Ukrainian Government: “No Russian Troops Are Fighting Against Us”. Sanctions against Russia based on Falsehoods

Eric Zuesse | Global Research | January 31, 2015 Ukraine’s top general is contradicting allegations by the Obama Administration and by his own Ukrainian Government, by saying that no Russian troops are fighting against the Ukrainian Government’s forces in the formerly Ukrainian, but now separatist, area, where the Ukrainian civil war is being waged. Here is a screen-print of a google-chrome…

Foreign Troops in Ukraine? You Bet!

Ron Paul Institute | 23 Jan 2015 US-backed president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, was among the elites gathering in Davos, Switzerland this week to attend the 2015 World Economic Forum. During his speech he made the remarkable claim that 9,000 Russian troops were currently fighting in Ukraine on behalf of the independence-seeking areas of the…

War With Russia Begins for US

VT | 26 Jan 2015 OSCE shown foreign weapons recovered from Donetsk airport — DPR representative Representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic at the Minsk talks says the Ukrainian army has used mercenaries from the very beginning of the force operation in eastern Ukraine Dead bodies in NATO uniforms, US weapons recovered from under…

The Danger of an MH-17 ‘Cold Case’

Robert Parry | Consortium News | 19 Jan 2015 The Obama administration continues to drag its feet on releasing U.S. intelligence evidence on who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 six months ago, a failure that has given the guilty parties time to scatter and has created a new breeding ground for conspiracy theories. I’m told…

Ukraine’s Creditors Grab for the Biggest Pieces of Its Carcass

Eric Zuesse | Washington’s Blog | January 11, 2015 The lifelong Russia-enemy George Soros, and the Russian government itself, are now openly fighting over which parts of the Ukrainian government they’ll be getting in the bankruptcy proceeding that’s already unofficially starting. Here’s the necessary background, so that the battle now occurring on the part of…

Banned in Germany or Become ‘Putinized’

Organizing Notes | 6 Jan 2015 (To get English subtitles just click on ‘cc’ in lower right-hand corner of the video) Banned German satire “Die Anstalt” exposes double standards on Russia and Ukraine. The scandal episode of the German political satire program ‘Die Anstalt’ about the media leaders’ ties to lobby organisations and their use…