<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 16, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Stuart Levy <<a href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We
should have some copies of this for Saturday's AWARE table.<br>
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David Swanson commented on it - "</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Those
who say Washington's not moving this crisis toward war because
that wouldn't be wise should reply to this article (and the past 2
centuries and more of behavior)."<br>
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<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/15/is-putin-being-lured-into-a-trap/" target="_blank">http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/15/is-putin-being-lured-into-a-trap/</a><br>
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Retired German Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jochen Scholz summed
up US policy in an open letter which appeared on the Neue
Rheinilche Zeitung news-site last week. Scholz said the
Washington’s objective was “to deny Ukraine a role as a bridge
between Eurasian Union and European Union….They want to bring
Ukraine under the NATO control” and sabotage the prospects for
“a common economic zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok.”</p><p>Bingo. That’s US policy in a nutshell. It has nothing to do
with democracy, sovereignty, or human rights. It’s about money
and power. Who are the big players going to be in the world’s
biggest growth center, that’s all that matters. Unfortunately
for Obama and Co., the US has fallen behind Russia in acquiring
the essential resources and pipeline infrastructure to succeed
in such a competition. They’ve been beaten by Putin and Gazprom
at every turn. While Putin has strengthened diplomatic and
economic relations, expanded vital pipeline corridors and
transit lines, and hurtled the many obstacles laid out for him
by American-stooges in the EC; the US has dragged itself from
one quagmire to the next laying entire countries to waste while
achieving none of its economic objectives.</p><p>So now the US has jettisoned its business strategy altogether
and moved on to Plan B, regime change. Washington couldn’t beat
Putin in a fair fight, so now they’ve taken off the gloves.
Isn’t that what’s really going on? Isn’t that why the US NGOs,
and the Intel agencies, and the State Dept were deployed to
launch their sloppily-engineered Nazi-coup that’s left the
country in chaos?</p>
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