Obama admits anti Russian coup, says US ‘brokered transition’ in Ukraine

Every day the war in Ukraine gets more deadly and threatens to spiral into world war, sponsored by nuclear bullies Russia and the US. Both blocs are desperate to claw back economic advantage as the capitalist system totters to collapse under its absurd logic of infinite growth, terminal greed and conflict.

”The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media,” writes Oliver Tickell – in The Ecologist  ” naked propaganda about fictitious ‘Russian aggression’ intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.”_drums_of_nuclear war

From the start the ‘Ukraine Revolution’ was suspicious, how many of the groups involved had been receiving US funding for years and years? Now Obama himself  has admitted on CNN that there was a ‘US brokered transition’ and that the US will directly supply arms to the new Ukraine government.

Lavrov Says Obama’s Remarks Prove Direct US Involvement in Ukraine Coup /

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Obama’s remarks are “proof that from the very beginning, the United States was involved in the anti-government coup that president Obama neutrally described as a ‘power transition.’”

The February 22, 2014 coup, that took place right after the then-President Viktor Yanukovych signed an internationally brokered national reconciliation deal with the opposition, brought a pro-Western government with a strong nationalist element to power.

The coup-installed government’s initiatives against the country’s Russian-speaking citizens, forced Crimea to seek reunification with Russia and triggered a profound political confrontation that turned into a bloody civil conflict in the east of Ukraine.

“Obama’s rhetoric… demonstrates Washington’s intention to continue every kind of support to the Kiev government, which apparently intends to end the conflict through violence,” Lavrov continued.

“All over the world, our Western partners call for a dialogue between the government and the opposition, be it Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan,” the minister went on. “But, for some reason, Ukraine is an exception and our Western partners avoid calling for a dialogue as far as Ukraine is concerned, they only call for all kinds of support for Kiev.”.us-involvement-in-ukraine-coup-sputnik-international/

---

TICKELL’S ‘Drums of War’ ARTICLE CONCLUDES WITH THIS PUBLIC APPEAL TO STOP THE PERILOUS US AGGRESSION  drums_of_nuclear war

…”So what is NATO’s motivation? One simple reason is that NATO was set up as a cold war military alliance, and with the end of the cold war its raison d’etre evaporated. Simply put, we no longer need it, and its drain on our resources. So, the NATO logic goes, we had better start making some reasons fast. Which is exactly what they are doing.

Another reason is the US’s aspiration for a ‘unipolar world’ in which it enjoys ‘full spectrum dominance’. These ideas are those of the neocons who enjoyed supremacy under the presidenices of George W Bush. But they have now become the core philosophy of the American Imperium – and Barack Obama adheres to them as firmly as ‘Dubya’ ever did.

First, don’t fall for it!

So what, as ordinary citizens, can we do to block this push to a war that could, literally, annihilate civilization and much of life on planet Earth?

First, don’t fall for the vicious anti-Russian propaganda that the BBC and other news outlets relentless spout at us. Second, talk about it – with friends, family and down the pub. Share this article, and these thoughts, on social media.

Third, make it an election issue. Push electoral candidates in your area on where they stand. Emphasize the importance of making peace with Russia, rather than goading it into a wholly unnecessary and stupid war. Tell them your number one election priority is not the NHS, not immigration – but peace!

And remember – it can work. In August 2013 NATO was all set to go to war on Syria on the grounds – entirely unsupported by evidence – that President Assad was waging chemical warfare against his enemies in the civil war unleashed by … NATO, its member states and allies.

Overwhelming political pressure on MPs, and Labour MPs in particular, caused Ed Miliband to back out of a tentative agreement to back Cameron’s military adventurism. On 30th August the Commons vote for war was lost. In turn this undermined the US’s drive to war.

And while the situation in Syria remains dreadful, it’s surely nothing like as bad as it would have been with the additional devastation of millions of tonnes of NATO bombs. Just look at the failed states we have created in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya to see how bad things can get.

Yes, it’s hard for the essential sanity and peacefulness of ordinary people and families to prevail against the world’s most powerful military and propaganda regime. That’s why we need to be constantly bombarded with media lies: to overcome our right and proper horror of war, and manipulated into risking our lives, health, prosperity and wellbeing, all for a false cause of futility and destruction.

But it can be done. And for all our futures, for all generations to come and for Earth herself, sanity must prevail.”  Oliver Tickell edits The Ecologist.