Busted: Kiev MPs try to fool US senator with ‘proof’ of Russian tanks in Ukraine (PHOTOS)

RT | 13 Feb 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3OFKyL7z0Q?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] MPs in Kiev hoodwinked a US senator, presenting his office with photos of columns of Russian military hardware allegedly roaming Ukrainian territory. The photos turned out to have been taken during the conflict in South Ossetia back in 2008. The photos were “presented to the Armed Services Committee…

The Minsk Peace Deal: Farce Or Sellout?

Paul Craig Roberts | 12 Feb 2015 Judging by the report on RT http://rt.com/news/231667-minsk-ceasefire-deal-breakup/ I conclude that the Ukraine peace deal worked out in Minsk by Putin, Merkel, Hollande, and Poroshenko has little chance of success. As Washington is not a partner to the Minsk peace deal, how can there be peace when Washington has…

Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine

Robert Parry | Consortium News | 9 Feb 2015 Exclusive: The U.S. news media has failed the American people often in recent years by not challenging U.S. government falsehoods, as with Iraq’s WMD. But the most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war, writes Robert Parry.…

Why Arming Kiev Is a Really, Really Bad Idea

Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy | 9 Feb 2015 hould the United States start arming Ukraine, so it can better resist and maybe even defeat the Russian-backed rebels in its eastern provinces? A lot of seasoned American diplomats and foreign policy experts seem to think so; a task force assembled by the Brookings Institution,…

New Video Evidence of America’s Coup in Ukraine — and What it Means

Eric Zuesse | Global Research | February 09, 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9hOl8TuBUM?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] New video evidence has been added to the already-conclusive video evidence which shows that the U.S. Government was the controlling power behind the extremely violent  and illegal 18-27 February 2014 Ukrainian coup, which overthrew the democratically elected and never legally removed-from-power Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. This new evidence proves, even more than before (if…

Mainstream media orchestrate appetite for war

Investment Watch | February 9, 2015 Afshin Rattansi goes underground on media misrepresentation of the situation in Ukraine. Oliver Tickell, editor of The Ecologist magazine, warns mainstream media are beating the ‘drums of war’ by portraying an inaccurate picture of Russia as the aggressor, and are part of the international security machine that enables war…

Europe Wary of US ‘All Options’ Threat to Russia

Finnian Cunningham | SCF | 8 Feb 2015 The Ukraine crisis dominated the weekend’s Munich Security Conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel playing host to European and American leaders, as well as Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Merkel had just returned from Moscow where she reportedly had a four-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin…

Europe Fractures: France Pivots To Putin, Cyprus Offers Moscow Military Base, Germany-US Splinter On Ukraine

Zero Hedge | 8 Feb 2015 Following yesterday’s summary of the utter farce that the Minsk Summit/Ukraine “peace” deal talks have become, the various parties involved appear to be fracturing even faster today. The headlines are coming thick and fast but most prescient appears to be: Despite John Kerry’s denial of any split between Germany…