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Kiev Reneges On Its Debt Obligations
by Stephen Lendman
Kiev's parliamentary debt moratorium authorization suggests impending default. MP Viktor Dondar calls it "technical default."
Henceforth, foreign creditors will be scared off, he said. The IMF remains Kiev's sole funding source - on terms no responsible government should accept, loan shark of last resort ones.
Bondar said authorization came without serious parliamentary consideration or debate. Most MPs didn't understand what they supported, he added. The measure passed 246 - 4 - a few hours after submission to parliament. A Cabinet of Ministers statement said: "To protect the interests of Ukrainian people, the Government of Ukraine submits to the Verkhovna Rada today the draft laws, those enabling the Government to suspend payments on certain external public debts and guaranteed by the government debts, as specified in the Annex to the relevant Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers."
Ukraine: A Cancer in Europe's Heartland
by Stephen Lendman
Ukraine is an example of what happens when lunatics run the asylum. It's a US-installed Nazi-infested fascist police state headed by an illegitimate anointed oligarch mega-crook.
It tolerates no opposition. Free expression is banned. Independent journalists risk harassment, assault, arrest, imprisonment, even death.
Ukraine is a dagger pointed at Russia's heartland. It's bankrupt. It's perhaps headed toward defaulting on its debt. It declared a moratorium on repayments, legislatively authorized. It's step one toward default, short of declaring it. Yet Kiev continues spending millions of dollars daily waging low-level aggression on Donbass ahead of escalating it full-blown.
Where in the world, except in Sissi's Egypt, long-dead people are served death sentences?
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Palestine
Under the influence of panic and vengeance, an Egyptian "court" on Saturday issued multiple death sentences against dozens of people affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Among the convicted are Muhammed Mursi, the only democratically-elected president in Egypt's entire history, Dr. Sheikh Yosef al Karadawi, one of the most learned living Muslim scholars and author of more than 60 books, and many other intellectuals, university professors and community leaders. The court also passed the capital punishment against several Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas liberation group including Hasan Salameh, held in Israeli jails for the past 19 years, and is serving a jail term of 48 life sentences plus 20 years for resisting the Israeli occupation.
Steve Forbes Put Me on His Spam List After I Submitted This Article to Him: How Congressional Republicans Lie to Approve Obama’s Trade Deals
Eric Zuesse
Obama’s trade-deals — especially TPP with Asia, and TTIP with Europe — are so vicious against the American people, the Obama Administration has labeled the documents “Classified,” and is threatening prosecution against any member of Congress who quotes from the texts; it would be “leaking classified information.”
However, empirical economic studies already indicate what would likely be the result from both the TPP and the TTIP: one independent economic analysis has been done for each of these two international-trade deals, and both of them come up with the same conclusion: the publics everywhere will lose wealth because of them, but aristocrats, especially in the United States, will gain wealth because of them. (It’s like what happened with NAFTA, but only far more so.) In other words: the same billionaires who fund congressional and presidential campaigns are the people who will be taking from the general public vastly more money via TPP and TTIP than the paltry billions they’ve invested to fool voters into voting into office the Senators and Representatives who are now rubber-stamping into law Obama’s ‘trade’ deals. (And, of course, the same aristocrats also funded both Obama’s and Romney’s campaigns, just as they did those of both Clintons and of the Bushes. At the national level, they essentially own, not the government, but instead the people who are governing. The people they own, are the ones that are supposed to “represent” us; and the U.S. Supreme Court has said that this is ‘democracy’ in accord with ‘the Constitution’ — because the people who appointed those Republican ‘Justices’ were also owned by the aristocracy.)
OPINION: Is Israel America’s Friend? Or America's Enemy?
Eric Zuesse
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has selected as his Minister of Justice a woman who has expressed hatred against all Palestinians, and he has appointed as his negotiator with the Palestians a man who said, and who has always followed though with, “We are all against a Palestinian state, there is no question about it.”
These policies are direct rejections of the U.S.-overseen 1978 Camp David Accords, and of consistent U.S. policy since. The Camp David Accords were so bad for the Palestinians that the signatory on their behalf, Egypt’s leader Anwar Sadat, was despised by virtually all Muslims and was assassinated for having done this. But Egypt abided by the Accords, while Israel for decades since has been constantly hemming and hawing about when they will some day fulfill their obligations under them; and, now, we finally have been given the answer: It’s never. They signed an agreement that was so bad for Palestinians it was rejected by them and by the U.N., but now it’s finally clear: to Israel, it’s not bad enough to Palestinians. So: Israel insists upon continued (and now upon never-ending) military occupation.
On Being Sane In Insane Places: “If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?”
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
In 1973, D. L. Rosenhan published a ground-breaking psychiatric study in January 19 issue of Science magazine. The article exposed a serious short-coming in the psychiatric hospitals at the time, and therefore it became very controversial. Dr. Rosenhan, a professor of psychology and law at Stanford University, designed the study to try to answer the title question: “If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?”
The now famous (some offended or embarrassed psychiatrists preferred to call it “infamous”) experiment that was carried out involved 12 different psychiatric hospitals and 8 different people, mostly professionals (including the author). Each of the eight were totally and certifiably sane “pseudo-patients”.
Washington Wants War on Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
John Kerry and Victoria Nuland are warriors, not peacemakers - neocons masquerading as diplomats.
They deplore peace. They live by the sword. They foster violence and instability worldwide.
Last week, Nuland was in Kiev meeting with its illegitimate officials - discussing revved up war on Donbas when Obama OKs it.
On Monday, she was in Moscow meeting with Russian officials. Discussion focused on Ukraine.
Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said "(w)e have the Russian president's orders to establish bilateral contacts…to discuss certain issues of the Ukrainian crisis resolution."
"That's exactly what we are doing" with no illusions about Washington turning a new lead. Karasin said Moscow's goal is to prevent escalated conflict in Donbass and establish "real dialogue between Kiev and the Donetsk and Lugansk republics."
"So far, this goal has not been achieved. Kiev is ignoring all the initiatives coming from Donetsk and Lugansk."
UK Whistleblower Says Britain's Nuclear Deterrent a Disaster Waiting to Happen
by Stephen Lendman
Britain's media are all over the story. Royal Navy whistleblower William McNeilly published an 18-page report called "The Secret Nuclear Threat."
He's an engineering technician weapons engineer submariner for Britain's Trident II D5 strategic weapons system aboard the HMS Victorious. He faces imprisonment for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act.
"The worst fear for me isn't prison or being assassinated," he said. "(I)t's the fear of sacrificing everything I have just to warn the public and yet never be heard."
"We are so close to a nuclear disaster it is shocking," he maintains. "(A)nd yet everybody is accepting the risk to the public."
The New York Times Endorses Israeli Mass Slaughtering Palestinians by Refusing to Condemn it
by Stephen Lendman
The Times supports Israel's worst crimes - wrongfully blaming them on victims. It outrageously calls Hamas a terrorist organization.
It's Palestine's legitimate government - democratically elected in January 2006. Claiming it wants Israel destroyed is false.
It long ago expressed willingness to sacrifice 78% of historic Palestine in return for remaining land within June 1967 borders - with East Jerusalem its exclusive capital.
It justifiably wants control over its borders, air space, offshore waters and resources. It wants diaspora Palestinians able to return.
It wants peace, stability, mutual cooperation with all nations and fundamental international law enforced.
The Times fails to hold Israel accountable for horrific high crimes against peace. It considers its naked aggression self-defense.
Institutionalized racism worse than apartheid South Africa's doesn't matter. Nor other forms of vicious police state persecution.
A previous article discussed Israel's new coalition government. It combines hate-mongering racists, neocon fascists and religious fundamentalist zealots. MK Ayelet Shaked is new justice minister. Palestinians are assured none with her in charge - more racist persecution than already.
During Israel's summer 2014 cold, calculated, premeditated aggression on Gaza, she openly called for genocidal slaughter.
Sham Riyadh Peace Conference on Yemen
Stephen Lendman
Imagine a peace and reconciliation conference with one side alone involved. Hundreds of regional rogue state anti-Yemeni freedom representatives participated in a thinly veiled PR stunt.
Houthis wanting Yemeni sovereignty respected refused to come. The conference has nothing to do with peace and stability - everything to do with continuing US-orchestrated naked aggression and lawless blockade trying to force rebels to surrender unconditionally.
Proceedings began on Sunday in Riyadh. Three days of talks are planned. UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed began things "call(ing) on all parties to refrain from any action that disturbs the peace of airports, main areas and the infrastructure of transport" - prime US/Riyadh targets.
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