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Clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansion - has put fascists in power

Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:57 UTC
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© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesTroops under Russian command fire weapons into the air in Lubimovka, Ukraine.
The external struggle to dominate Ukraine has put fascists in power and brought the country to the brink of conflict

Diplomatic pronouncements are renowned for hypocrisy and double standards. But western denunciations of Russian intervention in Crimea have reached new depths of self parody. The so far bloodless incursion is an "incredible act of aggression", US secretary of state John Kerry declared. In the 21st century you just don't invade countries on a "completely trumped-up pretext", he insisted, as US allies agreed that it had been an unacceptable breach of international law, for which there will be "costs".

That the states which launched the greatest act of unprovoked aggression in modern history on a trumped-up pretext - against Iraq, in an illegal war now estimated to have killed 500,000, along with the invasion of Afghanistan, bloody regime change in Libya, and the killing of thousands in drone attacks on Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, all without UN authorisation - should make such claims is beyond absurdity.

It's not just that western aggression and lawless killing is on another scale entirely from anything Russia appears to have contemplated, let alone carried out - removing any credible basis for the US and its allies to rail against Russian transgressions. But the western powers have also played a central role in creating the Ukraine crisis in the first place.
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Chess

Spring fails in Ukrainian plunderland as the bloodsucking IMF is welcomed by "Yats"

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:28 UTC
Vulture capitalism
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Here's the US's exceptionalist promotion of "democracy" in action; Washington has recognized a coup d'etat in Ukraine that regime-changed a - for all its glaring faults - democratically elected government.

And here is Russian President Vladimir Putin, already last year, talking about how Russia and China decided to trade in roubles and yuan, and stressing how Russia needs to quit the "excessive monopoly" of the US dollar. He had to be aware the Empire would strike back.

Now there's more; Russian presidential adviser Sergey Glazyev told RIA Novosti, "Russia will abandon the US dollar as a reserve currency if the United States initiates sanctions against the Russian Federation."

So the Empire struck back by giving "a little help" to regime change in the Ukraine. And Moscow counter-punched by taking control of Crimea in less than a day without firing a shot - with or without crack Spetsnaz brigades (UK-based think tanks say they are; Putin says they are not).

Putin's assessment of what happened in Ukraine is factually correct; "an anti-constitutional takeover and armed seizure of power". It's open to endless, mostly nasty debate whether the Kremlin overreacted or not. Considering the record of outright demonization of both Russia and Putin going on for years - and now reaching fever pitch - the Kremlin's swift reaction was quite measured.
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Vader

Saadi Gaddafi extradited to Libya for 'fair trial' by U.S. client regime of terror


The Guardian
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:43 UTC
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© Prison Media Office/ReutersSaadi Gaddaf gets his head shaved in the Tripoli prison
Government says former ruler's son has been transferred from Niger on charges of embezzlement and making armed threats

Niger has extradited Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi to Libya where he has been placed in a Tripoli prison, the Libyan government said on Thursday.

Libya had been seeking the extradition of Saadi, who had fled to the southern neighbour nation after the toppling of Gaddafi in a Nato-backed uprising in 2011.

"The Libyan government received today Saadi Gaddafi and he arrived in Tripoli," the cabinet of the Libyan prime minister, Ali Zeidan, said in a statement.

Saadi, one of Gaddafi's seven sons, was being held by judiciary police forces, the government said. It thanked Niger for its co-operation and said Saadi would be treated according to international justice standards for prisoners.
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Cut

President Maduro breaks diplomatic relations with Panama, citing client state's complicity in 'democratization of Venezuela'


RT
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:31 UTC
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© Reuters / Carlos Garcia RawlinsVenezuela's President Nicolas Maduro
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that it was breaking diplomatic and commercial ties with Panama on Wednesday, citing the Central American country's complicity in a "conspiracy."

In strongly worded comments during a commemoration event on the anniversary of the death of the country's late president, Hugo Chavez, Maduro derided Panama's leadership.

"We're not going to let anyone get away with interfering with our fatherland, you despicable lackey, president of Panama," said Maduro.

The Venezuelan leader affirmed that actions to break relations with Panama were in keeping with the day's homage to Chavez.

"This is the best way to honor commander Chavez, by defending our sovereignty."
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Rocket

North Korea missiles buzz Chinese passenger jet

Jeyup S. Kwaak
Wall Street Journal
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:11 UTC
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© APPeople in Seoul watch a television report of North Korea's missile test on Tuesday
Tuesday Volley Flew Above Airliner's Route Just Minutes Ahead of Plane

North Korea defended on Wednesday its recent missile firings as "ordinary military practice," as South Korea said Tuesday's volley passed above a Chinese passenger jet's route just minutes ahead of the airliner.

In its first public comment on the launches, North Korea's state media said the missiles' accuracy ensured they wouldn't affect neighboring countries. The firings began on Feb. 21 and ended on Tuesday, state media said.

South Korean and U.S. officials confirmed that North Korea fired four Scud missiles into the sea on Feb. 27 and two on Monday, as well as other short-range rockets on Tuesday. The firings of ballistic missiles breaches a United Nations test ban, but North Korea said Wednesday that the launches were a sovereign right.

Seoul's Defense Ministry said the North gave no warning for any of the tests.
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Bad Guys

Cameron aide Patrick Rock tipped off about impending arrest for paedophilia?

Rowena Mason
The Guardian
Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:00 UTC
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© Steve Back/Rex FeaturesPatrick Rock had earlier been accused of inappropriate behaviour by a colleague.
Labour accuse No 10 of lack of transparency as David Cameron comes under pressure to explain timings of allegations

David Cameron is under pressure to explain whether his senior aide Patrick Rock was tipped off by Downing Street that he was accused of an offence related to child abuse images hours before his arrest by police.

Labour accused Number 10 late Tuesday of a "lack of transparency" about the senior adviser's resignation and subsequent arrest, which took place nearly three weeks ago but only became public after a leak to a newspaper.

It also emerged that the aide was previously accused of "inappropriate behaviour" by a colleague and this incident was investigated by his line manager, Ed Llewellyn, Cameron's chief of staff, who is also an old friend of Rock's.

The prime minister on Tuesday said he was "profoundly shocked" by allegations against Rock, who had worked on government policy about placing filters on internet pornography to protect children.
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Light Saber

The report RT's Abby Martin SHOULD have done - RT America exposes blatant hypocrisy of Western media


RT
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 08:05 UTC
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Meanwhile an unprecedented war of words has been intensifying by the day with Western politicians and the media using strong language when it comes to Russia's role in the Ukrainian crisis. And this is after the same politicians gave their backing to violent riots in Kiev less then a month ago. RT's Gayane Chichakyan investigates.

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Eye 1

The glaring hypocrisy of the Western Powers is on display again in Ukraine

Owen Jones
The Independent, UK
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 07:44 UTC
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A mushroom cloud of testosterone has descended on social media; would-be Dr Strangeloves are even demanding military action against Russia, otherwise known as "stage 1 of the nuclear extermination of the human race". The approach of Western governments, thankfully, has been rather more restrained, though hardly for peace-loving reasons: the City of London-funded Conservative party wants Russia's money to keep flowing into financial institutions, and the German government wants its gas.

But bluster and self-interest aside, Russia's invasion helps hold up a mirror to the West's foreign policy, however much that makes us flinch. "The first casualty when war comes is truth," US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson was reported to have said in 1918; in the Ukrainian crisis, the first casualty has been irony. "You just don't invade another country on a phoney pretext in order to assert your interests," declares John Kerry, Secretary of State for a country which infamously did just that almost exactly 11 years ago. "The world cannot say it's OK to violate the sovereignty of another nation in this way," solemnly proclaims William Hague, who merrily waltzed through the division lobby in support of the Iraq war in 2003.
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Briefcase

Agreement on cooperation between Republics of Tatarstan and Crimea signed in Simferopol


Interfax Ukraine
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 07:38 UTC
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'Swallow’s Nest' Castle in Haspra, Republic of Crimea
An agreement on cooperation between the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Tatarstan was signed in Simferopol on Wednesday, an Interfax correspondent has reported.

The agreement was signed by Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksionov and Rustam Minnikhanov, the head of Tatarstan.

After the document was signed in the Crimean Council of Ministers, Aksionov thanked members of Tatarstan's delegation for taking the time to come to Crimea "at this difficult time and plan steps for further cooperation."

Minnikhanov told reporters that more specific areas of cooperation will be determined within the next month by experts from the two governments.
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Propaganda

More opportunity to demonize Putin (and Chavez): He sends letter to Venezuela and the media uses it to continue spreading their lies about them both

Oscar Lopez
Latin Times
Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:14 UTC
obama leg spreading
Such leg-spreading can be very bad for your (and your country's) health at this age Mr president... or your imperial highness... it's really hard to keep up these days!
Despite being embroiled in one of biggest political crises in the last decade, Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken time out of his busy schedule waging war on small countries and minority groups to remember Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez. The Russian President (or is it Prime Minister? or President? or Tsar? It's hard to keep up) sent a letter to the Venezuelan government in which he called Chávez' death "nefarious" and remembered his "personal charm."

Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chávez had a lot in common: both leaders managed to convince people of the legitimacy of their corrupt governments, oppressed all dissidence and ran their overly resource-reliant countries into the ground. It is thus fitting that Mr. Putin should remember a tyrant of equal standing so fondly.

"Remembering this exceptional man, I cannot help but admire his strength of will, his courage, his indefatigable energy and his personal charm," wrote the Russian leader.

Comment: It must be very hard for those 'journalists' who happily spread the U.S. drivel against Vladimir Putin and the late Hugo Chavez, to understand the depth and quality of sentiment which the former took the time to express for a man whom he admires.

Of all the above, only the bolded parts contain any truth, but also that "it is getting lonely in the Kremlin", yet not in the way the 'journalist' indented.

Chavez's death - nefarious indeed! - means that there are very few heads of states left in the world, with true understanding and courage in their purpose to care for their people, who can stand up to the U.S. psychopathic imperial machine and its allies. Losing one, is a loss for all of us who can See.

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