Ukraine

Ukraine Boils As Eastern Cities Rise Up Against Kiev Authority

April 7, 2014 Common Dreams Staff, www.commondreams.org Resist! Russia, Ukraine

Pro-Russian citizens in the eastern cities of Ukraine are rising up against the government in Kiev, storming government buildings, raising the Russian flag, and calling for referendum votes to proclaim their independence. In their eyes, the recently established government based in the western capital city is not legitimate and now, like Crimea, they wish to exercise their right to break free of Ukraine and rejoin the Russian confederacy. Pro-Russian activists guard a barricade outside the security service building in Donetsk. (Photograph: Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images) On Sunday night, protesters stormed buildings in three key cities—Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk, clashing with security forces but ultimately gaining access to buildings and refusing to leave.

Ukraine: What Now? The IMF Plan

April 4, 2014 Dominique Ferré, www.socialistorganizer.org Educate! Corruption, IMF, Ukraine

Obama-Putin telephone discussions, meetings between the U.S. and Russian foreign affairs ministers in Paris . . . the “de-escalation of the Ukraine crisis” is underway. Obama, in Europe, called on the NATO member countries to increase their military spending, and the Russian authorities promised not to cross over the eastern borders into Ukraine. Everything seems to have gone back to normal. The U.S. government, while repeating that “nothing will be decided without the Ukrainians,” has nonetheless rubber-stamped — without officially recognizing it — Crimea’s being attached to Russia. This is all the more true, as the Russian government, which in appearance has “saved face,” has come out of this crisis under increased pressure. According to German Gref, the managing director of the biggest bank of Russia, Sberbank, “US$35 billion of capital have been withdrawn from Russia over the first two months of the year.”

Is New Ukraine Government Dealing With Right Sector?

April 2, 2014 RT, www.rt.com Educate! Ukraine

On Monday, Ukraine’s acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov urged militants to clear out of the capital following a shootout in downtown Kiev instigated by a Right Sector member injured three people, including Deputy Mayor Bogdan Dubas. A police special operations taskforce armed with automatic weapons besieged the Dnepr Hotel, where Right Sector had been based for the last several weeks, and delivered an ultimatum to abandon the building leaving all weapons behind. In return, police promised a safe corridor out of the city for the militants, who primarily arrived to Kiev from western regions of Ukraine. The Right Sector militants fulfilled the condition and were taken out of the city in a convoy of buses. At the same time, nobody searched for hidden weapons either on their persons or among their numerous belongings loaded on the buses. Earlier there were reports that valuable items were missing from the government buildings ‘guarded’ by Right Sector members.

Oligarchs, Fascists and the People’s Protest in Ukraine

April 1, 2014 Derek Monroe, www.therealnews.com Resist! Russia, Ukraine

But would you agree with the characterization that in the final analysis these are Russian oligarchs fighting with Ukrainian oligarchs fighting with European oligarchs fighting with American oligarchs? This is all about who's going to feast on the peoples of all these countries. And I guess what we don't see out of Ukraine right now is any kind of independent politics that represents the--really represents ordinary people of the Ukraine. MONROE: That is true. And I think when you're going to--when I was at Maidan, it was not--this point was not reinforced strong enough that actually when you look at the overall--the structure of the conflict itself, there are not only two sides, let's say, between government and the rest of the people. Actually, there are three sides: there was the government, there was the opposition, and there were the people.

Why The US Is Demonizing Putin

March 31, 2014 Tariq Ali, www.theguardian.com Educate! Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Washington knows that Ukraine has always been a delicate issue for Moscow. The ultra-nationalists who fought with the Third Reich during the second world war killed 30,000 Russian soldiers and communists. They were still conducting a covert war with CIA backing as late as 1951. Pavel Sudoplatov, a Soviet intelligence chief, wrote in 1994: "The origins of the cold war are closely interwoven with western support for nationalist unrest in the Baltic areas and western Ukraine." If the US insists on using the NATO magnet to attract the Ukraine, it is likely that Moscow will detach the eastern part of the country. Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the west nor Moscow.

Is There A Third Way For Ukraine?

March 28, 2014 Martin Winiecki, www.terranovavoice.tamera.org Create! Ukraine

As the standoff over Crimea threatens to escalate into an open military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, more and more evidence shows how the popular Maidan uprising has been undermined and hijacked by the West – through supporting openly fascist and racist groups (the “right-wing sector”), by inciting violence, and by hand-picking some figures of the new government. The widespread rebellion that has brought together people from all parts of society in solidarity and the common humane surge for freedom and justice is increasingly threatened and abused by external interests of power. Instead of achieving genuine liberation for the population, Yanukovych’s highly corrupt, pro-Russian puppet regime is merely replaced by another one that is committed to sell out the country on behalf of the United States, the IMF, the EU and of course, the national oligarchs.

Video: Does The U.S. Want War With Russia?

March 24, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Resistance Report, Russia, Russia Ukraine Video, Ukraine, Video, Wars and Militarism

“Is Russia urging Quebec to secede from Canada so that the province can join a military alliance led by Moscow? Evidently not. That would be comparable, and yet mild compared to the recent U.S. gambit led by Victoria Nuland aimed at bringing Ukraine into the Western orbit. (…) Russia professes no hostile ideology, and only seeks normal relations with the West. What more can it do? It is up to Americans to come to their senses.” - Diana Johnstone, Counterpunch

Assessing The Extreme Right In Ukraine

March 24, 2014 Staff, www.opendemocracy.net Educate! Ukraine

If that were truly the case, “democratic Ukraine” is fighting an increasingly powerful enemy and it is doing this with only part of its leadership. Not only do far right parties in Ukraine have a popular support that is well above the EU average, although only half of that in some west European countries (like Austria and France), the main far right party is more extreme than most of its ‘brethren’ within the EU, and occupies significant positions of power within the new Ukrainian government and state. On top of that, whereas EU countries actively persecute violent and anti-democratic neo-fascists, like Golden Dawn in Greece, they have entered key positions within the Ukrainian state bureaucracy. This should be cause of considerable concern for EU politicians and scholars of Ukrainian nationalism alike.

Ukraine and Yugoslavia

March 23, 2014 Diana Johnstone www.counterpunch.org Educate! Ukraine

Simply compare. Is Russia urging Quebec to secede from Canada so that the province can join a military alliance led by Moscow? Evidently not. That would be comparable, and yet mild compared to the recent U.S. gambit led by Victoria Nuland aimed at bringing Ukraine, including the main Russian naval base at Sebastopol, into the Western orbit. The material reality of this political orbit is NATO, which since the end of the Soviet Union has systematically expanded toward Russia, which stations missiles whose only strategic function would be to provide the United States with a hypothetical nuclear first strike capacity against Russia, and which regularly holds military manoeuvers along Russian borders. Russia has done nothing against the United States, and recently provided President Obama with a face-saving way to avoid being voted down in Congress in regard to military action against Syria – action which was not desired by the Pentagon but only by the fraction of Israeli-oriented policy makers called “neocons”. Russia professes no hostile ideology, and only seeks normal relations with the West. What more can it do? It is up to Americans to come to their senses.

Ukraine And The Pathology Of The Liberal Worldview

March 21, 2014 Ajamui Baraka, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Racism, Ukraine

In response to the crisis in The Ukraine, the Obama administration is calling on Congress to agree to a long-term aid package for Ukraine and announced on Tuesday a short-term billion dollar aid package. Yet, when it comes to crisis situations like extending unemployment benefits to the 1.3 million people who lost them in December or the forced bankruptcy of Detroit, a major city that happens to have an African American majority, or maintaining food assistance for the working class and poor in the form of the food stamp program, elite opinion in both parties has embraced the “common sense” position that significant reductions in public expenditures and services at every level of government are a reasonable and unavoidable necessity.

Who Benefits From Ukraine Crisis? (Hint: Not Average Ukrainians)

March 20, 2014 Jack Rasmus, www.http://www.kyklosproductions.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, IMF, Ukraine

On March 16, 2014, 83% of the Crimea’s eligible voters have voted by 97% to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. Simultaneously, negotiations between the European Union and IMF with the interim government in the Ukraine, brought to power by a Coup D’etat on February 22, continue toward a conclusion set tentatively for March 21. Extreme political uncertainty thus promises to continue for weeks and perhaps months given these events, while economic conditions consequently continue to deteriorate in the Ukraine from an already extremely precarious state. Most accounts of the situation in the Ukraine and Crimea have focused to date on political events and conditions. Little has been said in the press about the economic consequences of the Coup and subsequent events, or likely scenarios for the future. What interests—in the Ukraine and global (i.e. western Europe, USA, Russia)—stand to benefit economically from recent and future events in the Ukraine? Who stands to lose? There’s a well-worn saying, if you want to find out ‘who benefits’, then “follow the money trail”.

Sanctions Against Russia Could Trigger Global Depression

March 18, 2014 Gilbert Mercier, www.newsjunkiepost.com Educate! Crimea, Energy, Russia, Ukraine

The referendum in Crimea on March 16, 2014 will probably attach the peninsula to the Russian federation. While it is unlikely that NATO will intervene and seek a direct military confrontation with Russia, the United States and the European Union are already cooking some broad and unwise economic sanctions with which to punish Russia. Russia, for its part, has at its disposal some mighty economic weapons with which to retaliate, as needed. The economic pain from this tit for tat of sanctions will be, in particular, inflicted on the EU. Because of the interconnections between all economies and financial markets, mutual economic sanctions could drive a still fragile world economy to a financial crash.

Russia – 1, Regime Changers – 0

March 18, 2014 Pepe Escobar, www.atimes.com Educate! Crimea, Russia, Ukraine

So after all that barrage of ominous threats including everyone from Obama, Kerry and assorted neo-con bomb-firsters down to minions such as Cameron, Hague and Fabius, the meat of the matter is that the Obama administration concluded it would not risk a nuclear war with Russia for the Khaganate of Nulands - especially after Moscow made it known, discreetly, it would create the conditions for eastern and southern Ukraine to also secede. Sweden, for instance, proposed an arms embargo on sales to Moscow. Paris took a quick glance at its industrial-military complex interests and immediately said no. Only the brain dead entertain the notion Paris and Berlin are willing to jeopardize their trade relations with Russia.

Ukraine: What Would George Carlin Say?

March 13, 2014 Renee Parsons, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Russia, Ukraine

Carlin had great instincts and recognized valuable political comedic material when he saw it and the buffoonery of US Secretary of State John Kerry laying roses at a Kiev memorial and making the sign of the cross would have been one of his all-time favorites. We can only imagine Carlin’s utter delight in sticking it to the ever-righteous Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as he shared a stage with a very grim reaper neo-Nazi Oleh Tynahabok appearing as if he had just crawled out of the dark dank depths of Transylvania or bring his razor-sharp insights to the photo of a mediocre President Obama dressed in denim as he struck a Reagan-esque pose (minus the cowboy hat) in the Oval Office talking tough to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Hillary and Other Assorted Barbarians at Russia’s Gate

March 13, 2014 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Russia, Ukraine

Fascists all over the world – not just Ukraine – know they have tens of millions of soul mates in the United States, including the leadership of both major parties. That’s why they flashed the white supremacist gang-sign from Kiev. In turn, the American political class and corporate media prove they are also fascists, by pretending that their Ukrainian allies are democrats. With the U.S. and NATO now poised at Russia’s door, as was Germany in 1941, Hillary Clinton attempts to flip the clear historical parallel by ranting that it is President Putin who seeks a “Greater Russia.” The Kremlin has every reason to believe the barbarians are at the gate.

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