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February 28, 2014
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 on the march. To the extent that government exists in post-coup Ukraine, it is laws dictated by gun and threat ...
February 28, 2014
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 USSR’s collapse the ‘set’ has been changed many times over several acts of our long-running Ukrainian ‘play.’ Rotating oligarchs ...
February 28, 2014
The Crisis In Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts In 2004 Hungary joined the EU, expecting streets of gold. Instead, four years later in 2008 Hungary became indebted to the IMF. The rock video by the Hungarian group, Mouksa Underground sums up the result in Hungary ...
February 27, 2014
Whither Ukraine?
An Imperialist Invasion Without an Imperialist Army by MARILYN VOGT-DOWNEY, Counterpunch.org It’s not just that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (above) was a coward for fleeing in the dead of night from angry and rebellious Ukrainian nationalists in Western Ukraine to ...
February 27, 2014
OpEds: After pro-EU putsch in Ukraine, Russia puts military on alert
By Alex Lantier, wsws.org The Kremlin carried out large-scale military exercises along its border with Ukraine yesterday, amid rising tensions with the Western-backed Ukrainian regime that seized power in Saturday’s fascist-led putsch in Kiev ...
February 27, 2014
The geopolitical dimensions of the coup in Ukraine
Guest editorials— By Peter Schwarz, wsws.org “When the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again ...