Ukraine

NOVANEWS A protester pictured demonstrating in support of Ukraine's integration in the EU in the center of Kiev on November 23, 2013. By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars. Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which to subvert Ukraine. One reader wrote: “My wife, who is of Ukrainian nationality, has weekly contact to her parents and friends in Zhytomyr [NW Ukraine]. According to them, most protesters get an average payment of 200-300 grivna, corresponding to about 15-25 euro. As I additionally heard, one of the most active agencies and ‘payment outlets’ on EU side is the German ‘Konrad Aden...

NOVANEWS Ukrainian media have reported that a former Israeli army officer is playing a leading role in the anti-government protests in the former Soviet republic. According to reports, the unnamed Israeli commands a group of 20 Ukrainian militants. Four other Israelis, who had previously served in the army, were recently reported to have taken part in opposition rallies in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. They were born in Ukraine but migrated to Israel and joined its armed forces before returning to the European country for the demonstrations. Meanwhile, Ukrainian media said that an Israeli tycoon provides financial support to the opposition in Ukraine, adding that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency is one of the instigators of the unrest in the country. Ukraine has been rocked by anti-gove...

NOVANEWS by michaellee2009   Caught Red-Handed by MIKE WHITNEY “In the latest debacle for the US State Department and the Obama Administration, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught on tape micro-managing Ukraine opposition party strategies with US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. That the Ukraine regime-change operation is to some degree being directed from Washington can no longer be denied….The taped conversation demonstrates in clear detail that while Secretary of State John Kerry decries any foreign meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, his State Department is virtually managing the entire process.” – Daniel McAdams, “‘F**k the EU’: Tape Reveals US Runs Ukraine Opposition“, Ron Paul Institute Washington is at it again, up to its old tricks. You’d think t...

NOVANEWS   Proletarian issue 58 (February 2014) Solidaire, journal of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB), interviewed Jean-Marie Chauvier in order to gain a better understanding of the current situation in the Ukraine. Jean-Marie is a Belgian journalist and essayist who specialises in the Ukraine and the former Soviet republics. He has known these countries and the Russian language for many years and contributes to Le Monde Diplomatique as well as other journals and websites. Interview by Jean Pestieau, translated from the original French by Proletarian. What are the urgent economic problems faced by the Ukrainian population – the workers, small peasants and unemployed in particular? Since the dismemberment of the Soviet Union in 1991, the population of the Ukrain...

NOVANEWS by Patrick J. Buchanan Despite our endless blather about democracy, we Americans seem to be able to put our devotion to democratic principles on the shelf, when they get in the way of our New World Order. In 2012, in the presidential election in Egypt, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood won in a landslide. President Obama hailed the outcome. One year later, the Egyptian army ousted and arrested Morsi and gunned down a thousand members of his brotherhood. The coup was countenanced by John Kerry who explained that the Egyptian army was “restoring democracy.” Comes now the turn of Ukraine. In 2010, Viktor Yanukovych, in what neutral observers called a free and fair election, was chosen president. His term ends in 2015. Yet since November, protesters have occupied Maidan Squa...

NOVANEWS Text comes amid clashes as new anti-protest laws take effect - Lauren McCauley (Photo: CIAT International/ cc/ Flickr)"Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass riot." That was the message received by all mobile phone users who were in the vicinity of protests in Kiev, Ukraine Tuesday morning. In what many are saying is a move straight out of George Orwell's novel 1984 the Ukrainian authorities are using cutting-edge pinpointing technology and presumably a "pirate" cell phone tower to intimidate and track protesters. The phrasing of the message echoes the language used in a new anti-protest law that makes it a crime to participate in a protest deemed violent, "the passing of which served as a spark for the radicalization of the protest movement over the w...

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research There is an ongoing and deliberate attempt by foreign powers to spearhead the destabilization of The Ukraine including its state structure. There is a long history of colored revolutions in the Ukraine going back to the 1990s. The protest movement in Kiev bears a marked resemblance to the “Orange Revolution” of 2004 which was supported covertly by Washington. The 2004 “Orange Revolution” led to the ousting of the pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, spearheading into power the Western proxy government of President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko. Once more Viktor Yanukovitch is the target of a carefully staged “pro-EU protest movement”. The latter was launched following president Yanukovitch’s decision to...

NOVANEWS By Andy Dilks Global Research You’d be forgiven for knowing very little about the unrest in Ukraine – the violence, the rioting on the streets, the armed protesters storming government buildings amidst plumes of thick black smoke rising from makeshift barricades. Most of the public have once again beenBeibered by the mainstream media – the arrest of this precocious, spoilt physical embodiment of crass corporate culture proving newsworthy enough for an MSNBC host to interrupt an interview with a member of Congress discussing the true scale of NSA spying. In this climate of superficial distractions and media inanity, you’d be equally forgiven for not really knowing why there is political unrest in Ukraine. Most of the explanations for the violence offered by the mainstream media p...