The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt | The Nation

Posted on April 2, 2014 by hanshowe

“The April 6 rally in Cherkasy, a city 100 miles southeast of Kiev, turned violent after six men took off their jackets to reveal T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Beat the Kikes” and “Svoboda,” the name of the Ukrainian ultranationalist movement and the Ukrainian word for “freedom.” ”
– Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 12, 2013

While most of the Western media describe the current crisis in Ukraine as a confrontation between authoritarianism and democracy, many of the shock troops who have manned barricades in Kiev and the western city of Lviv these past months represent a dark page in the country’s history and have little interest in either democracy or the liberalism of Western Europe and the United States.

“You’d never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and fascists have been at the heart of the protests and attacks on government buildings,” reports Seumas Milne of the British Guardian. The most prominent of the groups has been the ultra-right-wing Svoboda or “Freedom” Party.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/178716/dark-side-ukraine-revolt

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After Ukraine…

Posted on February 23, 2014 by hanshowe

“Orange Crush?” What’s next? Moscow?

 

[in Sic Semper Tyrannis]

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“What we are risking is a great power confrontation. The various Russian strategic thinkers have already said that NATO bases in Ukraine would be a serious strategic threat to the existence of an independent Russia. So, if Ukraine moves into the EU and then NATO bases are on their way, there’s no doubt whatsoever that southern and eastern Ukraine are going to split off, and I just don’t believe the Russians are going to give up their naval base on the Black Sea. So, if the Americans push too hard, and by Americans I mean Washington, of course, it’s going to be a great power confrontation. Very, very serious thing… I mean what in the world do you think Washington cares about democracy in Ukraine? They don’t even have any in the United States! We have a police state that spies on everybody, the whole world. The media is a propaganda ministry. It’s worse than it ever was in the Soviet Union. People have no idea of what’s going on and what they’re told about the Ukraine is a fabrication.” Paul Craig Roberts quoted in the Voice of Russia

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If you are Russian, it is very easy to see what has happened in Kiev as a neocon inspired US plot for which the “second act” will be an attempt to foment  a similar uprising in Russia itself.  This belief is reflected in the article quoted above.

Paul Craig Roberts and Phil Geraldi make strong cases for the continued influence of the neoconservatives.  As a conspiratorial “vanguard” the neocons think nothing of changing their official party identity in pursuit of power.

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Americans should ask themselves if people like Victoria Nuland and Michael Rubin are dragging the United States toward a crisis and possible conflict with Russia.

The neocons gave us the Iraq war.  What a triumph that has proven to be.  What new mischief will they heap upon the heads of the American people?  pl

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2014/02/17/diplomacy-is-a-four-letter-word/

http://voiceofrussia.com/us/2014_02_22/Former-Reagan-Asst-Sec-Washington-neocons-behind-Ukraine-protests-7567/

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2014/02/httpvoiceofrussiacomus2014_02_22former-reagan-asst-sec-washington-neocons-behind-ukraine-protests-7567.html

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Is the Army Training to Attack Americans?

Posted on February 18, 2014 by hanshowe

It sure looks like it. For it is indeed curious that the Army has built a mock-city that resembles a generic American city. Right down to a church (look at the photo here) and a subway station with DC Metro cars. The cost was $96 million, or about one-quarter the cost of a F-35.

The Army built a fake Iraqi village for training at Ft. Bragg. The Army built a fake Aghani village to train in and the Air Force built one to bomb. Fake Vietnam villages were built at Ft. Lee and Ft. Dix.

Before you go on an anti-Obama rant, this site took six years to plan and build, which implies that the original funds request dates back at least a year or more before that. You might recall who was the president in 2006 through 2008.

Source: http://eb-misfit.blogspot.com/

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