OMNI
US, NATO, UKRAINE v. RUSSIA WAR
#24 origins, consequences, peace
July 4, 2022
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology.
Omnicenter.org/donate/
What’s at stake. These anthologies on the Ukrainian War were
gathered to show how much more complicated were its causes, how much more
ruinous were its consequences, and how many more alternatives to war were
possible than have been explored by US leaders or reported in US mainstream
media (MSM). My belief is that the
people of the US and the world wish to understand the complications of US wars
and do not desire again to be engaged in massive destruction and mass slaughter
without the fullest and most careful consideration. --Dick
CONTENTS US,
NATO, Ukraine, Russia Anthology #24
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Dick – The US Press is doing a terrible job of reporting this
war. This even includes the PBS news, and NPR. There is no context,
no history, little about the details of strategy or diplomacy, little
explanation of why any particular incident (such as the siege of Mariupol)
might have occurred, little discussion of alternatives. Reporting is
mostly one-dimensional and simple-minded. Most of it consists of tragic
stories of civilian suffering. And all of it is infused with flag-waving
patriotism and simple “good guys and bad guys” mentality. It’s not that
simple. Putin’s invasion was immoral and (worse yet) stupid, but he is
not Hitler. It is important for us to hear the stories of suffering
because they teach us the reality and the tragedy of war, but the focus should
be much broader than this. There should be much more commentary,
including commentary from left-wingers and right-wingers. The only
discussion seems to come from the US government and military people.
There should be much more history, much more criticism. Basically, the
reporting is irrational and emotional. A suggestion: Letters
to the editor are an effective way to reach the public. Our group should
write, and encourage others to write, such letters. Peace – Art
CAUSES of the
WAR #24
Mark Rolofson. A Brief History
Shapiro. President Clinton and NATO Expansion.
Carey. Western (Sovietphobia) Russophobia: United Kingdom.
Krieger. “Putin’s Offer to Negotiate on
Nukes” Rejected.
Kuzmarov. MIC War Profiteering.
Lauria. Censorship: Nulan-Pyatt Tape,
Smoking Gun of Kiev Coup 2014.
Kuzmarov. Propaganda: US National Endowment for
Democracy Awards
to anti-Russian NGOs.
Norton. Conspiracy: “U.S. Government Plots to Break
Up Russia in Name
of ‘Decolonization.’”
McCoy. Another Cold War = Nuclear Threat, US $2
Trillion.
Hornberger. “What If the U.S. Had Invaded the Ukraine?”
Chomsky and
Barsamian. War and Warming, and Orwell’s
Doublethink.
CONSEQUENCES
Moon of
Alabama. US Escalation.
Brenner. World Has Changed Opposite to
Plans.
Al Mayadeen Net. Censorship: Stone’s Film Ukraine on Fire.
Steve Sweeney. Ukrainian Crackdown on Left and other Opponents.
Ritter. “Lithuania’s Brinkmanship.”
UN WIRE. Casualties in the War.
Johnstone. CIA in Ukraine.
Moon of Alabama. Zelensky Lied re Burned Shopping Center.
Salami. Egypt’s Tightrope Neutrality.
Knight. “Joe Biden’s saber-rattling threatens World War III—with China and Russia.”
CONCORD
Hixson. Principal Needs for Peace, to
prevent and stop wars.
Kuzmarov and Brown. End
False Ukrainian Reports of Russian atrocities.
World Beyond War, Code
Pink, and International Peace Bureau. “Peace
Wave” International Appeal for End to the War.
United for Peace and
Justice: 4 International
Reports.
Ukraine [Anti-] War Resources
US Conference of Mayors Adopts Peace Resolution
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons First Meeting in Vienna
Condemnation of Nuclear Threats (Abolish Nuclear Weapons)
UFPJ Peace Petition
Paul Ingram. “Russia’s Nuclear Threat.”
Lynch. Conflict Transformation.
Koehler. “Embracing the Complexity of Peace.”
Contents of #23
TEXTS #24
ORIGINS,
CAUSES
LET’S GO BACK SEVERAL
DECADES to continue putting together the pieces that enable us to evaluate this
war while it is in process and while we can STOP IT.
A QUICK HISTORY
Mark Rolofson. “Is the West finally realizing that Russia will win the war in Ukraine?” Editor. Mronline.org (6-24-22).
Originally published: People's
Party of Oregon on June 1, 2022 by Mark Rolofson (more by People's
Party of Oregon) (Posted Jun 23, 2022)
Imperialism,
WarAmericas, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswire
[The opening paragraphs offer a coherent
summary of
“the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.”
--Dick]
This article is the fourth
in a series of articles I have written covering the US proxy war against Russia
in Ukraine. ] While this civil war in
Ukraine actually began 8 years ago in 2014, the Western media narrative has
portrayed this conflict as an unprovoked invasion by Russia that began on
February 24, 2022. The 8 year civil war in the Donbass Region is a direct
result of the US backed coup and color revolution known as the Maidan Revolution, that ousted the
democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and installed an
ultra-nationalist, anti-Russian, Nazi government.
The coup government was
rejected by the majority ethnic Russian population in the eastern and southern
regions of Ukraine, who had supported Yanukovych. The result was protests
throughout eastern Ukraine and Odessa in the south. The Russian speaking
population understood that they would experience harsh persecution under the
new, anti-Russian government. On May 2, 2014 in Odessa,
protesters took refuge in the Odessa Trade Union Hall trying to escape the
attacks of Neo-Nazi vigilantes, who then set the building on fire.
Forty-eight protesters were either burned alive or died jumping out of the
building. No one was ever prosecuted for the Odessa Massacre.
Crimea
voted to secede and was annexed into Russia. Donetsk and Lugansk became
breakaway provinces thus leaving Ukraine, but were soon invaded by Ukrainian
Nazis who refused to give up the region. Western media rarely
acknowledged the huge civilian death toll in eastern Ukraine.
Minsk 1 (September 5, 2014)
and Minsk 2 (February 12, 2015)
Peace Agreements contained a ceasefire and were ratified by the United Nations
with Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France as signers. The agreement called
for the breakaway provinces to be reabsorbed into Ukraine, but receive regional
autonomy which essentially meant the right to use the Russian language.
The 2014 coup government outlawed the use of the Russian language in media and
schools. For the agreement to be finalized it required that the leaders
of the Ukrainian government had to negotiate the terms with the leaders of
Donetsk and Lugansk. Negotiations never happened, nor was the ceasefire
even honored by Nazi paramilitaries. On February 13, 2015, Minsk 2 was
immediately rejected by the
Right Sector leader, Dimitri Yarosh, who vowed to keep fighting. The rocket
shellings of the Donbass by Nazis continued for almost 8 years resulting in
14,000 mostly civilian deaths.
The United States had
endorsed the Minsk Agreements and Obama was reluctant to supply Ukraine with
weapons. This changed under Trump who was convinced to sell arms to
Ukraine to prove he wasn’t Putin’s puppet. Zelensky was elected in 2019
by 73% of Ukrainians because he ran as the peace candidate, stating that he
would implement Minsk 2. US media hardly acknowledged this fact, and
focused on Trump’s phone call to Zelensky regarding investigating Hunter Biden
and Burisma, after he temporarily withheld a weapons shipment to Ukraine.
Zelensky received death threats, over his goal to implement the Minsk
agreement, in an interview with the Right Sector (a Nazi Party) leader, Dimitri
Yarosh, who said “He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk – if he betrays
Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War.”
Zelensky was powerless to achieve the goal of peace without strong backing
from the United States, which instead was more interested in arming and training a
proxy force to fight Russia.
The Biden
Administration took things to new level in 2021 by sending more weapons and
giving special forces training to Ukrainian Nazi paramilitaries. In April
2021, Zelensky said he was not going
to honor the Minsk 2 Agreement and
was planning to retake the breakaway regions and Crimea by force. The US created this war by preparing
Ukrainian forces for the invasion.
OSCE (Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe) reports show ceasefire violations, the
majority by Ukrainian forces, increased from 57 on February 14,
2022 to
1,927 on February 21,
2022.
It was an invasion by Ukraine on Donetsk and Lugansk that caused Russia to
intervene on February 24, 2022. Putin described it as a “peacekeeping
mission.” Certainly the people and soldiers of the DPR and LPR were glad the
Russians finally intervened. Over 150,000 Ukrainian troops were lined up
west of the line of contact, about to fight 31,000 mostly volunteer soldiers of
the DPR and LPR. It would have been a genocide had Russia not
intervened. Russia had multiple reasons to finally intervene, including
protecting Crimea and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO, which would have
led to nuclear missile bases on its borders.
As we
know, this is not the story we’ve been told in the Western Press. We have
been told that Vladimir Putin is a madman, who may want to conquer Europe if he
succeeds in Ukraine. There has been little or no historical context given
to the conflict, including Ukraine’s Nazi past going back to the 1930s with
Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who was the head of the OUN-B (Organization
of Ukrainian Nationalists – Section B) and is now considered a national hero in
Ukraine. The US government calls Ukraine a democracy, but nothing could
be further from the truth with opposition media banned and socialist political
parties outlawed. Ukraine is a US vassal state and a NATO proxy
force. Its people are cannon fodder for the US to fight a war against
Russia. The goal is to weaken Russia or preferably cause regime change in
Moscow, so the US can wage war against China, the main threat to US Hegemony.
US and UK
corporate media outlets have been the cheerleaders for US-NATO wars throughout
their history. That said, the war in Ukraine marks a blatant increase in
war propaganda filled with major distortions and outright lies. Those journalists
and commentators that question or expose the lies of the pro-Ukraine,
anti-Russian narrative are called Russian assets or Putin apologists, while
some get banned from YouTube, Twitter or Twitch. The amount of censorship
around this conflict is unprecedented.
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A Big
Piece of the Puzzle
Clinton
Administration’s most fateful error:
nato expansion
OMNI’S
anthologies on the US-NATO-Ukraine War vs. Russia have explored the history
beyond the US/NATO/Ukraine/US Mainstream Media reports. An article in the latest no. of The New Republic (July-August 2022)
takes us back to the 1990s: “America’s
Long Lost Weekend” by Walter Shapiro.
“If there was a pivotal moment in the
deterioration of relations with Russia, it was probably Clinton’s cheerleading
for NATO expansion into former Soviet bloc countries like Poland, Hungary, and
the Czech Republic, which formally occurred in 1999. But the seeds had been planted much earlier,
as Clinton had stressed to Polish President Lech Walesa on a visit to Warsaw in
1994, that he strongly supported bringing Poland into the alliance. But throughout the lengthy process, Clinton
continually demonstrated a tin ear about Russia’s concerns for its security and
prestige.” In 1994 Boris Yeltsin attacked “NATO expansion and the United
States for wanting a ‘cold peace’ in place of the Cold War.” “…there was never a point when the Clinton
administration seriously addressed the legitimacy of some of the Russian
president’s concerns about thrusting NATO eastward. In a 1997 article, George Kennan, the
nonagenarian architect of containment during the Cold War, bitterly called NATO
expansion “’the most fateful error of American policy in the entire
post-cold-war era.’” (42-3)(--Dick. See
OMNI’s NATO docs. and docs. on empathy and J.W. Fulbright and empathy.)
Western
(Sovietphobia) Russophobia: Our British Allies
An Atrophied And Warlike Kingdom
US
Leaders Need Deeper, Wider, Longer Memories and Perspectives: Here’s a
Piece, as the US and NATO intensify their demonization of Putin
U.S. Should Accept Putin's Offer to Negotiate on Nukes
by David Krieger
The fuel for
a new nuclear arms race was already on the fire, and a Russian strategic
response was predictable, when the U.S. withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic
Missile (ABM) Treaty [in 2002] and began developing and emplacing missile defense
systems globally. The U.S. withdrawal and abrogation of the ABM Treaty may
prove to be the greatest strategic blunder of the nuclear age. As the two most powerful nuclear powers on
the planet, with enough nuclear weapons to end civilization as we know it and
possibly the human species, the two countries need to be engaged in productive
and good-faith negotiations to end the nuclear weapons threat to each other and
to all humanity. Truthdig, March 7, 2018.
To read more, click here.
Krieger is the founder and recently retired president of the excellent peace
and justice organization Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation.
And here’s another
piece: MIC
Profiteering
“While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army ‘The Most Lethal Weapon,’ War Profiteer
BAE Systems Stock Soars.”
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Mronline.org (6-30-22).
The Russian Interior Ministry reported that it had
destroyed U.S.-made howitzers through use of attack drones.
CENSORSHIP
CONSORTIUMNEWS.COM, INTERNATIONAL, SOCIAL MEDIA, UKRAINE
Nuland-Pyatt
Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years.
Consortium News, May 25, 2022.
A popular version, with subtitles,
suddenly was made unavailable on Wednesday. The tape provides the smoking gun
of U.S. involvement in 2014 Kiev coup. (Read the
transcript).
By Joe
Lauria
Special to Consortium News
The smoking gun proving U.S.
involvement in the 2014 coup in Kiev has been removed from YouTube after eight
years.
It was one of the most watched versions of the intercepted and
leaked conversation between then Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland
and Geoffrey Pyatt, the then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, in which the two
discuss who will make up the new government weeks before democratically-elected
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a violent coup on Feb.
21, 2014.
The two talk about “midwifing” the unconstitutional change of
government and “gluing it together” and of the role then Vice President Joe
Biden should play and what meetings to set up with Ukrainian politicians.
The U.S. State Department never denied the authenticity of the
video, and even issued an apology to the European Union after Nuland is heard
on the tape saying, “Fuck the E.U.” Mainstream media at the time focused almost
exclusively on that off-color remark, ignoring the greater significance of U.S.
interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs.
Consortium News has numerous times embedded the YouTube video in articles
about the overthrow of Yanukovych. CN successfully embedded
it earlier this week in an article now being written, but on Wednesday the
video suddenly appeared this way in the draft article:
The video was posted on April 29, 2014 and had 181,533 views
before it was taken down, was among the most viewed versions of the
conversation on YouTube. Eight years worth of comments on the video have also
been removed.
This is a screenshot taken earlier from the video that has now
been removed. The same video can be viewed on Rumble here.
Nuland in screenshot from
now removed YouTube video.
Timing of Removal
The removal of a video that had existed online for eight years
raises major questions as it comes during the war in Ukraine. Corporate media
has studiously avoided mentioning the causes of the current conflict, including
NATO eastward expansion, the rejected Moscow treaty proposals in December, the
civil war in Donbass and the 2014 coup in Kiev that led to the Donbass uprising
and violent repression by the coup government.
The coup in 2014 is the
starting point that led to all these events culminating in Russia’s invasion in
February. Removing the video would be consistent with the suppression of any
information that falls outside the enforced narrative of events in Ukraine,
including whitewashing any mention of the U.S.-backed coup. MORE CONSORTIUMNEWS.COM, INTERNATIONAL, SOCIAL
MEDIA, UKRAINE
Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N.
correspondent for The Wall
Street Journal, Boston Globe, and numerous other newspapers,
including The Montreal Gazette and The Star of
Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday
Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and
began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times. He can be
reached at joelauria@consortiumnews.com and
followed on Twitter @unjoe
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PROPAGANDA (read
Orwell’s 1984)
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US Government Plots To Break Up
Russia In Name Of 'Decolonization'
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Subject: What if the U.S had invaded Ukraine?
Forwarded by Sonny San Juan. Date: Thu,
Jun 16, 2022 at 9:33 PM
JUNE 15, 2022 “What If the
US Had Invaded Ukraine?”
BY JACOB G. hORNBERGER.
HTTPS://WWW.COUNTERPUNCH.ORG/2022/06/15/WHAT-IF-THE-US-HAD-INVADED-UKRAINE/
Let’s engage in a thought
experiment. Suppose that Ukraine was headed by a pro-Russia regime. After
repeated failed attempts at assassination by the CIA, the Pentagon finally
decides to invade Ukraine for the purpose of bringing about regime change —
i.e., ousting the pro-Russia regime from power and replacing it with a pro-U.S.
regime.
What then would be the response of
American statists, especially those within the U.S. mainstream press?
There is no doubt about the answer.
Everything would be different than it is today with the Russian invasion of
Ukraine. The media would be proudly embedding itself within the U.S. military’s
invading forces. Mainstream papers would be reporting and commenting on the
courage of U.S. troops. There would be no sympathetic pictures or videos of
Ukrainian civilians killed; they would all be labeled as “collateral damage.”
Church ministers across the land would be exhorting their congregations to pray
for the troops. Every statist across the land would be tripping over himself to
find some soldier to thank for his service. Airlines would be inviting soldiers
to board planes first as a way to honor them. Statists would be condemning the
“bad guys” — that is, those Ukrainians who were shooting at American soldiers.
Every statist would be praising and glorifying the Pentagon for bringing
freedom to Ukraine.
How do we know that American
statists would react in this way to a Pentagon invasion of Ukraine?
Two answers: Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s how statists reacted when it was the
Pentagon that invaded those two countries. That’s how we know that that’s how
statists would react if it were the Pentagon, rather than Russia, that invaded
Ukraine.
When I was in high school and
college, a common question that would be asked regarding World War II was: How
could the German people overwhelmingly support Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party?
After all, today the Nazi regime is easily recognized by most Americans as the
“gold standard” when it comes to evil. Why weren’t the Germany people able to
see that?
The answer lies in the power of state indoctrination and
government propaganda.
The German people had the same
conception about government that American statists do. They believed that the
more powerful their government, the stronger their nation. Actually, it’s the
exact opposite. The more powerful the government, the weaker the nation — that
is, the weaker the populace. That weakness is reflected by citizens with
passive and deferential mindsets — ones that are easily molded into believing
whatever government officials want people to believe.
That’s why powerful governments
will always have the nation’s children herded into state education camps — that
is, “public” schools. The purpose is always to mold the mind of the child from
its earliest years to become loyal, patriotic, passive, and deferential. That
mindset becomes so well-fortified over 12 years in school that it oftentimes
lasts until the person dies.
Consider the words of Nazi official
Herman Goering at the Nuremberg
trials: “Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders
of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to
drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
Isn’t that why U.S. statists
overwhelmingly supported the Pentagon’s invasion of Afghanistan? Didn’t they
passively and patriotically buy into the U.S. government’s official
pronouncement that the Taliban was complicit in the 9/11 attacks? Didn’t they
also passively and patriotically buy into the U.S. government’s official
pronouncement that Iraq was about to unleash “mushroom clouds” over American
cities?
And isn’t that also why U.S. statists are doing everything they
can to avoid confronting the sordid role that the Pentagon, operating through
its old Cold War dinosaur NATO, has played in producing the Russia-Ukraine war
that has now killed thousands of people?
This is what happens under
omnipotent government. You get a weak nation of citizens with passive,
deferential mindsets, ones that go with whatever the official flow is.
As I point out in my new book An Encounter with Evil:
The Abraham Zapruder Story, it is
always easy to identify and confront evil in foreign regimes. Anyone can do
that, as American statists are easily able to do with respect to Nazi Germany.
It is a much more difficult task to identify and confront evil within one’s own
regime, which is why most Germans were unable to identify and confront the evil
of the Nazi regime. What we need in
America is a great awakening, one in which Americans achieve a higher level
of conscience, consciousness, and independence of thought, one that would
empower them to identify and confront the evil within their own regime. --Jacob G. Hornberger.
WAR AND WARMING
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CONSEQUENCES
OF THE WAR ANTHOLOGY #24
Ukraine - The US Is Moving Towards
Escalation
By Moon of Alabama. Popular Resistance.org (6-19-22). The catastrophic economic consequences of the
'western' proxy war with Russia are setting in. As a result the high inflation,
caused by supply side constraints due to sanctions and far too much spending,
will ruin the middle classes of many countries. To those who did not wear
blinders and who knew of the real economies of the 'west' and Russia this was
very predictable and predicted: The U.S. is pushing its European 'allies'
to commit economic suicide by sanctioning everything Russia. The U.S. should be
more careful. It is one of the biggest buyers of Russian oil and its aircraft
industry depends on titanium from Russia. -more-
By Michael Brenner,
Consortium News. Popular Resistance.org (6-19-22). Reality has a way of catching up to us.
Sometimes it comes via a sudden shock — Sputnik or Tet. Sometimes it creeps up
incrementally — as in Ukraine with each thousand round Russian artillery
barrage and the steady rise of the ruble now 25 percent higher than at the
onset of the crisis. Dim the lights, the party’s almost over. But that is not
the end of the affair. Whatever the exact outcomes, there is no going back to
the status quo ante — the
world, especially Europe, has changed in fundamental respects. Moreover, it has
changed in ways diametrically opposite to what was desired and anticipated. -more-
CENSORSHIP
“Censorship: Youtube deletes then restores as
flagged a documentary on Ukraine” By
· https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Art-Culture/censorship:-youtube-deletes-then-restores-as-flagged-a-docum
· 10 Mar 13:07
· Youtube deletes Oliver Stone's
documentary, "Ukraine on Fire", and then restores it, albeit as flagged, following a
severe public backlash.
· "Ukraine on
Fire" features Oliver Stone interviewing figures around the 2014 events in
Ukraine.
Following its active
participation in censorship against Russian-state
content on its platform, Youtube has gone a step further and removed a famous
documentary made by award-winning producer Oliver Stone, entitled "Ukraine
on Fire."
The documentary features
executive producer Oliver Stone interviewing key figures around the 2014 events in Ukraine,
including Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Ukrainian President
Victor Yanukovich, and describes how Ukrainian
ultranationalism came to prominence in the country. The documentary also
sheds light on the US-engineered 2014 coup, according to social media
activists. (continued)
“Ukrainian communists pictured alive but face pressure to admit to
trumped-up charges.” Steve Sweeney. Mronline.org (6-24-22).
Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich were detained on March 3
following the Russian invasion, part of a crackdown on left and opposition
groups.
By Scott Ritter, Consortium News. Popular
Resistance.org (7-2-22). On June 18
the government of Lithuania acted on a decision by the European Commission that
goods and cargo subject to European Union sanctions could be prohibited from
transiting between one part of Russia to another, so long as they passed
through E.U. territory. Almost immediately Lithuania moved to block
Russia from shipping certain categories of goods and materials by rail to
the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, encompassing the former East Prussian
Baltic port city of Konigsberg and its surrounding environs. They were absorbed
into Russia proper as a form of war reparations at the... -more-
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SPIES PROLIFERATE
Western officials admit Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel
Caitlin A. Johnstone. Mronline.org (6-29-22).
The New York Times reports that
Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the U.S. and its allies,
which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the U.S. intelligence
cartel is having trouble getting intel about what’s happening on the ground in
Ukraine.
LYING
“Another Zelensky Lie Debunked”
By Moon of Alabama. Popular Resistance.org (6-29-22). Yesterday I mentioned the burning shopping
center in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, of which the Ukrainian president Zelensky
falsely claimed that thousand people had been inside. I asked: Satellite
pictures show that the shopping center is right next to the large Kredmash
machine plant. Was that the real target of the attack with the shopping center
being an unintended casualty? It has now been confirmed that the answer to my
question is 'yes'. Today's report on the war by the Russian Defense
Ministry says: On June 27, in Kremenchug (Poltava region), Russian
Aerospace Forces launched a high-precision air attack at.... -more-
Dr. Mohammad Salami. “Egypt is Walking a Tightrope on
the Ukraine Crisis.” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July
2022, pp. 38-39
https://www.wrmea.org/north-africa/egypt-is-walking-a-tightrope-on-the-ukraine-crisis.html
THE IMPACT of the Russian invasion of
Ukraine has spread beyond Europe. In fact, its economic and political challenges are affecting every country in
the world, including Egypt.
Along with less bread on the table in Lebanon, Yemen and
elsewhere in the Arab world, where millions already struggle to survive, Egypt is facing major challenges to its
food security, tourism industry and its need for political neutrality.
Egypt is at a crossroads in the choice between Russia and
Western-backed Ukraine, and it has seen its best choice as neutrality and the
pursuit of a middle ground. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has deep
economic and political ties with Moscow and does not want this partnership to
be damaged.
El-Sisi has had the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin
since Egypt’s coup in 2013. On the other hand, he owes much to the West for its
financial support, so he is trying to be neutral. Instead of condemning one
side, Egyptian statements stress ending tensions and urging dialogue instead of
war. El-Sisi followed that principle in a March 9 phone call with Putin. continued
Dee Knight. “Joe Biden’s saber-rattling threatens World War III—with China and Russia.” Editor. Mronline.org
(6-11-22).
Fits long pattern of
war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century. [Russia Anthology #22 provided a dozen
articles on ways to PEACE in Ukraine.
But the most fundamental pathway argues Knight is acknowledgement of US
imperial aggressions.]
Originally
published: CovertAction
Magazine on June 8, 2022 by Dee
Knight (more by CovertAction
Magazine) | (Posted Jun 10, 2022)
Imperialism, State Repression, Strategy, WarAmericas, Asia, China, Europe, Russia, United StatesNewswireWorld War 3
NO TO WAR, YES TO PEACE
WALTER
L. HIXSON. “U.S.
Hypocrisy and the War in Ukraine.” Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs, June/July 2022.
https://www.wrmea.org/2022-june/july/u.s.-hypocrisy-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html
THERE IS NO DEFENSE for
Tsar Vladimir Putin’s blood-drenched assault on neighboring Ukraine. But there
is plenty of historical myopia and human rights hypocrisy, if not outright
racism, in the U.S. reaction to Russia’s war.
After
the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the
United States failed to seize a historic opportunity to do everything possible
to forge closer economic, cultural and political ties with post-communist
Russia. Even a new Marshall Plan for Russia might have been in order.
Washington chose instead to promote neoliberal economic policies, which enabled
oligarchs to amass wealth by plundering Russian resources. At the same time,
U.S. security policy centered on the expansion
of NATO, which since its creation in 1949 has served as an anti-Russian military alliance.
In
1997, the legendary diplomat George F. Kennan—the architect of the Cold War containment
strategy and the preeminent expert on all things Russian—warned that NATO
enlargement would inflame “the nationalistic, anti-Western tendencies in
Russian opinion...restore the atmosphere of the Cold War to East-West
relations” and would be “a strategic blunder of epic proportions.” History has
now taught us the bitter lesson that Kennan was right.
Since
he came to power in 2000, Putin’s rage has been fueled by resentment of the
provocative decision to expand NATO eastward incorporating several former
Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact allies. Hardly purely defensive in
orientation, NATO has engaged in large offensive operations, notably in Libya
and especially the former Yugoslavia. Both NATO and the United States—along
with their ally Israel—promote militarism through large-scale arms sales and
development of all manner of weapons systems.
Russia
could hardly be indifferent to an array of formerly allied states being armed
with nuclear missiles on the same borders through which it was twice invaded in
the 20th century. Just imagine the U.S. response if a hostile alliance
attempted such a gambit in Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean (recall the 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis).
None
of this justifies or excuses the brutal Russian invasion or the mendacious claim
that Ukraine is part of Russia, but it does help explain the origins of the war
and why most Russians support it.
Ultimately
only a diplomatic solution—which if pursued more
vigorously at the outset might have headed off the horrific war—can resolve the
conflict. Meanwhile the military-industrial complex (the term may be hackneyed
but the complex is thriving) is happily manufacturing weapons for Ukraine,
while the Cold War adversaries arm to the teeth and face off with weapons of
mass destruction. This situation is as scary as it is stupid, particularly in
an era in which climate change, poverty, disease control and other pressing
issues should be the top priorities in world affairs.
MEDIA MYOPIA [contrasting
US MSM coverage of the Ukraine war with its coverage of Israel’s occupation of
Palestine and ME generally]
Compare
the saturated American mainstream media (MSM) coverage of the war in Ukraine
with the coverage of Middle East conflicts. Just imagine if Israel’s ongoing
illegal and brutal repression of Palestine—the assassinations, massacres,
illegal settlements, home demolitions, beatings and incarceration, including
children—received remotely the type of around-the-clock media coverage and
demonization of the aggressor, day after day for weeks on end, as we have seen
in the case of the Ukraine war.
Well,
you indeed need to imagine such coverage because U.S. national security elites
and the MSM bow to Israel and its lobby in refusing to report responsibly the
ongoing human rights nightmare in Palestine. What conclusions should we draw
when U.S. national security elites and the MSM gloss over the repression and
killing of brown-skinned Palestinians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians and Yemenis
while offering saturation coverage of the victimization of white, European Ukrainians?
[MSM
coverage of Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen]
Western media condemns Putin, and rightfully so, as a war-making dictator who
has plundered Russian resources, amassed a vast personal fortune, and is a
ruthless autocrat who silences criticism and dispenses with political opponents
through repression and murder. Well, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman (MBS) embodies these very same “qualities,” including waging the
endless, blood-drenched war in Yemen, which has produced vastly more casualties
than the war in Ukraine yet receives little coverage in the MSM. Meanwhile, MBS
remains an American ally whose human rights violations are routinely
overlooked.
The
United States has a long history of bolstering the dictators that it likes and
condemning and seeking to overthrow those that it doesn’t. The MSM, and thus
most of the public, plays along.
A more even-handed, human
rights-conscious, and conflict resolution-focused foreign policy would lead to
fewer wars and a much safer world.
“Is Russia’s Bombing of the Mall
in Kremanchuk Another False Atrocity Story Being Used to Justify Ongoing Military
Intervention in Ukraine?” By Jeremy Kuzmarov and Steve Brown on Jul 01, 2022 08:01 am.
Empty mall parking lot and existence of a
munitions plant nearby raise questions about official narrative advanced in
mainstream U.S. media
On Tuesday June 28, mainstream media outlets
reported that at least 18 people were killed and dozens injured in a Russian
missile strike on a “crowded shopping mall” in the central Ukrainian city of
Kremenchuk on Monday.
Thirty-six other people were said to be
missing and a survivor was on record saying that she had been shopping with her
husband when the blast threw her into the air.
The Associated Press, Reuters, The
New York Times, NPR and other news outlets reporting on
the story used Ukrainian government officials as their primary source,
notably Mayor Vitaliy Maletskiy—who wrote on Facebook
that the attack "hit a very crowded area, which is 100% certain not to
have any links to the armed forces.”
But they made no independent investigation as
to the truth of the self-serving statement. Also without verification they
quoted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—who said in a Telegram post that
the number of victims was "unimaginable,” and cited reports
that more than 1,000 civilians were inside at the time of the attack.
However, other reports contradict Zelensky
and suggest that the Russian missile attack in Kremenchuk is just one
more false story about alleged Russian atrocities known to have been fabricated
by Ukraine’s very active propaganda mill. […]
The post Is Russia’s Bombing of the Mall in
Kremanchuk Another False Atrocity Story Being Used to Justify Ongoing Military
Intervention in Ukraine? appeared first on CovertAction Magazine.
Letter to Jeremy Kuzmarov 7-1-22
Jeremy, I am copying your Ukraine reports to my Uk War anthologies. (You are receiving them?) If you receive additional evidence regarding
this bombing that either corroborates Russian guilt or exonerates Russia,
please send to me. Dick
updated
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Hi
Dick, I have updated the article. i was contacted by a physicist who analyzed
it in great depth. He concluded that the missile strikes by Russia targeted the
machine plant but struck the ground next to it because the technology was not
100% accurate, and that there was a small fire in the mall but that all
shoppers were evacuated and there few if any casualties from the mall.
Drone
footage shows that the crater blast was not at the mall, and the video released
by Zelensky has the mall well to the left of the site where the missiles
struck.
Jeremy
TAKING
ACTION
[The
action by WBW, Code Pink, and International Peace Bureau is not now available
but is still described 7-4-22 and worth remembering.]
Incredible
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The following 4 items were provided by United
for Peace and Justice (June 2022).
Ukraine War [PEACE]
Resources 1) Thorough, Balanced Mainstream Media
(MSM), 2) Diplomacy as first choice, war as absolutely last, 3) a more
even-handed, human-rights, conflict resolution foreign policy.
U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts
Bold New Mayors for Peace Resolution
TPNW Unites World Governments and
Global Abolition Movement at First Meeting in Vienna
Meeting of Nuclear Ban Treaty Condemns
Nuclear Threats
DIPLOMACY
“Reminder:
All Out for Peace in Ukraine, May 7. . . .” 5-2-22
United for Peace & Justice contact@unitedforpeace.org via
email.actionnetwork.org
Negotiated
Peace in Ukraine Petition:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JcayvvAlDALQzX-B42YJnAX3wZclo7G75iqQGxddRpw/edit?usp=sharing
AND,
join us in supporting negotiations for peace in Ukraine! International Day of
Action for Peace in Ukraine, May 7. Will the war in Ukraine turn into another
endless war like the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many Ukrainians
must die and be displaced? That depends on whether the United States and its
allies support a negotiated solution.
This
war should be a global wake-up call. The terrifying war in Ukraine should
propel us to implement the UN ban on nuclear weapons and move from reliance on
fossil fuels to green energy. Instead of war, let’s all cooperate to build
a peaceful and sustainable world for all our children and grandchildren. So
far, U.S. leaders have urged Ukraine to keep sacrificing its people, using U.S.
weapons paid for by our tax dollars — $5.3 billion and counting since 2014.
The U.S.
can support peace in Ukraine by:
· Agreeing to lift sanctions if Russia keeps
its side of a peace agreement.
· Committing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine
instead of more weapons.
· Ruling out further escalation of the war,
such as a “no fly zone.”
· Agreeing to end NATO expansion and committing
to renewed diplomacy with Russia.
The U.S.
military spending is 12 times that of Russia. That it failed to prevent this
war should signal the urgency of radically reordering our priorities from
wasted weapons spending to the needs of our people and planet.
Tell
Biden & Congress: Negotiate for Peace in Ukraine! Click here.
Find an
event or login to host your own Stop the War in Ukraine protest. Click here.
UNITED
NATIONS, UN WIRE (5-9-22).
Security
Council backs UN chief's Ukraine peace efforts
Russia
was among members of the United Nations Security Council, which adopted a
resolution last week voicing concern over "the maintenance of peace and
security" in Ukraine and support for efforts by UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres to broker a peaceful solution to the conflict. The UN chief
says he will "spare no effort to save lives, reduce suffering and find the
path of peace."
Full Story: Reuters (5/7)
Meet Russia’s nuclear threat with diplomacy.
“Russia’s
nuclear threat” by PAUL INGRAM. Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette. 30 May 2022.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has made us all
more acutely aware of the dangers of nuclear conflict than at any time since
the end of the Cold War. Now, with Russia losing ground against an entrenched
Ukrainian resistance, the stakes are going to get higher.
Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence
for the Biden administration, recently stated that Russian President Vladimir
Putin “would probably only authorize the use of nuclear weapons if he perceived
an existential threat.” But as the war drags on, Haines added that it heightens
the potential for Putin to see the prospect of defeat as an existential threat.
Even a singular nuclear launch and limited
response from NATO or elsewhere could, in a nightmarish but possible scenario,
cascade into a full-scale nuclear exchange. Though it is extremely difficult to
accurately predict the likelihood of this happening, it is undeniable that many
are justifiably concerned.
We are all familiar with the immediate
devastation that nuclear weapons could do to the cities they target and the
radiation clouds that would spread further afield. Nuclear detonations also
cause fierce firestorms that loft soot into the stratosphere which, in high
enough volumes, can block out the sun and reduce global temperatures and
rainfall. This soot cloud would persist for several years, triggering a
phenomenon known as nuclear winter.
A 2007 study suggests global nuclear winter
effects could be triggered by as few as 100 lowyield nuclear weapons. If a
larger proportion of the world’s 12,700 nuclear bombs were used, the effects
would be devastating.
Depending on the severity of the winter, crop
yields in the United States could drop to 2 percent of their current output for
up to a decade. This would result in starvation for the majority of Americans,
while leaving those left to face sub-zero temperatures in summer and cascade
effects that would almost certainly be fatal.
I began my career in international relations a
few years after 1983—when a war game brought the world close to the brink of a
nuclear launch—in order to help prevent nuclear weapons from spreading and to
advocate for disarmament. I am now a researcher at Cambridge University’s
Center for the Study of Existential Risk, where we look at the different ways
that we could trigger an end to our civilization and how they can be
counteracted.
It feels as if there is little we can do about
the nuclear threat prompted by the invasion of Ukraine, but that’s not true. We
need to push our elected representatives to avoid triggering any serious
escalation.
Ukraine
deserves our support, and Russia our condemnation. But we also have to consider
how Russia is perceiving the war and to what extent it would view defeat as an
existential threat. In order to prevent the worst outcomes, we need to draw the
Russians into negotiation and be prepared to compromise.
Our
governments have displayed a singular lack of leadership, commitment and
imagination when it comes to finding diplomatic solutions. This needs to
change. And urgently.
“Conflict Transformation for Ukraine and Russia.”
Jake
Lynch. TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE. Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism.
Week 25 // 20 Jun - 26 Jun 2022. All
three sources of generative force (Direct, Structural and Cultural Violence)
need to be explored – with problems diagnosed, prognoses made from present
trends if allowed to continue, and appropriate therapies devised – if conflict
is to be not merely resolved, but transformed.
Read more...
Embracing the Complexity of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service
15 Jun 2022 –
Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars. One
can also quickly, unavoidably imagine the cynicism that rushes in whenever
someone tosses out the word “peace.” Just imagine for once if we led the world
in funding peace and not wars.
CONTENTS US,
NATO, UKRAINE, RUSSIA #23, Nazis in Ukraine (twenty essays)
Evan
Reif. 3-Part Series.
I. From Pre-WWII Ukrainian Fascists to
Post-WWII Anti-Communist Heroes. [Stepan Bandera was the
anti-communist head of the militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and during WWII
supported the Nazis.]
II. Yaroslav
Stetsko and CIA Secret War Behind Iron Curtain.
[I
received a welcome article employing careful analysis of the evidence
pertaining to how many ethnic Russians were killed by the Ukrainian army from
2014 to 2022 by Michael
Karadjis. Truth is the first and
continuing victim of war, leaders lie, and gullible, patriotic populations, the
US sometimes foremost, rush to the slaughter.
So I believe critical thinking should be taught from K-12. https://mkaradjis.com/2022/06/16/on-the-fantastic-tale-that-the-ukrainian-army-killed-14000-ethnic-russians-in-donbas-between-2014-and-2022/ These 23 anthologies serve that need by resisting the one-sided,
militaristc reporting of the 2024- US-NATO-Ukraine-Russia war. of 2014-present. –Dick]
Ben
Norton. “Inside
Operation Gladio: How [CIA and] NATO Supported Nazis and Terrorists” v. USSR.
2014-
“Stadiums
of Hate,” Violent Nazism and Racism in Ukraine.
Caitlin Johnstone. Azov Battalion Drops Neo-Nazi Symbol.
Stepan
Malentsov. The War should be
for socialism not just the
denazification of Ukraine.
Gordon
Hahn. “Eight Years Ago
in Odessa.” The right-wing murder of
pro-Russian protesters of the anti-Russian government that gained power by a
coup.
Ron Ridenour. Iceland Welcomes
Zelensky, But No Mention of some Inconvenient History.
Voices
from Dombas: Malnikov and Katya A (Donetsk), Alexey Albu
(Lugansk)
John
Parker. Three More
on Odessa.
Alexander
Rubenstein. US
Citizens Fighting with Ukrainian Army.
Caitlin
Johnstone. Azov
Battalion Removes Neo-Nazi Symbol.
Laurent
Brayard. 3-part series on
right-wing neo-nazi leaders: Biletsky, Igor Mosiychuk, and Evgueny Karas.
Mehmet Perinҫek. “The Donbas Diaries Part II: The Azov
Battalions.”
Jacques Baud. Denounces Western coverage of Ukraine
Invasion.”
Lev Golinkin. “Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are on the March in Ukraine.”
Andrew
Bacevich. “The
F-Word…Repurposed and Misapplied.”
Earlier
anthologies contain additional articles on Ukrainian Nazis.
END US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #24 JULY 4, 2022
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