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VIPS Calls for Obama-Putin Summit on Ukraine
As the death toll mounts in an incipient civil war between east and west Ukraine, a group of retired US intelligence professionals urges President Obama to hold a summit …
Kerry’s Propaganda War on Russia’s RT
Secretary of State Kerry, who has bumbled through a string of propaganda fiascos on Ukraine, decries Russia's RT network as a “propaganda bullhorn” that Americans should ignore u2013 just …
Ukraine Government Says It Has “Lost Control” in Eastern Ukraine as Pro-Autonomy Upsurge Deepens
Greater regional autonomy may be the only way to keep what's left of “Ukraine” together.
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Matt Taibbi | “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap“
In his new book, Matt Taibbi explains how two of the most troubling trends in the United States are interwoven: economic inequality and mass incarceration. Wealth can merit an …
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Noam Chomsky | Red Lines in Ukraine and Elsewhere
This era's most extreme international crime, the US-UK invasion of Iraq, was not a break in world order because the aggressors didn't cross Russian or Chinese red lines. In …
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The Economic Plans of the Kiev Government Will Spell Ruin for a Great Many in Ukraine
Ukraine's “turn to the West,” together with the effects of austerity, will deindustrialize Ukraine and turn it into an agricultural appendage of the EU.
As Unrest Grows, Is Ukraine Paying the Price of US-Russian Ties Stuck in Cold War Era?
The United States and the European Union have imposed new sanctions on Russia, and the moves come as the crisis in eastern Ukraine faces continued chaos.
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NATO and Ukraine Government Escalate Threats Against Russian and Ukrainian People
The popular, proletarian protest movement with strong social justice aspirations in eastern Ukraine has acted judiciously, avoiding needless violence.
The West Marches East: The US-NATO Strategy to Isolate Russia
For the past quarter-century, Russia has stood and watched as the United States, NATO, and the European Union have advanced their borders and sphere of influence eastwards to Russia's …
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Looking Back on Easter 2014 – And Forward to Easter Next
The vast majority of our leaders and lawmakers do not yet seem to understand that national interest can no longer be at cross-purposes with planetary interest.