Ukraine

Understanding The Ukraine: Geopolitics, The People & The Future

February 23, 2014 The Saker, www.vineyardsaker.blogspot.com Educate! Europe, Russia, Ukraine

he EU is most unlikely to achieve its objectives in the Ukraine for a very simple reason: the Ukrainian nationalists and the so-called "opposition" (i.e. the armed insurgency) are all bought and paid for by the US. The EU bureaucrats can continue visiting the Ukraine and make loud statements, they really don't matter. So its really the US vs Russia and here I have to say that the US goals is far easier to achieve that the Russian one: all the USA needs chaos, something easy to achieve and relatively cheap to finance, while Russia needs stability and prosperity and that, at the very least, means to provide is cardiac resuscitation to the basically ruined Ukrainian economy and to jump-start some kind of much needed reforms. The latter probably cannot be done without breaking the backs of the Ukrainian oligarchs. Well, if rescuing the Ukraine is not an option, then protecting Russia from the inevitable chaos and mayhem is the only option left. That, and making darn sure that Crimea is safe. Russia could, for instance, provide direct assistance to the eastern Ukraine, especially to region like Kharkov which are governed by competent and determined people. Beyond that, the only option left for Russia is to hunker down and wait for either a viable force to take power in Kiev or for the Ukraine to break-up in pieces.

Breaking: Ukraine Government & Opposition Reach Major Agreement

February 21, 2014 Staff, www.AP.org Resist! Revolution, Ukraine

In a day that could significantly shift Ukraine's political destiny, opposition leaders signed a deal Friday with the country's beleaguered president that calls for early elections, a new constitution and a new unity government. If it holds, the ambitious agreement could be a major breakthrough in a months-long crisis over Ukraine's future, a standoff that worsened sharply this week and left scores dead and hundreds wounded in the worst violence the country has since seen it became independent in 1991. Within hours of the signing, Ukraine's parliament voted to restore the 2004 constitution that limits presidential powers, clawing back some of the powers that President Viktor Yanukovych had pushed through after being elected in 2010.

VIDEO: Manifest Destiny’s Child Strikes In Ukraine

February 19, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Foreign Relations, Ukraine, Video, Wars and Militarism

As Paul Craig Roberts writes in an article published on his website and PopularResistance.org: “There is a lack of awareness on the part of the protesters that by permitting themselves to be manipulated by Washington, they are pushing the world toward a dangerous war. A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars. Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which to subvert Ukraine.” The fact that we are meddling in the affairs of the Ukraine, spending money and influence that are resulting in violence and death should not read as tin foil hat conspiracy theory. These actions, and financial priorities have been US foreign policy dating back to at least the end of World War 2. Whether it is the 1953 CIA lead coup in Iran, or Ollie North funneling funny money to train freedom fighters in Afghanistan that would yield a young leader named Osama Bin Laden, the United States has been attempting to shape the geopolitical landscape and global economy loosing military conflicts ad wars for sixty years.

US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters

February 18, 2014 Paul Craig Roberts, www.paulcraigroberts.org Educate! Ukraine

The revolt in Ukraine is an amazing, long-lasting uprising. It was spurred by the president refusing to sign an agreement allying Ukraine with Europe and by an economy that is struggling. There is also long-term opposition to President Viktor Yanukovych who some describe as running a corrupt, gangster government. And, many in the country also want to break from their alliance with Russia. There has been open support of the Ukraine uprising by US officials including Senator John McCain as well as diplomats, who have been caught on tape discussing the government that should replace Viktor Yanukovych. Professor Michael Hudson, a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, has written a book on the modern US empire, Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy Of American Empire," and in a recent interview said: "If you’ve read the newspapers recently the US has just gone in to the Ukraine and has assassination squads murdering the Ukrainian leaders that do not want to push Ukraine along the neoliberal pro-European, as opposed to Russian practices." The article below by Paul Craig Roberts describes how the EU and US are paying protesters in the Ukraine.

Breaking: Ukraine In Flames, Death Toll Rises To At Least 25

February 18, 2014 Source: Global Revolution Live, www.rebelmouse.com Resist! Ukraine

Global Revolution LIVE reports #Ukraine #Kyiv #MaidanSquare #Євромайдан is burning, but people stay... more people arrive. Around 20,000 protesters are now on#EuroMaidan. Berkut and militia BEGAN attacking #EuroMaidan #Євромайдан by using flash bang grenades at 20:00 Kyiv time. Also Water cannons being used. Source: espreso.tv. Video shows protesters are singing Ukrainian national anthem while police are throwing fire bombs. More videos show livestream of Ukraine protests and Maiden Square on fire. Also, links to updates on the protests.

Ukraine Experts: The Role Of Extreme Right In Ukraine Protests

February 14, 2014 Staff, www.change.org Educate! Media, Russia, Ukraine

We are a group of researchers who comprise specialists in the field of Ukrainian nationalism studies, and most of the world’s few experts on the post-Soviet Ukrainian radical right. Following years of intensive study of this topic, we understand better than many other commentators the risks that its far right participation entails for the EuroMaidan. An increasing number of lay assessments of the Ukrainian protest movement, to one degree or another, misrepresents the role, salience and impact of Ukraine’s far right within the protest movement. Numerous reports allege that the pro-European movement is being infiltrated, driven or taken over by radically ethnocentrist groups of the lunatic fringe. Both the violent and non-violent resistance in Kyiv includes representatives from all political camps as well as non-ideological persons who may have problems locating themselves politically. The movement as a whole merely reflects the entire Ukrainian population, young and old. The heavy focus on right-wing radicals in international media reports is, therefore, unwarranted and misleading.

US Caught Red Handed In Ukraine

February 13, 2014 MIKE WHITNEY www.counterpunch.org Educate! Democracy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Ukraine

Washington is at it again, up to its old tricks. You’d think that after the Afghanistan and Iraq fiascos someone on the policymaking team would tell the fantasists to dial-it-down a bit. But, no. The Obama claque is just as eager to try their hand at regime change as their predecessors, the Bushies. This time the bullseye is on Ukraine, the home of the failed Orange Revolution, where US NGOs fomented a populist coup that brought down the government and paved the way for years of social instability, economic hardship and, eventually, a stronger alliance with Moscow. That sure worked out well, didn’t it? One can only wonder what Obama has in mind for an encore.

US Efforts To Remove Ukrainian Leader Replace With Opposition Exposed

February 7, 2014 Doug Saunders, www.theglobeandmail.com Educate! Russia, Ukraine

A recording of a phone conversation between two senior U.S. diplomatic officials, in which they discussed their efforts to influence the membership of the Ukrainian government that would be formed to replace the one dismissed under protester pressure by President Viktor Yanukovych, was leaked to the public – almost certainly by an intelligence agency – just as one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top aides issued a direct threat to the United States over its involvement in Ukrainian affairs. But now, with the leak of the apparently bugged State Department call, the Kremlin and Mr. Yanukovych have new ammunition with which it can accuse the protesters of being puppets of U.S. and European agendas.

How the West Manufactures ‘Opposition Movements’

February 4, 2014 Andre Vltchek, , www.counterpunch.org Educate! Cuba, Egypt, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela

The West is continuously manufacturing and then supporting oppressive forces, be they feudal or religious. The more oppressed people are, the less disposed they are to fight for justice and for their rights. The more scared they are, the easier it is to control them. Feudalism, religious oppression and cruel right-wing dictatorships, all that serves perfectly well both the market fundamentalism of the Empire, and its obsession with controlling the planet. But such an arrangement of the world is abnormal, and therefore temporary. Human beings are longing for justice and, in their essence, are a sharing and decent species. Albert Camus, correctly, arrived at the conclusion in his powerful novel “The Plague” (analogy to fight against fascism): “there is more to admire than to despise in humans”. What the West is now doing to the world; igniting conflicts, supporting banditry and terror, sacrificing millions of people for its own commercial interests, is nothing new under the sun.

Virtual Tour Of The Ukranian Protest Site In Kyiv

February 1, 2014 chornajuravka, www.euromaidanpr.wordpress.com Resist! Ukraine

Kyiv is relatively calm now, so it’s just the right time to study Maidan in detail. Almost everybody has heard that word, but not everybody imagines how everything works here. Now the protesters occupy Kyiv’s center – Maidan Nezalezhnosti square, almost all of Khreschatyk (the main street), European square and some of the adjacent streets. A few administrative buidings have been captured; in them, heating and medical help centers have been established, as well as stations for accepting and redistributing clothes and other items. There are hundreds of tents on the streets, in which the activists that have come to Kyiv from all over the country live. Maidan is astonishingly well organized. This is a small government in itself. It has its own army, storehouses with weapons (glass bottles, sticks, stones), food, it has its own internal press, stores, and, of course, Maidan protects its own boundaries very well.

Ukraine Prime Minister Resigns, Parliament Repeals Anti-Protest Laws

January 28, 2014 Oksana Grytsenko and Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com Educate! Ukraine

Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych, accepted the resignation of his prime minister and government on Tuesday, in an apparent concession to the opposition and to demonstrators who have taken to the streets to protest against his rule. Separately, Ukraine's parliament voted to scrap anti-protest laws that have provoked a violent escalation of the country's political crisis. The opposition responded cautiously to Azarov's resignation, saying it was unclear who would replace him. Russia, meanwhile, piled further pressure on Yanukovych by announcing that it might not fulfil its pledge to pay a £9bn bailout to Ukraine if the government falls. Opposition leaders said they would not abandon their uprising until their key demands were met. The demands include Yanukovych's resignation, fresh presidential elections, and an amnesty for those rounded up by police in street protests. "It's not a victory. It's just a step towards victory," Vitali Klitschko, leader of the UDAR

Ukrainian President Offers Surprise Concessions

January 25, 2014 Shaun Walker and Oksana Grytsenko, www.theguardian.com Educate! Ukraine

Ukraine's embattled president, Viktor Yanukovych, on Saturday night made a surprising and wide-ranging compromise offer to the protesters who have occupied his capital, promising to make an opposition leader prime minister, give amnesty to those involved in clashes with police and institute major constitutional reforms. The trio of politicians who have become the de facto leaders of the protests rejected the offer but said they were willing to negotiate. After several hours of discussions on Saturday, it was announced that Yanukovych had offered the prime minister's job to Arseny Yatsenyuk, of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland party. He also offered a deputy prime minister post to Vitali Klitschko, a former heavyweight boxer, and promised public debates with him.

Ukraine: Autonomous Workers Union Update on Euromaidan

January 25, 2014 Autonomous Workers, www.revolution-news.com Educate! Anarchism, Ukraine

Anarchists ought to participate in demonstrations and pickets which are dedicated to defense of the rights and freedoms usurped by the laws of January 16th. It makes sense to take action at one’s workplace or neighborhood and to help sabotage the dictatorship’s decisions. There’s not much sense in participating in the activities in Grushevskogo street, which were meaningless from the very beginning. These activities only give the government pretty picture for television and enable it to identify radical elements by locating mobile phones and videotaping. In the case of the opposition’s victory, as well as in the case of the government’s victory we’ll have to wage long and hard war against any of those regimes. This should be understood. We need to gather forces in order to start dictating our own libertarian and proletarian agenda in Ukrainian politics.

What Really Happened in the Ukrainian Crisis?

December 22, 2013 Israel Shamir, www.dissidentvoice.org Educate! Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

The United States has come to use street protest to delegitimize governments as an alternative to military action. The use of nonviolent 'movements' needs to be watched closely on the international scene to determine whether they are really a revolt a US inspired empire strategy. As we watched the protests in Ukraine unfold we came to doubt what was going on. Was Ukraine a battleground for the United States against Russia and not really an organic uprising of the people? As we saw the US ambassador participating in protests and Senator John McCain joining the protest movement we decided to not continue to report on the Ukraine but to monitor the situation and see what was really going on. The article below puts the Ukraine protests into the camp of being part of US Empire strategy. That seems to be what was occurring, but President Putin has used the opportunity to pull Ukraine closely to Russia and prevent them from moving toward Europe. The author below describes that as a defeat for US Empire and hegemony.

Ukraine: From EU Deal To Revolution, The First Three Days.

December 7, 2013 Mychailo Wynnyckyj, www.evolution-news.com Resist! Europe, Police abuse, Ukraine

Events in Kyiv are evolving VERY quickly. Last week, mass protests in Ukraine represented an attempt to pressure President Yanukovych to sign the Association Agreement with the EU. After Saturday’s early morning attack by riot police on protestors camped in Independence Square, a paradigm shift occurred: this is not about Europe anymore. People on Ukraine’s streets are no longer calling for EU integration – or if they are, this is now a peripheral demand. Ukrainians now simply want a change of government. The word “revolution” – chanted by demonstrators – seems to sound increasingly believable. I note this because Ukrainians living abroad are gathering today (Sunday December 1) in many world capitals to demonstrate their support for Ukraine’s eurointegration. I suspect many EU leaders also believe this issue is still salient to Ukraine – indeed this was the message from two Polish speakers (including former PM Yaroslav Kachinsky) on Independence Square today. However, to the people on the streets of Kyiv, European integration is an issue that a NEW government will have to turn to – eventually. Right now, they (we) are demonstrating because they have lost all faith in their current government – a government that dared to savagely beat defenseless students in the dead of night.

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