Obama's Far Right Foreign Policy, Ukraine, The Stench of Hypocrisy, et al

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US-Backed Ukrainian Regime Mobilizes Reserves, Threatening War With Russia
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier030314.htm

In the most serious military crisis in Europe since the end of World War II, the Western-backed Ukrainian regime that took power in Kiev in a fascist-led putsch a week ago put its military on high alert yesterday. It also began calling up its reserve forces, totaling around 1 million men, threatening war with Russia. The day before, the upper house of the Russian parliament had unanimously passed a bill authorizing the deployment of Russian forces to Crimea, a majority Russian-speaking region of Ukraine where Russia has a major naval base at Sevastopol


Heard The One About Obama Denouncing A Breach Of International Law?
By Norman Solomon

http://www.countercurrents.org/solomon030314.htm

International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a “breach of international law.” Secretary of State John Kerry followed up by declaring that Russia is “in direct, overt violation of international law.” Unfortunately, during the last five years, no world leader has done more to undermine international law than Barack Obama


Ukraine: Exploding The Myths, Outlining Solutions
By Institute For Public Accuracy

http://www.countercurrents.org/ipa030314.htm

That so-called economic partnership that Yanukovych, the elected president of Ukraine did not sign, and that set off the streets — the protests in the streets in November, which led to this violence … that so-called economic agreement included military clauses which said that Ukraine, by signing this so-called civilization agreement had to abide by NATO military policy. This is what this is about from the Russian point of view, the ongoing western march towards post Soviet Russia. Putin had no choice, and he has no choice, and if you put him in the corner, you are going to see worse


The Stench Of Hypocrisy: Ukraine And The West's Selective Morality
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter030314.htm

The propaganda strategy is always the same. We saw it with Gaddafi and Libya, Assad and Syria, Saddam and Iraq, Milosevic and Serbia, and now we are witnessing it again, this time with Putin and Russia. With banner headlines in the Western mainstream press claiming that Russia has ‘invaded' Ukraine and that Putin is intent on clamping down on democracy and extending his ‘empire', the ongoing demonisation of Russia is reaching new heights. The Western corporate media is once again acting as prime cheerleader for Pentagon and White House policies


Ukraine Is Not Russian Roulette
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury030314.htm

Putin is not gambling with Ukraine. His move was a necessary step in geopolitics as the West’s project of expansion compelled Russia to assert its position. Since long, the West was implementing its plan for expansion towards Russia. Yugoslavia has been brutally torn into pieces. A few more east and central European countries have experienced the expansion by the West


Obama's Far Right Foreign Policy
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke030314.htm

The conflicts in Ukraine, Venezuela, and Syria have one thing in common: the U.S. government is in favor of the groups who aspire to topple — or who have toppled — the government in power. Thus, U.S. politicians are giving either political, financial, or military support to these “opposition” movements


Where In The World Is 'The New World Order'?
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt030314.htm

Geopolitically speaking, when it comes to war and the imperial principle, we may be in uncharted territory. Take a look around and you’ll see a world at the boiling point. From Ukraine to Syria, South Sudan to Thailand, Libya to Bosnia, Turkey to Venezuela, citizen protest (left and right) is sparking not just disorganization, but what looks like, to coin a word, de-organization at a global level. Increasingly, the unitary status of states, large and small, old and new, is being called into question. Civil war, violence, and internecine struggles of various sorts are visibly on the rise. In many cases, outside countries are involved and yet in each instance state power seems to be draining away to no other state’s gain. So here’s one question: Where exactly is power located on this planet of ours right now?


Suffering? Well, You Deserve It
By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges030314.htm

Avner Offer, an economic historian and Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History. also the author of “The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950,” for 25 years has explored the cavernous gap between our economic and social reality and our ruling economic ideology. Neoclassical economics, he says, is a “just-world theory,” one that posits that not only do good people get what they deserve but those who suffer deserve to suffer


Meet, Laugh, Connect, Evolve
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz030314.htm

When staring down a heavily-funded, well-armed propaganda machine, it’s gonna take a wide and ever-evolving range of tactics to bring down the dominant culture. This task starts with a combination of direct action and direct contact. So, my friends, the question remains: Who’s gonna have the last laugh? I say we get face-to-face and find out


Operation Clean And Green
By Anitha S

http://www.countercurrents.org/anitha030314.htm

The Operation Clean and Green opened up so many issues in my mind- of how to reduce waste, how to dispose waste, of protecting a school from bus bays and developers. It gave me a lot of energy to go back home and study for the exams starting tomorrow with dreams of classrooms under trees