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Wag the dog: Hollywood style techniques used to stir the pot between Russia and Ukraine


RT
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:56 UTC
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© Reuters / Valentyn OgirenkoMembers of Ukrainian self-defence battalion "Azov" march in support of soldiers that protesters say are surrounded in eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian separatists, in front of the Presidential Administration office in Kiev, August 27, 2014.
It is very suspicious there are no facts or proof of the activities Russia is blamed for in Ukraine, areas that are subjected to a high level of surveillance by satellites and all kinds of technology, author and media analyst Daniel Schechter told RT.

RT: The UN says it cannot prove there are Russian troops on Ukrainian soil - but media outlets seem to be more then eager to report such allegations. Why is that?

Daniel Schechter: Every journalist likes to know what the facts here are so we can determine, what is actually happening. And instead what we see here are claims which do not seem to have underlying facts. As a consequence, the President of Ukraine is calling this an invasion and then he said "I'm not calling this an invasion, it's a sort of incursion, and there are troops here." But there has been very little evidence of that. There was one really remarkable image that I saw: a soldier of the Ukrainian army who said "I believe there were Russian troops there. Can I prove it?" and then he put his fingers like zero - "I can't prove it."


Comment: The West is still attempting to utilize the same formulaic techniques used prior to the invasion of Iraq, to make a pretext for war between Russia and Ukraine. Pure propaganda as there is NO evidence to support the lies of a Russian invasion. In actuality they are trying to hide the fact that Kiev's forces have been completely routed in the breakaway republics of Novorossiya.


Comment: This is what Washington does - it spews lies and propaganda with no evidence as it has no real strategy.

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Reality check: Russia urges UNSC to stop 'speculation around MH17 flight'


RT
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:59 UTC
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© Reuters / Sergey KarpukhinMembers of a group of international experts inspect wreckage at the site where the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine August 1, 2014
At a UN Security Council meeting, Russia demanded the international community to stop speculation about the MH17 flight, unless someone is willing to contribute info important to investigation, such as air traffic controller's records concealed by Kiev.

Ukraine has proposed to await the outcome of the preliminary investigation into the downing of the Malaysian Boeing that was shot down on 17 July 2014, after Russia during Thursday's UN Security council meeting urged Kiev to publish the recording of Ukrainian air traffic controllers that guided MH17.

During a meeting of the 15-member council where the topic of MH17 has been brought up again, Russia's ambassador to the UN has demanded an end to "speculation around the downed Malaysian aircraft."

Comment: This lie faded into mainstream media obscurity relatively quickly. Perhaps that's because it was intended to A) subtly contribute to the public opinion that Russia is up to no good B) turn attention away from Gaza during Israel's genocidal brutality and C) distract from the fact that Kiev's fighters were being picked to pieces in Ukraine. For some important facts concerning the downing of the aircraft check out the following:

The Russian military finally speaks about the MH17 atrocity
As a public information this conference gets a C+ but as a lead for experts I would give it a much higher A-. We now have hard proof that the Ukies lied at least twice. They lied about the footage of the Buk missiles being moved back to Russia (the footage was taken in Ukie-occupied territory) and they most definitely lied when they denied having any military aircraft in the area when in reality they had one in the immediate proximity of MH17. That is a huge lie which the Ukies will have a very hard time dismissing.


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The Reverse Brzezinski: The ultimate eurasian dilemma

Andrew Korybko
orientalreview.org
Sun, 22 Jun 2014 06:23 UTC
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Introduction:

A global shift in US strategy is currently underway, with America transitioning from the 'world policeman' to the Lead From Behind mastermind. This fundamental shift essentially entails the US moving from a majority forward-operating military to a defensive stay-behind force. Part of this transformation is the reduction of the conventional military and its replacement with special forces and intelligence recruits. Private military companies (PMCs) are also occupying a higher role in the US' grand strategy. Of course, it is not to say that the US no longer has the capability or will to forward advance - not at all - but that the evolving US strategy prefers more indirect and nefarious approaches towards projecting power besides massive invasions and bombing runs. In this manner, it is following the advice of Sun Tzu who wrote that "supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." The outcome is a mixture of Color Revolutions, unconventional warfare, and mercenary interventions that avoids the direct use of US combat troops while relying heavily on regional allies' proxy involvement. This results in the promotion of American policy via oblique methods and the retention of relative plausible deniability. Importantly, the absence of conventional forces is thought to reduce the risk of a direct confrontation between the US and Russia, China, and Iran, the primary targets of these proxy wars.

The Eurasian-wide plan of strategic destabilization and state fracturing owes its genesis to Zbigniew Brzezinski and his Eurasian Balkans concept. The US is flexible in practicing this concept, and it does not meet a dead end if the destabilization encounters an obstacle and cannot be advanced. Should this occur, as it has in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq, and possibly soon in the South China Sea, the stratagem evolves into maximizing the chaos within the launch pad states that are positioned on the doorsteps of the Eurasian Powers. The idea is to create 'black holes' of absolute disorder in which Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran are "damned if they do, damned if they don't" intervene. Ideally, the US prefers that its intended targets are sucked into a quagmire that bleeds them dry and destabilizes them at home, per the example of the Soviet-Afghan War which Brzezinski conspired over 30 years ago. Moving away from the expansive Eurasian Balkans and reverting to the roots of 'Afghan anarchy' is the nature of the Reverse Brzezinski, and it poses the ultimate dilemma-like trap for the Eurasian Powers.


Comment: This strategy which, no doubt, comes from some of the most twisted minds currently occupying this planet, hasn't worked so well against Russia at all, they terribly underestimated Putin. Wishful thinking will get you every time.


Comment: And this is what Russia had to deal with, and is still dealing with and successfully, to say the least.They didn't fall into the trap of behaving in the way the Western powers expected.The title of a chess master or a judo master is definitely deserved by Putin.

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The West taught its monster well: Islamic State tortured James Foley, other Westerners with harsh CIA tactics


RT
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:27 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Nicole TungThis hand out picture courtesy of Nicole Tung taken on November 5, 2012 in Aleppo shows US freelance reporter James Foley
The American photojournalist who was beheaded by Islamic State militants was also tortured using some of the same methods employed by the CIA in its controversial, post-9/11 interrogation program.

James Foley was subjected to waterboarding multiple times while being imprisoned by the Islamic State, as were three other kidnapped Westerners. According to the Washington Post, several unnamed American officials confirmed the news, with one adding that Foley "suffered a lot of physical abuse" before his death.

A French journalist who was held by the Islamic State along with Foley said, in addition to waterboarding, the American was punished even more than others after militants discovered his brother was a member of the US Air Force.

Comment: Torture was never intended to provide intelligence: that is a talking point provided by advocates of torture to obfuscate the brutality of what they've done. Immobilizing someone and doing severe harm to them psychologically and physically is psychopathic, pure and simple.

America has implemented a perverse, "Silence of the Lambs" foreign policy for decades. ISIS is therefore not an anomaly, it is the logical progression of this disease of psychopaths in power putting other psychopaths into power.

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American education system: The monopoly of the government cartel

James Hall
Corporatocracy
Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:00 UTC
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Learning is a noble pursuit, but the ancient Greek text is one of the few places where the Socratic Method survives. Sanctioned political doctrine of required thinking is the mainstay in today's august temples of purification. Forget about a classroom, the curriculum core of New Age studies has no room for the classics, much less instructions into the process of thinking itself. Except, of course for the need to electronically check off the loan applications and assign grants to the business office. In the end, university is big business and developing intelligent graduates happens as an afterthought, if at all.

College Education Economics has become a black hole for most students. Even wealthy families bear a heavy burden to ship their offspring to an experience that continually produces diminished cash flow benefits to offset the costs. Parents know there is a profound disconnect. However, when attempts for making significant changes to the way the higher learning cartel does business, the usual suspects ride to the rescue of the established order. Jordan Weissmann in a Slate article, Smash the System?, slams Senator Mike Lee for proposing "A dangerous plan to make college cheaper by busting "the college cartel." What else would you expect from a DC Metro and Associate Editor at The Atlantic? Nothing is more important than defending a failed system and attacking innovative ideas on how to re-create a viable and relevant education model. Quoting Mr. Weissmann,

Comment: It is sad to see how many students suffer from student loans in a country dubbed the "Land of Free", all for a noble cause called "education".

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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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Post-It Note

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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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
© © REUTERS/ Guido Bergman/Bundesregierung/Handout via ReutersGerman 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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© Ariel Schalit/Associated PressDozens 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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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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© RIA Novosti. Aleksei DruzhininPresidents 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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