[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Ukraine: Risk of WW III Mounting

Mon Jul 28 23:41:47 EDT 2014

Karin, thanks for your link to Escobar. A report today in the NYT states that the European countries allied to the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, etc., have now increased severe sanctions on Russia, tightening the screws on it. And the U.S. is sending increased military equipment to Ukraine, as well as « advisors". The U.S. war department is preparing for hostilities. Incredible, dreadful stuff. The UN is under the American thumb—little to hope from there. I hope Escobar’ s optimism(?) is valid, but have doubts in the light of this latest news. Even China is mute, inscrutable, very careful.

—Mort

On Jul 28, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Morton, I too agree with the many writers below including Stephen Cohen,  that the current situation in the Ukraine is very serious, in fact quite frightening.
I am enclosing a recent article from Pepe Escobar related to the situation.
Pepe is the roving Asia correspondent for the Asia Times and RT as well as other media. His writing style is a bit flippant and not as academic as those below but he sums up the situation a little more positively. The suggestion below that Russia appeal to the UN is a progressive step, but a military attack on the Ukraine? I hope I misread that when scanning.  Pepe's suggestion as to the plans ahead are based on economics and hopeful that Germany and the EU will be reasonable.

BRICS<http://rt.com/tags/brics/>, EU<http://rt.com/tags/eu/>, Economy<http://rt.com/tags/economy/>, Politics<http://rt.com/tags/politics/>, Russia<http://rt.com/tags/russia/>, Trade<http://rt.com/tags/trade/>, USA<http://rt.com/tags/usa/>, Ukraine<http://rt.com/tags/ukraine/>
The New Great Game in Eurasia never ceases to thrill with extreme plot twists. The Big Three players remain the same: the US, Russia and China. The devil is in the concentric subplots.
In Washington, the deep state Russia ‘policy’ has revealed itself to be sanctions, sanctions, sanctions; because of Crimea, because of support for federalists in Eastern Ukraine, because of the MH17 tragedy.
Sanctions are targeting Russia’s energy, defense and finance – and are fast on their way towards all-out economic war, which in itself is a declaration of war. As with Cuba; as with Iraq (until there was regime change); as with Iran (until there is a nuclear deal, and even that is a major ‘if’).
Beware the wrath of the Empire of Chaos. The prescription is always the same; sanctions; no holds barred geo-economic/political warfare; internal subversion (NED, assorted NGOs); and non-stop vitriol marinated in hubris.
In Moscow, there are no illusions; no matter what the Kremlin does on Ukraine, there won’t be any ‘reset’. Washington’s sanction hysteria – which has far surpassed the level of containment - is even regarded as a means towards (what else?) regime change, Putin’s huge popularity notwithstanding. No wonder US Think Tankland is drooling<http://www.stratfor.com/video/conversation-how-vladimir-putin-rose-and-could-fall-russia#axzz38QRY16Ab> about it.
Roughly, in Russian spheres of power, an Atlanticist – neoliberal – school, appeasing the Empire of Chaos, is pitted against the Eurasianists, who strive to be respected in the US as equals. The Empire of Chaos, by default, does not accept equals; one just needs to consult the Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine.
The best and the brightest in Russia well know you can’t win when the staggering financial muscle of the Empire of Chaos – even mired in decadence - and its vassals is deployed against you. But that does not mean Moscow will cringe and resign itself to being ‘isolated’, as a much weaker Iran fought against its ‘isolation’ for years.
Moscow holds nearly $500 billion in currency reserves. That and domestic capital can be used to strengthen the ruble and back investments in Russian industry. The door is open to diversifying the Russian economy away from a commodity exporter towards post-modern manufacturing, and on the way release myriad business opportunities for Russian SMEs (small and medium enterprises).
[Ukrainian soldiers carry a coffin with the remains of a victim of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash to a military plane during a ceremony at the airport of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 23, 2014 (AFP Photo / Genya Savilov)]

Ukrainian soldiers carry a coffin with the remains of a victim of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash to a military plane during a ceremony at the airport of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 23, 2014 (AFP Photo / Genya Savilov)

And now for the EU chapter
Enter a fragile Europe. Russia is the EU’s third-largest trading partner. Top economies such as Germany, France and Italy are vastly integrated with the Russian economy.
A key plank of Washington’s strategy is to de-link Europe from Russia, part of a much larger agenda of preventing by all means Eurasia’s trade/commercial/economic development integration. It all hinges on Germany.
That’s the key debate in Berlin nowadays. German business – and even conservative politicians – are reaching a stark conclusion; they do not want a heavily dysfunctional relationship with Russia. Public opinion, at 57 percent<http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/as-us-scandals-grow-germans-seek-greater-political-independence-a-979695.html>, wants a foreign policy more independent from the US. The US Orwellian/Panopticon complex intrusions in Germany have been instrumental as a game-changer.
American pressure on the EU regarding the MH17 tragedy has been relentless. Moscow presented<http://en.ria.ru/world/20140723/191126347/Russia-Hands-Data-on-MH17-Crash-to-EC-Awaits-Reaction---Russias.html> hard evidence to the EU. Washington did not – and they won’t, because they don’t have it, apart from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
While Moscow has been insisting from the start on an unbiased, independent and international investigation, Washington has been ordering the EU to “ignore” and “not comment” on Moscow’s hard evidence. Even as German intel confirmed the wobbly American intel was “manipulated.”
Yet it’s hard to underestimate a hugely divided EU’s capacity to shoot itself in the back. Take the EU’s proposed sanctions on Gazprom’s South Stream gas pipeline under the Black Sea, which will eventually supply 15 percent of Europe’s demand – as well as a package of sanctions targeting access to capital markets, defense, dual use goods and sensitive technology (see the leaked non paper here<http://www.scribd.com/doc/234970937/Proposed-sanctions>).
Gazprom’s top partners in South Stream are Italy’s ENI, France’s EDF, Austria’s OMV and Germany’s Wintershall, a subsidiary of BASF. South Stream’s construction depends heavily on European know-how.
If the full sanction list is eventually enforced by the EU (and that includes restricting Russian access to piping, drilling pipes, floating or submersible drilling platforms, and floating cranes) that would delay for a long time Pipelinistan projects as well as the development in Europe of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. The EU needs South Stream much more than Russia – which can always sell more gas to Asia anyway.
[RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov]

RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov

BRICS over the wall
The real, no-holds-barred reason for the Empire of Chaos’s obsessive economic war on Russia is that Moscow, as a BRICS member, alongside especially China and Brazil, is at the leading edge of emerging powers challenging the global financial/political (dis)order – wallowing in the mire of casino capitalism – dictated by the Empire of Chaos.
And it gets ‘curiouser and curiouser’, because the effect of the sanctions hysteria has been to accumulate even more sympathy from the developing world towards Russia. The typical Washington rumbling about “the world” united to “isolate” Russia – in a replay of the Iran case – only applies to NATO.
I have closely followed the latest chapters in Eurasia integration, from the Russia-China gas ‘deal of the century’ clinched in Shanghai<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-190514.html> to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-190514.html> and then closer Eurasia-South America integration at the BRICS summit<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-150714.html> in Brazil, which created the New Development Bank and advanced the BRICS drive to develop their own parallel global institutions.
President Putin even proposed a BRICS energy coalition, complete with nuclear power agreements and its own “fuel reserve bank and an energy policy institute.” Moscow – as well as Beijing - is actively strengthening energy deals across South America, as in Rosatom signing with both Argentina and Brazil to build nuclear power plants.
Eurasia integration, on the Asian front, proceeds unabated. Russia will sell more gas at lower prices not only to China, but also, in the near future, to Japan and South Korea as well. Beijing, meanwhile, is carefully moving its financial, economic and geopolitical pieces on the chessboard, and now on full red alert regarding the sanctions hysteria; the collective leadership very well knows that the target one day may be Russia because of Ukraine, but the next day may be China, because of the South China Sea or even a Hong Kong currently moving towards an impasse; should candidates for Hong Kong chief executive be chosen by direct democracy, or by committee, as Beijing prefers?
The key point is, forget about a US-Russia reset. The Russia-China strategic partnership will strengthen. China is preparing itself for its turn in the sanction hysteria show. And for the foreseeable future, the new game in the chessboard is Cold War 2.0.

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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:48:14 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Ukraine: Risk of WW III Mounting
From: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>

I too, with Paul Craig Roberts, am afraid concerning events in Ukraine. War between Russia and the U.S. and its compliant stooges in Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand is indeed  dire possibility. Nuclear war lies in the background.  I largely agree with the following articles, and also with the admonitions of Stephen Cohen on this threat. I believe that the only outlet for Russia now is to really militarily engage with Ukraine and take a slice of the territory that is now in contention, striking a severe blow against Kiev forces.  Presently, Russia has a strategic and logistic advantage, which will soon disappear if it does nothing but equivocate and attempt to satisfy western interests. Unfortunately, I have doubts that this will happen, given the nature of the leaders of the Kremlin. But I have little idea as to what the Kremlin, and, indeed the Russian people think about all this. I do believe the U.S. steamroller has to be contained, somehow.

—mkb

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Don’t expect to live much longer
By Paul Craig Roberts
July 27, 2014

European governments and the Western media have put the world at risk by enabling Washington’s propaganda and aggression against Russia.
Washington has succeeded in using transparent lies to demonize Russia as a dangerous aggressive country led by a new Hitler or a new Stalin, just as Washington succeeded in demonizing Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Qaddafi in Libya, Assad in Syria, Chavez in Venezuela, and, of course, Iran.
The real demons–Clinton, Bush, Obama–are “the exceptional and indispensable people” above the reach of demonization. Their horrific real crimes go unnoticed, while fictitious crimes are attributed to the unexceptional and dispensable people and countries.
The reason that Washington demonizes a leader and a country is to permit the creation of circumstances that Washington can use to act with force against a leader and a country.
Washington’s incessant lies alleging “Russian aggression” have created Russian aggression out of thin air. John Kerry and the State Department’s Marie Harf issue new lies daily, but never any supporting evidence. With the stage set, the US Senate, the NATO commander and the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff are busy at work energizing the wheels of war.
Senate bill 2277 provides for beefing up forces on Russia’s borders and for elevating Ukraine’s status to “ally of the US” so that US troops can assist the war against “terrorists” in Ukraine. http://un.ua/eng/article/522930.html<http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=978487&l=14794&ctl=14E5AD3:C33B5A12F96B5B26828CCD438FF42A2C3B113531E5EC2DAA&> See also: http://www.globalresearch.ca/collapse-of-ukraine-government-prime-minister-yatsenyuk-resigns-amidst-pressures-exerted-by-the-imf/5393168<http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=978487&l=14794&ctl=14E5AD4:C33B5A12F96B5B26828CCD438FF42A2C3B113531E5EC2DAA&>
NATO commander Breedlove is preparing his plans for stockpiling war material on Russia’s borders so that US/NATO troops can more quickly strike Russia. http://rt.com/news/175292-nato-poland-supply-base/ <http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=978487&l=14794&ctl=14E5AD5:C33B5A12F96B5B26828CCD438FF42A2C3B113531E5EC2DAA&>
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, is at work preparing American opinion for the upcoming war.
On July 24 Dempsey told the Aspen Security Forum, a high level group where US opinion is formed, that Putin’s aggression in Ukraine is comparable to Stalin’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and that the Russian threat was not limited to Ukraine or Eastern Europe but was global. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/25/gen-dempsey-were-pulling-out-our-cold-war-military-plans-over-ukraine<http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=978487&l=14794&ctl=14E5AD6:C33B5A12F96B5B26828CCD438FF42A2C3B113531E5EC2DAA&>
The intellects in the Aspen Forum did not break out laughing when Dempsey told them that Russia’s (alleged but unproven) involvement in Ukraine was the first time since 1939 that a country made a conscious decision to use its military force inside another sovereign nation to achieve its objectives. No one asked Dempsey what Washington has been doing during the last three presidential regimes: Clinton in Serbia, Bush and Obama in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen, Obama in Libya and Syria.
Here are Dempsey’s words: “You’ve got a Russian government that has made a conscious decision to use its military force inside another sovereign nation to achieve its objectives. It’s the first time since 1939 or so that that’s been the case. They clearly are on a path to assert themselves differently not just in Eastern Europe, but Europe in the main, and towards the United States.”
Washington’s view that the world is its oyster is so ingrained that neither Dempsey nor his upper echelon audience at the Aspen Forum noticed the absurdity of his statement. Washington and the brainwashed US population take if for granted that the “exceptional, indispensable nation” is not limited in its actions by the sovereignty of other countries.
Washington takes for granted that US law prevails in other countries over the countries’ own laws–just ask France or Switzerland, that Washington can tell foreign financial institutions and corporations with whom they can do business and with whom they cannot–just ask every country and company prevented from doing business with Iran, that Washington can invade any country whose leader Washington can demonize and overthrow–just ask Iraq, Honduras, Libya, Serbia, and so forth, and that Washington can conduct military operations against peoples in foreign countries, such as Pakistan and Yemen, with which Washington is not at war.
All of this is possible, because Washington has claimed the title from Israel of being “God’s Chosen People.” Of course, Israel’s loss of the title has not stopped Israel from acting the same way.
Washington now has in motion the wheels of war. Once the wheels of war begin to turn, momentum carries them forward. The foolish, indeed utterly stupid, governments and media in Europe seem unaware of Washington’s orchestration of their future or lack thereof, or they are indifferent to it. They are dooming themselves and all of humanity by their insouciance. Heaven help if the British PM or French president or German chancellor were not invited to the White House or the Polish nonentity did not get his Washington stipend.
Readers who cannot tolerate problems without solutions always request solutions. OK, here is the solution:
The only possibility of avoiding war is that Putin take his case to the UN. If Washington can send Colin Powell to the UN unarmed with any truth to make Washington’s case for war against Iraq, Putin should be able to take his case to the UN against Washington’s war against Russia.
The case that the emperor has no clothes is an easy one to make.
Unlike Washington, Putin is willing to share the evidence that Russia has about who is doing what in Ukraine. It is a simple matter to establish that Washington organized a coup that overthrew an elected governmen<http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=978487&l=14794&ctl=14E5AD7:C33B5A12F96B5B26828CCD438FF42A2C3B113531E5EC2DAA&>t, supports violence against those who object to the coup, and has turned a deaf ear to Russia’s repeated pleas for Kiev and the separatists to negotiate their differences.
Putin should make it clear to the world that Washington continues with provocative military steps against Russia, with force buildups on Russia’s borders and calls for more buildups, with S.2277 which reads like a US preparation for war, with provocative actions and accusations by top US generals and government officials against Russia, and with efforts to isolate Russia and to inflict economic and political injury on Russia.
Putin should make it clear to the world that there is a limit to the provocations that Russia can accept and that Russia believes that Russia is in danger of preemptive nuclear attack by Washington. Putin can describe Washington’s withdrawal from the ABM treaty, the construction of ABM bases on Russia’s borders, and the announced change in Washington’s war doctrine that elevates US nuclear forces from a retaliatory role to a preemptive first strike role. These actions are clearly directed at Russia (and China–wake up China! You are next!).
Putin must state clearly that the likely consequence of the world continuing to enable Washington’s lies and aggression will be not merely another disastrous war but the termination of life.
The governments of the world, especially Washington’s vassals in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, need to be told that it is their responsibility to stop their enabling of Washington’s aggression or to accept their responsibility for World War III.
At least we could all have the enjoyment of watching the arrogant Samantha Powers and the craven British lapdog rise and walk out of the UN proceedings. There is no doubt whatsoever that Washington is unable to answer the charges.
Here again is the Wolfowitz Doctrine that controls US foreign policy and that condemns Planet Earth to death:
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that posses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
A hostile power is defined as any country that is not a Washington vassal.
The Wolfowitz Doctrine commits the United States, its peoples, Washington’s gullible EU allies and those peoples to war with Russia and China. Unless Russia and China surrender, the world will be destroyed.
The destruction of the world is what the idiot EU governments and the presstitute Western media are fostering by their enablement of Washington’s lies and aggression.
Does Russia (And Humanity) Have A Future?
Europe is complicit in its own demise
July 25, 2014

The Russian government has finally realized that it has no Western “partners,” and is complaining bitterly about the propagandistic lies and disinformation issued without any evidence whatsoever against the Russian government by Washington, its European vassals, and presstitute media.
Perhaps the Russian government thought that only Iraq, Libya, Syria, China, and Edward Snowden would be subjected to Washington’s lies and demonization.
It was obvious enough that Russia would be next.
The Russian government and Europe need to look beyond Washington’s propaganda, because the reality is much worst.
NATO commander General Breedlove and Senate bill 2277 clearly indicate that Washington is organizing itself and Europe for war against Russia (see my previously posted column).
Europe is reluctant to agree with Washington to put Ukraine in NATO. Europeans understand that if Washington or its stooges in Kiev cause a war with Russia Europe will be the first casualty. Washington finds its vassals’ noncompliance tiresome. Remember Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s “fuck the EU.” And that is just what Washington is about to do.
The US Senate’s Russian Aggression Prevention Act, about which I reported in my previous column, does even more mischief than I reported. If the bill passes, which it likely will, Washington becomes empowered to bypass NATO and to grant the status of “allied nation” to Ukraine independently of NATO membership. By so doing, Washington can send troops to Ukraine and thereby commit NATO to a war with Russia.
Notice how quickly Washington escalated the orchestrated Ukrainian “crisis” without any evidence into “Russian aggression.” Overnight we have the NATO commander and US senators taking actions against “Russian aggression” of which no one has seen any evidence.
With Iraq, Libya, and Syria, Washington learned that Washington could act on the basis of baldfaced lies. No one, not Great Britain, not France, not Germany, not Italy, not the Netherlands, not Canada, not Australia, not Mexico, not New Zealand, not Israel, nor Japan, nor S. Korea, nor Taiwan, nor (substitute your selection) stepped forward to hold Washington accountable for its blatant lies and war crimes. The UN even accepted the package of blatant and obviously transparent lies that Colin Powell delivered to the UN. Everything Powell said had already been refuted by the UN’s own weapons inspectors. Yet the UN pussies gave the go-ahead for a devastating war.
The only conclusion is that all the whores were paid off. The whores can always count on Washington paying them off. For money the whores are selling out civilization to Washington’s war, which likely will be nuclear and terminate life on earth. The whores’ money will incinerate with them.
It is hardly surprising that Washington now targets Russia. The world has given Washington carte blanche to do as it pleases. We have now had three administrations of US war criminals welcomed and honored wherever the war criminals go. The other governments in the world continue to desire invitations to the White House as indications of their worth. To be received by war criminals has become the highest honor.
Even the president of China comes to Washington to receive acceptance by the Evil Empire.
The world did not notice Washington’s war crimes against Serbia and didn’t puke when Washington then put the Serbian president, who had tried to prevent his country from being torn apart by Washington, on trial as a war criminal.
The world has made no effort to hold Washington responsible for its destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria and Gaza. The world has not demanded that Washington stop murdering people in Pakistan and Yemen, countries with which Washington is not at war. The world looks the other way as Washington creates the US Africa Command. The world looks the other way as Washington sends deadly weapons to Israel with which to murder women and children in the Gaza Ghetto. Washington passes Senate and House Resolutions cheering on the Israeli murder of Palestinians.
Washington is accustomed to its free pass, granted by the world, to murder and to lie, and now is using it against Russia.
Russian President Putin’s bet that by responding to Washington’s aggression in Ukraine in an unprovocative and reasonable manner would demonstrate to Europe that Russia was not the source of the problem has not payed off. European countries are captive nations. They are incapable of thinking and acting for themselves. They bend to Washington’s will. Essentially, Europe is a nonentity that follows Washington’s orders.
If the Russian government hopes to prevent war with Washington, which is likely to be the final war for life on earth, the Russian government needs to act now and end the problem in Ukraine by accepting the separatist provinces’ request to be reunited with Russia. Once S.2277 passes, Russia cannot retrieve the situation without confronting militarily the US, because Ukraine will have been declared an American ally.
Putin’s bet was reasonable and responsible, but Europe has failed him. If Putin does not use Russian power to bring an end to the problem with which Washington has presented him in Ukraine while he still can, Washington’s next step will be to unleash its hundreds of NGOs inside Russia to denounce Putin as a traitor for abandoning the Russian populations in the former Russian provinces that Soviet leaders thoughtlessly attached to Ukraine.
The problem with being a leader is that you inherit festering problems left by previous leaders. Putin has the problems bequeathed by Yeltsin. Yeltsin was a disaster for Russia. Yeltsin was Washington’s puppet. It is not certain that Russia will survive Yeltsin’s mistakes.
If Washington has its way, Russia will survive only as an American puppet state.
In a previous column I described the article in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Washington foreign policy community, that makes a case that the US has such strategic advantage over Russia at this time that a “window of opportunity” exists for the US to remove Russia as a restraint on US hegemony with a preemptive nuclear attack.
It is almost certain that Obama is being told that President John F. Kennedy had this window of opportunity and did not use it, and that Obama must not let the opportunity pass a second time.
As Steven Starr explained in a guest column, there are no winners of nuclear war. Even if the US escapes retaliatory strikes, everyone will die regardless.
The view in Washington of the neoconservatives, who control the Obama regime, is that nuclear war is winnable. No expert opinion supports their assumption, but the neocons, not the experts, are in power.
The American people are out to lunch. They have no comprehension of their likely fate. Americans are an uninformed people distracted by their mounting personal and financial problems. If Europeans are aware, they have decided to live for the moment on Washington’s money.
What life is faced with is a drive for hegemony on the part of Washington and ignorant unconcern on the part of the rest of the world.
Americans, worked into a lather about Washington’s unfunded liabilities and the viability of their future Social Security pension, won’t be alive to collect it.

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Baltic Model (Routledge 2014), pp. 44-63, and “How Neoliberal Tax
and Financial Policy Impoverishes Russia – Needlessly,” Mir Peremen
(The World of Transformations), 2012.

Mickey Huff is professor of social science and history at Diablo
Valley College in northern California where he is department co-
chair; director of Project Censored; and co-host of the Project
Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, a weekly public affairs program.

Andrew Kolin is Professor of Political Science at Hilbert College. His research focuses on state power and how authorities use force and violence. His books include State Power and Democracy and State
Structure and Genocide, which elaborates his thesis that America is
now a police state.

John Kozy is a retired philosophy professor, now writing on social,
political and economic issues. He taught for many years and has
been writing for many more.

Stephen Lendman is a writer and broadcaster, hosting The
Progressive Radio News Hour on The Progressive Radio Network.
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Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is an interdisciplinary sociologist, award-
winning author, and noted geopolitical analyst. He is a researcher at
the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal, Canada, an
expert contributor at the Strategic Cultural Foundation in Moscow,
Russia, and a member of the Scientific Committee of Geopolitica, a
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Cynthia McKinney is a former US Congresswoman and 2008 Green
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John McMurtry is an internationally recognized moral and political
philosopher. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
and Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is
the author of the multi-volume Philosophy and World Problems,
written for the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, and
most recently The Cancer Stage of Capitalism:  From Crisis to Cure.

Michael Parenti (Ph.D., Yale University) is an internationally known,
award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide
variety of political and cultural subjects. Among his recent books are The Face of Imperialism (2011), Waiting for Yesterday (an ethnic
memoir), God and His Demons (2010), Contrary Notions: The Michael
Parenti Reader (2007), and The Culture Struggle (2006).

David Peterson is an independent journalist and researcher. He and
Edward Herman co-authored The Politics of Genocide.

James Petras is Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University, New
York, a noted figure on the left, author of numerous books, winner of
the American Sociological Association’s Lifetime Achievement
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Peter Phillips is a Sonoma State University Sociology Professor and
former Director of Project Censored (PC). He's currently President of the Media Freedom Foundation (MFF) initiative for First Amendment freedoms andinvestigative research.

Jack Rasmus teaches politics and economics at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California and is a lecturer in labor economics and US
economic history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the
author of several recent books on Political Economy in the U.S.,
including Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few and forthcoming in
late 2014, America’s Ten Crises.  He is the host of the weekly New
York hourly radio show, ‘Alternative Visions’ on the Progressive
Radio Network.

Paul Craig Roberts was former Assistant Treasury Secretary under
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Rick Rozoff is an activist, anti-war supporter, and Stop NATO web site editor. He extensively documents and opposes global militarist
trends in expanding imperial theaters of war.

Rodney Shakespeare is a Professor of Binary Economics at Trisakti
University, Britain. He teaches postgraduate Islamic Economics and
Finance.

Jeffrey Sommers is Associate Professor and Senior Fellow of the
Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
He is also Visiting Faculty at the Stockholm School of Economics in
Riga. He is co-editor with Charles Woolfson of The Contradictions of
Austerity: the Socioeconomic Costs of the Baltic States (Routledge
Press, 2014).

Matthew Witt is Professor of Public Administration at the University
of La Verne in California where he teaches courses in public
administration theory, integrative ethical leadership, urban
environments and managing sustainable communities. He has
published in leading academic journals examining how race and
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Flashpoint in Ukraine provides insight into today's gravest
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Viewed from the perspective of Western mainstream media, the
crisis arose due to pro-democracy activists overturning a brutal
dictatorship, which led swiftly to Russian incursion into Ukraine and
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has taken an extremely measured response with primary emphasis
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