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Libertarians’ Civil War Over Ukraine
Eric Zuesse
On the one hand, Andrei Illarionov of the Koch Brothers’ libertarian Cato Institute says that the first among "the crimes that have been committed or are being committed by the Kremlin — stealing Crimea” can be rectified only by rejecting "Russia’s aggression in Crimea,” which means to replace the current Russian government by "a free democratic state with the rule of law”: i.e., overthrowing it in order to establish that very thing, "a free democratic state with the rule of law.” He says that, "The issue of Crimea’s jurisdiction is within the competence of only one subject of international law — the owner of that territory, namely Ukraine. Only this subject, and no one else, has necessary legal rights to change this territory’s jurisdiction.” And, since Ukraine did not sell Crimea to Russia, Russia “stole” it from Ukraine. He sees the issue of Crimea as being not an issue of people, but of land: the land-area of Crimea, which Russia “stole” from Ukraine — that Russia stole the land and everything in it and under it and on it, including its residents.
New Breakaway Republic Is Announced in Ukraine to Join Donetsk and Luhansk Republics
Eric Zuesse
A group of residents in the region of Odessa, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, is trying to break away from the Ukrainian government that was formed after the coup in Kiev in February 2014.
As the first anniversary approaches of the 2 May 2014 massacre by U.S.-backed Ukrainian Government thugs against pamphleteers in Odessa’s Trade Unions Building, who had opposed the 22 February 2014 U.S. coup in Ukraine, there has been forming in Odessa a movement for complete independence from the U.S.-coup-imposed Ukrainian regime. Ukraine's U.S.-imposed regime’s response is to crush this incipient movement before word of its existence can even get out to the rest of the world.
War: It's Human Nature only if Collective Suicide is Natural
By David Swanson
Thank you for having me here. I know a lot of people have been involved in planning this event. Thank you!
I'm going to try this morning to address the question of how we can best talk our fellow human beings out of one of the primary myths that allows war to continue. And in a second speech later today I'm going to turn more to the question of activism and building a peaceful world.
I mailed a box of my books here, and I had to mail another one because the first box arrived undamaged except that all of the books were missing. Although I don't know who stole the books, Mary Hanna recommended I inform you that the message I bring you was so threatening that the books were taken, and the empty box delivered, by a bunch of -- and I quote -- Weannie-heads!
Neocon Think Tank Proposes US Proxy Army to Control Syria
by Stephen Lendman
The Atlantic Council is a hawkish right-wing think tank. Its directors include a rogue's gallery of high-level US war criminals.
It's notion of "working together to secure the future" is waging endless preemptive wars of aggression.
Its Distinguished International Leadership Awards go to former US and other Western government and military officials for raping and plundering one country after another.
It was founded in 1961 to support NATO's killing machine. It's one of many similar groups in America threatening world peace and stability.
Its solution for ending Obama's war on Syria is escalated war. It proposes what it calls aSyrian National Stabilization Force (SNSF ) - code language for US-controlled conquering and occupying army.
US and Saudi Aggressors Want Yemeni Victims to Halt Conflict
by Stephen Lendman
They want unconditional surrender. They want what they won't get.
Blaming victims is one of Washington's dirtiest games. Naked aggression is called liberation. Humanitarian intervention is claimed.
Mass slaughter and destruction are considered democracy-building measures. Plundering countries for profit is called economic development.
Yemen is Obama's latest atrocity. How many more countries will he rape - turn to rubble, mass slaughter defenseless civilians, and create appalling humanitarian crisis conditions? Saudi-led terror bombing continues massacring defenseless noncombatant men, women and children in cold blood.
America and Islamic Terrorists: Partners Against Peace
by Stephen Lendman
America is a killing machine. It gives rogue state ruthlessness new meaning.
It's a lying machine. Truth is strictly verboten. Big Lies consistently substitute.
White House hyperbole claims victories against Islamic State fighters. Suppressed is what everyone needs to know.
Washington actively recruits, funds, arms and directs these terrorists and likeminded groups.
The Myth of ‘Value-Free’ Social Science Or The Value of Political Commitments to Social Science
James Petras
Introduction
For many decades, mainstream social scientists, mostly conservative, have argued that political commitments and scientific research are incompatible. Against this current of opinion, others, mostly politically engaged social scientists, have argued that scientific research and political commitment are not contradictory.
In this essay I will argue in favor of the latter position by demonstrating that scientific work is embedded in a socio-political universe, which its practioners can deny but cannot avoid. I will further suggest that the social scientist who is not aware of the social determinants of their work, are likely to fall prey to the least rigorous procedures in their work – the unquestioning of their assumptions, which direct the objectives and consequences of their research.
We will proceed by addressing the relationship between social scientific work and political commitment and examining the political-institutional universe in which social scientific research occurs. We will recall the historical experience of social science research centers and, in particular, the relationship between social science and its financial sponsors as well as the beneficiaries of its work.
Former NATO Chief Targets Russia Irresponsibly
by Stephen Lendman
Washington installed former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen to serve as a convenient US stooge.
His predecessors operated the same way. So does his successor, Jens Stoltenberg.
Irresponsible Russia bashing is part of the job. Rasmussen took full advantage.
He calls NATO an organization responsible for "an unprecedented period of peace."
It's a US-dominated imperial tool - a global killing machine prioritizing war, deploring peace.
Raping Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Libya are three of its high crimes. Some of its member countries ravaged and destroyed Iraq.
NATO's existence threatens world peace. Saving humanity from the scourge of war depends on slaying this monster - putting it out of business once and for all.
Nine US Warships Threaten Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Obama is escalating his war on Yemen. He bears full responsibility for genocidal slaughter - mostly affecting civilian men, women and children.
He's waging premeditated naked aggression using Saudis and other regional rogue states as proxy partners against a nonthreatening nation.
US orchestrated hostilities violate core international law. No nation may attack another without Security Council approval. None exists.
Nine US warships were sent to Yemeni waters. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and escort cruiser USS Normandy joined seven others.
US-Sponsored Yemeni Terror-Bombing Continues
by Stephen Lendman
US-planned and orchestrated/Saudi-led terror-bombing continues into its 24th day - more intensively than earlier.
Another Obama atrocity is unfolding in plain sight. Civilians are being deliberately murdered in cold blood.
Some estimates put the death toll at over 2,700 - many thousands more injured. An appalling humanitarian crisis worsens daily.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani condemned aggressor crimes - against "children, elderly women and men in Yemen," he said.
"Why do the aggressors not extend a hand of friendship and reconciliation to other nations," he asked?
"What is the point in sending financial and arms aid to terrorists in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq?"
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