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U.S. Taxpayers Now Alone in Financing Ukraine’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign IMF Says Ukraine Fails to Meet Conditions of the April 30th 2014 $17 Billion Loan
Eric Zuesse
The IMF has concluded that it was too optimistic when loaning Ukraine $17 billion at the end of April, and that the Ukrainian Government’s economic condition is far worse than the IMF expected, and also that the Government’s anti-corruption program is too weak to justify the planned loan-installments or “tranches” going to Ukraine. Therefore, “even providing the program of the next two tranches is open to question.”
However, this only confirms an earlier assessment, made public on October 28, about which Reuters headlined at the time, “Ukraine unlikely to receive IMF loan tranche this year: finance minister.” And this was already “after warning in September that if Ukraine's conflict with the separatists runs into next year, the country may need as much as $19 billion in extra aid.” Ukraine has made clear that it will continue the war, and so the additional $19 billion will also need to be paid to Ukraine in order for its war against the “separatists” to continue.
Knee-Jerk Reaction to Sydney Hostage Siege
By Stephen Lendman
Western media reported what happened as expected. Muslims are their targets of choice.
Saying an Islamic gunman took hostages in a Sydney cafe. A black and white flag with Arabic writing like those used by Islamic State (IS) terrorists reportedly visible.
Raising fears of radicalized Islamic militants running wild. Home-grown or of Middle East origin.
Planning other attacks. Australia on high alert. Mindless of a flag unrelated to IS. Or its message saying:
"There is no God but Allah, and Mohamed is his messenger." Hardly a call to violence. Urging widespread terror attacks.
PLO Security Council Statehood Bid
by Stephen Lendman
On Sunday, chief PLO negotiator/long time Israeli collaborator Saeb Erekat said resolution text language will be submitted Monday to Security Council members.
To end Israeli occupation within two years. Recognize Palestinian statehood. Within 1967 borders. With East Jerusalem its exclusive capital.
He'll meet with John Kerry and Egyptian diplomat/Arab League secretary-general Nabil Elaraby.
Early this week. Reportedly Tuesday in London. Erekat saying: "We want a clear and specific resolution for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, resolving all the final status issues, releasing all detainees and refugees and labeling settlement activity illegal and should be stopped immediately, including in Jerusalem."
Market Euphoria: The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes
by Stephen Lendman
The bubble of all bubbles. A house of cards waiting to collapse, says Paul Craig Roberts.
A great unraveling looms. America's economy based on market manipulation. Rigging things one way.
Smoke and mirrors deception. Money printing madness. Privatizing profits. Socializing losses. Upside down reality.
Shifting wealth in unprecedented amounts. More than what's comprehensible. To monied interests. From ordinary folks.
Stealing them blind. Creating ruler/serf societies. Notably in America. Enforced with police state harshness.
Why things haven't collapsed so far postmortems alone may best explain. It's coming. When what can't go on forever no longer will.
US Spending Bill Bonanza for Wall Street
by Stephen Lendman
Kleptocracy defines America. Corrupt politicians and corporate crooks conspire. Against ordinary people. Covertly and overtly.
Violating the letter and spirit of good governance. Looting the nation's wealth. Handing it to monied interests. Wall Street tops the pecking order.
Whatever bankers want they get. In unlimited amounts. Running Fed policy assures limitless cash on demand.
Controlling Washington, state capitals and municipal governments assures everything else.
On Thursday, House members passed a $1.1 trillion+ spending bill. On Saturday, senators followed suit.
Expect Obama to sign it into law straightaway. With little fanfare. Perhaps already. Monied interests own him
Enactment rolls back Dodd-Frank's Section 716: Prohibition Against Federal Government Bailouts of Swaps Entities.
NATO Delivering Arms to Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
Despite claiming otherwise. Big Lies substituting for hard truths. Longstanding US-controlled NATO policy. Ignored by media scoundrels reporting nothing.
Kiev wants Donbas democracy crushed. Hardline rule replacing it. Naked aggression waged to force-feed policy.
Illegitimate oligarch president Petro Poroshenko's so-called "day(s) of silence" are meaningless. Subterfuge. Quiet before the storm.
Poroshenko threatened "total war" on Russia. "(F)ull-scale war" on Donbas. "Better prepared than" earlier.
Academic Groups For and Against BDS
by Stephen Lendman
BDS is vital. Important. The single most effective initiative against Israeli ruthlessness. Gaining adherents. Including academic groups.
On December 10 (Human Rights Day), a Palestinian BDS National Committee called Israel "neither a democratic state based on the rule of law, nor a temporary occupying power as defined in international law…"
It's "a criminal regime of settler colonization and apartheid."
"We call on people of conscience worldwide to intensify BDS campaigns to isolate Israel’s regime of settler colonialism and apartheid in the academic, cultural, economic and military fields, in order to bring about Israel’s full compliance with its obligations under international law."
Former Mossad Head Blasts Netanyahu
by Stephen Lendman
He's unfit to serve. An embarrassment to legitimate governance. Ideologically extreme. Over-the-top and then some.
Former Mossad head Efraim Halevy sharply criticized him and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett.
Saying peace won't come without treating Palestinians as equals. More on his comments below.
Earlier, former Shin Bet head, Yuval Diskin, called Netanyahu "weak," "wavering," "unreliable," "scared and fickle."
Obsessed over Iran. "Shirks responsibility." Represents "a crisis in leadership, a crisis of values and total contempt for the public."
Diskin doesn't trust him. Feels insecure with him in charge. He hasn't "an iota of leadership qualit(y)," he said. He has messianic ambitions. He's-over-the-top. Dangerous. Wanting his stamp put on history.
Washington's Master Plan: World Conquest
by Stephen Lendman
Hitler's master plan included removing all internal opposition. Genocide. Ethnic cleansing.
Exterminating or enslaving inferior people. Considered non-Ayrans subhumans (untermenschen).
Sought lebensraum (living space). Aryanizing Europe and beyond. Establishing New Order dominance over conquered lands.
Run by convenient stooges. Making Germany the preeminent world power. Master race rulers.
Washington's master plan is similar. Tyranny masquerading as democracy. Governing extrajudicially.
State terror as official policy. Naked aggression its main expression. Globalized war.
Brazil: President Rousseff Declares War on the Working Class
James Petras
Introductions
The Brazilian working class is facing the most savage assault on its living standards in over a decade. And it is not just the industrial workers who are under attack. The landless rural workers, public and private salaried employees, teachers and health professionals, the unemployed and the poor are facing massive cuts in income, jobs and welfare payments.
Whatever gains were made between 2003 – 2013 will be reversed. Brazilian workers face a ‘decade of infamy’. The Rousseff regime has embraced the politics of “savage capitalism” as personified in the appointment of two of the most extreme advocates of neo-liberal policies
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