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Obama's "Asia Pivot" getting slammed into a brick wall by NovoRussian self-defense militias

Mike Whitney
Counterpunch
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:05 UTC

Comment: Mike Whitney paints a pretty clear, objective picture of the facts on the ground in Eastern Ukraine below. It's worth watching this companion video to see just how much the U.S. government lies to its own people, and to the world, on a consistent basis spanning multiple presidential administrations. The Russians are being painted as invaders, but as the video below shows, we shouldn't trust a word that comes out of the mouths of our "leaders".



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"We are currently witnessing an epic and historic event. The Ukrainian regular army and the punitive battalions are suffering a catastrophic defeat to the south of Donetsk.....It still is not quite clear how the Junta intends to avoid a complete defeat here.... By squandering the most combat-capable brigades in systematic offensive operations, the Junta sustained enormous losses and at the same time suffered a crushing, purely military defeat. The southern front has collapsed." - The Southern Front Catastrophe - August 27, 2014″, Colonel Cassad, Military Briefing, Novorossiya, Ukraine
"The reports out of Novorussia (New Russia) are nothing short of incredible... sources are reporting that Novorussian forces have bypassed Mariupol from the north and have entered the Zaporozhie region!" - News from the Front, Vineyard of the Saker
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Poland denies permission to Russian defense minister plane: Russia warns of response


ITAR-TASS
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:00 UTC
Russia will not leave the defence minister plane incident in Poland without a response, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
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© ITAR-TASS/Gennady Hamelyanin
On Friday, Poland refused permission for a plane carrying Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to use their airspace while returning home from a visit to Slovakia. The plane carrying Shoigu, who had attended a ceremony commemorating a wartime anti-Nazi uprising in Slovakia, had to turn back and landed in Bratislava. After a brief stop and refueling there, the aircraft was allowed to overfly Poland.

"The Russian delegation was warmly welcomed in Slovakia, remembering what contribution our country made to the cause of the liberation of Slovak people from Nazism," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "But on the way back, an outrageous incident happened - the Polish side, which had given permission for the Russian plane to overfly to Slovakia, refused to let it fly back to Moscow, allegedly for technical reasons."
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Flashlight

Russia and Ukraine: Painful rift with history and current crisis

Dmitry Babich
RIA Novosti
Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00 UTC
Minsk summit leaders
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German chancellor Angela Merkel doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko will reach an agreement in Minsk.
The summit in Minsk, which is due to bring together the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, as well as the EU's commissioner for energy, in the capital of neutral Belarus, has an unhappy "pre-talk" history. The German chancellor Angela Merkel, who visited the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in Kiev days before he left for Minsk, predicted an unsuccessful outcome for the summit, saying an agreement between Putin and Poroshenko was unlikely. Poroshenko himself also reduced the chance of a positive outcome by calling the ongoing punitive operation in the eastern part of the country "Ukraine's Patriotic War" at a military parade the day before leaving for Minsk. For Russians, the name of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 against the Nazi Germany is sacred. The use of this sacred name for the indiscriminate, fratricidal killing of Ukrainians and Russians (mostly civilians) in the east of Ukraine is an insult to Russians by Poroshenko. Yet again, the new regime in Kiev has showed its lack of understanding for Ukraine's and Russia's common history.

This lack of sensitivity is not limited to the sphere of political declarations. It is reflected in life stories of real people.
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U.S. sponsored Syrian rebels attack Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights


CBC News
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:29 UTC

Comment: Notice how the Western media suddenly forgot that these are the same Syrian rebels that the U.S. was funding and backing just a while ago, to overthrow the democratically elected Assad.


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Dozens of Fijian UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights have been held by Syrian rebels since Thursday. On Saturday, the rebels attacked Filipino units in the area
Clashes erupted between al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels and UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights on Saturday after the militants surrounded their encampment, activists and officials said, as the international organization risked being sucked further into the conflict.

Other UN peacekeepers were able to flee from a different encampment that that was also surrounded by rebels of the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, they said.

The clashes came after Syrian rebel groups, including the Nusra Front, overran the Quneitra crossing - located on the frontier between Syrian and Israeli controlled parts of the Golan Heights - on Wednesday, seizing 44 Fijian peacekeepers.
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Light Saber

Kyrgyz Gov't approves bills to join Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan


RIA Novosti
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:44 UTC
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Presidents of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia - three member states of the Customs Union
Kyrgyzstan's Cabinet of Ministers has unanimously approved a package of bills that pave the way for the country's accession to the Customs Union and Common Economic Space of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the press service of the Kyrgyz government announced.

"Today we are making a historic decision for our country. We have unanimously decided to adopt the whole list of bills and send the package of documents required to join the Customs Union to Zogorku Kenesh (Kyrgyz parliament)," Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev said.

The country's government has "fulfilled its obligations within the framework of the roadmap to join the Customs Union almost in full," the press service noted.

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed the Eurasian Economic Union (EAU) Treaty on May 29. Following the agreement, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said his country would join the Eurasian Economic Union by the end of the year.

Comment: Also see: Kto Kogo?* Who will triumph, Putin's Eurasian Union or Washington's global empire?

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With dignity, knowledge and compassion Putin talks Ukraine, NATO, Crimea at Q&A with Russian youth


President of Russia
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:25 UTC
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The Presidential Press and Information Office before the meeting with Seliger 2014 Forum participants, August 29, 2014
Vladimir Putin is visiting the Seliger 2014 10th National Youth Forum. The Forum's current participants, gathering under the name of the Knowledge Generation, include postgraduates and young teachers from around Russia in the fields of history, political science, sociology, philosophy and economics.

The President's discussions with Forum participants cover current issues in Russia's political and economic life and international affairs.


Excerpts from transcript of meeting with Seliger 2014 Forum participants
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Yoda

'Anything U.S. touches turns into Libya or Iraq': Top Putin quotes at National Youth Forum


RT
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:29 UTC
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Vladimir Putin has criticized Washington's unilateral actions on the international arena, saying that whatever it touches seems to be turning into Libya or Iraq. Below are the top 10 quotes from the Russian President's speech at the Seliger youth forum.

Unilateral decisions made outside the United Nations are usually doomed to failure, Putin said Friday, while speaking at the "Seliger-2014" annual youth forum.

"Do you remember the joke: 'Whatever Russians make, they always end up with a Kalashnikov?' I get an impression that whatever Americans touch they always end up with Libya or Iraq," Putin told the participants of the 10th forum held on Lake Seliger in Tver region, some 370 km north of Moscow.

"When decisions are made unilaterally, they always turn out to be short lived. And the other way round: it's difficult to reach consensus at the UN because often opposite opinions and positions collide. But that is the only way to achieve long-term decisions," he said.
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Austria's vice chancellor and finance minister resigns over tax reforms

Kawther Salam
Europa & Palestine News
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:16 UTC
Austria's chancellor and vice chancellor
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Werner Faymman & Michael Spindelegger
Michael Spindelegger, ÖVP Chairman, Austria's vice Chancellor and Finance Minister has announced he is stepping down from all political functions during a press conference citing criticism from his own political party over his refusal to accelerate tax reform plans.

Spindelegger said at the press conference that he is giving up his function as head of the conservative People's Party, the junior government coalition partner of the Social Democrats. Now the ÖVP must occupy the newly freed up positions.

He said that reducing taxes for the average wage-earner now would come at the cost of new government debt or increasing other forms of taxation. He told reporters that he opposes both scenarios.

Spindelegger became vice chancellor three years ago and was appointed finance minister last year.
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Is US being prepared for a false-flag attack on American soil?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:29 UTC
ISIS
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US trained and armed mercenaries having fun in Iraq with their gleaming caravan of hundreds of new white shining Toyotas that somehow could not be picked up by US intelligence satellites. Satellites that otherwise are able to see whether you have tied your shoelaces or not!
Government engineered false-flag terrorism is a historically established fact. For centuries, political and financial elites have been sinking ships, setting buildings on fire, assassinating diplomats, overthrowing elected leaders, and blowing people up, then blaming these disasters on convenient scapegoats so that they can induce fear in the public and transfer more power to themselves. Skeptics might argue whether certain calamities have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be false-flag events, but no one can argue that such tactics have not been used by the establishment in the past. Governments have openly admitted to creating bloody and catalyzing tragedies under false pretenses, like Operation Gladio, a false-flag program in Europe supported by European and American covert agencies which lasted decades, from the 1950's to the 1990's.

Gladio utilized well-paid and trained rogue groups and agents as well as patsies, compartmentalized and controlled, who would commit atrocities against the European public. These atrocities would then be blamed on "left wing extremists", galvanizing the citizenry and political representatives towards the false East/West paradigm. The superficial motivation given by whistleblowers was that Gladio was to be used to keep the right wing in power. However, the broader and deeper goal was clearly to manipulate Europeans into accepting a unification mindset, paving the way for the eventual centralization of Europe into the EU supranational block. Gladio, is only one well documented example of false-flag terrorism being exploited by governments to mold mass psychology towards greater collectivism.

Comment: More information on the creation of ISIS.

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Western aggression: US-NATO to deploy ground troops, conduct large scale naval exercises against "Unnamed Enemy"

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Sun, 24 Aug 2014 03:22 UTC
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The World is at a dangerous Crossroads. The Western military alliance is in an advanced state of readiness. And so is Russia. Russia is heralded as the "Aggressor". US-NATO military confrontation with Russia is contemplated. Enabling legislation in the US Senate under "The Russian Aggression Prevention Act" (RAPA) has "set the US on a path towards direct military conflict with Russia in Ukraine."
Any US-Russian war is likely to quickly escalate into a nuclear war, since neither the US nor Russia would be willing to admit defeat, both have many thousands of nuclear weapons ready for instant use, and both rely upon Counterforce military doctrine that tasks their military, in the event of war, to preemptively destroy the nuclear forces of the enemy. (See Steven Starr, Global Research, August 22, 2014)
The Russian Aggression Prevention Act (RAPA) is the culmination of more than twenty years of US-NATO war preparations, which consist in the military encirclement of both Russia and China:
From the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran. It has brought 12 countries in central Europe, all of them formerly allied with Moscow, into the NATO alliance. US military power is now directly on Russia's borders. (Steven Kinzer, Boston Globe, March 3, 2014, emphasis added)

Comment: NATO has tried time and time again to paint Russia as the aggressor in Ukraine, while the OSCE has repeatedly stated that there is no evidence that this is true. In fact the "separatists" (ordinary people protecting themselves from NATO-installed Kiev) are doing just fine without Russian regulars.

The West and Israel destabilize and destroy every country that poses a threat to their hegemony. It seems now that the West might have both over-extended and met their match in the BRICS. This is what makes this moment such an important time to spread the truth about what is occurring. Psychopaths in power will do anything to keep it, and manipulating public opinion is a crucial part of their agenda.

Ukraine on verge of collapse as Kiev forces capitulate: US catapults the propaganda with another desperate Russian invasion ploy

Donetsk Peoples Republic press conference: Every 30 to 50 years the West invades us

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