By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, July 24, 2014 Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation in the Rada (Parliament) and that of the entire Cabinet on Thursday, July 24. This decision was taken following the withdrawal of two parties from the coalition government and the non-adoption of two important pieces of legislation, which…
Veteran’s News Now | Finian Cunningham | 23 July 2014 From smoking gun to silver bullet, but in the wrong direction – Washington Seriously, is that it? US national intelligence presented its «evidence» this week on the shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine. Anyone waiting to see a «smoking gun» implicating Russia and pro-Russian…
RT | 24 July 2014 UK Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain has not breached an embargo by selling military equipment to Russia, following MP demands to clarify the government’s position on UK-Russian arms deals. The embargo was enacted “with immediate effect” on March 18 by then-Foreign Secretary William Hague. Heated criticism of British arms…
Deutsche Welle | 24 July Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has announced the resignation of his government after two pro-Western parties left the ruling coalition. Battles have raged around the eastern city of Donetsk. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his government’s resignation on Thursday, claiming the parliament could no longer work effectively and pass necessary…
CNN | 23 July 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92kG2tMBR40?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] CNN New Day host Chris Cuomo, who’s been reporting from Ukraine this week, got into an explosive dozen-minute shouting match with RT anchor Peter Lavelle Wednesday morning, as the two men largely yelled past each other over Russia’s culpability in the downing of flight MH17 and the evidence…
by Paul Joseph Watson | July 23, 2014 Pilots on board an Air India Dreamliner which was flying just 90 seconds behind Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 say they heard Ukrainian air traffic control give the order for the doomed plane to change route minutes before MH17 was shot down by a missile. According to a…
by Daniel McAdams | Lew Rockwell Blog | July 23, 2014 The US government admitted it had been bluffing about its certainty that Russia was behind the downing of MH-17 Tuesday the US government admitted it had been bluffing about its certainty that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysian Air Flight MH-17 over Ukraine.…
Consortium News | Robert Parry | 22 July 2014 Exclusive: U.S. intelligence officials suggest that the person who fired the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may have been “a defector” from the Ukrainian army, an apparent attempt to explain why some CIA analysts thought satellite images revealed men in Ukrainian army uniforms manning…
Asia Times | Pepe Escobar | 23 July “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” Everyone remembers the Downing Street Memo, which unveiled the Bush/Blair “policy” in the run-up to the 2003 bombing/invasion/occupation of Iraq. The “policy” was to get rid of Saddam Hussein via a lightning war. The justification was “terrorism”…
Foreign Policy I Josh Cohen I 2 May 2014 The history of Jewish-Ukrainian relations hasn’t been a happy one. But these days, the two sides are joining forces against Vladimir Putin. In the propaganda battle between Russia and Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been playing up the nationalist roots of the new government in…