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OPINION: Russia’s Outrageous Treatment of a Right-Wing Ukrainian Film Director
Eric Zuesse
Oleg Sentsov is an anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalist who also happens to be a screenwriter and director of Ukrainian-language movies.
Because he hates Russia and refuses to accept Crimea’s being again a part of Russia (which it was between 1783 and 1954, and which the vast majority of Crimeans wanted it to return to being), he is now treated by Vladimir Putin’s Russia in the same way that Barack Obama’s America treated Osama bin Laden’s bookkeeper Zacarias Moussaoui in a federal penitentiary until recenly (incommunicado) and continues to treat the inmates at America’s Guantanamo Bay Cuban prison: barbarically detained before (or even without) trial. Sentsov might possibly be being treated as atrociously as America treats its “black site” prisoners around the world, but no one can really know, because Sentsov is blocked from communicating with the outside world, except via his lawyer, or during two brief pretrial court apearances on July 7th and September 29th to issue his not-guilty pleas.
Courage to Face True History
SARTRE
Human consciousness and the ability to understand that which really occurred in the past, is a skill that many people have little experience with mastering. Scholarship and researching the yesteryear relies upon analyzing accounts of others and is usually based on chronicles written centuries ago. Most of the original evidence used in writing the accounts may be lost, based upon oral myths or accurate translations of vanished languages. Even when the original sources are impeccable in their authenticity or go unquestioned in the ivory towers of academic scrutiny, the crucial question still remains, Was It So? Attempts to provide definitive proof, when it comes to explaining political events, relies more often on the art of understanding the connection among factions, based within the context of their intended agendas then smoking gun documents.
At the offset, the axiom that history is written by the victors, applies more to the popular culture then just to stories of military campaigns. Control of the perception of current events is the first stage for formulating the narrative, which will be accepted as the initial draft of history. The means upon which societies are manipulated have more to do with defining acceptable reports, using fictional circumstances and conclusions, then the butt of a rifle.
Obama's Demagoguery on Countering Violent Extremism
by Stephen Lendman
Obama proliferates Big Lies. He's incapable of truth-telling. On February 18, he delivered closing remarks at the just concluded White House summit on countering violent extremism.
Last month, Obama's press secretary Josh Earnest called it a summit "to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence, efforts made even more imperative in light of recent, tragic attacks in Ottawa, Sydney, and Paris."
"This summit will build on the strategy the White House released in August of 2011, Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States, the first national strategy to prevent violent extremism domestically."
In September, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson first announced it. He cited a nonexistent Islamic State threat.
Saying an October summit would be held. It was delayed until mid-February. Why wasn't it explained?
Poroshenko Wants NATO Troops in Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
He's desperate. He calls them European peacekeepers. He wants them after suffering catastrophic defeat in Debastsevo. More on this below.
The Saker web site reports rebel forces in total control of Debastsevo. It cites Russian sources saying about 1,000 troops didn't surrender.
Sputnik News reported Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) military spokesman Eduard Basurin estimating about 3,000 junta troops remaining.
Rebels intend simply waiting them out to succumb to hunger, cold and recognition that continued fighting is futile. They can't last much longer. They're virtually out of ammunition and food.
Debaltsevo represents the "catastrophic collapse of combat capability of the junta forces," said The Saker. It's why Poroshenko is desperate for Western help. He wants NATO doing his fighting for him. Kiev's military is a spent force. The Saker said it reached its "breaking point." Debaltsevo represents a Ukrainian Stalingrad. Engaging rebels head-to-head assures more catastrophic defeats.
Israeli Barbarism: Terrorizing Palestinian Children
by Stephen Lendman
Fascists run Israel. Palestinian children perhaps feel their brutalizing treatment most.
On February 10, Defence of Children International Palestine (DCIP) headlined "Palestinian children victims of Israeli abuse designed to coerce confessions."
Virtually always offenses weren't committed or were too minor to matter. Guilt by accusation is official Israeli policy.
Palestinian children are treated as mercilessly as adults. Most troubling are brutal beatings, other forms of torture and prolonged isolation in solitary confinement.
On average for interrogation purposes is 15 days, said DCIP. For one child it was nearly twice as long.
"Between 2012 and 2014, Israeli military, police and security agents held 54 Palestinian children in solitary confinement for interrogation purposes prior to charging them with any offense," DCIP explained.
Most abused children were between ages 12 and 17. The vast majority had to fend for themselves alone with no outside contacts.
Bashing Russia and Rebels for Kiev Crimes
by Stephen Lendman
rebel forces routing junta troops in Debaltsevo. Thousands forced to surrender
The same Big Lies repeat since conflict began last April. No letup whatever followed the latest attempt to resolve things diplomatically in Minsk on February 12.
Russia and rebels are consistently blamed for naked Kiev aggression, brutal atrocities, and post-Geneva/Minsk I and II violations.
Joe Biden spoke to Poroshenko following rebel forces routing junta troops in Debaltsevo. Thousands were forced to surrender.
Kiev abandoned them. Rebel forces won a strategic victory. German intelligence says Kiev's military is disintegrating. They're outmaneuvered, outsmarted, outfought and soundly defeated.
Biden and Poroshenko condemned Russia and rebels for junta crimes. A White House press secretary statement lied saying "if Russia continues to violate the Minsk agreements, including the most recent (one) signed on February 12, the costs to Russia will be high."
Arab Leaders Count Dead Bodies but Peacemaking is not the Aim
mahboob A. Khawaja
Arab People in Search of Peace and Competent Leaders
The Arab world is fast becoming landscape of extended graveyards, missing sense of humanity and futuristic impulse is nowhere to be seen. Do the oil producing leaders of transitory economic prosperity really care for the catastrophic present and what future will unleash to them? Subsequent to the 9/11, the Arab world in particular and the Muslim people in general are the victims of planned new age of confrontation and exploitation. Many misfortunes more horrifying than the outbursts of the US-led bogus War on Terrorism await to inflict pains, bloodbaths and destruction across the Muslim societies. More crusading armies vigorously bombarding the agriculturally fertile and culturally enriched Arab heartland – Iraq, Syria and soon to other neighboring lands. Like the 1258 Halku Khan’s Mongol ferocity of Baghdad and beyond, Arab leaders are not ashamed of the missing courage and leadership vision for political emancipation but uncertain and overwhelming authoritarianism making no sense to a rational critical mind for political change. They were never decolonized but remained faithful to imperial loyalty. Have the Arab rulers solved any of the important problems confronting the Arab masses over half of a century?
Is Tolerance of Dishonesty the Fundamental Problem in Our Culture?
Eric Zuesse
NBC-TV’s star news-anchor Brian Williams got caught repeatedly lying and fabricating his fake-‘courageous’ personal involvement in news stories that he had ‘reported.’ At LinkedIn, Rob Wyse headlined recently, "Brian Williams Essentially Lied on His Resume, Or Exaggerated The Truth,” and he noted there:
"Whether you call it a lie, or an exaggeration — it is a breach of trust. And that is what is looming over Brian Williams. A breach of his public trust. He is a trusted figure in our society. Perhaps the position of news anchor does not hold the same vaulted [he meant vaunted] esteem and prestige as in the days of Edward R. Murrow, or Walter Cronkite — but nonetheless, Williams is in a position of responsibility and trust. And when trust is broken, you almost never gain it back.”
Kiev Surrenders Debaltsevo: A Key Strategic Victory for Rebel Forces
by Stephen Lendman
A mass turnover of weapons by Ukrainian forces is underway in Debaltsevo.
Ukraine's Unian information agency announced it headlining "Ukraine withdrawing troops from Debaltseve."
Kiev's battalion commander Semen Semenchenko announced it on Facebook.
Saying "(a) planned and organized withdrawal of troops from Debaltseve is being carried out."
"All the stories about (Ukraine) regaining control in Logvinovo have proved to be false."
Evidence About the Connection Between the Ukrainian Coup and Crimea's Breakaway
Eric Zuesse
Video - Truth about Maiden seen by Crimean Prosecutor, part 2. With english
subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaXA9xPGhKo.
Little attention is generally paid to the connection between the February 2014 coup in Ukraine, and Crimea’s breakaway from Ukraine. The testimony that will here be cited helps fill this in. An attorney in the federal prosecutor’s office at the time of the coup refers to the longtime national socialist, Andriy Paribiy, as having been the key person behind the coup. In the new regime, Paribiy became appointed to become the chief of national security, and the top person overseeing the war against “ATO” 'Anti Terrorist Operation' to exterminate the residents in the formerly Ukrainian area, Donbass, the area which had voted 90% for the overthrown President Viktor Yanukovych, and which consequently rejected this new regime, which Washington violently imposed to replace him.
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