Материалы: December 10th, 2014

Robert Parry – The Whys Behind the Ukraine Crisis

Exclusive: Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an outgrowth of neocon extremism, asks Robert Parry. By Robert Parry A senior U.S. diplomat told me […]

Viktor Starchikov – blogger from Kharkov: are the Ukrainians guilty of their own calamities?

Ukrainians are traitors, it is their own fault [that Nazism reins over the country now] – such is the opinion frequently expressed in the comments on my page. Let us nose into bureau drawers. When the Congress of the People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation headed by Yeltsyn was adopting the Decree on the sovereignty, […]

Andrew Korybko – Ukraine: A View From the ‘Liberated’ East

The Kiev military has been making relative gains in its ‘anti-terrorist operation’, having recently retaken the stronghold of Slavyansk and surrounded those of Donetsk and Lugansk. The former has been under Kiev’s control for nearly a month now, and what is happening serves as a dire warning for what will happen in the latter if […]

James Petras – All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’

There are clear signs that a major war is about to break out in Ukraine: A war actively promoted by the NATO regimes and supported by their allies and clients in Asia (Japan) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia). The war over Ukraine will essentially run along the lines of a full-scale military offensive against […]