G H ELIASON—The inadequacies Ukraine faced in 2014 and display today show how quickly inept, bumbling leadership can turn to vile criminality. The Ukrainian Diaspora volunteer battalions like Donbass, Kiev1, Dniepr, Azov, etc, almost immediately turned to rob, raping, murder, and torture in the towns and villages they came across. They weren’t fighting forces but they had military weapons and hardware with no real leadership and a very cultivated drunk and drugged up nationalist perspective.
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Jimmy Dore interviews Oliver Stone on Putin, and Russiagate—MUST WATCH! (Videos)
Oliver Stone has had the privilege of intervewing Vladimir Putin at length, in his own quarters, and without a lot of the “chief of state” paraphernalia usually seen in the case of Western political leaders. Here he shares his views about American Russophobia and the hostile reception his efforts receoved among the US media.
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“WE ARE NOT PRO-RUSSIAN, WE ARE RUSSIANS!” – BRAVE WOMAN PUTS A TAUNTING UKRAINIAN JOURNALIST IN HIS PLACE
“Ah! But yes, we are already forced: 75% must speak in Ukrainian, and 25% — in whatever you want (most likely, she is referring to the new law about information broadcasting, which assumes that three quarters of TV and radio, and also the printed media must be released in Ukrainian). Ukrainian language will be in schools, the documents of enterprises will be in Ukrainian (it should be noted that the flow of documents was forcibly passed long before the coup d’etat). Write both in Russian and in Ukrainian.”
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Credit Suisse Freezes $5 billion of Russian Money due to U.S. Sanctions – A Recipe for Accelerated De-Linking from the Dollar Economy
PETER KOENIG— Irrespective of the spineless behavior of the EU and the Swiss Government, the latter unable even to stand up to its own neutrality – let them rot in their submissiveness to empire and its EU vassals – gutlessness, which by the way they, the Swiss Government, has also demonstrated vis-à-vis Venezuela – more important, much more important is, what does this all mean for Russia?
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