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Best of the Web: The reality of Kiev's repression of anti-fascism in Ukraine

Eric Draitser
Counter Punch
Wed, 27 May 2015 21:23 UTC

There is a common misconception in the West that there is only one war in Ukraine: a war between the anti-Kiev rebels of the East, and the US-backed government in Kiev. While this conflict, with all its attendant geopolitical and strategic implications has stolen the majority of the headlines, there is another war raging in the country - a war to crush all dissent and opposition to the fascist-oligarch consensus. For while in the West many so called analysts and leftists debate whether there is really fascism in Ukraine or whether it's all just "Russian propaganda," a brutal war of political repression is taking place.

The authorities and their fascist thug auxiliaries have carried out everything from physical intimidation, to politically motivated arrests, kidnappings, torture, and targeted assassinations. All of this has been done under the auspices of "national unity," the convenient pretext that every oppressive regime from time immemorial has used to justify its actions. Were one to read the Western narrative on Ukraine, one could be forgiven for believing that the country's discontent and outrage is restricted solely to the area collectively known as Donbass - the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as they have declared themselves. Indeed, there is good reason for the media to portray such a distorted picture; it legitimizes the false claim that all Ukraine's problems are due to Russian meddling and covert militarization.

Instead, the reality is that anger and opposition to the US-backed oligarch-fascist coalition government in Kiev is deeply rooted and permeates much of Ukraine. In politically, economically, and culturally important cities such as Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kherson, ghastly forms of political persecution are ongoing. However, nowhere is this repression more apparent than in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. And this is no accident.

Western banks to reduce presence in Russia & Ukraine due to 'unfavorable conditions' - whose fault is that?

Mike Wheatley
Russia Insider
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:46 UTC

Raiffeisen Bank is one of the banks rumored to be partially or fully ceasing to do business in Ukraine and Russia

Standard & Poor's believes that Western banks will attempt to exit Ukraine completely, while winding down their involvement in Russia until such a time as geopolitical tensions are reduced.

The continuation of "unfavorable conditions" in Russia and Ukraine means that Western banks are likely to try and exit the latter market and reduce the volume of operations in the former, according to a new report from the international rating agency Standard & Poor's.

The agency suggests that foreign banks are "reviewing their development strategy options in Russia and Ukraine", as the banking sector in both countries will likely take several years to recover from their recent decline, said Natalia Yalovskaya, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's.

"Given the challenging operating environment, we estimate the growth prospects of the banking sector, and improving the quality of assets and profitability as a rather weak in Russia and even more unfavorable in Ukraine", Yalovskaya said.

S&P doesn't rule out that Western banks will attempt to exit the Ukrainian market altogether, while trying to reduce their presence in Russia. However, the agency notes that withdrawing from Ukraine altogether may be difficult due to a lack of buyers interested in acquiring Western bank's assets in the country.

"In early 2015 the Ukranian government announced it was looking to restructure its commercial debt obligations in foreign currency. In accordance with our criteria, we will classify the exchange offer of securities or other similar restructuring of Ukraine's debt in foreign currency as the equivalent of a default," the agency said.

Comment: Standard & Poors is just another front for the Empire of Chaos. Its downgrading of Russian bonds to junk status in 2014 was one salvo in the attempt to undermine Russia. It's not the first time S&P has used its "credibility" to undermine a troublesome country.

More self foot-shooting: American financial rating company cuts Russia's credit rating to step above 'junk'
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In the long run, this development appears to be only good for the Eurasian Union, Putin's vision of a community of mutually respectful countries:

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From the Death Party: Lindsey Graham warns of more war, troops in Middle East if he's elected president in 2016

RT
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:12 UTC

The 2016 presidential election is still over a year away, but potential Republican Party nominee Sen. Lindsey Graham(R-South Carolina) wants GOP voters to know what's in store if he wins the White House: more war.

Graham, one of the more recent and mainstream members of the Republican Party to toss their hat in next year's race, told Fox News during an interview this week that he has a much different idea for tackling the so-called Islamic State than President Barack Obama.

While the Obama administration is adamant about maintaining a policy against the terrorist group - also known as ISIS, or ISIL - that doesn't involve boots on the ground, Graham said he wouldn't hesitate to send American troops to the Middle East.

"I'm trying to tell the American people, the Republican primary voter: The only way I know to defend this country is to send some of us back to Iraq and eventually to Syria to dig these guys out of the ground, destroy the caliphate, kill as any of them as you can, hold territory and help people over there help themselves," Graham said during an interview on Thursday morning that was first spotted by Mediaite.

Comment: His comments could just be political posturing, but one gets the sense that the good senator would truly enjoy his chance to start more wars and kill more people. Such are the politicians of our day, no longer hiding behind good intentions and kissing babies. They openly reveal their cold-hearted nature.

'Where's the $500 million?' American Red Cross promises houses for 130,000 Haitians, 'builds only 6'

RT
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:54 UTC

An investigation has found that the American Red Cross wasted $500 million in its bid to help Haiti, underperformed in its programs, and then tried to cover it up. Despite the NGO's celebrated success, insider accounts point to failures.

When a devastating earthquake struck the Western hemisphere's poorest country in 2010, the American Red Cross was one of the organizations at the forefront of the humanitarian effort to rebuild it a year later, launching a multi-million-dollar effort.

The main program - LAMIKA (a Creole acronym for 'A Better Life in My Neighborhood') - was to build hundreds of permanent homes to house some 130,000 people living in abject poverty after the quake.

Comment: Wow, five years later and the Haitian people still have nothing, even with the so called help from NGOs.

India and Vietnam deepen integration with Eurasian Economic Union

Rajaram Panda
Eurasia Review
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:57 UTC

Since the launch of Doi Moi (Renovation) in 1986, Vietnam has leapfrogged from a centrally planned economy to a market-driven one and has undertaken comprehensive reforms to make the economy market-friendly. The various market-oriented reforms have helped encourage competition among economic units, which have helped boost the nation's gross national wealth. There were three thrust areas where the reforms were focussed: improvement of institutions with enabling motives, stabilisation of macroeconomic situations and pro-active integration into the regional and world economy.

In a world of increasing economic interdependence, the economies of nations are so closely interlinked that any adverse development in one country can have crippling effect on other nations. This calls for constant coordination of policies that serve the common goals - that is fostering economic prosperity across nations and beyond boundaries. The regional and international organisations dealing with economic issues also help in mitigating contending issues when they arise.

Besides, there is a flurry of bilateral and institutional arrangements across continents that also facilitate economic integration process. In this, Vietnam is a front runner in becoming proactive in fostering international economic integration and enhanced all available opportunities to boost external trade. Besides signing bilateral trade agreements, Vietnam joined the Association of South East Asian nations (ASEAN) and the associated Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 1995. In 1998, it joined the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Since 2000, Vietnam has accelerated the economic integration process and entered into the most comprehensive bilateral trade arrangement with the US, before entering into various multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) within the ASEAN framework such as ASEAN-China FTA, ASEAN-Korea FTA, ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA, ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership, ASEAN-India FTA. In 2007, it became a member of the World Trade Organisation. These however did not complete Vietnam's economic integration process.

Comment: While the territorial boundaries in the South China Sea have long been disputed, much of the belligerence and posturing is being directed by the United States as a means of keeping a foothold in the region and to limit China's control and access to an important geopolitical location. Vietnam (and India) would do well in fully recognizing the ramifications of aligning with these influences.

Last year we saw Vietnam and China reach historic agreements in resolving conflict over the Paracel Islands. Vietnam's growing partnership with the EEU, their membership in China's new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the weakening of territorial conflict provide signs that a future in South East Asia free from Western influence is possible. The Russian-led EEU appears to be offering a back-door to help stabilize conflict in the region.

On eve of EU vote to extend Russian sanctions war returns to Ukraine

Alexander Mercouris
Russia Insider
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:44 UTC

Kiev needs war to regain levels of western support.

Predictably and right on cue, as the date of the review of the EU's sanctions on Russia approaches, there is a major spike in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

This will come as a surprise to no one.

As we have repeatedly said, the Ukrainians are not genuinely interested in implementing the terms of the Minsk Memorandum.

Those terms, if implemented, would spell the end of the Maidan project. Not surprisingly the Ukrainian government, which owes its entire existence to the Maidan project, will not willingly let it fail and will turn to war to prevent it doing so.

Comment: Impression management by Ukraine?

Caught red handed: Leaked email reveals Kiev violated ceasefire many times

Sputnik
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:31 UTC

For months, both sides of the Ukrainian conflict were accusing each other of violating the Minsk peace agreements. Turns out it was Kiev-led troops who were not sticking to the ceasefire plan, having their heavy artillery stationed near the border with the Donbass republics.

Ukrainian hacktivist group CyberBerkut hacked into the emails of Major-General Andriy Taran, Chief of the Joint Centre for Ceasefire Control and Coordination in Ukraine, and recovered pictures that prove multiple violations of the Minsk peace agreements by Kiev forces.

According to the Minsk agreements, both sides of the Ukrainian conflict — Donbass militia and Kiev troops — agreed to back their heavy artillery from the line of contact.

However, satellite images obtained by CyberBerkut reveal that Kiev had its heavy artillery stationed in the immediate vicinity of the border with the Donbass republics, thus violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

Comment: Plenty of proof of Kiev's disregard of the Minsk Agreements. This situation in Ukraine is going to blow up.

Western puppet, President Aquino of Philippines, compares China to Nazi Germany

Joseph Santolan
World Socialist Web Site
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:18 UTC

As Washington continues to escalate dangerous tensions with China in the South China Sea, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is currently in Japan. Both Manila and Tokyo are playing crucial roles in Washington's ratcheting up of military pressure on Beijing.

The Philippines, under the Aquino administration, has been particularly provocative. Last year, Manila filed a legal case before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which was drawn up by lawyers in Washington, disputing China's territorial claims in the South China Sea. When Washington last month staged a fly-by of Chinese occupied territory using a P8 Poseidon surveillance jet with a CNN camera crew on board, an action denounced by Beijing, Aquino announced that Manila would also have flights transit the same region.

On June 1, speaking before a gathering of Japanese businessmen in Tokyo, Aquino compared Beijing's actions to those of Nazi Germany, repeating almost verbatim the inflammatory rhetoric he previously used in February 2014 in an exclusive interview with the New York Times. He stated that, like Hitler, there was a need to stop China, but with Hitler, "unfortunately, up to the annexation of the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, the annexation of the entire country of Czechoslovakia, nobody said stop."

China is not an imperialist power, nor is it threatening to invade anyone. The analogy to Nazi Germany in 1938 could be far more aptly made with regard to the United States. Under the Obama administration, it has deliberately pursued an aggressive policy toward China in the pursuit of its own geopolitical interests, threatening a catastrophic war.

New Snowden leak: Obama secretly expanded NSA surveillance of Americans

Sputnik
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:23 UTC

In the wake of the USA Freedom Act - the bill which seemingly reigned in the NSA's spying capabilities being signed into law - newly disclosed Edward Snowden documents reveal that the legislation didn't even come close to addressing the agency's warrantless Internet surveillance, secretly expanded under President Obama.

The Freedom Act, signed into law by the president on Tuesday, was heralded as the first major reform of US intelligence practices in decades. While supporters insisted it placed restrictions on the government's ability to collect bulk metadata, it actually extends the surveillance powers of the National Security Agency which had already expired.

But even if the Freedom Act accomplished what its backers claimed, it still fell drastically short of limiting the agency's domestic — and warrantless — Internet surveillance program, newly revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The slow destruction of America through systemic corruption

Washington's Blog
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC

Comment: The facts stated in this article shine an even stronger light on the total hypocrisy of the U.S. government, especially with regard to their recent attack against Sepp Blatter and FIFA for its corruption. In light of all the corruption inherent within the U.S., you'd think that the U.S. would be hesitant to point the finger at anybody. But hypocrisy has never stopped the U.S. before.

Preface: It's been less than a month since we last posted on this topic ... but, sadly, we've got many more examples.

The Cop Is On the Take

Government corruption has become rampant:

Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes

Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants

An EPA employee who downloaded 7,000 porn files, then spent 2-6 hours each workdaywatching porn. He's been doing it for years ... but the EPA never fired him. Another EPA employee harassed 16 women co-workers ... and then was promoted to a higher-paying job with more responsibility, where he harassed more women

NSA spies pass around homemade sexual videos and pictures they've collected from spying on the American people

NSA employees have also been caught using their mass surveillance powers to spy on love interests, such as girlfriends, obsessions or former wives ... and to eavesdrop on American soldiers' intimate conversations with their wives back home. And see this ("routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted" ... "'Hey, check this out ... there's good phone sex'")

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There's a world wide revolution going on. It goes beyond Mississippi, it goes beyond Alabama, it goes beyond Harlem. What is it revolting against? The power structure. The American power structure? No. The French power structure? No. The English power structure? No. Then what power structure? An international, Western power structure.

- Malcolm X

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