Europeia e os EUA estão com muita frequência em campos opostos. Washington não está nada satisfeita com estados-membros da UE Grã-Bretanha, França, Itália, Espanha e Luxemburgo já tenham, todos eles, se integrado ao Banco Asiático de Investimento em Infraestrutura (BAII) [orig. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)] liderado pela China, sobretudo porque se cria alta probabilidade de que a moeda chinesa se fortaleça e apresse o declínio do dólar como moeda internacional de reserva. O Congresso fumega de fúria, porque a UE proibiu importações dos produtos alimentícios geneticamente modificados da Monsanto. O Departamento de Estado dos EUA não está no ramo de promover a União Europeia, nem quer que países se alinhem àquele bloco econômico. Na Ucrânia absolutamente não se trata de nada disso.

Em 2013, o Departamento de Estado de Hillary Clinton teve de enfrentar a decisão, tomada pelo presidente (derrubado) da Ucrânia, Viktor Yanukovich, de recuar de um acordo que ele havia aceitado inicialmente, para integrar a Ucrânia à União Europeia. Os conselheiros disseram a Yanukovich que o regime de arrocho [orig. austerity] que a UE imporia à Ucrânia seria inaceitável; e que a Rússia oferecia generoso pacote de ajuda ao país, que incluía manter a oferta de gás a preços baixos.

A decisão de Yanukovich, de preferir a oferta dos russos foi baseada em lógica econômica e perfeitamente defensável em termos econômicos. Mas, imediatamente, os EUA puseram a soprar sobre as chamas de um movimento que mostraria a decisão de Yanukovich como traição à Ucrânia e aos ucranianos, e declaração de fidelidade à Rússia. Por isso Nuland tem de repetir tantas e tantas vezes a mentira sobre as "aspirações europeias". Como se a Ucrânia algum dia tivesse deixado de ser parte da Europa! Como se "Europa" fosse alguma estrela radiosa e os horrendos atos de terror contra a República Socialista da Ucrânia, por fascistas europeus durante os anos 1940s, fossem irrelevantes. E como se a submissão a um governo de arrocho, de estilo grego e inspirado na 'austeridade' europeia, fosse algum tipo de solução para os sofrimentos dos pobres ucranianos.

Verdade é que o que Nuland realmente pensa sobre "aspirações europeias" foram bem resumidos na conversa que teve, por telefone, com o embaixador dos EUA em Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, pouco depois doputsch no início de fevereiro de 2014. Muito provavelmente vazado pela inteligência russa, e jamais desmentido pelo Departamento de Estado, a gravação comprova que Nuland 'selecionou' para o cargo o atual primeiro-ministro Arseniy Yatsenyuk, descartando rivais dele, Oleh Tyanybok (líder do partido neonazista Svoboda, que publicamente atacara "a máfia Moscou-judeus que governa a Ucrânia", e que sempre se refere a "moscovitas" e judeus como "escória") e Vitali Klitschko, ex-lutador de boxe e ativista ocasional anticorrupção.

No telefonema, Pyatt diz a Nuland que "acho que estamos no jogo (tradução: o golpe está pronto). "A peça Klitschko é obviamente o elétron complicado, sobretudo o serviço de anuncia-lo como primeiro-ministro (...) Estou contente que você mais ou menos o pôs sob foco, no lugar que lhe cabe nesse cenário." Parece que Pyatt já informara a Klitschko de que, apesar de algum apoio da UE, ele não seria candidato que os EUA aprovariam. (No telefonema, Nuland diz que [Klitschko] "precisa de mais tempo para fazer a lição de casa.")

Ingerência

Nuland quis marginalizar Klitschko, que, depois do golpe, como prêmio de consolação, foi nomeado prefeito de Kiev; quis ter certeza de que o ex-ministro da Economia, Yatsenyuk, que pregava severas medidas de arrocho e propusera a incorporação da Ucrânia à OTAN, sucederia Yanukovich.

O telefonema não deixa dúvidas de que Nuland recrutara funcionários da ONU para que apoiassem a 'mudança de regime'.

Já próximo ao fim da conversa, Nuland diz a Pyatt "OK" - sinalizando que os dois estavam de acordo quanto à estratégia geral. Na sequência, alude à bem-vinda cumplicidade de vários outros agentes ativos: Jeff Feltman, Robert Serry, e Ban Ki-moon.

Informa que Jeff Feltman "agora já conseguiu que os dois, Serry e Ban Ki-moon, concordassem que Serry pode vir na 2ª ou 3ª-feira" - para ajudar a por em andamento o golpe e validá-lo logo depois.

Quem é essa gente? Geoffrey Feltman, diplomata de carreira, era naquele momento subsecretário da ONU para Assuntos Políticos. Mas talvez seja mais conhecido pelos serviços que prestou como embaixador no Líbano entre 2004 e 2008, quando mandava tanto, que o Hizbollah - e vários outros partidos - referiam-se ao governo de Fouad Siniora como "o governo Feltman".

Robert Serry é diplomata holandês; serviu na ONU como secretário-geral assistente para Gerenciamento de Crises no Exterior e Operações entre 2003 e 2005 e também fora embaixador da Holanda na Ucrânia. Empenhado advogado da participação da Holanda numa Guerra do Iraque construída sobre mentiras, sempre foi confiável aliado dos EUA.

Ban Ki-moon, claro, é o secretário-geral da ONU que, como ministro de Relações Exteriores da Coreia do Sul, muito se empenhou para conseguir que a Coreia do Sul enviasse soldados para aquela mesma Guerra do Iraque baseada em mentiras. Sabemos, de Wikileaks, que, sob ordens dos EUA, Ban Ki-moon forçou o Conselho de Segurança da ONU a ignorar o relatório da Comissão de Inquérito da ONU sobre o bombardeio de Israel contra Gaza em 2008-2009, para não criar dificuldades para EUA e Israel. Não erra quem o declarar confiável fantoche dos EUA.

Já próximo ao final do telefonema interceptado, Nuland se despede: "Então, vai ser ótimo, acho, ajudar a colar a coisa toda e ter a ONU ajudando a colar também e, sacomé, foda-se a União Europeia." Fodam-se, claro, se o que pensam sobre a Ucrânia difere do que nós pensamos.

Aí está o muito que essa gente respeita "aspirações europeias" de seja quem for."

No mesmo telefonema, Nuland observa que Yatsenyev "vai precisar de Klitschko e Tyahnybok do lado de fora, ele tem de falar com os dois quatro vezes por semana." E eu pergunto o que é mais repugnante: (a) o fato de o Departamento de Estado dos EUA tanto se empenhar em micromanobrar um golpe de mudança de regime contra estado soberano; ou (b) ouvir essa neoconservadora Nuland, representando o governo dos EUA, ordenar que o fantoche do governo dos EUA mantenha ativa a rede de comunicação com um neofascista que fala de judeus como "essa escória"?!

Aí está essa mulher, deixando que o empenho na causa da OTAN derrote completamente a resistência contra o antissemitismo. Nuland deveria envergonhar-se dela mesma.

Quando, em maio passado, numa audiência na Câmara de Deputados, a Deputada Dana Rohrabacher mostrou-lhe fotos que comprovavam o envolvimento de neonazistas nos eventos da praça Maidan, Nuland admitiu que "havia muitas cores envolvidas na Ucrânia, inclusive cores muito feias." Não se referia às fotos em que ela própria aparece com Tyahnybok, toda sorrisos; nem às ordens que deu a "Yats" para que falasse quatro vezes por semana com os nazistas antissemitas.

O artigo da Radio Free Europe referenciado acima, começa assim: "O controverso líder do grupo paramilitar e ultranacionalista ucraniano Setor Direita foi nomeado conselheiro do exército. O porta-voz das Forças Armadas da Ucrânia, Oleksey Mazepa, anunciou dia 6 de abril, que Dmytro Yarosh atuaria como 'um elo entre os batalhões de voluntários e o Comando Militar.' As milícias do Setor Direita de Yarosh dizem contar com cerca de 10 mil membros, mas até agora não há qualquer registro desses milicianos como associados ao governo, como outras forças paramilitares já fizeram. A milícia do Setor Direita está combatendo ao lado de soldados do governo ucraniano contra separatistas pró-Rússia, na região leste do país."
Setor Direita, partido neofascista
O partido neofascista Setor Direita foi formado em 2013 durante os protestos de Maidan em Kiev, reunindo vários grupos alinhados com o partido. Com vários daqueles partidos tentando conquistar respeitabilidade internacional, inclusive em reuniões noticiados de seus líderes com Nuland e John McCain, dentre outros, o Setor Direita operava como o contingente ativista mais violento. Com certeza quase total, esses neofascistas estiveram envolvidos nos ataques de atiradores ocultos contra a multidão reunida na praça, que foram atribuídos ao governo e usados para justificar o golpe.

Agora, o líder daqueles neonazistas é premiado com um cargo no governo, para coordenar as ações das milícias de extrema direita (a mais conhecida das quais é o Batalhão Azov, que exibe nos uniformes a insígnia dos nazistas alemães e atacou vários alvos civis no leste da Ucrânia). Não são evidências mais do que suficientes para comprovar a veracidade da acusação que os russos fizeram, de que há forte componente fascista no governo que os EUA construíram para Kiev?

A situação é complicada. As tropas neofascistas de choque usadas para desencadear o putsch são contrárias à incorporação do país à União Europeia. Não querem saber da tolerância europeia com a diversidade e nas leis para a imigração. São ativos militantes do Poder Branco, que se manifesta em seus vários símbolos, que incluem bandeiras dos confederados norte-americanos, algumas cruzes celtas e suásticas. Talvez não aprovem nem a incorporação do país à OTAN. Mas, como indica o artigo da Radio Free Europe, o apoio deles é muito valorizado e considerado muito necessários pelo regime.

Pouco importa que Dmytro Yarosh seja procurado pela Interpol for "incitamento público a atividades terroristas", quando ameaçou destruir os gasodutos russos na Ucrânia. Yarosh é elemento inafastável da equipe, e Washington apoia a equipe. E a mídia-empresa que o Departamento de Estado confiscou jamais deixa transparecer nem suspeitas de que haja fascistas incorporados ao grupo 'de Nuland', ou algum esforço clandestino para cercar a Rússia. A coisa é só a "liberdade" ucraniana, apoiada pelo bom coração congênito de Nuland & seu grupo, gente que, em tempos recentes, já promoveu as inesquecíveis 'libertações' do Afeganistão, Iraque e Líbia.

Há em Kiev um governo com tendências fascistas. Foi posto lá pelo Departamento de Estado dos EUA. Quer ser incorporado à OTAN e enfraquecer a Rússia - se possível restabelecendo o controle sobre a Crimeia e expulsando de lá a frota russa. A Alemanha opôs-se à admissão dos nazifascistas na aliança, e não é provável que aconteça no curto prazo.

Mas com os doidos que hoje comandam o Departamento de Estado nos EUA, sempre empenhados em promover mentiras e mais mentiras sobre o que realmente aconteceu na Ucrânia ao longo dos últimos dois anos - narrativa que uma mídia-empresa desnorteada e incompetente repete sem parar -, pode bem acontecer que um dia se encontrem soldados norte-americanos e nazistas do Batalhão Azov, lado a lado, combatendo contra o povo das Repúblicas Populares de Luhansk e de Donetsk.

Nada disso terá a ver com "liberdade",
como tampouco as últimas guerras nas quais os EUA estiveram envolvidos tiveram qualquer coisa a ver com "liberdade". Trata-se aí, sempre, de expansão imperial, a qual, por mais que possa interessar ao 0,01% que governa os EUA, absolutamente não interessa nem a você nem a mim.

14/5/2015, GARY LEUPP, Counterpunch