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Merkel and Hollande for Peace in Ukraine: Hold the Cheers
Global Research, February 07, 2015
On February 5, Tass headlined ”France, Germany plan to work out new agreement on Ukrainian conflict settlement – Hollande.”
Merkel and Hollande are in Kiev on Thursday. So is John Kerry. Discussing escalated war, not peace.
Don’t expect divergence from their NATO allies. Saying one thing. Pursuing another. More on this below.
Tass quoted Hollande saying “(t)ogether with Angela Merket we have decided to take a new initiative.”
“Later today in the afternoon, we will depart for Kiev, where we will make a new proposal on the conflict settlement bas(ed) on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.”“Then, on Friday, we will discuss the initiative with the Russian president in Moscow, since we are short of time.”“We are now having war in Ukraine and it can turn into a total one. This is why we jointly with Angela Merkel decided to put forward this initiative with the aim of not simply hold talks, but to agree on (an agreement) text, which will be acceptable to all parties.”“This is why we first go to Kiev and then to (to Moscow to meet with) Vladimir Putin.”If all sides agree to compromise, we can “manage to avert the further escalation of the conflict.”“If we fail, and such scenario is possible, we can say that France and Germany as friends of Ukraine and Russia did everything they could to help as two world powers.”
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Friday’s meeting.
Saying “(t)he leaders of the three states will discuss what specifically the countries can do to contribute to a speedy end of the civl war in the southeast of Ukraine, which has escalated in recent days and resulted in many casualties.”
Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov said Russia’s president always supports constructive talks. Wants Ukraine’s conflict resolved diplomatically.
“We are ready to hold a constructive discussion, with a view to reaching any agreements that would encourage a general stabilization of the situation, establishment of direct contacts between official representatives of Kiev and Donbass,” Ushakov explained.
Merkel and Holland want to have their cake and eat it. They want normalized economic relations. Sanctions on Russia cut both ways.
At the same time, they’re US-dominated NATO members. They partner with Washington’s wars directly or indirectly.
Notably in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. Plus unknown countless other nefarious military adventures.
Washington provides about 75% of NATO funding. It calls the shots. Key Alliance partners France, Germany, Britain and others march in lockstep.
When America wants war, expect their involvement directly or indirectly. Overtly or covertly.
Obama didn’t wage proxy war on Ukraine to quit. He wants Congress authorizing billions of dollars in military aid for Kiev.
Heavy US weapons were supplied throughout months of conflict. Expect greater amounts forthcoming.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Alliance Eastern European Response Force strength near Russia’s borders may increase from 13,000 to 30,000.
“It is a response to what we have seen from Russia over a period of time, and it is in full accordance with our international obligations,” he said.
Code language for provocatively heading toward possible US-dominated NATO war on Russia.
Rapid Deployment Forces are being positioned in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.
According to Stoltenberg, thousands can be deployed in two days. The remainder in a week. Greater numbers may join them.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced 100,000 Eastern Military District forces placed on high alert.
Participating “(w)ithin the framework of a sudden check of the(ir) highest degree of combat readiness.”
Moscow has good reason for concern. It’s under no illusions. Washington deplores peace. Uses Ukraine to target Russia.
Wants unchallenged control of both countries. Wants them carved up for profit.
Wants Donbas freedom fighters crushed. Wants democracy prevented at all costs. Intends escalated war, not less.
Peaceful conflict resolution is verboten. Don’t expect Merkel or Hollande to go their own way.
Watch their policies. Ignore their rhetoric. Expect Kiev’s dirty war to continue. Expect greater US support.
A separate article suggested possible US military force involvement on the ground. Kiev’s battered/inept army is no match against committed Donbas freedom fighters.
Kerry is an unindicted war criminal. A serial liar. From Kiev, he turned truth on its head saying:
“We want a diplomatic solution, but we cannot close our eyes to tanks that are crossing the border from Russia and coming into Ukraine.”
Imaginary “Russian fighters in unmarked uniforms (cross) the border, and (lead) individual companies of so-called separatists in battle.”
When US officials are asked to provide evidence proving it, silence follows. None exists.
“I say it every time,” stressed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “If you are so sure (about Russian troops in Ukraine), confirm it with facts.”
“But no can or wants to provide them.” Kerry’s bluster accusing Russia of “aggression” wore thin long ago.
US global aggression is real. In multiple theaters. Against invented enemies. Including in Ukraine using Kiev military troops as proxies.
Washington’s continued supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine threatens Russia’s security, its Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich explained.
“We are very seriously concerned by these plans,” he stressed. “Taking into account the revanchist plans of the ‘party of war’ in Kiev, this could not only escalate the conflict in the southeast, but also threaten the security of Russia.”
Suggesting Moscow will only put up with so much for so long.
So far just talk. No action.
On Thursday’s Progressive Radio News Hour with guest Stop NATO’s Rick Rozoff, discussion included speculation on whether Russia won’t resist Alliance threats until its troops invade.
Then it’s too late. Global wars start this way. Things are perilously close to No. III.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden ignored US supported Kiev aggression saying “Ukraine has every right to defend itself, and we are…providing security assistance to help…”
Expect more US heavy weapons than already. Greater Washington supported, encouraged and directed fighting.
Lots more death and destruction. If Merkel and Hollande were serious, they’d denounce Kiev’s putschist regime. Support Donbas rebels’ democratic struggle.
Criticize US backing for Kiev’s dirty war. Refuse any cooperation with Washington’s involvement. Rescind their sanctions on Russia. Resign from NATO. Commit unequivocally for peace.
Act responsibly instead of as subservient US vassal states. Whatever Merkel, Hollande and Putin agree on rhetorically in Moscow, expect no substantive policy changes to follow.
Expect Obama’s proxy war on Donbas to continue. Expect rogue NATO states marching in lockstep.
Expect business as usual like always. Expect lots more death and destruction ahead.
Expect the unthinkable if Washington confronts Russia belligerently. It bears repeating what other articles stressed.
Given lunatics running the Washington asylum, anything ahead is possible. The unthinkable could become reality.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.” http://www.claritypress.com/ LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.
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JEWISH POWER AT WORK: DIEUDONNE TO GO ON TRIAL OVER BOGUS CHARGES
A French comedian charged with condoning terrorism is set to go on trial over a Facebook comment, in which he is accused of expressing support for Ahmedy Coulibaly, a gunman who killed four hostages and a policewoman in January.
Dieudonne Mbala told a Paris court on Wednesday that he condemned last month’s deadly Paris attacks “without any ambiguity” as he stood trial.
“Of course I condemn the attacks without any restraint and without any ambiguity,” Dieudonne said.
The controversial comedian angered French authorities after posting a statement online saying “Je Suis Charlie Coulibaly” (I am Charlie Coulibaly), after thousands marched in the French capital with the slogan “Je Suis Charlie” in solidarity with the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Two gunmen stormed through Charlie Hebdo’s office, killing 11 people on January 7, a day before Coulibaly attacked a kosher shop killing four hostages.
Dieudonne was arrested on January 14.
After France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called on authorities to investigate Dieudonne’s remarks, the comedian wrote a response on his Facebook page saying that he was being treated as a public enemy when all he wanted to do was make a joke.
Play on words
Dieudonne’s “I am Charlie Coulibaly” remark was meant to be a play on words of the popular “I am Charlie Hebdo” slogan used to show support to the newspaper and freedom of speech in the wake of the attack.
But now many view his indictment as a violation of freedom of speech itself and an example of the government’s double standard.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland, reporting from Paris, said: “The case has raised new questions about French values of freedom, equality and fraternity.”
If found guilty of condoning terrorism, he could face up to seven years in prison.
Dieudonne, who is already facing a string of separate charges in Paris, had previously been convicted numerous times for inciting anti-semitism.
“He is currently involved in several trials here, on charges ranging from slander, to incitement to racial hatred, to condoning terrorism. In all the cases, he denies the charges,” Al Jazeera’s correspondent said.
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The War in Donbass: German Chancellor Angela Merkel Fears Devastating Defeat of the Ukrainian Army
The War in Donbass: German Chancellor Angela Merkel Fears Devastating Defeat of the Ukrainian Army | Global Research
[German Chancellor] Angela Merkel seems to anticipate the economic and military collapse of Ukraine. Berlin’s civil service is naturally working hard on a peace plan. To avert fiasco, Merkel must now discuss a truce with [Russian President] Vladimir Putin. This war could end well for the rebels.
Merkel and [French President] Francois Hollande met on Thursday with [Ukraine's President] Petro Poroshenko. On Friday, their journey continues to Putin in Moscow.
The federal government has denied a newspaper report of a peace plan by Germany and France to Ukraine. “This is not true,” a government spokesman said on Thursday evening to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (Friday edition). The Journal had reported that Chancellor Merkel and French President Francois Hollande wanted to propose to Kiev’s President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday night an immediate ceasefire.
However, convinced by the denial to the contrary, the SZ writes that the new program had been already in preparation for some days, by high officials of the governments involved. The trigger seems to be the combination of military gains by the separatists, and the U.S. debate on sending lethal weapons to Ukraine.
Poroshenko wants to make it clear that the final chance has come to save Ukraine against a dramatic military defeat and economic collapse. On Thursday, the Ukrainian central bank had its key interest rate rise by five percentage points to 19.5 per cent, and the local currency UAH fell by almost half of its value.
Therefore, it seems that Merkel and Hollande were now advised to speak immediately with Putin on a solution to the conflict.
In return for a ceasefire, separatists would be granted broad autonomy in eastern Ukraine, and it would be covering a larger area than previously planned. The demarcation line that is based on the Minsk Agreement will now be unsustainable. According to the SZ, territorial gains by the separatists will necessitate adding up to 1500 square kilometers to the proposed autonomous region.
Sources were not disclosed, but the SZ is usually well informed in such matters.
However, even if the peace plan in the reported form should still be ready for signing by Angela Merkel, the military and economic collapse of Ukraine is apparently nonetheless expected.
Hollande and Merkel came together on Thursday in Kiev with Poroshenko to find a way out of the escalating situation. On Friday they want to discuss in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin ending the conflict. In the background of the diplomatic thrust are the increasingly violent battles in Ukraine’s east.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier traveled to Latvia and Poland on Thursday to discuss there with his counterparts the crisis. Steinmeier warned of a “total loss of control” in the military conflict in eastern Ukraine. Moreover, ways should be explored “to calm the situation before the conflict gets out of control and is not amenable to solution by proposed policies.”
Both Human Rights Watch and the OSCE reported this week that fragments of cluster bombs were found in Lugansk. There is evidence that these were fired by the Ukrainian army. The attack injured two civilians; two more were killed, and an unknown number of other civilians might also have been hit.
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Six live cremations the USA & Israel wants you to ignore
By Robert Barsocchini, CounterCurrents
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Thursday, Feb 5, 2015
Western selective outrage has always included burning people alive. Acting exactly as any sane criminal would, Western criminals want you to let them get away with their crimes while they broadcast the usually lesser crimes of others as pretexts for continuing and escalating their own crimes. Taking heart, this is exactly what ISIS has just done. ISIS today released a video of themselves burning a captured Jordanian soldier alive in an enclosure, saying the act was intended as retaliation for US bombings, which also burn people alive, making the execution an “eye for an eye” punishment, according to ISIS. The US, in turn, will now purport to be disgusted by and retaliate against this crime, furthering the downward spiral it put into overdrive with the 2003 illegal invasion of Iraq, which led to and allowed for the creation and empowerment of ISIS and other such groups. US and Western selective outrage say this latest crime is another illustration of ISIS's viciousness, which of course it is. However, that is less than half of the story. The limited focus is intended to have us ignore or, better, support and defend, examples of much worse US and Western viciousness, including innumerable cases of burning people to death. First of all, it is correct that explosives cremate, dismember, and torture people to death in a cruel and unusual manner. Here is an example of what US explosives do to people. But let's leave aside plain old explosives and take a brief look at six live mass cremations the West would like us to forget. 1) Odessa massacre
On May 2nd, 2014, supporters of the Nazi-influenced, US-backed militants in Ukraine burned people alive in a building in Odessa: Veteran journalist Robert Parry: “A modern version of this Nazi brutality surfaced again on May 2 when right-wing toughs in Odessa attacked an encampment of ethnic Russian protesters driving them into a trade union building which was then set on fire with Molotov cocktails. As the building was engulfed in flames, some people who tried to flee were chased and beaten to death. Those trapped inside heard the Ukrainian nationalists liken them to black-and-red-striped potato beetles called Colorados, because those colors are used in pro-Russian ribbons. “Burn, Colorado, burn” went the chant. As the fire worsened, those dying inside were serenaded with the taunting singing of the Ukrainian national anthem. The building also was spray-painted with Swastika-like symbols and graffiti reading “Galician SS.” The death by fire of dozens of people in Odessa recalled a World War II incident in 1944 when elements of a Galician SS police regiment took part in the massacre of the Polish village of Huta Pieniacka, which had been a refuge for Jews and was protected by Russian and Polish partisans. Attacked by a mixed force of Ukrainian police and German soldiers, hundreds of townspeople were massacred, including many locked in barns that were set ablaze. Yet, this historical context is almost always missing in the mainstream U.S. media which goes along with the State Department's desire to delete the neo-Nazi role in last February's coup and inside the post-coup government.”A partner of Ukraine's national security chief, Dmytro Yarosh, called the massacre “another bright day in our national history.” And a member of the Ukrainian parliament said, “Bravo, Odessa…. Let the Devils burn in hell.”Click here to see the results of the Odessa burning. 2) Israel's burning of children and other civilians with white phosphorus
Under both Bush and Obama, Israel has killed civilians with US-provided white phosphorus, an illegal chemical weapon when used unlawfully, as Israel uses it. On the attack, which the UN found was part of Israel's effort to “terrorize [the] civilian population” of Gaza, Human Rights Watch produced an in depth report on Israel's use of the chemical weapon, called “Rain of Fire: Israel's Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza”. It found that Israel “repeatedly exploded white phosphorus munitions in the air over populated areas, killing and injuring civilians, and damaging civilian structures, including a school, a market, a humanitarian aid warehouse and a hospital”, which those who follow Israel's attacks know are always and repeatedly targeted. “The fifth floor children's playroom [of al-Quds hospital] was totally destroyed, with charcoal beams littering the jungle-gym and small merry-go-round.” … “My 14-year-old cried out, ‘I'm going to die. I want to pray.' I saw my daughter-in-law melt away.”Human Rights Watch found that the attacks were not only illegal but without any justification, confirming the UN conclusion as to the terrorizing purpose of Israel's assaults on the trapped refugees. (In this and Israel's latest assault, it has been confirmed that Israel, not Palestinians, used human shields. Also see.) Noted in The Independent: “Phosphorus burns bodies… it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone…” Since Israel's terrorist attacks with chemical incineration weapons, Obama has illegally increased US money and weaponry flowing to Israel, which was already the single biggest recipient of US arms and cash, all given illegally. More pictures of Israel's use of white phosphorus as a chemical weapon. 3) US use of white phosphorus and napalm against human targets in Iraq
The Independent notes that, after warning women and children to flee through the desert on foot (the same courtesy recently given to civilians by Boko Haram) and then locking all men age 15 to 65 and remaining civilians inside the city: …the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah… [causing] the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon. …hideous photographs and videos and interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack [provide] graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon. …colour close-ups show bodies of Fallujah residents, some still in their beds, whose clothes remain largely intact but whose skin has been dissolved or caramelised or turned the consistency of leather by the shells.The Guardian: The US used chemical weapons in Iraq and lied about it. [In addition to using white phosphorus on Iraqis,] the US used napalm…Former US Marine Jeff Englehart, “who participated in the operation against Faluja in November 2004 said the US used “firebombs” and “he saw the scorched bodies of women and children.” The US was using “MK77 bombs, an evolution of the napalm used in Vietnam and Korea, [which] carry kerosene-based jet fuel and polystyrene so that, like napalm, the gel sticks to structures and to its victims” and cremates them. Click here to see what white phosphorus does to people, and here for napalm. 4) US also doused people with napalm in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere
In WW2, the US dumped 14,000 tons of napalm, mostly on Japanese civilians. The US dumped 32,000 tons of napalm on Koreans as part of the US-inflicted Korean “holocaust” (Prof. Cumings). The US dumped 373,000 tons of napalm “directly at civilians” in Vietnam. (Boggs, 69, quote + above tonnages) Martin Luther King Jr. noted at the time that the US was the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” and was “test[ing] [its] latest weapons” on “peasants”, “just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe”.Video of US incinerating Vietnamese peasant villages. 6) US firebombing of Tokyo
Japanfocus.org notes that the US commenced the mass firebombing of Japanese civilians, killing hundreds of thousands. One example: The full fury of firebombing and napalm was unleashed on the night of March 9-10, 1945 when LeMay sent 334 B-29s low over Tokyo from the Marianas. Their mission was to reduce the city to rubble, kill its citizens, and instill terror in the survivors, with jellied gasoline and napalm that would create a sea of flames. …the US Strategic Bombing Survey estimated [the area] to be 84.7 percent residential… Whipped by fierce winds, flames detonated by the bombs leaped across a fifteen square mile area of Tokyo generating immense firestorms that engulfed and killed scores of thousands of residents. ... The bombing of March 9-10 took the lives of 100,000 Tokyoites and leveled sixteen square miles of the city in the most devastating raid in human history to that time . . . according to Japanese and US Strategic Bombing Survey figures, and may have taken the lives of many more.Images of victims of US firebombing of Japan. 6) The foundation of the United States Colonists “swarmed into the Indian encampment, slashing and shooting at anything that moved.” “We must burn them,” shouted one colonist, Mason, who later wrote: God was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven… Thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies!The majority of the Indians “crawling under beds and fleeing from Mason's dripping sword were women, children, and feeble old men.” Indians who were not burned or stabbed to death were shot if they tried to escape the fires. Puritan leader Cotton Mather said: “In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them.” (Stannard, 113-14) While ISIS has now used live cremation as a weapon of terror, the United States' cremation tactics, exhibited through today in continual bombings, build on its foundation of using live cremation as both a weapon of terror and a method of exterminating targeted populations. US colonists would burn indigenous women, children, men, and the elderly alive in closed off camps and structures and shoot, stab or bludgeon to death anyone who managed to to try to flee. Countless thousands were thus exterminated to create the United States. US/Western tactics, as seen in examples above, have since been expanded around the globe. Robert Barsocchini is an internationally published researcher and writer who focuses on global force dynamics and writes professionally for the film industry. He is a regular contributor to Washington's Blog. Source URL |
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As part of the plan to keep Palestinian calorie intake low israeli Occupation Troops Attack Farmers in Gaza
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The Israeli occupation forces on Saturday opened fire on the Gazan farmers east of Deir Al-Balah area in Gaza strip.
Witnesses from the area reported that the Israeli soldiers targeted the Palestinian farmers who were working in their agricultural lands
No injuries were reported.
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