Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The UN Charter is the Most Important International Document - Evaluating WILPF/ Böll Meeting in Berlin, March 20th to 23rd :

Wilpf's  Ex-President and Present UN Adviser, Edith Ballantyne Says:

"The UN Charter is the most important international document - a constitution, or even a treaty in a way,  because it binds those nations that sign it to commit to work together for the aims and principles set out in its preamble. The rest sets out its organs and methods of functioning, providing for the further development of mechanisms as they are needed. It is within the framework of the Charter – to further the agreed aims and principles - that specialized agencies have been established to advance the global social, economic and cultural aspects,  and  mechanisms to deal with the maintenance of peace, disarmament, human rights, and establish norms in terms of declarations, conventions and treaties, that are forming a body of international law.  The Charter is the spine of an intricate international body (the world community) that needs to be kept strong and upright so that all the other organs can function together in harmony. We need to respect the whole body and keep every part functioning, because each is needed and is important. But without a healthy spine, nothing will function.

As to treaties: Yes, of course they are important. They are steps toward the realization of the Charter’s aims and principles. However, only when a UN member state ratifies a treaty will the state  become accountable to the UN to implement nationally the norms set out in the international instrument. States can make reservations concerning parts of a treaty (that is, not accept specific provisions in a treaty). The monitoring machinery of this implementation is important, but oh so slow and happens only when a state is finally ready to implement for its own good reasons. There is no enforcement machinery and there should not be as far as I am concerned.

As for the ATT, yes, it is a step, but in arms control not disarmament.
Disarmament in the UN had its peak in 1978 when the first special session of the UN General Assembly devoted to disarmament issued a Final  Document (S-10/2). It should be read by those working for peace and disarmament. Disarmament efforts in the UN have gone downhill ever since and no one is talking about disarmament. It is arms control except concerning nuclear weapons. There is, and has been for a very long time, advocacy to ban nuclear weapons. But so far nothing has moved in that direction.


The real point is, in my view, that all nations have to grow up and realize that for any of us to survive, they have to work together and make decisions in humanity’s  common interest and not in their national interests. Actually, nations do not even act in the national (all their citizens’) interests but in the interests of the few powerful.  "

Edith.

THE UKRAINE – What Western Media Censored Out:

KIEV FASCIST JUNTA  IS ILLEGAL UNDER  UKRAINE CONSTITUTION
 
WESTERN PROPAGANDA LIES TRY TO CONCEAL ILLEGALITY  OF KIEVCOUP: 
A Tsunami of lies is being spread about the situation in Ukraine by the Western Whore Media all of which has been recruited to demonise Russia and promote the Fascist Junta, established in Kiev on 22 February 2014, by direct manipulation of Washington and its agents, as some kind of legitimate Government, which it manifestly is not as it does not comply in any way with the Ukraine Constitution.
An example of the big lie being pushed by US/EU/NATO leaders is the statement made in the House of Commons in London on 4 March 2014 by British Foreign Secretary, William Hague. Hague stated: Visit www.blagaroon.blogspot.iefor complete documents –
Article 111 of the Ukrainian Constitution
1. The President of Ukraine may be removed from office by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by the procedure of impeachment, in the event that he or she commits state treason or other crime.
2. The issue of the removal of the President of Ukraine from office by the procedure of impeachment is initiated by the majority of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
3. To conduct the investigation, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine establishes a special temporary investigatory commission whose composition includes a special procurator and special investigators.
4. The conclusions and proposals of the temporary investigatory commission are considered at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
5. For cause, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, by no less than two-thirds of its constitutional composition, adopts a decision on the accusation of the President of Ukraine.
6.The decision on the removal of the President of Ukraine from office by the procedure of impeachment is adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by no less than three-quarters of its constitutional composition, after the review of the case by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and the receipt of its opinion on the observance of the constitutional procedure of investigation and consideration of the case of impeachment, and the receipt of the opinion of the Supreme Court of Ukraine to the effect that the acts, of which the President of Ukraine is accused, contain elements of state treason or other crime.
NAZI COLLABORATORS INVITED TO IRELAND FOR EU/FINE GAEL CONVENTION 6-7THMARCH 2014 –
WE SAY NAZI COLLABORATORS OUT OF IRELAND – NAZIS OUT OF EVERYWHERE.  People Against War Network  - nowar@eircom.net
NOT TO BE MISSED – STOP NATO WEB SITE to include item [stopnato] Digest Number 4959 – For Daily Bulletins - http://rickrozoff.wordpress.comrwrozoff@yahoo.com

*WHO  REALLY  SNIPED  AT  “PEACEFUL   DEMONSTRATORS” AND  POLICE  AND JOURNALISTS  IN  KIEV?  Russia Today 5.3.2014 rt.com  205 on Satellite -  Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet speaking to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs/Policy Commissioner Catherine Ashton by phone said that the snipers were NOT forces of the legitimate Ukraine government leader Viktor Yanukovich but paid snipers operating for the newly formed US installed Ukrainian Coalition in Kiev which is made up of US/EU funded Nazi forces and massively rich oligarchs.  He said that these paid snipers were shooting at both police and protesters using the same bullets .... “  Other observers note that most of the killing/shooting on “Maidan” was done by some of the many American mercenaries operating for Blackwater Inc. for the now self imposed coalition forces in Kiev. For complete article Url: http://on.rt.com/dx2op3     
Russia Today 3.3.2014 – Russian forces have not entered The Ukraine – certain photos used by western press were Russian troops on training exercises IN RUSSIA NOT IN THE UKRAINE ... Western media fanatic anti Russian propaganda is unrelenting ...(Notes by People Against War Network nowar@eircom.net)
Who Really Fired on Protesters and Triggered the War in Syria?
The war was started by mercenary foreign contractors working for the USA-led anti Syrian government forces. The firing on protesters in Syria in March 2011 was one of the first examples in the Syrian war context of US devised False Flag Operations: For verification please watch the video “Manufacturing Dissent: The Truth About Syria” by Lizzie Phelan and her team published 6.1.2013. The film shows clearly agents other than Syrian Government forces firing on protesters in Syria in March 2011.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwv7JXgPxLI or http://www.manufacturing-dissent.com Official transcription for translation and subtitling available here: http://www.lizzie-phelan.blogspot.com/2012/08/documentary-manufacturing-dissent   31.8.2012
This being the perfect practice run for what took place in The Ukraine recently with US-funded mercenaries sniping at protestors in Kiev to make it appear as if the police had carried out the shootings. Refer: "Kiev Snipers Hired by Maidan Leaders - Leaked EU's Ashton Phone Tape - 5.3.2014 - URL: http://on.rt.com/dx2op3
*Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tape  March 05, 2014      URL:   http://on.rt.com/dx2op3      An anti-government protester sit near the bodies of two demonstrators killed by a sniper during clashes with the police in the centre of Kiev on February 20, 2014.(AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)
The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.
“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation.
“I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.
The call took place after Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet visited Kiev on February 25, following the peak of clashes between the pro-EU protesters and security forces in the Ukrainian capital.
Paet also recalled his conversation with a doctor who treated those shot by snipers in Kiev. She said that both protesters and police were shot at by the same people.
“And second, what was quite disturbing, this same Olga [Bogomolets] told as well that all the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides,” the Estonian FM stressed.
Ashton reacted to the information by saying: “Well, yeah…that’s, that’s terrible.”
“So that she then also showed me some photos she said that as a medical doctor she can say that it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened,” Paet said.
Olga Bogomolets was the main doctor for the Maidan mobile clinic when protests turned violent in Kiev. She treated the gravely injured and helped organized their transportation to neighboring countries, who had expressed a willingness to treat those with severe wounds. From the outset, Olga blamed the injuries and deaths on snipers. She turned down the position of Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Humanitarian Affairs offered by the coup-appointed regime.
Protesters evacuate a wounded demonstrator from Independence square, dubbed Maidan, in Kiev on February 20, 2014. (AFP Photo / Louisa Gouliamaki)
The Estonian FM has described the whole sniper issue as “disturbing” and added, “it already discredits from the very beginning”the new Ukrainian power.

His overall impressions of what he saw during his one-day trip to Kiev are “sad,” Paet said during the conversation.

He stressed that the Ukrainian people don’t trust the Maidan leaders, with all the opposition politicians slated to join the new government “having dirty past.”
The file was reportedly uploaded to the web by officers of Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) loyal to ousted President Viktor Yanukovich who hacked Paet’s and Ashton’s phones.
94 people were killed and another 900 injured during the standoff between police and protesters at Maidan Saquare in Kiev last month.
Policemen carry a colleague wounded during clashes with anti-government protesters in Kiev on February 18, 2014. (AFP Photo / Yury Kirnichny)
*(Other observers note that most of the killing/shooting on “Maidan” was done by some of the many American mercenaries operating for Blackwater Inc. for the now self imposed coalition forces in Kiev. For complete article Url: http://on.rt.com/dx2op3) Note from People Against War Network nowar@eircom.net   
  Update  Re Ukraine:
 
*Kiev Snipers Hired by Maidan Leaders - Leaked EU's Ashton Phone Tape  March 05, 2014 Complete Article  -  URL:  http://on.rt.com/dx2op3
(Other observers note that most of the killing/shooting on “Maidan” was done by some of the many American mercenaries operating for Blackwater Inc. for the now self imposed coalition forces in Kiev. For complete article Url: http://on.rt.com/dx2op3) Note from People Against War Network nowar@eircom.net    
*"U.S. Officials Caught in Ukraine Plot" The latest example of Ireland's collusion in US/EU imperialist actions appears in a report by John Catalinotto titled "U.S. Officials Caught in Ukraine Plot" 13.2.2014 which mentions, for one, Irish neoliberal politician Patrick Cox giving full support to the fascist self  installed “government” in Kiev. Full report:www.workers.org/articles/2014/.../u-s-officials-caught-ukraine-plot/  
Global Network (globalnet@mindspring.com)  02 March 2014   Bruce K. Gagnon  
*Why are Nazi & Confederate flags on display in Kiev? By Sara Flounders‏flounders.sara16@gmail.com  5.3.2014
When Kiev’s City Hall was seized with guns and Molotov cocktails, one of the first acts of the Euromaidan street fighters was to unfurl a number of flags and insignia. Prominent among the flags were swastikas, Iron Crosses, Nazi SS lightning bolts, the Celtic cross used by the Ku Klux Klan, and the Confederate “stars and bars” flag of slaveholders in the United States. (tinyurl.com/ltfu4vq)
This is no accident. The flag of the U.S. Southern slaveholders and the Klan cross are symbols understood around the world. They stand for racism, reaction, lynchings and mass terror, for keeping oppressive institutions intact and for beating down people of color and all those who struggle for a better world.
Racists from across Europe have traveled to Kiev. Wearing these symbols on their helmets and jackets, these thugs roamed Kiev and defaced the homes of Jews. They destroyed memorials to those who fought the Nazi invasion and occupation of the Ukraine in World War II. Offices of the Communist Party of the Ukraine were ransacked and destroyed, revolutionary books publicly burned in bonfires. Twenty-five statues of Lenin have been destroyed, requiring heavy equipment. (tinyurl.com/lfs734u) Amidst this offense of fascist vandalism, progressive people have mobilized to protect progressive centers, monuments and government buildings.
Symbols send a message. They are shorthand to millions of people for the aspirations and goals of social and political movements.
Naming a street, boulevard, school or holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks is recognition of the historic Civil Rights movement and Black liberation movement in the U.S. It resonates with all who stand against racism and oppression.
Certain symbols of revolution, resistance and liberation, such as the red flag, the red and black flag, the red star and the rainbow flag, are recognized around the world. The struggle to remove racist names of sports teams is well understood, as is the struggle to remove memorials to racists, slave owners and Confederates throughout the U.S. South.
Victoria Nuland, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, publicly bragged that Washington has committed more than $5 billion to these “democratic forces” in the Ukraine. (tinyurl.com/q577smd)
Nuland, Sen. John McCain and other U.S. and German politicians have publicly embraced known fascist thugs. Open U.S. support for the Ukrainian Fatherland Party, the Svoboda party and Right Sector is hardly a mistake. It is sign of how the U.S. and European Union plan to impose austerity, cutbacks and rule by Western banks.
The display of hated racist and fascist symbols should serve as a dire warning of what is at stake in the Ukraine today for all progressive people fighting for change, liberation and human solidarity. All capitalism can offer in its state of decay is more poverty, repression, fascism and war.
*UKRAINE   Say NO to another U.S. war!  Urgent call for anti-war actions March 10 to March 17
The threat is real. Sanctions, war build up, warships with guided missiles to the Black Sea, F-15 fighter jets on Russia's border are dangerous provocations. Washington has recognized and committed more than $10 billion to an illegal right-wing government that seized power from elected officials.
Actions large and small are urgently needed -- informational picket lines, visits to congressional offices, protests at media centers against war propaganda, vigils, and challenges to government officials. Let's make our voices heard.In NEW YORK CITY  IACenter.org   www.iacenter.org
*UKRAINE: What the media isn't telling you  WAR ALERT
Corporate media have always lied about the reasons for war, from Vietnam and Iraq to Libya, Serbia and Syria. If you turn on CNN or FOX News, read the New York Times or listen to NPR, you aren't getting the real story. Here are 10 things the U.S. corporate media won't tell you about what's happening in Ukraine.
1. Washington planned the coup in Ukraine.
U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland was caught on tape plotting who would be the next head of Ukraine. She bragged that the U.S. had spent $5 billion funding the so-called democracy movement there. Senator John McCain went to Kiev, spoke at rallies and was photographed with the leader of the fascist Svoboda party. Neo-Nazi forces took over buildings and threw out the elected government in a coup d'etat, then passed new laws with no quorum in the parliament.
2. There has been no Russian invasion.
Washington officials have threatened Russia for "invading" Ukraine. It's a Big Lie meant to cover up U.S. involvement in the coup. Russia has a military base in Crimea, a predominately Russian ethnic area, and is legally allowed to station up to 25,000 troops in the country. Russia has said it may act to protect civilians if they are threatened by the neo-Nazis in Kiev. That is all.
3. The U.S. war buildup. 
The Navy has deployed the USS Truxton, a warship armed with guided missiles, to the Black Sea. Six F-15 fighter jets and 60 military personnel have been sent to Lithuania, in addition to those already stationed there. The U.S. and EU are imposing sanctions and travel bans on Russian officials. Politicians from Hillary Clinton to John McCain have compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler. When preparing for war, the U.S. always uses this bogus comparison to demonize leaders of opponent countries.
4. Neo-Nazis dominate the new government.
The openly racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler Svoboda party is one of three major parties in the government. Svoboda led the street actions that forced elected President Yanukovych to flee. The Right Sector, armed fascists who have beaten opponents and vandalized public property, are now in charge of the military. Immediately after the coup, Ukraine's chief rabbi, Moshe Reuven Azman, urged Jews to flee Kiev. The government's first act was to ban the use of Russian and other minority languages. Opponents of the coup have been beaten, disappeared, or had their offices and homes vandalized and burned.
5. Coup leaders hired snipers to justify their takeover.
A leaked call between Estonian and European Union officials reveals that people behind the new government hired snipers to kill protesters and police in Kiev. President Yanukovych was blamed for the killings and this was used to justify the coup.
6. Wall Street and Big Oil want to control Ukraine - and Russia.
Oil and gas pipelines in Ukraine bring fuel from Russia to Europe. Big Oil wants to control the pipelines to cut the flow from Russia and hike their own profits. The U.S. has even offered the new government gas from dangerous fracking drilling here! Russia is the world's largest producer of gas, oil and industrial minerals. They want to break up Russia too. Wall Street would love to get its claws deeper into Ukraine and Russia - to drive up profits and push down wages for workers here and there.
7. NATO's drive to expand.
As part of the Western drive to dismantle Russia, the Pentagon wants to establish military bases on the Ukraine/Russia border. The U.S. dominated NATO alliance has expanded aggressively into eastern Europe in the past 20 years, adding 12 countries to its roster so far. U.S./ NATO forces continue to occupy Afghanistan to the south.
8. Billions for coup in Ukraine, cuts for food stamps in U.S.
In early February, Congress and the Obama administration agreed to cut SNAP food assistance benefits for hungry families by $8.7 billion, claiming there's no money. Yet just weeks later, they announced $10 billion in assistance to the neo-Nazis in Kiev. Secretary of State John Kerry personally delivered the first billion on March 4.
9. Power for the 1%, misery for workers.
The new regime has appointed wealthy oligarchs as governors of rebellious regions of Eastern Ukraine. It's also agreed to an IMF austerity plan drafted by Washington to cut workers' pensions, unemployment insurance and social programs - just like the cutbacks workers from Detroit to Greece face.
10. People across Ukraine are fighting back.
People in Eastern Ukraine and throughout the country are organizing against the coup. Some have taken over regional and city buildings and refused to hand them over to the new authorities. Others are marching on military bases and demanding that the troops not obey the commands of the neo-Nazis in Kiev. Some are calling on the Russian government to protect and assist them. The people of Ukraine remember well what Nazi rule was like during World War 
II, and they will not stand for it again.
*Washington Orchestrated Protests Are Destabilizing Ukraine By Paul Craig Roberts  Institute for Political Economy  - Welcome to PaulCraigRoberts.org    February 12, 2014     http://www.claritypress.com/RobertsAnthology.html
*THE PEOPLE OF USA AND EUROPE NOW EXPECTED TO PAY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND EURO TO ESTABLISH IN TO POWER IN KIEV A GANG OF US/EU SPONSORED NAZIS AND BILLIONAIRE CRIMINALS WHO CARRIED OUT A VIOLENT COUP TO INSTALL THEMSELVES AS “THE NEW LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE”.  People Against War Network – nowar@eircom.net
Ukraine: The Lies Of Empire and the Smokescreen Of Democracy By Colin Todhunter Global Research, March 01, 2014 Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-the-lies-of-empire-and-the-smokescreen-of-democracy/5371515
*”Hitler's Fascism Is Reincarnated In Ukraine
Statement of the South Ossetian political party "Justice Labor Development" 
26.2.2014 
*Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Declare that Power Comes Out of the Barrels of their Guns By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, February 27, 2014Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-neo-nazis-declare-that-power-comes-out-of-the-barrels-of-their-guns/5371126
*US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters  By Paul Craig Roberts.  Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, HOW AMERICA WAS LOST, is now available:  http://www.claritypress.com/RobertsAnthology.html 
*US and EU Backed Brown Shirt Mutiny Succeed in Ukraine for the Moment.
US & EU Hypocrites Warn Russia Not To Interfere Whilst They Are Up To Their Necks In It Themselves!
www.indymedia.ie    March 2014
US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters Paul Craig Roberts 17.2.2014   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37676.htm
 
2 days ago ... Proxy Conflict With Russia: Ukraine Descends Into Open Warfare By Richard Rozoff ... 8) Conflict with Moldova and Romania pending?  (REAL diary of events  NOT BBC CNN RTE .... LIES - Headings only below)
 1) Western news media coverage of Ukraine perverted: Russian foreign minister
2) “The West makes no comment on throwing of cocktail bombs or seizing of buildings”: Russian foreign minister says U.S. responsible for armed extremists in Ukraine
3) Speaker of the Crimean parliament: Well-train and well-armed contingent of 5,000 foreign mercenaries active in Kiev
4) Russian Foreign Ministry blames extremist gunmen for Ukrainian violence
5) Russia demands Ukrainian opposition halt violence
6) In consultation with Western patrons, Ukrainian insurgents engage in delaying tactics in order to accumulate arms: Presidential administration
7) Ukrainian Interior Ministry: Rioters employing specialized ammunition
8) Conflict with Moldova and Romania pending? Transdniester now effectively blockaded
9) British foreign secretary: “Violence against peaceful protestors is unacceptable and the Ukrainian gov should be held accountable”
10) Weimar Triangle meets Maidan Triumvirate: French, German, Polish foreign ministers meet with Tyagnybok, Klitschko, Yatseniuk
11) As the foreign ministers cancel scheduled meeting with Ukrainian president
12) French foreign minister orders new elections in Ukraine
13) United States bans visa issuance to 20 senior Ukrainian government officials

14) Mob moves to attack presidential administration building
 * Interfax  February 20, 2014   Foreign army composed of 5,000 militants active in Kyiv – speaker of Crimean parliament
MOSCOW: A foreign army composed of 5,000 militants who are ready to fight is active in central Kyiv, Volodymyr Konstantinov, speaker of the Crimean parliament, said at a meeting with a delegation of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in the State Duma in Moscow.
“An actual foreign army composed of well-trained, armed, bold, well-paid people is active in the center of the city. We estimate the number of these people at some 5,000 people,” Konstantinov said, adding that “those 5,000 people are ready to fight.”
Konstantinov said what is now happening in Ukraine is a challenge to the entire Russian world. “Ukraine is just a stage here,” he said.
Despite the danger of the situation, the central administration can still be saved, and Ukraine needs help with that, the politician said.
Konstantinov believes it would be very important for Ukraine if the Russian administration “represented by the president or the Foreign Ministry” issue a tough statement sending “a very clear signal to those who plan and finance this anti-constitutional coup.” He said the signal should be as follows: “If you succeed in that [in carrying out an anti-constitutional coup], all actions happening from this time on are illegitimate.” That is, Russia should make it clear to these forces that all interstate agreements are liquidated “if the lawful administration is overthrown.” This means that Ukraine is facing a complete collapse and this should be made very clear, Konstantinov said.
Konstantinov also pointed out that the administration of Crimea has more than once asked the president of Ukraine to use force to prevent dangerous developments in the situation. “However, we were not heard,” he said. Thus, he said he believes time was seriously lost.
Konstantinov also reiterated that Crimea will not recognize any illegitimate decisions made by the central administration under pressure, including statements issued by politicians, specifically, possible public statements on resignation.
*Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Declare that Power Comes Out of the Barrels of their Guns By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, February 27, 2014Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-neo-nazis-declare-that-power-comes-out-of-the-barrels-of-their-guns/5371126
*”Hitler's Fascism Is Reincarnated In Ukraine
Statement of the South Ossetian political party "Justice Labor Development" 
26.2.2014 
*<!--[if !vml]-->Description: http://www.counterpunch.org/images/flag-print.gif<!--[endif]-->  This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only.February 20, 2014   Sinister Illusions
Masking Tragedy in Ukraine by CHRIS FLOYD
 
*”Israeli Ex Officer Leads Ukraine Protests” Published 16.2.2014
 

*”The Ruination of Ireland” An Interview With Michael Hudson on Economic Violence by GREG McINERNEY   February 17, 2014  Quote: “If you’ve read the newspapers recently the US has just gone in to the Ukraine and has assassination squads murdering Ukrainian judges and leaders that do not want to push Ukraine along the neoliberal pro-European, as opposed to Russian practices. So, yeah, they only kill when they actually have to, and when people actually listen to them.”  Michael Hudson’s book summarizing his economic theories, “The Bubble and Beyond,” is available on Amazon.mh@michael-hudson.com  wolfessblog.wordpress.com/...with-michael-hudson-on-economic-violence18/02/2014 and michael-hudson.com

*”From Ukraine to Venezuela: U.S. wages dirty warsBy Fred Goldstein February 26, 2014  Workers World Newspaper  U.S.A.http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/02/26/ukraine-venezuela-u-s-wages-dirty-wars/ Destroying the Ukraine government through an armed insurrection is part of a broader strategy by U.S. imperialism to colonize the former Soviet republics and encircle Russia. The right-wing forces now running Kiev would let the Ukrainian masses become debt slaves to U.S., French and German banks. Feb. 24 — Washington has escalated its global campaign [...]

 
*”As pro-imperialists besiege Ukraine, Communists warn of fascist coup attempt” By Greg Butterfield 9.12.2013  http://www.workers.org/articles/2013/12/09/pro-imperialists-besiege-ukraine-communists-warn-fascist-coup-attempt/
 
*”U.S.,E.U. back pro-imperialist coup attempt in Ukraine” By Gene Clancy 17.12.2013 http://www.workers.org/articles/2013/12/17/u-s-e-u-back-pro-imperialist-coup-attemtp-ukraine/
 
*”Anti-fascist protesters march in Ukraine” – John Catalinotto 13.2.2014http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/02/13anti-fascist-protesters-march-ukraine
 
 
*”U.S./E.U. imperialists aim to seize Ukraine” By John Catalinotto 7.2.2014
 
 
*”U.S.officials caught in Ukraine plot”  By John Catalinotto 13.2.2014 http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/02/13/u-s-officials-caught-ukraine-plot
  (Ireland’s Pat Cox supporting Nazis in Kiev.
 
*”U.S., E.U., OUT OF UKRAINE!” 21.2.2014   By Editor (http://www.workers.org/articles/author/editor)
 
Financial Times 3.3.2014 – Details of massively rich Nazi criminals (some wanted by Interpol) who are now part of the new US/EU installed illegal government in Kiev. 
*Putin Asks Parliament to Approve Military Action in Ukraine
From :
Rick Rozoff <rwrozoff@yahoo.com> 1.3.2014
 
 
*Ukraine: Russian MPs Approve Troops, NATO To Hold Meeting
 
 
*[stopnato] Digest Number 4959   3.3.2014 [1 Attachment] (Subscribe to free Daily Bulletins) http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com
 
 
Latest Re Ukraine:
 
*Kiev Snipers Hired by Maidan Leaders - Leaked EU's Ashton Phone Tape  March 05, 2014 Complete Article  -  URL:  http://on.rt.com/dx2op3
(Other observers note that most of the killing/shooting on “Maidan” was done by some of the many American mercenaries operating for Blackwater Inc. for the now self imposed coalition forces in Kiev. Note from People Against War Network nowar@eircom.net     
 
 
Global Network (globalnet@mindspring.com)  02 March 2014   Bruce K. Gagnon  
Why are Nazi & Confederate flags on display in Kiev? By Sara Flounders‏ flounders.sara16@gmail.com  5.3.2014
When Kiev’s City Hall was seized with guns and Molotov cocktails, one of the first acts of the Euromaidan street fighters was to unfurl a number of flags and insignia. Prominent among the flags were swastikas, Iron Crosses, Nazi SS lightning bolts, the Celtic cross used by the Ku Klux Klan, and the Confederate “stars and bars” flag of slaveholders in the United States. (tinyurl.com/ltfu4vq)
This is no accident. The flag of the U.S. Southern slaveholders and the Klan cross are symbols understood around the world. They stand for racism, reaction, lynchings and mass terror, for keeping oppressive institutions intact and for beating down people of color and all those who struggle for a better world.
Racists from across Europe have traveled to Kiev. Wearing these symbols on their helmets and jackets, these thugs roamed Kiev and defaced the homes of Jews. They destroyed memorials to those who fought the Nazi invasion and occupation of the Ukraine in World War II. Offices of the Communist Party of the Ukraine were ransacked and destroyed, revolutionary books publicly burned in bonfires. Twenty-five statues of Lenin have been destroyed, requiring heavy equipment. (tinyurl.com/lfs734u) Amidst this offense of fascist vandalism, progressive people have mobilized to protect progressive centers, monuments and government buildings.
Symbols send a message. They are shorthand to millions of people for the aspirations and goals of social and political movements.
Naming a street, boulevard, school or holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks is recognition of the historic Civil Rights movement and Black liberation movement in the U.S. It resonates with all who stand against racism and oppression.
Certain symbols of revolution, resistance and liberation, such as the red flag, the red and black flag, the red star and the rainbow flag, are recognized around the world. The struggle to remove racist names of sports teams is well understood, as is the struggle to remove memorials to racists, slave owners and Confederates throughout the U.S. South.
Victoria Nuland, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, publicly bragged that Washington has committed more than $5 billion to these “democratic forces” in the Ukraine. (tinyurl.com/q577smd)
Nuland, Sen. John McCain and other U.S. and German politicians have publicly embraced known fascist thugs. Open U.S. support for the Ukrainian Fatherland Party, the Svoboda party and Right Sector is hardly a mistake. It is sign of how the U.S. and European Union plan to impose austerity, cutbacks and rule by Western banks.
The display of hated racist and fascist symbols should serve as a dire warning of what is at stake in the Ukraine today for all progressive people fighting for change, liberation and human solidarity. All capitalism can offer in its state of decay is more poverty, repression, fascism and war.
 
LATEST RE SYRIA (Below)
 
 
 
SUPPORTING  U.S. ILLEGAL WARS COSTS IRISH PEOPLE OVER 4 MILLION EURO PER YEAR:
 
This continues in the midst of horrendous, devastating austerity programme imposed on the people of Ireland by global criminal bankers – Unelected EU Commissioners ....
A report issued on 11th January 2012 by the Irish Shannon Watch Network shows that the US military use of Shannon Airport and Irish airspace costs the Irish state in excess of 4 million Euro per year. This is as a result of Garda policing arrangements at the airport, the use of the Irish Defence Forces to provide additional security, and air traffic subsidies.  The US military has a permanent presence in Shannon airport and it has cost the Irish taxpayer nearly 10 Million Euro over the last few years to protect it. Between 2003 and 2010 it has cost the Irish state a total of 25 million Euro to cover the costs of foreign military aircraft using Irish-administered airspace. A large percentage of these flights are U.S. planes en route to war destinations in the Middle East and southwest Asia as well as other parts of Europe. In 2009 alone, 430,000 U.S. troops used Shannon Airport on their way to Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Planes that could be carrying prisoners to torture chambers are not searched. 
“Neutral” Ireland has provided stop over services to over 2 million US troops en route to war in Afghanistan Iraq Syria in the past few years.  Refer www.shannonwatch.org and www.pana.ie     See also:
 
 
 
   Voice of Russia   February 27, 2014   Stop NATO website and articles:http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com
 
NATO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY:
In the first 30 days alone of the 78 day aerial bombardment of Serbia in 1999, NATO destroyed 25 Bridges, 16 major railway stations, 6 major roads, 7 airports, 60 bridges, tens of thousands of factories, offices, residential buildings, 55 major industrial complexes, 18 oil refineries and dumps, 65 major agricultural complexes and farmlands with livestock, 60 major manufacturing companies, 300 HA of forests, 11 hospitals, 9 nursing homes, over 200 schools and colleges, 8 power plants, 23 TV stations and radio transmitters, 11 Serbian Churches,18 medieval monasteries … Over 3,000 people dead, thousands injured. 2 million people left without heating, 500,000 left jobless and 2 million left without any income. NATO’s use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium ammunition has caused ongoing illness and death to the people of Serbia.
After June 1999, the International Red Cross noted some 250,000 Serbs, Albanians and people of other ethnic backgrounds  had been made homeless by NATO bombing and ethnic cleansing and terror by NATO sponsored Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Since June 1999, all cities and towns in Kosovo except Mitrovica have been ethnically cleansed and have become mono-ethnically Albanian.
Source: UN, International Red Cross and 42 independent photographers.

Irish Government leaders officially approved of  NATO’s week long bombing of Bosnian Serb communities in 1995 “because of the Markale Market bombings”. As the world now knows. Serb forces did not carry out the Markale bombings – they were carried out by special forces operating for NATO as a false flag operation to blame the Serbs and bring about NATO bombings of Serb communities in Bosnia.”NATO dropped more bombs on Bosnian Serb communities in Aug/Sept 1995 than the Germans dropped on London during WWII (Diaria de noticias Lisbon Sept 95)

Lest we forget:
Over 2 million Iraqis have died as a result of US-led allied bombing raids and UN sanctions since 1991. Fall out from depleted uranium ammunition used by the Allies against the peoples of Iraq in 1991 continues to cause death and deformities in people.  People Against War Network – nowar@eircom.net

* “Suicide Bombing – A Favourite US counter-Insurgency Tactic” www.uruknet.info?p=35541

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* “Sick Strategies for Senseless Slaughter” 24.5.2005 By John Kaminskiskylax@comcast.net
 

More Articles re Syria

*UN: Syrian Rebels Used Chemical Weapons The nerve agent sarin was used by 'the rebels, not by the government authorities' Posted By John Glaser On May 6, 2013   http://news.antiwar.com

 
Israel: Gas, Oil and Trouble in the Levant By Felicity Arbuthnot  Global Research, December 30, 2013  Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-gas-oil-and-trouble-in-the-levant/5362955
Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, if all goes to plan. The giant Leviathan natural gas field, in the eastern Mediterranean, discovered in December 2010, is widely described as “off the coast of Israel.”
Syria: Washington’s “Counterterrorism Agenda” Consists in Supporting the Terrorists”  By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, January 16, 2014  Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-washingtons-counterterrorism-agenda-consists-in-supporting-the-terrorists/5365067
*”Syrians Across the Country Say No To Terrorism and Foreign Interference By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research 21.2.2014 Photos of huge demonstrations across Syria in support of Syrian government. “We invite GR readers to review the video and images below and make up their own mind as to what is happening in Syria. There is a mass movement across the country against foreign interference. This mass movement is not being reported by the Western media”. Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/syrians-across-the-country-say-no-to-terrorism-and-foreign-interference/5369958

*Syria’s Chemical Weapons Stockpiles to be Transferred to the Italian Mafia?” By Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research, February 18, 2014 Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syrias-chemical-weapons-stockpiles-to-be-transferred-to-the-italian-mafia/5369399

 
Another excellent article to follow up on is:  “Continuity of Military Agenda: Syria Catastrophe Engineered Under Bush, Executed Verbatim Under Obama” By Tony Cartalucci Global Research, September 13, 2013 – Quote:The rise of Al Qaeda in Syria and the predictable bloodbath that followed is the documented work of the US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia. We are told by Western politicians and Western media houses that the conflict in Syria began with a spontaneous “peaceful,” “pro-democracy” uprising influenced by similar demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt. We are told that these peaceful protests were brutally crushed by the Syrian government and resulted in the militarization of the so-called “opposition.”    This is a verified lie.  End Quote – For complete article refer:  Url for this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/continuity-of-agenda-syria-catastrophe-engineered-under-bush-executed-verbatim-under-obama/5349648

*Truth, War Propaganda, CIA and Media Manipulation” By Global research 9.1.2014 url: http://www.globalresearch.ca/truth-propaganda-and-media-manipulation/23868From: June Kelly

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