In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger
Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for
the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world
*
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnpilger>John
Pilger -
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian>The
Guardian, Tuesday 13 May 2014 20.30 BST
* http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=167283#167283
A pro-Russian activist with a shell casing and a
US-made meal pack that fell from a Ukrainian army
APC in an attack on a roadblock on 3 May in
Andreevka, Ukraine. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world
war in our name? Why do we allow lies that
justify this risk? The scale of our
indoctrination,
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html>wrote
Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty,
highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the
truth "never happened even while it was happening".
Every year the American historian
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://williamblum.org/>William
Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record
of US foreign policy" which shows that, since
1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50
governments, many of them democratically elected;
grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries;
bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries;
used chemical and biological weapons; and
attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
In many cases Britain has been a collaborator.
The degree of human suffering, let alone
criminality, is little acknowledged in the west,
despite the presence of the world's most advanced
communications and nominally most free
journalism. That the most numerous victims of
terrorism - "our" terrorism - are Muslims, is
unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to
9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American
policy
(<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone>Operation
Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April
the US state department noted that, following
Nato's campaign in 2011,
"<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/prime-minister-abduction-low-libya>Libya
has become a terrorist safe haven".
The name of "our" enemy has changed over the
years, from communism to Islamism, but generally
it is any society independent of western power
and occupying strategically useful or
resource-rich territory, or merely offering an
alternative to US domination. The leaders of
these obstructive nations are usually violently
shoved aside, such as the democrats
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jun/19/iran-protests-mousavi-mossadeq>Muhammad
Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/05/salvador-allende-death-investigation-chile>Salvador
Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/17/patrice-lumumba-50th-anniversary-assassination>Patrice
Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All
are subjected to a western media campaign of
vilification - think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin.
Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in
its implications for the rest of us. For the
first time since the Reagan years, the US is
threatening to take the world to war. With
eastern Europe and the Balkans now military
outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state"
bordering Russia - Ukraine - is being torn apart
by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU.
We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a
country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
Having masterminded the coup in February against
the democratically elected government in Kiev,
Washington's planned seizure of Russia's
historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in
Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves,
as they have done against every threat and
invasion from the west for almost a century.
But Nato's military encirclement has accelerated,
along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic
Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked
into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained
"pariah" role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla
war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.
Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by
seeking an accommodation with Washington and the
EU, by withdrawing Russian troops from the
Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in
eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend's
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/11/eastern-ukraine-referendum-donetsk-luhansk>provocative
referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual
people - a third of Ukraine's population - have
long sought a democratic federation that reflects
the country's ethnic diversity and is both
autonomous of Kiev and independent of Moscow.
Most are neither "separatists" nor "rebels", as
the western media calls them, but citizens who
want to live securely in their homeland.
Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine
has been turned into a CIA theme park - run
personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev,
with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and
FBI setting up a "security structure" that
oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the
February coup. Watch the videos, read the
eye-witness reports from the massacre in Odessa
this month. Bussed fascist thugs
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-crisis-pro-russian-forces-claim-assault-on-slavyansk-live-updates>burned
the trade union headquarters, killing 41 people
trapped inside. Watch the police standing by.
A doctor described trying to rescue people, "but
I was stopped by pro-Ukrainian Nazi radicals. One
of them pushed me away rudely, promising that
soon me and other Jews of Odessa are going to
meet the same fate. What occurred yesterday
didn't even take place during the fascist
occupation in my town in world war two. I wonder,
why the whole world is keeping silent."
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting for
survival. When Putin announced the withdrawal of
Russian troops from the border, the Kiev junta's
defence secretary, Andriy Parubiy - a founding
member of the fascist Svoboda party - boasted
that attacks on "insurgents" would continue. In
Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has
inverted this to Moscow
"<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27305245>trying
to orchestrate conflict and provocation",
according to William Hague. His cynicism is
matched by Obama's grotesque congratulations to
the coup junta on its
"<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/15/us-ukraine-crisis-obama-idUSBREA3D1DH20140415>remarkable
restraint" after the Odessa massacre. The junta,
says Obama, is "duly elected". As
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/28442.Henry_Kissinger>Henry
Kissinger once said: "It is not a matter of what
is true that counts, but what is perceived to be true."
In the US media the Odessa atrocity has been
played down as "murky" and a "tragedy" in which
"nationalists" (neo-Nazis) attacked "separatists"
(people collecting signatures for a referendum on
a federal Ukraine). Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street
Journal damned the victims -
"<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304831304579545093207787978?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304831304579545093207787978.html>Deadly
Ukraine Fire Likely Sparked by Rebels, Government
Says". Propaganda in Germany has been pure cold
war, with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
warning its readers of Russia's "undeclared war".
For the Germans, it is a poignant irony that
Putin is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe.
A popular truism is that "the world changed"
following 9/11. But what has changed? According
to the great whistleblower
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-ellsberg>Daniel
Ellsberg, a silent coup has taken place in
Washington and rampant militarism now rules. The
Pentagon currently runs "special operations" -
secret wars - in 124 countries. At home, rising
poverty and a loss of liberty are the historic
corollary of a perpetual war state. Add the risk
of nuclear war, and the question is: why do we tolerate this?
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/http://johnpilger.com/>www.johnpilger.com
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There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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