Maidan, 1 Year On: Who Fired the Shots in Central Kiev?

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Keld Bach


Ukraine is marking one year since the deadliest days of the protests which forced out the previous government. The 20th of February 2014 saw the worst violence, with over 50 people killed in central Kiev. People in the Ukrainian capital have been paying tribute to the victims of the Maidan massacre, laying flowers and lighting candles at the scene of last year’s bloodshed. Back then the new leaders in Kiev, along with their supporters in the US and EU, pointed the finger at the riot police, but witness accounts and media investigations paint a different picture, as RT‘s Lizzie Phelan reports.

Maidan Massacre


Maidan Massacre, directed by John Beck Hofmann, is an investigative documentary into the shootings which occurred on February 20th, 2014, when nearly 50 people were gunned down on the streets of Kiev’s Independence square. The massacre was the result of a massive three month long protest against the former Government of Viktor Yanukovich and his decision to reject a trade deal with the EU. Although no thorough investigation had been conducted, the blame was immediately placed on the officers who served under Yanukovich. This program investigates the scene of the crime, interviewing those who were there when the shootings occurred, and seeks to answer the questions as to who really was shooting that day on Kiev’s Independence square – a place known to the people of Ukraine, as Maidan.

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Heroes of Our Time

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Keld Bach


Tony Blair becomes Serbia PM’s new advisor – only 16 years after pushing for NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia. Kiev’s troops left and no new reports of casualties … Ukraine’s ceasefire worked? And a Saudi cleric says our planet doesn’t revolve around the sun.

Tony Blair Becomes Advisor to… Serbia!

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is coming under fire for signing up to advise the Serbian prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, in a deal that is allegedly funded by the United Arab Emirates.

Blair — who was a strong advocate of putting ground forces in Kosovo and the bombing of Belgrade in 1999 in the former Republic of Yugoslavia — has been confirmed as having set up a “delivery unit”, under the aegis of Tony Blair Associates.

Blair was to describe his part in the NATO intervention in the Kosovo War — in which the Serbian government was accused of attempting to change “the ethnic composition of Kosovo and creating an apartheid-like society” — as being necessary to “to avert what would otherwise be a humanitarian disaster in Kosovo”.  

The Kosovo Report later determined that “the NATO military intervention was illegal, but legitimate”. Blair is considered a hero in Kosovo for his support for them against the Belgrade government at the time.

Blair’s decision to become an adviser to Vucic’s Belgrade government was confirmed by his office in a statement which said: “This project was directly negotiated and agreed between Serbia and TBA (Tony Blair Associates) following meetings between Tony Blair and the Serbia prime minister and was not part of any wider agreement”.

Full story at: Sputnik International

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John Kiriakou: CIA Torture Program was “Dick Cheney’s Baby”

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Keld Bach


“Hypocritical” is how CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou describes his arrest and imprisonment for exposing the spy agency’s use of torture while those who actually committed the heinous acts go unpunished. In an in-depth interview with RT’s Ben Swann, Kiriakou discussed only his time in prison, but also the controversial “enhanced interrogation” program, claiming that President George W. Bush personally approved the harsh practices.

Related documentary: SILENCED: The War on Whistleblowers

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Nikolai Azarov, PM of Ukraine 2010-14, Speaks Out

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Keld Bach


Ukraine in 2013 was on the path of stable economic growth with the potential to rival Germany. Its GDP, profits, wages and social welfare were all rising. One year later the trend is the opposite.

The mechanics of the 2014 coup d´état, the uninvestigated crimes, the lies and censorship, the economic and social consequences are among many topics highlighted by former Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, who fled for his life after an assassination attempt during the Washington-sponsored coup.

Azarov has noticed that whenever the Ukrainian economy achieves a positive growth rate, some political turbulence disrupts the progress. The best years for the Ukrainian economy were:

2004 – leading to the Orange Revolution;
2007 – leading to the dissolution of parliament;
2013 – leading to Nuland’s $5 billion coup d´état.

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New ‘Evidence’ of Russian Tanks in Ukraine

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Keld Bach


The ‘exclusive’ photos of ‘Russian invasion in Ukraine’ in 2014 turned out to be easily found in the Web, with at least one of them dating back to 2008. Now, US senator James Inhofe is furious with the Ukrainian delegation for setting him up with the ‘evidence’.

Questions have been raised about the veracity of reports that claim Russian troops have invaded Ukraine after US Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe confessed that several photos of Russian convoys he obtained from a Ukrainian parliamentary group were taken during the 2008 Georgia conflict, the Washington Free Beacon said.

On Tuesday, the Washington Free Beacon ran a story that unveiled “exclusive” photos of victims of militia bombs and Russian armed vehicles seemingly rolling into Ukraine.

The photos were provided to Inhofe’s office in print by an obscure Ukrainian delegation, led by a Georgetown professor, who said the images were taken at the height of Russia’s alleged military incursion between August 24 and September 5, 2014.

Inhofe’s spokeswoman Donelle Harder was cited as saying they had checked back with their sources – none of them high-level Ukrainian officials – before releasing the photos. She said they had been quite confident about their authenticity since the imagery allegedly matched reports about the Ukraine conflict.

But speaking to The Mirror on Thursday, Sen. Inhofe confessed he was “furious” to learn that at least one of the photos was taken by Associated Press during Russia’s military operation in Georgia back in 2008. Several other images are readily available elsewhere online and can be found using a Google Images search.

Source: Sputnik International

See also: OSCE Head Confirms No Russian Troops in Donbas

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The Minsk Peace Deal: Farce or Sellout?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Keld Bach

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) shakes hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) during a meeting on February 11, 2015 in Minsk. (AFP Photo / Andrey Stasevich)

By Paul Craig Roberts

Judging by the report on RT, I conclude that the Ukraine peace deal worked out in Minsk by Putin, Merkel, Hollande, and Poroshenko has little chance of success.

As Washington is not a partner to the Minsk peace deal, how can there be peace when Washington has made policy decisions to escalate the conflict and to use the conflict as a proxy war between the US and Russia?

The Minsk agreement makes no reference to the announcement by Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of US Army Europe, that Washington is sending a battalion of US troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces how to fight against Russian and rebel forces. The training is scheduled to begin in March, about two weeks from now. Gen. Hodges says that it is very important to recognize that the Donetsk and Luhansk forces “are not separatists, these are proxies for President Putin.”

How is there a peace deal when Washington has plans underway to send arms and training to the US puppet government in Kiev?

Looking at the deal itself, it is set up to fail. The only parties to the deal who had to sign it are the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk break-away republics. The other signers to the Minsk deal are an OSCE representative which is the European group that is supposed to monitor the withdrawal of heavy weapons by both sides, a former Ukrainian president Viktor Kuchma, and the Russian ambassador in Kiev. Neither the German chancellor nor the French, Ukrainian, and Russian presidents who brokered the deal had to sign it.

The terms of the agreement depend on actions of the Ukrainian parliament and prime minister, neither of which are under Poroshenko’s control, and Poroshenko himself is a figurehead under Washington’s control. Moreover, the Ukrainian military does not control the Nazi militias. As Washington and the right-wing elements in Ukraine want conflict with Russia, peace cannot be forthcoming.

The agreement is nothing but a list of expectations that have no chance of occurring.

Full article at: PaulCraigRoberts.org

See also: How to Make Sense of Ukraine Peace Talks

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The Terror We Give is the Terror We Get

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Keld Bach

An Iraqi family tasting what former US President Bush called “Operation Iraqi Freedom”.

By Chris Hedges

We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage. We torture hostages in our black sites and choke them to death by stuffing rags down their throats. They torture hostages in squalid hovels and behead them. We organize Shiite death squads to kill Sunnis. They organize Sunni death squads to kill Shiites. We produce high-budget films such as “American Sniper” to glorify our war crimes. They produce inspirational videos to glorify their twisted version of jihad.

The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.

“From violence, only violence is born,” Primo Levi wrote, “following a pendular action that, as time goes by, rather than dying down, becomes more frenzied.”

The burning of the pilot, Jordanian Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, by ISIS militants after his F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, was as gruesome as anything devised for the Roman amphitheater. And it was meant to be. Death is the primary spectacle of war. If ISIS had fighter jets, missiles, drones and heavy artillery to bomb American cities there would be no need to light a captured pilot on fire; ISIS would be able to burn human beings, as we do, from several thousand feet up. But since ISIS is limited in its capacity for war it must broadcast to the world a miniature version of what we do to people in the Middle East. The ISIS process is cruder. The result is the same.

Read the full article at: Truthdig

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The Lie We Live

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Keld Bach


Exposing the truth about our corrupt world and what humanity has become.

This is a short documentary film, questioning our freedom, the education system, corporations, money, the American capitalist system, the US government, world collapse, the environment, climate change, genetically modified food, and our treatment of animals.

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More ‘Proof’ of Russian Troops in Ukraine

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Keld Bach


President Poroshenko’s PR advisers are helping him turn speeches into a kind of performance art. Sadly for the Ukrainian leader, they are more Laurel and Hardy than Laurence Olivier.

On Saturday, Poroshenko was again engaged in physical theatre, this time in Munich. Holding up Russian passports, he alleged that they belonged to Russian soldiers who had been found on Ukrainian soil. Citing “mountains of (Russian) lies and propaganda,” the Ukrainian President stood on a German stage and, well, lied.

Russian soldiers cannot use their passports while on active service – they must hand them in. Everybody who has ever lived in Russia knows this. Indeed, even contract soldiers are forced to hand in theirs while on army business and, like the troops, they get a replacement military ID. This is why Sochi’s bars are crawling with off-duty Russian military – they can’t go abroad without their travel documents.

However, many Russian civilians who are army reservists (much like the US National Guard) would have both passports and military ID’s. Theoretically, Russian reservists – who are not employed by the Kremlin – could act as volunteers in Ukraine…in much the same way that mercenaries from as far-flung areas such as Spain, Poland, Croatia and Canada have been documented as serving in the Ukrainian civil war.

Source: RT Op-Edge.

See also: Kiev Unable to Provide Copies of Alleged Russian Soldiers’ Passports

Crystal Clear that Russian Army is in Ukraine, Says PM Yatsenyuk


It is “crystal clear” that Russia has boots on the ground in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Prime Minister has said. Speaking at a news conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said he had strong evidence that President Putin had ordered Russian troops to invade Crimea and the east of Ukraine. He said they were not fighting rebels or guerillas, they were fighting the regular Russian army.

See also: Russian Tank Caught Crossing into Ukraine!

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Shell Corporation: We are Sorry!

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Keld Bach


Bradford Houppe, Vice-President of the Ethical Affairs Committee at Shell, apologises. Mr. Houppe is perhaps better known as one of the key activists of The Yes Men.

Nigeria: Oil Pollution in the Niger Delta


Nigeria is one of the countries with the largest reserves of crude oil worldwide. About 80 percent of the country’s income comes from the export of oil and natural gas. In Port Harcourt, flares burn day and night. There are more than 120 gas flares in the Niger Delta. Here, natural gas that bubbles up during oil extraction is burned. It’s a cheap way of getting rid of an undesired byproduct. Elsewhere, flaring has long been banned, because it releases greenhouse gases and carcinogenic heavy metals.

See also: Shell Nigeria oil spill ’60 times bigger than it claimed’

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