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Scoundrel Media War on Russia
by Stephen Lendman Scoundrel media editors find new ways to embarrass themselves. They mock legitimate news and opinion. They suppress ...
Rick Staggenborg: The American people must wake up!
Citizen activist Rick Staggenborg, Founder of Soldiers For Peace International, Founder and President at Take Back America for the People and Volunteer at Freeing Humanity, is circulating the following appeal to ...
US-backed Ukrainian regime mobilizes reserves, threatening war with Russia
By Alex Lantier The absence of a massive antiwar response inside the US itself points to the degrading effect Obama ...
OpEds: The crisis in Ukraine
Below we reproduce excerpts from a WSWS.org (Fourth International) editorial on the situation in Ukraine. 3 March 2014 The crisis ...
East Europe, Ukraine and Russia—Quo vadis?
Dispatch from Rome— Our European correspondent and senior editor ponders the mess in the Ukraine, so easily predicted by those ...
Ukraine: One “Regime Change” Too Many?
By Ray McGovern Russia’s parliament has approved President Putin’s request for the use of force inside neighboring Ukraine, as the ...
Turmoil in Ukraine [Expanded edition]
By Stephen Lendman "The stakes are forbiddingly high. Will the damn fool in the White House blunder into more mistakes than ...
Ukrainian Democracy: A Barrier to Washington’s Goals
What Do Ukrainians Really Want? by NICK ALEXANDROV, Counterpunch.org When Ukraine is the topic, the major U.S. media outlets agree: ...
Indonesia and the Act of Forgetting
The Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By ANDREAS HARSONO / FEB. 28, 2014 Even the New York Times is forced to recognize, albeit ...
Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Declare that Power Comes Out of the Barrels of their Guns
Paul Craig Roberts Reality on the ground in Ukraine contradicts the incompetent and immoral Obama regime’s portrait of Ukrainian democracy ...
Dr. Strangelove Over Ukraine
Reviving the Cold War by JEFFREY SOMMERS Events in Ukraine are providing plenty of theater, but little economic change. Since ...
The Crisis In Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts In 2004 Hungary joined the EU, expecting streets of gold. Instead, four years later in 2008 Hungary ...
