I am not excusing the bad just saying listen and look at the message, not the person.

Posted by: Albertde | Apr 9 2014 18:54 utc | 3

in case this hasn’t been linked yet, I wanted to share this news by F. William Engdahl about China’s proposal for a new Silk Road linking to Germany (through Russia of course) as an economic development zone:
https://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/presstv-china-heading-off-cold-war-through-economic-diplomacy/
It’s the most uplifting news I’ve read since Crimea went home.

Posted by: Grieved | Apr 9 2014 19:02 utc | 5

Events in the Ukraine exemplify the distinguishing characteristics of US foreign policy.
1/ It is all tactics and no strategy.
The tactics, which run from bribery and intimidation directed against individual oligarchs to rentamob coups carried out by fascists directed by allied Secret Police forces, all in a cloud of ‘arms length’ propaganda in media licensed and controlled by the imperial state, vary little from Syria and Iraq to Central Asia, from East Africa to the Balkans, from Caracas to Kiev, from Cuba to Iran. US tactics are employed, without real variation, in all cultures. There is never a need to take local considerations into account. The world is divided between America-guided by providence-and a world aspiring to become American.
2/The Empire is an enormously powerful animal directed by a brain so small as to be negligible. Lacking a brain this animal relies entirely on instinctive reactions and repetition. It does what it always did, only more so, guided by the idea that what, in the past, did not lead to disaster must be safe in the future. What worked in Belgrade fifteen years ago will work in Damascus or Kiev today and tomorrow. This is particularly true of US propaganda which never changes: no allowance is made for the likelihood that the public will find US claims difficult to believe. If the public has a hard time understanding that Putin is Hitler and the Galician SS are generous hearted, liberal minded freedom lovers (who sincerely regret the youthful enthusiasm that led their founders to promise the actual Hitler that they would kill every Jew in the country) then the obvious solution is to repeat it, more clearly and much louder.
3/ Strategy is unnecessary and brains a waste of nutrition because the future is known : America’s victory is certain. It is written in the stars, it is the logical conclusion of historical evolution; Adam Smith prophesied it, as did Milton Friedman and Francis Fukuyama . The mighty prevail, wealth and muscle always beat poverty and solidarity. Demagogy always beats reason. Bullshit always baffles brains. Propaganda wipes the floor with truth. Ruthless amorality never loses to honesty and principled behaviour. Half of the working class can always be bribed to shoot the other half.
4/ Allies are cannon fodder.
Citizens of countries lucky enough to be satellites of the Empire must pay for the privilege. In the Cold War this meant that, while the US missiles targeted Kiev, Moscow, Leningrad and other Soviet cities for destruction the equivalent Soviet targets were Rome, Paris, London and Frankfurt. When US manouevres in Germany risked provoking Red Army tank offensives the brunt of any war would have fallen on Europeans.
Currently it is the allies of the US which suffer from sanctions against Russia, Iran and other states defying US hegemony. The US loses nothing by boycotting Russian gas and oil but the lights could go out in western Europe. Germany and France export not only goods but capital to Russia, sanctions will cost their economies dearly. Similarly Australia is constantly forced to ruin its burgeoning relationships with its Asian neighbours just to please Uncle Sam.
5/ The US ruling class, long protected from socio-political realities by the country’s history of racism and the tides of immigration and emigration which disrupt emerging class consciousness, insists that its clients, the Merkels, Hollandes and Camerons of this world, impose on their electorates the crudely divisive policies that its corporations-influenced by wet behind the ears ideologues-demand. This has meant that the carefully negotiated compromises behind the welfare state, the” mixed” economy and equalisation of opportunity through the educational system as well as co-operation between unions and capital are all being jettisoned as Europe is “americanised.” Police forces are militarised, society riven through with spies and provocateurs, war, at home and abroad, is celebrated and national budgets directed to privilege the armament salesmen at the expense of home building, health programmes and national welfare.
6/ As everyone knows, among the most efficient ways of consolidating ingredients is to surround them and subject them to pressure.
This is the course that the USA, for reasons incomprehensible to the merely rational of mind, has decided to adopt towards its rivals in China and Russia. After cleverly separating these two powers in the sixties and seventies-setting them at each other’s throats and, thereby, gaining for the US a dominant position in the world, the Americans have now decided not only to drive China and Russia into each other’s arms, forcing them into a defensive alliance, but in doing so to squeeze the US out of its hard won Central Asian “lily pads.”
Or does anyone imagine that the post soviet independent ‘Stans of Central Asia will defy both giant neighbours in order to retain the company of the US military?
Nor is that all: Iran is also being forced into an alliance with Russia and China. Thus three governments, ideologically separated along a spectrum running from Communism, through oligarchical capitalism to shia islam, with only an interest in long term survival in common, are being forced into an alliance with enormous national, physical and cultural resources, dwarfing those of the US and its satellites.
If this alliance does gel-and constant pressure is a certain way of ensuring that it will-it will become the focus for an international coalition against the Empire. The remaining BRICS countries will naturally gravitate towards such a bloc. So will all those countries, such as the Latin American and Caribbean peoples, desperate to regain sovereignty from the gringo and his death squads.
7/ European fascism was always rooted in a not inaccurate appreciation of the history of the United States. Its racism and its exterminism were both modelled on the American mythology.
In a real sense, the USA was the premier breeding ground of fascist ideas , genocide and ethnic cleansing in the modern world. But the US itself has moved beyond ideology, it sees itself as simply following the course of necessity, surfing on the wave of history. So, beyond wanting more, it has no ideas, no hopes for the future, no ambitions. This leaves a void in its culture, a vacuum of the sort nature will not tolerate. Into this small space Zionism has expanded. And Israel, dominated by fascists, has eagerly adjusted its politics to conform with the plot of a very sleazy “B” western, with the Palestinian people cast as the “Indians” and a peculiar amalgam of refugees from mittel europe playing the parts of the Pioneers, the cowboys and the speculators in stolen land. All protected by the US military where careers depend upon scaremongering
8/ Nothing is more mysterious and yet more obvious than an entity in the grip of suicidal urges.
Why the US wants to destroy itself is a complex problem, the discussion of which will have to be postponed, but that it is in the grip of a death wish is undeniable.
That is why all its tactics abroad clearly signal that their real efficacy is at home. The colour revolutions are designed to appeal to the American in all of us. It doesn’t matter whether we are in Belgrade, Beirut or Caracas the appeal is to the young, ambitious, and shallow minded, and the lilywhite of heart- the rootless cosmopolitans who believe in blue jeans, vulgar parodies of soul music and the ineffable beauties of Florida. These are the people who want to go to America because Kim Kardashian and Arnold Schwartznegger are there and even the downtrodden blacks live like Bill Cosby, to whom money is no object and the milk and honey which coat the golden pavements, passes unnoticed.
Among those who watch the Maidan Square “protesters” fight the cops to a draw, all the while cheered by the Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and the EU’s top bureaucrats, and nod their heads as the media clothes coups in the legitimacy of popular sovereignty, and attend while the President defends the violence of those intolerably oppressed, the unemployed, the poor and the marginalised. The victims of oligarchs, denied democratic remedies and forced into violence…among these are the American people, the millions of illegals, living as virtual slaves and doing the work that cannot be done by citizens because it pays less than the law insists on, the tens of millions, mainly children, their mothers and the elderly, living off food stamps, a dollar or two a day, those among the 50% without work who need but cannot find employment, about one in five adult Americans at best guess, then there are the millions of graduates, most of them shouldering enormous debts at usurious interest rates, reluctant to admit that if they can find work at all it will have no connection to the investment they have made in their education. And that their future lies in routine “Joe” jobs, soft prostitution and precarious part time employment, often of a banal and humiliating nature-servants without security or personal relationships, uncared for caregivers or thugs in uniform.
9/ The United States no longer functions except as a military machine careening out of control.
Politically it is so corrupt that representative institutions no longer provide it with the safety valves through which popular anger can be discharged in electoral or other campaigns. The electoral process has lost all credibility while popular movements are swiftly and ruthlessly suppressed-this was the real lesson of the Occupy movement.
Economically, the US is in the position of a trust fund drunkard consuming capital. The vast material inheritance of the continent is being rapidly dissipated: the very bases of life, potable water, fertile soil, vital links in the food chain including bees and other pollinators are being wiped out. The physical environment is rapidly degenerating, while engineered infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, sea walls, levees and sewage systems are suffering from the neglect that is the fate of all non-profit centres.
Socially the population is suffering from declining standards of education, which is increasingly vocational and corrupt, falling health levels, a function of bad diet, overwork, stress and pollution as well as a commercialised medical system. It is also suffering from unemployment, inequality, de-skilling, as service work replaces labour in agriculture and manufacturing, and other symptoms of the Depression into which it is still plunging.
10/ The world-facing the reality of climate change caused by human activity- is waking up to the fact that it cannot afford to allow the US not only to continue to deny the reality that change is vital to the survival of our species, and many others, but to infect the culture with its laissez faire stupidity and cynical dishonesty. The danger is that the enemies of the planet will find succour, support and refuge in the United States just as Balkan terrorists, Latin American death squads and wahhabised military robots do. Mankind’s ‘last best hope’ has become its most urgent and dangerous threat.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 9 2014 19:10 utc | 7

Ukraine send troops, tanks to East ukraine demonstrations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQRzfetndJg

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 9 2014 19:18 utc | 9

@8 Do I detect a touch of jealousy in JS’ anti-Snowden tirades? Is he not getting enough attention?

Posted by: dh | Apr 9 2014 19:27 utc | 11

Yup, I just hates me some Snowden for no reason whatsoever. It’s not that his entire story in nonsensical horseshit, that he hasn’t told us anything new (but he confirmed it, scream the fanboys!), that he has helped TPTB set up an “appropriate” way – meaning one which in no way shape or form threatens anything TPTB care about – for future whistleblowers to act, that he has helped create the parameters for a fake “debate” about spying and surveillance (oh, so you think spying and surveillance are good, huh, Edward?), that he STILL urges people to remain on their devices and online even though that’s exactly what people should NOT be doing if his stale info is to be believed and that he’s the hero of war criminal organizations like HRW and Amnesty – cf. Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc – where he gives speeches to packed houses and gets standing o’s with his “journo” friends who are directly employed by billionaires who finance neo-nazi putsches.
Yup, I’m just a Debbie Downer because apparently I’m not taking the appropriate meds to provide me with the willful ignorance needed to buy into such an obvious fairy tale horseshit.
Or is it something in my diet that doesn’t allow me to cozen up to the war criminal agencies – e.g., the CIA and NSA – and the system that spawned them like Edward and Glenn tell me I should? Maybe if I get more potassium, I’ll come to understand a la Edward and Glenn that what is really needed in the US is simply a culling of the few “bad apples” at the top of said agencies and – of course – some more billionaire-backed “responsible” journos to help me filter information and make better sense of the world around me. Or is it fish oil I need?
Lord knows, I’ve almost OD-ed on snake oil.

Posted by: JSorrentine | Apr 9 2014 19:52 utc | 13

To Bevin @7 A powerful piece of writing with some great phrases. Good to see your writing again at MOA. I agree with your review and wonder “what is to be done” Many years I thought counter culture could change the world, now I am suspicious that the counter culture generation is now in the driving seat and a source of world troubles.

Posted by: Midan | Apr 9 2014 19:55 utc | 15

213 Stay on track JS. You are beginning to develop a healthy skepticism.

Posted by: dh | Apr 9 2014 20:04 utc | 17

US mercenaries in Ukraine? “The Russian Foreign Ministry made a stunning allegation today that the American private security company Greystone, which is registered in Barbados and is widely regarded as a proxy firm of the US intelligence, has been deployed in the southern regions of Ukraine. The statement was specific, mentioning the deployment of 150 “American mercenaries” from Greystone.”
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2014/04/08/nato-scrapping-1997-pact-with-russia/
Seems that O’bomber is begging to provoke a war…

Posted by: JohnH | Apr 9 2014 20:25 utc | 19

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_09/President-Putin-wins-over-world-leaders-with-92-percent-of-public-approval-poll-7829/
President Putin wins over world leaders with 92 percent of public approval – poll
The poll was conducted by the Independent.

Posted by: scalawag | Apr 9 2014 20:42 utc | 21

@scalawag #21:
Someone noted in a Guardian comment that the Guardian has shut off comments on most stories about the Ukraine. That the comments were going roughly five to one in favor of Russia is probably the reason why.

Posted by: Demian | Apr 9 2014 21:02 utc | 23

– “Why The Warfare State Demonizes Ramshackle Russia: To Stay In Business”.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/04/08/retro-politics-and-the-return-of-the-cold-war/
– According to Willy Wimmer (aid of the former german chancellor Helmut Kohl) the US has drawn a line from Riga to Odessa and from there to Diyabakir (Turkey). The US considers everything west of that line to be “Europe” (to be saved by NATO) and what’s east of that line is allowed to fall apart or what ever may happen.
Source:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/04/ukraine-the-east-strikes-back.html#c6a00d8341c640e53ef01a3fce98c72970b

Posted by: Willy2 | Apr 9 2014 21:27 utc | 25

Speaking of Guardian comments on Ukraine, I too noticed that they have been offered in the last few days. A couple of weeks ago I had a comment that received 125 recommends and 30 replies, including many supporting the coup government, within a few hours and then it plus all of the replies were deleted as not conforming to “standards”. Even though they were deleting many of the comments, they were still running about 5 to 1 in support of Russia.

Posted by: ToivoS | Apr 9 2014 21:53 utc | 27

Steve Cohen in 2011 on the fragility of the reset and the enlargement of NATO, plus the Russian sense of betrayal.

Posted by: somebody | Apr 9 2014 21:55 utc | 29

This is Human Rights Watch, on Sept 10, 2013, doing their very best propagandistic infomercial for intervention in Syria:
Syria: Government Likely Culprit in Chemical Attack!
New Evidence based on Rocket Analysis, Witness Accounts!
[Insert picture here of a mother and father weeping over the body of their child, killed in an alleged chemical weapons attack on Ghouta, Syria, on August 21, 2013.]
“Available evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government forces were responsible for chemical weapons attacks on two Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. These attacks, which killed hundreds of civilians including many children, appeared to use a weapons-grade nerve agent, most likely Sarin.”
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/10/syria-government-likely-culprit-chemical-attack
And this is Human Rights Watch on April 8, 2014:
“If it’s true that the NSA spied on groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, it’s outrageous…
Protection of human rights defenders has been a priority for the US State Department and such actions would fly in the face of closely held values of freedom of association and expression, Human Rights Watch said.”
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/08/snowden-claims-nsa-spied-rights-groups
So let me get this straight: Churning out war propaganda, doing their best to promote war on false pretenses and turn Syria into a slaugherhouse like Fallujah….there’s nothing wrong with that, no, what’s outrageous to Human Rights Watch is the NSA might have spied on them…

Posted by: Christine | Apr 9 2014 22:20 utc | 31

@31
Yes, HRW is CIA.
That doesnt mean Snowden is smart enough to know that.
He might just be an idiot. Doesnt necessarily mean hes a CIA collaborator.
I mean, MOST of America doesnt know HRW is CIA front. Its not like Snowden would be without company on being naive on this.

Posted by: Massinissa | Apr 9 2014 22:28 utc | 33

32
Is that something you made up by yourself or you got a source for that about uniforms?

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 9 2014 22:33 utc | 35

@34 Yeah, but as a federation the border between UkSSR and RSFSR would be an internal border and thus not subject to recognition. What was recoginzed was probably the entirety of USSR (and then again, the inclusion of the Baltic states was not recognized by the US up until the USSR fell apart).

Posted by: Grim Deadman | Apr 9 2014 22:39 utc | 37

I’ve waited for about 3 years for these news Germans Align With Russians and Chinese

Posted by: ProPeace | Apr 9 2014 22:45 utc | 39

plus 35)
this here includes a Putin quote

“There are many military uniforms. Go into any local shop and you can find one,” Putin said of the so-called pro-Russia “local defense forces,” according to a translation in the Times.”

Posted by: somebody | Apr 9 2014 22:52 utc | 41

http://ic1.static.km.ru/sites/default/files/imagecache/640×640/BkTVN7cCMAABAUI.jpg:large.jpeg
“Belgrade 1999, democracy American style”
&
“Sevastopol 2014, democracy Russian style”

Posted by: scalawag | Apr 9 2014 23:07 utc | 43

Any recommendations for possible tourist destinations in S Russia for folks like me with scarcely any command of Russian? Looking to spend some Putin pounds… 🙂

Posted by: Cortes | Apr 9 2014 23:12 utc | 45

@scalawag #43:
Sad but very true.
Unfortunately, even the most “enlightened” “progressives” almost universally see NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia as perfectly justified, even if they were against the bombing/invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. No doubt because a Democrat bombed Yugoslavia, and the people bombed were not brown, so the progressives don’t have to worry that they are racist if they supported the bombing.

Posted by: Demian | Apr 9 2014 23:30 utc | 47

@45
>> Any recommendations for possible tourist destinations in S Russia for folks like me with scarcely any command of Russian? Looking to spend some Putin pounds… 🙂
Cortes, I’d be glad to recommend anything knowing you prefs which I have no idea about.
What I could say right away though is that S Russia is indeed a special case. One argues they have more “Ukrainian” accent in Rostov area than in Donetsk area. The reason is that “Ukrainian accent” is just less urban Russian one.

Posted by: Sergey | Apr 9 2014 23:45 utc | 49

So let me get this straight: Churning out war propaganda, doing their best to promote war on false pretenses and turn Syria into a slaugherhouse like Fallujah….there’s nothing wrong with that, no, what’s outrageous to Human Rights Watch is the NSA might have spied on them…
Posted by: Christine | Apr 9, 2014 6:20:14 PM | 31
“Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said, “It is disturbing that the Obama administration, which already has a record of resisting international accountability for Israeli rights abuses, would also oppose steps to adopt treaties requiring Palestinian authorities to uphold human rights.
“HRW also said Washington appears to oppose Palestine joining human rights treaties in part because it is afraid they will gain greater support for Palestinian statehood outside the framework of negotiations with Israel.”
Let me get you straight, JS-take the good and emphasize it, while correcting the bad. I mean when HRW said this, it wasn’t “doing its best”
to create a Palestinian state or to alert the rank and file American to the fact Israel owns Obama, was it? Although a perceptive American
might have considered it and then opposed all the more any attempt by Obama to involve us in Syria, for Israel’s sake.

Posted by: truthbetold | Apr 9 2014 23:57 utc | 51

Some here may be interested in fact I obtained via FOIA a version of the CIA’s KUBARK torture/interrogation manual, and it’s posted now with intro:
After 16 years, CIA declassifies new portions of “KUBARK” interrogation manual
Newly released sections reveal details of rendition and liaison with foreign intelligence services
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/apr/08/cia-declassifies-additional-portions-kubark-interr/

Posted by: Jeff Kaye | Apr 10 2014 0:10 utc | 53

#7 bevin – anyone ever tell you you’re too smart for your own good? how do you deal with the sheeple in your life once you know what it’s all about (this is a semi-sincere question, though I kind of know the answer. Well, sort of)>

Posted by: Merlin2 | Apr 10 2014 0:21 utc | 55

@john francis lee #54:
Your point is not entirely without merit. The FRG was the first country to recognize the independence of Croatia, continuing the anti-Serbian policy Germany pursued under the Nazis. The idiot Helmut Kohl thought Germany would get a foothold in Eastern Europe, but the US quickly outmaneuvered him.

Posted by: Demian | Apr 10 2014 0:37 utc | 57

@49 Sergey: Spasiba:
Are there decent facilities (hotel, beach &c) for older single guy (not looking for sex tourism nor cia infiltration &c) just chance to stroll along, maybe converse in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, tiny.bit of German. Perhaps discuss Bulgakov, Gogol, Lermontov…?
Oblomov of Glasgow 🙂

Posted by: Cortes | Apr 10 2014 1:03 utc | 59

But to say that there is no strategic planning whatsoever? Or did you mean that US foreign policy strategic planning is at cross purposes, that different factions are not coordinated? Or that those calling the strategic shots are seriously incompetent?

AWWWWH YEAH! Here we go again! Yes, please clarify for Robert, bevin.

Posted by: JSorrentine | Apr 10 2014 1:16 utc | 61

2 more critical takes on Afghan elections:
http://harpers.org/blog/2014/04/the-ghost-polls-of-afghanistan/
http://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/elections-2014-7-an-emerging-mixed-picture

Posted by: bonfire | Apr 10 2014 1:59 utc | 63

Hey bevin @7
I copied your long post … and then read it. I’m sorry to see such a stalwart spirit bite the dust. Your first 5 points seem to me to describe neo-liberal capitalism in toto as much as the US, although the EU and Japan have let the US pick up the check since WW II. There is no doubt in my mind that Europe, i.e. Germany, and Japan are girding their loins to (attempt to) pick-up the ‘neo-liberal burden’ once the US has gone down. You used to be so positive … this screed is all negative … unless you count point number 10 “The world – facing the reality of climate change caused by human activity – is waking up …” I guess you meant Stephan Harper in Canada?

Posted by: john francis lee | Apr 10 2014 2:21 utc | 65

@66
Sorry, haven’t hear a word about any “recent GPS problems”. My GPS-only device shows OK.

Posted by: Sergey | Apr 10 2014 2:40 utc | 67

@Sergey – It was this. Could be all 100% bullshit too.

Posted by: guest77 | Apr 10 2014 2:55 utc | 69

@69
I see you meant the failure in GLONASS @ Apr 2.
It’s been reported by most of the news agencies in Russia with the explanation like “gvmt created a high commission to investigate” with a suspect of . I guess we’ll see the results months after.
My personal opinion (shared by many on the news) is that it doesn’t have to do anything with the US interference but with the internal engineering failures. I didn’t even notice it ‘coz GLONASS is used still mostly as a supplementary/failover replacement to GPS.

Posted by: Sergey | Apr 10 2014 3:31 utc | 71

Interesting look at the Boston Bombings on Galloway’s “Sputnik”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBoKvkNtAN8

Posted by: guest77 | Apr 10 2014 4:26 utc | 73

http://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/2014/04/08/putin-eyes-assad-victory-as-cold-war-triumph
PUTIN EYES ASSAD VICTORY AS COLD WAR TRIUMPH

Posted by: james | Apr 10 2014 5:41 utc | 75

Dave McGowan shows that the Boston bombings were a staged event, on the basis of pictures only
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr114.html

Posted by: Headache | Apr 10 2014 6:26 utc | 77

Breaking news: From Georgia’s military circles comes an announcement that four of the snipers that were active at Maidan are from Georgia, that their identities are now known, and that they are part of Sakashvilli’s, Georgia’s former president’s special forces that were trained in part precisely for such missions. Investigation is on going, and official charges are being prepared…………………….so there are special forces in Ukraine: and serving the Junta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STMD234ErU0

Posted by: brian | Apr 10 2014 8:02 utc | 79

This bloody blog site is fabulous – to get such news.

Posted by: Michaël | Apr 10 2014 8:28 utc | 81

Guest77 #72 – that was perceptive psycohological profiling. It’s true – one finds these people on many conspiracy boards – it’s all white or pitch black. may be because they lost all faith in any authority whatsoever including the authority of human logic. There are indeed people who can no longer believe that anyone can still be motivated by simple human decency. When it’s all power relationships, there are no “good guys” anywhere. Only agents, users, abusers, masked men and lizards.
What you said about Troskites turning into Neocons is right on the money. I know a couple for whom that’s exactly what happened. they did so much deconstruction that at the end there was nothing but the cynicism and nihilism of pure power left.
To me, Snowden is a person, first and foremost. Like all humans he is imperfect. But that does not matter, because in the final analysis, what he did made the world a bit better because a sliver of light could shine through. For that we awe him gratitude. how he handles his fame is entirely up to him. We, who now know (where before we could only suspect), need to make choices.

Posted by: Merlin2 | Apr 10 2014 8:55 utc | 83

The Government of the People’s Republic of Donetsk , which gradually formed , is to assume full control over all the cities of the region , told RIA Novosti one of the leading supporters of the federalization of Ukraine, member of the self-proclaimed People’s Government of the People’s Republic of Donetsk , the deputy head of the People’s Militia Donbass Sergei Zyplakov .
“The Government of the People’s Republic of Donetsk is gradually formed . It will issue its decrees will be to assume full control of all the towns of the region . Takes , in general, normal state activities ,” – said Zyplakov .
He also said that the security forces of the republic their resources , groups will be formed .
“Local militias did not interfere with our work. Around the building RSA even no cordon , no pickets . I think they feel that we are right . These days we call them over to our side and recognize our legitimacy ,” – added Zyplakov .
Also, the people’s government decided to recognize the Republic of Crimea and the results of the referendum in the Crimea on 16 March .
http://novorossia.su/node/320

Posted by: brian | Apr 10 2014 9:16 utc | 85

83 Merlin – agreed, yes, choices. If he’s a shill, he’s playing with levels of communication I don’t believe even bankers can control. For me and others I know, everything changed because of Snowden. It was a matter of scale rather than detail.
Because of Snowden, and the sheer SCALE of deception he revealed as commonplace, suddenly everything was true. Suddenly nothing was too bold or too illegal or too insane for the U.S. to be capable of. Then began the backfilling, to re-examine the history and all the previously passed-over theories that now suddenly stood in sharp relief from their backgrounds, and loomed pretty f*cking large actually, with all the collateral pieces previously ignored and now rushing to fill the gaps.
And so here we are, and now comes Ukraine to show the whole playbook in all its infantile, horrifying madness. Oh it’s all true alright. Who cares where it comes from. Even the Devil must have to confide in someone. Truth will out, always, eventually, that’s not the obstacle, the issue is always, will anyone notice?

Posted by: Grieved | Apr 10 2014 9:30 utc | 87

Russian Market ‏@russian_market 47m
Nazarbaev and Putin: “In case of further sanctions Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus may introduce the common currency Altyn ( Golden coin?)
Russian Market ‏@russian_market 44m
If I recall correctly Altyn or Altn stands for Gold in Mongolian, right @altankhuyag_mn? Will the new currency of Eurasian Union be golden?

Posted by: brian | Apr 10 2014 9:46 utc | 89

Good riddance! Orwellian US propaganda tool VOA finished in Russia
Will the Saudis prop up the putschists in Kiev? Why Obama paid a visit to Riyadh
Brahimi the criminal Taking stock of Lakhdar Brahimi

Posted by: ProPeace | Apr 10 2014 10:15 utc | 91

@scalawag 68
RE: video of captured American mercenary. That is exactly the type of thing that needs to be replicated with these hired killers being captured and made to fess up.
It is just absurd that knowing the way that the global finance mafia and the US regime operate that there aren’t mercs being used to augment local paramilitary forces and neo-Nazi goons.

Posted by: Donn Marten | Apr 10 2014 10:37 utc | 93

American spy caught by Russia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKpCUXCO_4

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 10 2014 10:54 utc | 95

http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_10/US-pays-8-million-a-month-to-have-its-private-armies-deployed-in-Ukraine-British-press-2344/
US pays $8 million a month to have its private armies deployed in Ukraine – British press
“According to reports from Donetsk, another group of US mercenaries has landed at the local airport, mercenaries that the ‘Maidan’-approved government in Kiev is going to use for a mop-up operation in the region. Deputy Chief of People’s Self-Defence of Donbass, Sergei Tsyplakov, claims that 100 “soldiers of fortune” have arrived this time. Judging by US and UK press reports, the overall strength of the ground force that the Kiev-based government is going to send to the South-East of Ukraine makes up 1,800.
The strength of Blackwater and Greystone units for large-scale operations makes up normally 100 to 300 people. This means six hit squads have already been flown to Ukraine. The soldiers are paid 300 dollars to 1,500 dollars per day. According to the British press, the US pays 8 million dollars a month to have its private armies deployed in Ukraine.
According to a retired Lieutenant Colonel of a Russian security service, Andrei Popov, it is pretty difficult to identify Greystone or Blackwater mercenaries during an operation. They are normally made to look like local police or security service units.
“They are currently armed as the security service troops they are passing themselves off as. They carry Kalashnikov sub-machineguns and Makarov pistols, as well as our bulletproof vests. But they use closed communications channels, and that’s how they can be recognized as mercenaries. They are trained just as any task force, but are absolutely unscrupulous. They have no idea of human feelings, that’s why they are used for bloody suppressions of local protests.”
Also, the US may have recruited former task force soldiers, police officer or Marines of various nationalities for a specific operation, which looks like a private foreign legion.”

Posted by: scalawag | Apr 10 2014 11:45 utc | 97

scalawag,
one think that russian government would be able to find those americans through spying etc. Russia sure have contacts in ukraine about this atleast what I believe.

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 10 2014 12:01 utc | 99