Mois : mars 2015

Published on Global Research.ca, by Stephen Lendman, March 7, 2015.

• … Fact: Washington wants Ukraine used as a dagger against Russia’s heartland – with menacing US bases on its borders threatening is sovereign independence … //
• … Fact: US-deposed President Viktor Yanukovych’s police showed remarkable restraint.
• Fact: Washington-supported Nazi thugs bore full responsibility for beatings, sniper killings and other violence.   Continuer la lecture de « Victoria Nuland Lied to US Congress about Phantom Russian Hoards in Ukraine »

Published on naked capitalism (first on TomDispatch), by Yves Smith, March 6, 2015.

Originally written by Pratap Chatterjee, executive director of CorpWatch. He is the author of Halliburton’s Army: How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War and Iraq, Inc. His next book, Verax, a graphic novel about whistleblowers and mass surveillance co-authored by Khalil Bendib, will be published by Metropolitan Books in 2016 …;   Continuer la lecture de « Are Pilots Deserting Washington’s Drone War? »

Published on TomDispatch, by Tom Engelhardt, March 1, 2015: My War on Terror, Letter to an Unknown American Patriot … //

… In other words, each of the terror organizations we categorize as the unimaginably barbaric Other has a curiously intimate, if generally unexplored, relationship with us. In addition, in these years, it’s been clear (at least to those living in the Greater Middle East) that such groups had no monopoly on barbarity. Washington’s extreme acts were legion in the region, ranging from its CIA torture chambers (although we called them “black sites”) to Abu Ghraib, from global kidnappings to images of a U.S. helicopter gunning down civilians in the streets of Baghdad.   Continuer la lecture de « Tomgram: Engelhardt, the Ten Commandments for a Better American World »

• The hidden victims of austerity in Greece, on Socialist Worker.org, by Sarah Levy, March 4, 2015: from Greece on the desperate conditions endured by immigrants – and the struggle to close the immigrant detention centers under a new government;
• UK: The NHS has never been in more danger, on Left Foot Forward, by Kailash Chand, March 4, 2015: Private sector providers want to down-skill medical staff to make them easier to fire, more biddable, and above all, cheaper …;     Continuer la lecture de « all this happens »

Published on The Telegraph, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, March 2, 2015: Syriza is not interested in emergency EMU funding if it means kowtowing to Troika demands.

Greece is preparing to tap its final pension reserves at the country’s central bank if needed to avert a devastating default to the International Monetary Fund and keep the government going over the next two weeks. Continuer la lecture de « Greece eyes last central bank funds to avert IMF default »