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Reflections on Ukraine and Regime Change
By Michael Parenti
More than 83 percent of the qualified voters of Crimea recently participated in a referendum to rejoin Russia. And of that number well over 93 percent voted to separate themselves from Ukraine and once more become a part of Russia, in what was a massively one-sided victory. What should be kept in mind is that Crimea would never have pursued such an action, and Russia would never had been receptive to such a course, were it not that Ukraine was in the grip of disruptive forces that were driving toward “regime change.”
Bipartisan Assault on Health Care Intensifies in US
By Andre Damon
Last week, US Representative Paul Ryan, the Republican Budget Committee chairman from Wisconsin, presented a budget proposal that would slash $5.1 trillion in government spending over the next decade, with the great majority of the cuts coming from health care spending.
The plan includes a proposal for a voucher system for Medicare, the government health care program for the elderly. This would be a major step toward the dismantling of the program by turning it into a government subsidy to buy private health insurance.
The White House and Congressional Democrats were quick to denounce the proposal. The White House said in a statement that the proposal would “end Medicare as we know it, turning it into a voucher program and risking a death spiral in traditional Medicare.” Obama likewise made a denunciation of the Republican budget the centerpiece of his weekly video address Saturday.
Representative Chris Van Hollen, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, offered a vituperative denunciation of the deal, calling it “the Republican declaration of class warfare—it protects the elites at the expense of the rest of the country.”
Fascist Police Attack Anti-Maidan Protesters
by Stephen Lendman
Fascist police operate the same way everywhere. They do it across America. They brutalized nonviolent Occupy Wall Street activists.
streets. It's happening across Eastern Ukraine.
On April 8, RT International headlined "Kiev cracks down on eastern Ukraine cities after two proclaim independence."
Police arrested at least 70 activists. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said:
FBI officials equated them with terrorists. Independent journalists covering them were harassed, arrested, handcuffed and beaten.
It happened in New York's Zuccotti Park. They were accused of trespassing. They had valid NYPD-issued press passes.
It happened nationwide. Peaceful protesters were accused of pursuing violence. Rogue cops got free reign to attack them.
Sham Peace Talks Continue
by Stephen Lendman
They mock legitimate ones. Palestinians agreed to continue them despite zero chance for success. Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir once said:
"I would have conducted the autonomy negotiations for 10 years, and in the meantime we would have reached half a million souls in Judea and Samaria."
"I didn't believe there was a majority in favor of a greater land of Israel. But it could have been attained over time."
"Without such a basis, there would be nothing to stop the establishment of a Palestinian state."
Shamir went all-out to prevent it. So did other Israeli prime ministers before and after him. Netanyahu deplores the notion.
He demands unconditional Palestinian surrender. He wants occupation harshness continued. He wants all valued Judea and Samaria land stolen.
Netanyahu Declares War on Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
He's a world class thug. He represents the worst of rogue state leadership. He exceeds Sharonian evil. Why Israelis put up with him they'll have to explain.
He's militantly racist. He deplores peace. He thrives on violence and instability. He blames Palestinians for Israeli crimes.
He calls sham peace talks legitimate ones. They've been stillborn decades. They remain so now.
Netanyahu wants Palestinians denied all rights. He wants them cowed into submission. He wants his rules enforced.
Assad Is There to Stay
By Nicola Nasser*
Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege and its fall was just a matter of time and that the days of President Bashar al-Assad were numbered and accordingly he “should step down.” The war on Syria has taken a U-turn during the past year. Assad now firmly holds the military initiative. The long awaited foreign military intervention could not take off; it was prevented by the emerging multi-polar world order. Syrian and non-Syrian insurgents are now on the run. Assad stands there to stay.
The thinly veiled UN legitimacy, which was used to justify the invasions of Iraq and Libya under the pretexts of the responsibility to protect on humanitarian grounds, failed to impose no-fly zones, humanitarian corridors and other instruments of foreign intervention; they foundered on the borders of Syrian national sovereignty.
Why Do Soldiers Commit Suicide and Global Warlords
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
Soldiers do not go to fight the unknown enemies on their own. They are indoctrinated and pushed to war paradigm by the political monsters who use them as digits and numbers – to compile official statistic, and to support the economy of dehumanization. Consequently, the fighting soldiers - men of conscience lose unity of the human consciousness - unity of material and spiritual factors of life and balanced characteristic– fair and foul. It is a tragic conjuncture of inner revolt of human consciousness for a crime that is not part of the human nature and character and not visible to scientifically expert minds – the doctors who simply identify mental health issues of those suspected of syndrome to commit suicide. These are the net causalities of man’s insanity against man. The real reasons are hardly mentioned in expert reports. Science and machines cannot comprehend the intricate balance between material and spiritual life and inner consciousness of the self- the human. Politicians who entangle the human beings into warmongering are void of the knowledge of Unity of Human Self - an all embracing sanctity of sacred life created by God.
Peace Process Hypocrisy
by Stephen Lendman
Sunday so-called Israeli/Palestinian/US peace talks ended in failure. More on this below.
Fact: Washington is no honest broker!
Fact: It never was!
Fact: It's not one now!
Fact: Longstanding US policy one-sidedly favors Israel!
Fact: Both countries conspire against fundamental Palestinian rights!
Fact: They want them entirely denied!
Fact: Especially ones mattering most!
Fact: US involvement in sham peace talks guarantees failure!
Fact: State terrorism is official US policy!
Fact: It's official Israeli policy!
Eastern Ukrainian Resistance
by Stephen Lendman
Thousands of Eastern Ukrainians reject Kiev putschists. Perhaps millions. They want local sovereignty. They want autonomy rights.
They want them respected. They reject fascist rule. They demand their own referendum. They want Ukraine federalized.
Protests continue in Kharkov (Ukraine's second largest city), Donetsk (its largest industrial city), Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Odessa, Nikolayev and elsewhere.
They're growing. They're spreading. They have legs. Maybe parts of Western Ukraine will join them.
Ukrainians are long-suffering. They rejected Orange Revolution rule years earlier. Perhaps Orange Revolution 2.0 won't fare better. It remains to be seen what happens going forward.
Madness in Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
This year's March madness wasn't in America. Nor what continues in April. Or what preceded it. Or perhaps what's likely to follow. It's in Ukraine.
It's ground zero. It represents the greatest geopolitical crisis since WW II. It threatens a third global conflict. It that's not madness, what is?
Obama bears full responsibility. His rap sheet is blood-drenched. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He's got lots more mass slaughter and destruction in mind.
He wants unchallenged US global dominance. He wants Russia marginalized, isolated, weakened, contained and co-opted. His objectives risk global war.
Ukraine is a major geopolitical flashpoint. It's hugely dangerous. Challenging Russia recklessly may ignite what no responsible leader would risk.
Obama represents the worst of rogue leadership. He's ideologically extreme. He's over-the-top and then some. He's a con man like no other. He risks potential armageddon.
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