Handy Hint # 1:  Whenever the mainstream media spins a single narrative on any big issue, be skeptical, and seek the truth somewhere else.

For example, to understand what is really going on in Ukraine, click on to                                           Information Clearing House:    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

The Rape of Ukraine: Phase Two Begins
 

By F. William Engdahl

 

21st Century Wire

The events in Ukraine since November 2013 are so astonishing as almost to defy belief.

A legitimately-elected (said by all international monitors) Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovich, has been driven from office, forced to flee as a war criminal after more than three months of violent protest and terrorist killings by so-called opposition.

His “crime” according to protest leaders was that he rejected an EU offer of a vaguely-defined associate EU membership that offered little to Ukraine in favor of a concrete deal with Russia that gave immediate €15 billion debt relief and a huge reduction in Russian gas import prices. 

Washington at that point went into high gear and the result today is catastrophe.

A secretive neo-nazi military organization reported linked to NATO played a decisive role in targeted sniper attacks and violence that led to the collapse of the elected government.

But the West is not finished with destroying Ukraine. Now comes the IMF with severe conditionalities as prerequisite to any Western financial help. . .  


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Ukraine: Act II
By Zhao Jinglun
Russia is far from down and out. Continue

Obama Just Made Things Worse In The Ukraine - Now Russia Is Ready For War
By The Saker
No amounts of threats will stop the Kremlin now, all that will achieve is to get even more of the public reaction of support for Putin. Continue

Washington's Man Yatsenyuk Setting Ukraine Up For Ruin
By Kenneth Rapoza
Ukraine’s interim prime minister, Arseniy “Yats” Yatsenyuk, may prove to be arsenic to the beleaguered nation. Continue

Ukraine's Protests in Context
By Kenny Coyle
The Euro love-fest for Ukraine masks some deeply ugly alliances. Continue

 

  The Syrian Civil War - Made in Britain and the USA
By Justin Huggler
We started this. - When the US and Britain invaded Iraq in 2003, we set off a chain of events that led inexorably to the killing fields of Damascus and Aleppo. Continue

'Illegal' Drone Strikes Condemned In Landslide Vote By European Politicians
By Jessica Elgot
Europe's politicians have voted by a landslide to propose a ban on US drone strikes that have killed thousands in Yemen and Pakistan, calling the killings "unlawful". Continue

 

When Protests and Violence Are Important to the Media
By Nate Singham
It is worth comparing the extent of press coverage to protests of similar importance next door to Venezuela. Continue

  Look Who the US Is Siding With in Ukraine, Egypt, and Syria  

 By Chris Ernesto 
US quietly partners with neo-Nazis in Ukraine, fascists in Egypt, and al-Qaeda in Syria.

Imagine if protesters – supported by Russia – established an encampment in front of the US Capitol, threw Molotov cocktails into government buildings, fired guns at the police, and demanded that the US government relinquish power.

Obviously, the response from the US government would not be peaceful and there would be a loud call for war on Russia.

What if there were demonstrators in front of the White House who announced their events on Facebook by saying that members of congress should be incapacitated by having their knees smashed? Or if those same protesters posted YouTube videos saying that buses going into Washington should be set ablaze by dousing the roads with gas and diesel in the hopes of burning all the passengers inside?

Certainly, every US government official would demand the protesters be immediately arrested and charged with terrorism.

And what would happen if Islamic fundamentalists who had pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda began to bomb police stations and schools across the US?

Clearly, the US government would punish the responsible parties, and probably the countries in which they received training.

These things aren’t happening in the US, but they are occurring in Ukraine, Egypt and Syria by people who are funded, supported, encouraged or tacitly approved by the United States government. . .

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http://original.antiwar.com/Chris_Ernesto/2014/02/28/look-who-the-us-is-siding-with-in-ukraine-egypt-and-syria/