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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Russia mobilizes army groups over Ukraine concerns

Editor's Note: The dispatch below, originating with the controversial site Whatdoesitmean.com, seems to us to be correct. The sheer number of rightwing venues denigrating this site —and its purported chief corespondent, Sorcha Faal—tells us that it is not likely to ...
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Police State Ukraine

by Stephen Lendman What kind of government establishes itself by force? What kind does it extrajudicially?  What kind of legitimacy do ultranationalist, xenophobic, neo-Nazi, anti-Semites have? What kind substitutes unrestrained coercion for rule of law principles? What kind rules by ...
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