Rethink in Qatar?
http://news.yahoo.com/qatar-fm-backs-syria-political-solution-iran-visit-181021152.html

Posted by: dh | Feb 26 2014 18:20 utc | 3

2) That correction is shameful. They corrected that correction by an article which is closer to the truth:
The new dilemma for Jews in Ukraine – Anti-Semitism, though a real threat, is being used by the Kremlin as a political football.

Posted by: somebody | Feb 26 2014 18:30 utc | 5

@2 duffo, Ames quotes with approval Rudnitsky:“The protests have come under fire as an American-funded coup, particularly in the Russian media. And there’s some truth to it…”
Some? Svoboda got a photo op w/Senator McCain. That doesn’t just happen with anybody.

Posted by: ruralito | Feb 26 2014 18:47 utc | 7

I am concerned about how the MSM has been covering Egypt, particularly regarding government crackdowns on NGOs and media. The MSM presents these as uniformly unfounded repression of freedom of speech. Some of the targeted NGOs are US “Democracy-Promoting” color coup organizations.
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the Qatari-owned AlJazeera has slanted its coverage to glorify MB-aligned rebels in several countries. On a few occasions, especially early in the Syria crisis and after the coup against Morsi, several AlJazeera staff members quit because they could not support the network’s editorial policy.

Senior employees admit in their private circles that no one who works for the channel can express opinions on Syria contrary to those of the Qatari emir. Otherwise, they will be ostracized and humiliated until they leave.

Within that context, it is not unreasonable to assume that current AlJazeera staff members are either sympathetic to the perspective of the MB or are willing to report the news any way that Qatar demands in order to keep their jobs — they’re either true believers or paid propagandists.
All of this is not to deny that the crackdown in Egypt is brutal. But without the context about outside interference in Egypt, the military’s response is portrayed in the MSM as irrational, rather than as an overreaction.

Posted by: Rusty Pipes | Feb 26 2014 19:02 utc | 9

Yes new government is filled with pro west and against russia.
http://rt.com/news/maidan-government-announce-protesters-915/

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 26 2014 19:27 utc | 11

One man’s summation of the state of play:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/02/25/a-world-of-trouble/
100 years out from The Great War…exactly. Hmm. God save us all from the arrogant fools with their hands on the levers of power and the agitprop they blithely deploy.

Posted by: JerseyJeffersonian | Feb 26 2014 21:48 utc | 13

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 26, 2014 12:49:01 PM | 1
expellled over a bloody mosque, while jordan still works with US(ally/servant of israel) to destroy syria…religious people have some dodgy priorities

Posted by: brian | Feb 26 2014 22:18 utc | 15

‘Posted by: duffolonious | Feb 26, 2014 1:17:14 PM | 2
is being ‘alligned with the kremlin a crime’? or common sense?

Posted by: brian | Feb 26 2014 22:21 utc | 17

@9
he who pays the piper calls the tune…ergo never trust professionals…only the amateurs

Posted by: brian | Feb 26 2014 22:24 utc | 19

I’m sure someone else has probably already posted this earlier but, ffs, another video sending up the Ukrainian putsch with quotes by Will Smith and Rocky?!!
Hey, guys, while you’re at it, could we get some slo-mo images of Kristallnacht or the Reichstag fire with maybe some Rambo quotes to really get this party started?
Holy eff. Again and this is being reblogged at the Zionist mouthpiece the NYT.
People of the world, you are dealing with a clinically sick and criminal society. We need to be caged not emulated.

Posted by: JSorrentine | Feb 26 2014 23:03 utc | 21

Poor old Erdogan… Erdogan overheard telling son to get rid of cash as Turkey corruption probe takes new twist
The corruption scandal surrounding Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan erupted again Tuesday after telephone wiretaps surfaced in which he purportedly instructed his son to get rid of enormous sums of cash the family was keeping in different homes.
An agitated Erdogan told Parliament on Tuesday that the recordings were an “immoral montage” and called their release a “despicable and treacherous act.”
But he didn’t dispute the contents or the authenticity of the voices. Instead he confirmed the outlines of a related scandal – that other branches of the Turkish government have been wiretapping him and other top politicians.

Posted by: CTuttle | Feb 26 2014 23:50 utc | 23

DAMASCUS: More details about the ambush at Al-’Utayba. The number of carcasses counted so far is 192. This may be adjusted upwards as more rats are found. The number wounded or arrested is 58 with 2 confirmed CIA agents.
@ ToivoS | 13
That video of the al Nusra fighters being ambushed makes it look like that they were being very poorly led. Isn’t it a basic rule combat to not allow your troops to concentrate in groups? When marching in combat zones aren’t the individual soldiers supposed to remain about 20 feet apart? Those 150 men were all within a distance of about 6 blast radii.
They always move/drive like this, there are hundreds of their own videos how they move in clusters. Partly its because of poor training (their life span is very short anyway), and partly because they didnt expect an ambush. SAA deliberately cleared the way straight to the ambush area 🙂

Posted by: Harry | Feb 27 2014 0:14 utc | 25

11) Well, it is not “inclusive”. Presumably politicians do not have the power but the “Maidan Council”

Posted by: somebody | Feb 27 2014 1:00 utc | 27

Harry @24… This matches what I saw from that clip: SAA engineers planted mines all along the only pathway the rats could travel. It was a just a matter of waiting for them to get beyond the fail-safe point and then detonate the explosives. That was to be followed up by artillery and infantry fire.
It was a single simultaneous detonation…!
JJ @ 25 http://www.syrianperspective.com/2014/02/world-media-astounded-by-syrian-army-triumph-at-utayba-propagandists-falsely-credit-hizbollah.html

Posted by: CTuttle | Feb 27 2014 1:29 utc | 29

This here is German FAZ
Translation: The Majdan Council demands the last word on the formation of the government. Because of its military might politicians have to follow suit.

Posted by: somebody | Feb 27 2014 1:37 utc | 31

@27
“what’s going to happen when people haven’t been paid for several months and the shops run out of food?”
Sorry, don’t care. Maybe the Ukrainian fascists and whores should have learned not to listen to anything the US war criminals have to say about anything but especially finances before they took their blood money to the tune of Nuland’s $5 billion which is probably included in what they have to pay back to the American banks.
Detroit is estimated to be in long term debt to the tune of “only” $14 billion and the American war criminal leaders could give fuck-all about stripping away the remaining meager but contractual pensions that are worth between $19k-$35k/yr so that the city’s rapists can get paid 100 cents on the dollar. Obama bailed out the car companies in Detroit but the people…well, they can go die. $1 Billion for Ukrainian fascists, $3 Billion for Israeli genocidal scum, it’s all good as long as no American is seeing any benefit of that money, right?
Lastly, those two numbers $35 billion and $14 billions are numbers arrived at by the US/EU BANKERS so as to ensure debt-slavery will continue for generations. They are only really meaningful b/c financial parasites and whores agree to give them meaning. Of course the scientologist fruitcake Yatsenyuk and the other putsch members would agree to the huge numbers the US/EU banks give to him b/c – surprise – he’s then guaranteed a bigger slice of the pie.
The bigger the debt number the bigger the profits for Wall Street and the mo money for Wall Street’s whores worldwide.

Posted by: JSorrentine | Feb 27 2014 1:53 utc | 33

Adding:
Sorry I forgot to include this link which shows that the Israeli spy scum and his movie are favored to win Best Picture.
Non-existent WMD’s in Iraq and Iran, etc?
Well, we better go murder/maim/displace MILLIONS and MILLIONS of innocent people.
Catch a person stealing secrets so that an apartheid, genocidal pariah nation in violations of scores of international laws can have a nuclear arsenal?
Why, give that man a fucking Oscar in Idiot Zionist America!!

Posted by: JSorrentine | Feb 27 2014 2:20 utc | 35

*Once again, we have a congress and a federal bureaucracy tossing around our money so some jerks can play at being power brokers around the world.
…………………………
what I really want to know is, is there a Ritz in Caracas, so the hacks on the gravy train can meet to overturn a democratically elected government at our expense? And this stuff happens because we let it happen. If we choose to be a nation of sheep, we have only ourselves to blame. *
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig3/cummings2.html

Posted by: denk | Feb 27 2014 2:37 utc | 37

NATO puts it foot in its mouth:
‘Earlier today Russia officially confirmed President Vladimir Putin had put troops in Western Europe on alert and the Russian military began combat readiness drills in Western and Central Europe.
Following the move by Russia, NATO announced its “close and long-standing” relationship with Ukraine. “NATO is a sincere friend of Ukraine,” said NATO boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
“We stand ready to continue assisting Ukraine in its democratic reforms,” he added.’
http://www.infowars.com/russian-volunteers-cordon-off-sevastopol-in-ukraines-crimea/
the same NATO bombed Libya mercilessly. Its a military organisation not Mother Teresa, nd a friend to noone. It has only strategic interests…NATO elite are so remote from the people, that criticsim of their faux statements never reaches them

Posted by: brian | Feb 27 2014 3:35 utc | 39

guest77 39
*even if that meant pushing Tibet into an abyss of violence and terror.*
not many people knows about the riot in llhasa , 1978.
attack of the *swarming adolecents*
[no link, i scan this from a mag in the library]
***eyewitness account …..tibet 1987***
[captal letter, quotation marks, words in square brackets are my emphasis]
Hypocritical elegies
I learned of the participation of some 50 foreign “tourists” in the recent Lhasa riots with considerable outrage. But not exactly surprise.
I’ve been a foreign tourist in Tibet myself on three occasions since 1985. Each time, I met tourist after tourist who, in an interval of a few weeks at most, had become infatuated with a kind of vicarious Tibetan nationalism, Sometimes it was because of one or two conversations with inevitably pro- Western English-speaking Tibetans (there are many returnees from India now); [how many are “sleepers” coming home to roost ?] sometimes it was a rather thoughtless extension of genuine awe for Tibetan culture. But often enough it was something much more sinister. Many a blond, blue-eyed “Tibetan” nationalist with a backpack [who spent their nights filing reports back to langley ?] was convinced that the Tibetans were nothing but a race of “noble savages,” doomed to the same kind of extinction at the hands of the Hans that native Americans have suffered at the hands of the West.
Such hypocritical elegies are premature, to say the least. But there can be no reasoning with these bigoted “saviours” of the Tibetan people. They do not care that there are fewer than 100,000 Hans in Tibet and there were undoubtedly even fewer during the Cultural Revolution (actually, an anti-communist travel guide, the Lonely Planet Tibet Survival Kit, even admits that most of the damage was done by PEOPLE WHO WERE ETHNICALLY TIBETAN).
They do not care that there is not a single Chinese “multi-national” corporation in Tibet pumping the area of its non-existent wealth. They don’t care that Tibet has never paid a fen in taxes and has on the contrary been RICHLY SUBSIDISED FOR EVERYTHING FROM EDUCATION TO INDUSTRY TO COMMERCE They don’t care that the people’s republic has waged a long, tough fight to modernise Tibet; in fact, they don’t care at all about the modernisation of Tibet, as they themselves will tell you. They are beyond such arguments and mundane concerns; somehow they have all become fanatical vicarious Buddhists and are ready to LAY DOWN OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES TO PROVE IT,.
What is really behind all this bornagain Buddhism on the part of foreign tourists to Tibet? Why do young Westerners who wouldn’t waste 5 minutes on a religious fanatic in their own country and live in horror of Khomeini in Iran suddenly become devoted (if somewhat patronising) followers of the Dalai Lama, a kind of super-Khomeini who longs for the days when every pebble and tree in Tibet is his personal property. It is not simply ignorance, though there is plenty of that. It is, in a word, RACISM. Not just racist hatred for the Han people (though I have certainly heard enough tourists describe Hans as “animals,” meaning everything from their behaviour on buses to their alleged “occupation” of Tibet).
It is a particularly sickening kind of patronisation of the Tibetan people, who they see as a simple, happy, carefree race of child-like savages, free from the cares of the modern world and most in need of advice on how to remain so. I know this kind of patronisation. It is the sort enjoyed by native Americans when the reservations were set up and by Black people in the US as a way of keeping them out of White schools and successful careers that would only make them unhappy. It is this kind of patronisation which, in this world, is ultimately genocidal. There can be no better proof than the apparent willingness of large numbers of foreign tourists [sic] to bravely RISK THE LIVES OF LARGE NUMBERS OF TIBETAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN in the name of the travellers’ new-found convictions.
According to the REVIEW [15 Oct.], the mob USED CHILDREN TO SEIZE AUTOMATIC WEAPONS FROM POLICEMEN AND SET A CAR ALIGHT at the height of the violence. Of course, that is CALLOUS, CYNICAL MANIPULATION. But there are plenty of “foreign tourists” who would use the whole of the Tibetan people to take out their petty anti-communism and narrow-mindedness on China. Let Tibet forever remain closed to such cynical travelling “nationalists”! Or, better yet … let them come, let them leave their money in the autonomous region, and let them take their idiotic notions of an “independent” Tibet (hopelessly dependent on the West) with them when they leave.
Canton David Kellogg
***************************

Posted by: denk | Feb 27 2014 4:40 utc | 41

Engdahl thinks US & Saudi have split
http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-830-william-engdahl-exposes-the-western-agenda-in-ukraine/

Posted by: Cu Chulainn | Feb 27 2014 7:12 utc | 43

#43
Only in Crimea. Can’t wait too see each nationalist movement in Europe betting for a split and a EU/US bailout!

Posted by: Mina | Feb 27 2014 8:27 utc | 45

Support Aipac duh…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2BVvSQ-Szo

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 27 2014 9:10 utc | 47

It is clear from this what the CIA is doing in Ukraine.

Since February 22, a Euro-Maidan group occupies a part of the Kharkiv oblast’s state administration building. From that base it keeps watch on the activities of oblast governor Mikhaylo Dobkin and Kharkiv city mayor Hennady Kernes, the hosts of the inter-regional congress just held there. Dobkin has announced his intention to run for president of Ukraine in the elections expected to be held in May. He claims that “a total attack is under way against the rights of the Russian-speaking population, laws are being adopted that threaten all those who do not accept fascism” (Interfax-Ukraine, February 23, 24; Channel 5 TV, February 25).
Also since February 22, a Euro-Maidan group keeps a tight watch on the Dnipropetrovsk oblast administration building and oblast council. The governor and the council chairman participated in the Kharkiv congress and proposed afterward to set up a “Dnipropetrovsk people’s militia” as a counterweight to the central authorities. The Euro-Maidan group and its supporters inside those bodies of power seem on the verge of removing those two leaders (Interfax-Ukraine, UNIAN, February 22-25).
In Luhansk (administrative center of the eponymous oblast, epicenter of a 2004 “federalization” initiative), the Euro-Maidan has set up of a parallel municipal council (Ukrayina TV, February 23). Elsewhere in the south-east, Euro-Maidan groups have ousted (and, in some cases, replaced) oblast- and city-level leaders in Mykolayiv, Khmelnytskyy, and Zaporizhzhya oblasts (UNIAN, Interfax-Ukraine, February 22–25).
Such actions are not being coordinated with Ukraine’s official (interim) leadership in Kyiv, nor are they backed by local units of the central law-enforcement agencies. In Kyiv as in some of the oblasts, the Euro-Maidan at this time operates as a parallel, if informal, power structure. In the south-east it lacks critical mass but it compensates through strong organization and intimidation. This contributes to restraining centrifugal initiatives on the part of local officials. Such initiatives also seem to lack a critical mass of support among the populace thus far.

Posted by: somebody | Feb 27 2014 9:39 utc | 49

Thanks a lot Virgile! Great article. Crooke has been consistent all along and his articles on Syria (and warnings) can be found easily.

Posted by: Mina | Feb 27 2014 10:06 utc | 51

The United States and Britain are, nevertheless, still pressing for his removal. But the signs are mounting that the Western powers are beginning to understand that they have a choice. They can get rid of Assad, or they can fight al-Qaeda.

It is only now that the infantry battle is being won by the government and it’s allies that they suddenly come this way of thinking. The crap about the invincibility of the SAS, US Special Forces, have failed, they want to extract themselves before the world gets to know there are paper tigers.

Posted by: Hans | Feb 27 2014 11:05 utc | 53

Frankly, I don’t think JSorrentine is at all far off when he calls the United States a deranged killer.
JSorrentine is spot-on (as he usually is – we should have one of those ‘Like’ thingimajigs).
None of this is going to have a pleasant ending. All that sow the wind, reap the whirlwind stuff will again prove the wisdom of the ages.

Posted by: DM | Feb 27 2014 11:26 utc | 55

Kerry’s latest ‘doctrine’… Will it make it to the WP frontpage?
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/95389/Egypt/Politics-/Elections-dont-always-lead-to-democracy,-says-Kerr.aspx

Posted by: Mina | Feb 27 2014 11:47 utc | 57

The Crimea region want to hold a referendum on their region’s future..Does the EU not understand that not everybody wants to be part of their Super-Europe project????

Posted by: Zico | Feb 27 2014 12:27 utc | 59

7 reasons to be pessimistic about Ukraine

Posted by: somebody | Feb 27 2014 12:48 utc | 61

somebody @ 59
The situation is beyond clusterfuck.
Those EU/Nuland f**ckheads wanted regime change at ANY cost. You can’t blame them, though. I heard Nuland invested $5 BILLION of good US state department money on this stunt. She’s gotta have something to show for it.
It kinda reminds me of the situation in Syria. The US, EU and all those involved knew Al-Ciada was/is the backbone of the Syrian opposition, but their do-or-die quest to remove Assad at all cost clouded their view. I kept hearing a lot of “expert” say what comes after can be “sorted out later”. We can see the same thing in Libya.
At the moment, I’m enjoying the fun. The phone lines to Moscow must be blazing hot with all the calls coming through – most of which are ignored.
Here’s my take on what will happen, the Parliament in Crimea will vote for Protection from Russia. This will give Russia a legal cover to do justice to the Maidan d*ckheads. Other region will follow suit.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave,When first we practise to deceive!”

Posted by: Zico | Feb 27 2014 12:59 utc | 63

@Virgil #57: Those were land mines and artillery, read SyrianPerspective for details
@somebody #60: Next week security, law and constitutional order will be restored in Ukraine to the pre-Feb-23 status, with Yanukovych as the president.

Posted by: ProPeace | Feb 27 2014 13:08 utc | 65

If EU/US can send people to the streets, so can Russia 🙂
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140227/187942549/Star-Russian-Parliamentarians-Arrive-in-Crimea.html

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 27 2014 13:46 utc | 67

Not in a position to read all the comments of my favorite blog, so can’t tie it in to a specific comment.
I find this post by Josh Marshall from April, 2003 relevant to the Ukraine.
Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks’ nightmare scenario–it’s their plan.

Posted by: erichwwk | Feb 27 2014 15:22 utc | 69

@40
And the craziest part is that nearly the entire world just sits and allows it to go on.
One of the most disturbing things about it all – obviously, besides the murder/rape/displacement/theft, etc – is the effectiveness of the Spectacle/propaganda.
Domestically, Americans are constantly – 24/7/365 – desensitized to the violence propagated by their government through the MSM. After decades of watching senseless violence on TV, being manipulated by talking heads, etc they are no longer surprised/viscerally touched by the real violence around them but especially that of the violent crimes perpetrated by their own deranged killer state which easily number into the millions and millions.
This phenomenon is obvious and well-documented.
The disturbing part to me is that the rest of the world likewise seems to have been somewhat similarly desensitized by witnessing the needless and senseless killing/rape/maiming/displacement/theft etc after watching decade after decade, murderous episode after murderous episode of the “America Show” which – like it’s MSM propaganda counterparts – grows seemingly more brazen and graphic with each year. That’s just the US being the US. Oh well.
By brazen and graphic, I’m speaking to the points you make about the abandonment of any fig leaf of legitimacy for any of these recent crimes. Obviously, Vietnam, Central America, Indonesia and all that death and destruction was completely needless but TPTB had “arc” to the story – i.e., the Cold War. Now that the GWOT is fading as a narrative “arc” more and more people are – hopefully – seeing that – nope – it’s ALWAYS just been needless murder/maiming/rape/displacement/theft. There was never a good reason or need for any of those crimes.
The serial killers craze – both real and fictional – in the 90s was so scary to some because there was an understanding that once on his/her radar you couldn’t rationally speak to a serial killer and maybe wheedle your way out of your gruesome fate.
That is precisely how the rest of the world needs to think about the US as this shit has gone on for far too fucking long for humanity as a species to tolerate.
IOW, if you are on the US radar, you can bet your ass it sees itself eating your face at some point.

Posted by: JSorrentine | Feb 27 2014 15:31 utc | 71

Ukie parliamentofwhores annoints Yat th’ Rat as PM…meanwhile Crimea seems to be Putsch-free!

Posted by: bfrakes | Feb 27 2014 15:45 utc | 73

I don’t know what the Russian government is thinking. Yanukovich seems a liability more than an asset. He doesn’t seem to have much (or any) internal support at this point.
I don’t see the point of playing the ‘president in exile’ card given the situation.

Posted by: ThePaper | Feb 27 2014 16:08 utc | 75

4)
The Dominican Republic is also undergoing a savage dismembering of the rights that workers have achieved by way of unions and what not. The DR which shares the island of Quisqeya with Haiti has been signed free trade agreements with the USA and Central American country’s, this trade deal is called DRCAFTA. Workers would have to work 45-60 hour work weeks. They can be dismissed from their jobs without receiving the usual severance pay that partially protects an employee from dismissal. Numerous other cuts and privations. The Elite corporate class in DR has also allowed lower paid Haitian immigrants to swamp the labor pool, therefore causing wages to become depressed, hurting Dominicans purchasing power.
The former President of Brasil, Lula is visiting Cuba. This is taking place among rumors that Lula may run for the executive office once again. The disturbances taking place in Brasil prior to the much heralded world cup are believed to be smear and destabilization campaigns on the part of foreign agents and assets that want besmirch the prestige that the regional BRIC power is attaining.
If you make the country appear unsafe and unstable, then that will be the reality.
The current campaign is similar to what the Sochi Olympics went through, with full throttle reports of dysfunctionality appearing in the western MSM.
Brasil as an ideological ally of Cuba has been utilizing Cuban doctors for the underserved peripheral regions. One of the doctors was subverted and lured by the Miami Cuban mafia, has been enticed to defect and after being offered a higher paying job and perks in Miami is now tryng to also smear the the health care campaign that the government has put in place to help the most needy in Brazil.
Venezuela’s Maduro, who has been consistently the butt of jokes and underestimation on the part of his enemies is resiliently standing up to them. Maduro was considered weak and essentially stupid. The former bus driver, rose through the ranks of the party and won his own elections until he found his way to the executive office, partially by being groomed for it by el Commandante Hugo Chavez.
The fact that Maduro is not a part of the elite (and Venezolanos are very elitest), that he did not go to the same schools as “them”, did not go to their same parties in their “country clubs”.
Plus the fact that he wears that passé moustache, this is causa belis for the facists to want to hunt him down and make him into either a Lumumba at worst or an Arbenz or Bosch at best.
I insist Latino America is the one battle ground where USA and the rest, have to be challenged. Not a war in the usual sense. With Planes, tanks and troop movements. No, no, no what has to be done is set up a local RT affiliate, just tell the truth massively. Wrench away the monopoly USAID has, reduce the embassy staff’s to the bare minimum. Reduce or diversify military contacts, instead of sending all of the cadets to USA, Russia, China & Brasil will train these people. Stop the constant privatizations and the neoliberal pacts. No more DEA drug interdictions progams, let the other countries participate. If Narcotics are such a global menace, then let the whole globe go in and help prevent this. Indian, Iranian, Chinese and Russian ships in the Caribbean to help. The Canal being built in Nicaragua can finally help the disruption of the Caribbean as an American lake.
Viva la libertad, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.

Posted by: Fernando | Feb 27 2014 16:21 utc | 77

76) Well, Russia can tell Yanukovich to go to the Kiew parliament and resign officially, so that the new government is constitutional – or not.
If Yanukovich should resign officially Russia will have got everything it wanted in the first place and more.
I hear the issue is also a new constitution before elections and elections in September not in May. The new constitution would be federal I guess.

Posted by: somebody | Feb 27 2014 16:51 utc | 79

Thepaper
Just because someone hold a press conference doesnt mean the ledaer of that state have sanctioned that.
Even if, we dont know what hes going to say at all.

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 27 2014 17:31 utc | 81

Videos like this make me effin mad, this is the nazis obama, merkel supports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5vSCGSvf3U

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 27 2014 17:41 utc | 83

76) This here is another reason why Yanoukovich is still useful

He warns that any orders on using the Ukrainian armed forces inside the country would constitute a crime.
“I, as the incumbent president, have not allowed the armed forces to intervene in the domestic political events. I am ordering this now, as well,” Yanukovych said “If anyone issues such orders to the armed forces, security and law enforcement agencies, such orders will be illegal and criminal.”

Posted by: somebody | Feb 27 2014 18:52 utc | 85

Israel Shamir, interesting on Ukraine:
http://www.israelshamir.net/English/BrownRevolution.htm

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | Feb 27 2014 19:24 utc | 87

bevin82, that FPIF piece wasn’t so much dated as missed the point. That intercepted phone call, meant one thing ‘forget the EU, US will handle this coup alone’.
The first Counterpunch piece, Vogt-Downey advocates Yany should have leveled with the Ukrainian people to spell out what would have happened if he had signed the EU Accession treaty. Yany couldn’t do that. Why? because he was playing the Russians against the EU, and, if he had made clear the EU treaty was a piece of shit, it would have left him with poor cards to play against the Russians.
That second Counterpunch piece is pretty good too. But doesn’t get to the root of neoliberal globalization that’s happening everywhere on the planet where the neoliberal cabal have a hint of influence.

Posted by: okie farmer | Feb 27 2014 21:05 utc | 89

The Ukraine protesters are really going overboard. After seizing the Parliament, they have passed some disgraceful laws including removing Russian as one of Ukraine’s official languages, despite 11.3 Million Russian speakers in the country. Also disbanding the riot police and making a member of Right Sector the chief of Ukraines Security Council.
On top of this, China is now suing Ukraine for 3 Billion dollars after:

The South China Morning Post reports that China is seeking compensation of $3bn after the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine used part of the loan to instead supply crops to other countries including Syria opposition groups, Kenya, Iran, and Ethiopia.

Posted by: Colm O’ Toole | Feb 27 2014 21:10 utc | 91

‘The former President of Brasil, Lula is visiting Cuba. This is taking place among rumors that Lula may run for the executive office once again. The disturbances taking place in Brasil prior to the much heralded world cup are believed to be smear and destabilization campaigns on the part of foreign agents and assets that want besmirch the prestige that the regional BRIC power is attaining.
If you make the country appear unsafe and unstable, then that will be the reality.
‘
no doubt about it: Gandhi thru Gene Sharps interpretation has helped make protyests look like …well..subversion. No wonder Amnesty and HRW are so gung ho for protests
Subversion R US

Posted by: brian | Feb 27 2014 21:39 utc | 93

Intervene? Or End Syrian War?
And if our vital interests are imperiled, how much more so are those of Israel and Turkey? Yet neither has chosen to invest the blood of their sons in bringing Assad down.
If we have an enemy in this fight, it is al-Qaida, the al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, all of which are terrorist and implacably anti-American.
And who is keeping these enemies of ours out of Damascus?
Assad, Hezbollah, Iran and our old friend Vladimir Putin.
And who has been supplying the terrorists? Our friends in the Gulf, with weapons funneled through Turkey, our NATO ally.
Have the interventionists who are beside themselves watching all these insurrections and wars breaking out thought through what is likely to happen if we intervene?
The Syrian war would become a more savage affair, as Assad would know he was now in a fight to the finish. As U.S. air power was committed to the defeat of Assad, his allies would likely provide more weapons for his defense. Casualties could soar and the probability of a wider war would increase geometrically.
Should Assad fall, his routed soldiers and Alawaites and Christians would face reprisals for which we would be morally responsible, as it was our intervention that brought this about. We might have to intervene with troops to stop a massacre by jihadists.
And if Assad fell, pro-Western rebels would likely have to fight the al-Qaida rebels for power. Syria could come apart, and we would own it.
Obama’s frustration is understandable. He said two years ago Assad must go. Assad flipped him off. Obama said use of chemical weapons would be a “red line” which, if crossed, would bring serious consequences. Assad’s troops apparently crossed that line.
What did we do? Worked with Russia to remove the weapons.
Washington is enraged that Putin continues to support Assad.
But Assad’s regime is the recognized and legal government of Syria. Russia has a naval base in Latakia, is owed billions by Damascus, and has been Syria’s ally for decades.
Why should Putin abandon Assad at our request?
What have we done for him lately? Besides send Billy Jean King to his Olympics? Why, Putin might ask, should he abandon his Syrian allies rather than us, the Turks, and Gulf Arabs abandoning ours?
There is a grave moral issue here – for us.
How, under just war theory, can we continue to sustain a conflict that is killing thousands every month with no end in sight? Are we not morally obliged to try to stop such a war?
http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2014/02/27/intervene-or-end-syrian-war/

Posted by: Virgile | Feb 28 2014 7:22 utc | 95

For the social scientists on MOA ; Re The attack on fighters at Al Utayba. Having looked at the photos of the corpses of the fighters at Al Utayba, I had 2 thoughts in succession. Firstly I thought that these corpses were of unarmed civilians, but I was convinced by comments that they were disarmed by Syrian Army soldiers as an operational procedure. The second thought was a reaction to the appearance of the corpses. They did not look like a healthy, well equipped body of men. They looked like poverty struck tramps when compared with Syrian Army fighters. Does this mean that there is a social stratification of fighters?
Regular soldiers are well equipped, properly fed and clean, showing a disciplined environment. Irregular fighters are poorly dressed, in need of a wash, haircut & a good meal. Could this also mean that irregular fighters from outside Syria are drawn there for meagre wages and share of the booty; suggesting that their home condition is so poor that this fighting existence is better than home? Is it such a leap then to think that there could be a vast underclass of men from outside the wealthy developed countries ready to risk their lives to join such poorly gangs of brigands in the hope of a little money?
Such a freelance army could surge out of their poverty and attack all us fat cats in our armchairs.

Posted by: MIDAN | Feb 28 2014 17:47 utc | 97

Some anti-Syrian fighters wear military fatigues (the best funded and equipped), some other some kind of ‘Islamic’ robes and many just plain civilian clothes. So it’s not unusual to find them in that kind of attire. The weapons seem to be removed immediately for security reasons and I you don’t usually see weapons and corpses side to side in such kind of videos.

Posted by: ThePaper | Feb 28 2014 19:00 utc | 99