Anti-Austerity Pushback Begins in Ukraine

The frantic Cold War obsessed, neocon infested US state-corporate media are blowing their mighty klaxons today as there is more festering unrest in Ukraine. Not that such a thing should be unexpected given the US-EU-NATO Axis of Evil hostile, neo-Nazi backed takeover that ousted the democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych only to replace him with a western puppet charged with looting the country. With the reported seizure of government buildings in the city of Donetsk and demands for secession from the illegally installed austerity government the western media is in the typical manner labeling the protesters as "pro-Russian" and "pro-Putin" rather than what they really are which is "anti-fascist" and "anti-austerity" which will further fan the flames of what may be - thanks to our failed political system in Der Heimat - an express train careening towards Armageddon.

What areat job by President Barack Obama in that his splendid little coup d'eat joint venture with the neocons whose insane, Hitlerian ideology of world domination has become fully cancerous and is metastasizing throughout every branch of the government is exceeding any reasonable expectations of disaster. What started as a contest in dick measuring in which El Presidente continued to come out on the losing end to the now fully vilified and demonized to elicit bloodlust from the masses of asses "Ras-Putin" the entire country of Ukraine is just about ready to erupt in a full blown civil war. The anti-austerity backlash by those who could truly be tabbed as "freedom fighters" and who will have to operate underground ala the resistance in Nazi occupied Europe during the "Good War" is the real thing when it comes to ousting a tyrannical and corrupt regime such as the one that the EU, US and NATO have installed in Kiev. The breadbasket of Europe is about to turn into abbatoir and the fault all lies within the bowels of the American Deep State and the even murkier shadow government as manifested within the Continuity of Government (COG) infrastructure has which never abandoned the use of Communism as some form of Manichean devil to serve as the justification for repression at home and militarism and subterfuge abroad.

The pencil necked technocratic geek Arseny “Yats” Yatseniuk - in between dishonest tirades about Russian invasions - seems to be scared shitless right about now and justifiably so. Before long the angry mobs in the streets will be outside his own window and looking to dangle his skinny little chicken-legged ass from the end of a rope for his selling out of his country to the global corporate parasites who are currently busy bemoaning the loss of billions of loot that could have been milked from Crimea had the people there not had the good sense to vote to rejoin Russia. Tuesday the crackdown against the freedom fighters began with the occupying government sending forth heavily armed paramilitary goon squad police to engage in an "anti-terrorist" action to oust protesters in Eastern Ukraine. It is the typical double-standard and hypocrisy of the US establishment and their European stooges to refer to what is a legitimate uprising against forced austerity and economic ruination and political persecution at the hands of their neo-Nazi backed usurpers in Kiev. Neither "Yats" or the loathsome and corrupt moral reprobate Interior Minister Arsen Avakov will bother with the inconvenient truth that the real "terrorists" were the ones in the streets of Kiev, throwing petrol bombs at police, engaging in organized thuggery and shooting innocent people - both protesters and police.

How this all plays out has yet to be seen but all indications from a Cold War fixated US establishment that is bereft of adult leadership as well as Obama's ongoing apparent insistence on making this a personal thing with Putin it's not looking good at all. Former Reagan administration Deputy Assistant Treasurer and prolific writer who has been writing on the ultimate decline of what used to be a free, mostly fair and decent society into the abyss Paul Craig Roberts nails it in his most recent column entitled "Obama Issues Threats To Russia And NATO" from which I excerpt:

It has dawned on the Russian government that being a part of the American dollar system means that Russia is open to being looted by Western banks and corporations or by individuals financed by them, that the ruble is vulnerable to being driven down by speculators in the foreign exchange market and by capital outflows, and that dependence on the American international payments system exposes Russia to arbitrary sanctions imposed by the “exceptional and indispensable country.”

Why it took the Russian government so long to realize that the dollar payments system puts countries under Washington’s thumb is puzzling. Perhaps the answer is the success of US Cold War propaganda. Cold war propaganda portrayed America as the shining light, the great observer of human rights, opponent of torture, upholder of liberty, defender of the downtrodden, lover of peace, and benefactor of the world. This image survived even as the US government prevented the rise of any representative governments in Latin America and while Washington has bombed half a dozen countries into rubble.

Russians emerging from communism naturally aligned with the propaganda image of “American freedom.” That the US and Europe were also corrupt and also had blood on their hands was overlooked. During the years of anti-Soviet propaganda, Washington was murdering European women and children and blaming communists. The truth came out when President of Italy Francesco Cossiga publicly revealed Operation Gladio, a false flag terrorist scheme run by the CIA and Italian Intelligence during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s that targeted European women and children with bombs in order to blame the communists and thereby prevent European communist parties from making electoral gains. This is one of the most well-known false flag events in history, having resulted in extraordinary confessions by Italian intelligence.

Now that the Russian government understands that Russia must depart the dollar system in order to protect Russian sovereignty, President Putin has entered into barter/ruble oil deals with China and Iran. However, Washington objects to Russia abandoning the dollar international payment system. Zero Hedge, a more reliable news source than the US print and TV media, reports that Washington has conveyed to both Russia and Iran that a non-dollar oil deal would trigger US sanctions.

The only recourse that the rest of the world has against the dangerous Leviathan in Washington and it's current Sun King ensconced within the control center of Mordor at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is to turn to economics, a game that the now thoroughly corrupt system of US looter capitalism - we cheat everyone, especially the TV mesmerized zombies on the star-spangled lemming farm - cannot win. So it is coming to a head. There has already been chatter that Russia will soon retaliate for those sanctions - the most effective to this point being a handful of McDonalds fast food restaurants abandoning Crimea - by effectively dumping the petrodollar in a trade deal with Iran. This would put the US political class and the neocons - permanently in bed with the government of the insane Israeli leader Bibi Netanyahu - in the optimal situation to engage in a climactic Godfather style wipeout of the enemies of the Corleone (or is it Lansky?) family that would instead be more like the last suicidal charge of a pack of over the hill outlaws at the end of The Wild Bunch as the Empire goes out on it's own terms.

Barring a move to impeach Obama immediately and get him the hell out of anywhere that his narcissistic streak that has driven him to pick a fight with a nuclear armed Russia where he has the ultimate trump card of the launch codes then we are truly living in a revisionist Cold War hell that is the modern incarnation of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Sashko Bily Murdered: Night of the Long Knives Begins in Ukraine

Oleksandr Muzychko aka Sashko Bily of the extremist Right Sector group that was instrumental in backing the US backed coup d’etat in Kiev was shot dead by police yesterday.  Has the Night of the Long Knives arrived? Has “Yats” been given the order to clean up his unelected regime to make the country safe for corporate plunder? There are conflicting stories about the killing of Muzychnko, one being that the brutal thug was gunned down while trying to escape what is officially described as a "special forces operation" that took place at a cafe in the city of Rivne in western Ukraine. The other story that is circulating is far more ominous and threatens to further expose that great outbreak of democracy that is peddled by the American state-corporate media, the neocons and the Obama administration is nothing more than a fraud of the highest order. According to an account from the BBC:

Earlier, a Ukrainian MP, Oles Doniy, gave a different version of events. He said two cars had forced Muzychko's car to stop, and he had then been dragged into one of the other cars. Later his body was found dumped, his hands tied behind his back and two bullet wounds in his heart, Doniy wrote overnight on his Facebook page.

Correspondents say Muzychko acquired notoriety in Ukraine after he was filmed brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle at a town hall session in western Ukraine, and then harassing a local prosecutor. After that, in February, the Ukrainian interior minister condemned his behaviour and promised to investigate.

That certainly doesn't jibe with that shining tale spun by professional liars about the glorious new era that has come to Ukraine and could be the first indication that the goons who backed the installation of the puppet of the global finance mafia, former central banker Arseniy Yatseniuk have outlived their usefulness.  Hell, it's not as though such a thing has no historical precedent.

In late June of 1934 with Adolf Hitler having completed his rise by being named Chancellor of Germany (Angela Merkel has the gig now) and consolidating his power the violent collection of crude and savage goons that were the Sturmabteilung (SA)- the historical counterparts to Right Sector and John McCain's Svoboda pals – had become a nuisance. The beatings, killings, public displays of menace, drunken debauchery and instability of the SA were not only an embarrassment but a potential threat to the Hitler regime. So Der Führer ordered the blood purge that is known as the Night of the Long Knives to eliminate any future challenge from the Nazi rabble so the leadership was wiped out. Not only was the SA taken out but the opportunity was used to settle other scores – excerpted from Wikipedia:

The regime did not limit itself to a purge of the SA, however. Having earlier imprisoned or exiled prominent Social Democrats and Communists, Hitler used the occasion to move against conservatives he considered unreliable. This included Vice-Chancellor Papen and those in his immediate circle. In Berlin, on Göring's personal orders, an armed SS unit stormed the Vice-Chancellery. Gestapo officers attached to the SS unit shot Papen's secretary Herbert von Bose without bothering to arrest him first. The Gestapo arrested and later executed Papen's close associate Edgar Jung, the author of Papen's Marburg speech; they disposed of his body by dumping it in a ditch. The Gestapo also murdered Erich Klausener, the leader of Catholic Action, and a close Papen associate. The vice-chancellor himself was unceremoniously arrested at the Vice-Chancellery, despite his insistent protests that he could not be arrested. Although Hitler ordered him released days later, Papen no longer dared to criticise the regime.

Hitler, Göring, and Himmler unleashed the Gestapo against old enemies, as well. Both Kurt von Schleicher, Hitler's predecessor as chancellor, and his wife were murdered at their home. Others killed included Gregor Strasser, a former Nazi who had angered Hitler by resigning from the party in 1932, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, the former Bavarian state commissioner who crushed the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.[42] Kahr's fate was especially gruesome. His body was found in a wood outside Munich; he had been hacked to death, apparently with pickaxes. The murdered included at least one accidental victim: Willi Schmid, the music critic of the Münchner Neuste Nachrichten, a Munich newspaper. The Gestapo mistook him for Ludwig Schmitt, a past supporter of Otto Strasser, the brother of Gregor.  Such unrestrained violence added to the fearsome reputation of the Gestapo, the Nazis' secret police.

The assassination of Sashko Bily could be the beginning of a modern version of that purge, the bought and paid for media can’t possibly keep the lid on the presence of so many fascists and neo-Nazis in the coup installed government in Kiev forever. The recent beating of Ukranian state television executive Oleksandr Panteleymonov by Svoboda party ruffians and the resulting viral video caused no small amount of embarrassment to the US and the Yatsenyuk government. That act of brutality actually had to be acknowledged and was condemned by US sources who were "deeply offended”.  If the goon squads continue to be caught perpetrating such violent acts it is time to clean them up because the corporate benefactors of carving up the Ukraine bounty have enough problems by taking possession of their new prize sans Crimea already.

But even the best laid plans do go awry and fate of Shashko Bily has members of Red Sector vowing reprisals in would could easily turn into a bloodbath of neo-Nazi vs. neo-Nazi and both jousting for control of what is at this point an already fragile government. Throw into an already volatile mix the presence of old guard corrupt nationalist lunatics like the recently sprung from prison “Gas Princess” Yulia Tymoshenko going off the chain and ranting insanely and it is a proverbial ticking time bomb. These are not the remarks of a highly regarded figure would make to promote stability and foster well being:

"I am sorry that I am not able to be there and am not in charge of these processes, they wouldn't have had a fucking chance of getting Crimea off me."

"I would have found a way to finish off these bastards."

"I am hoping that I will use all my connections and will get the whole world to rise up so that not even scorched earth would be left of Russia."

"Discussing the fate of Ukraine's 8 million ethnic Russians, Tymoshenko was also heard saying that they should be "nuked."

She sounds just like Senator McCain's type of gal.

Nice stuff that the neocons have unleashed, kind of brings back memories of all of the sectarian killings, tortures, murders and prowling death squads that were unleashed after Bush and Cheney bombed and invaded Iraq. This could turn out to be a real mess for those greedy American corporations that Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland had invited to feast upon the conquered carcass of Ukraine like so many vultures.

But the vultures will indeed feast given the new growth industry that will be dead bodies strewn from one end of the country to the other thanks to yet another US foreign policy clusterfuck.

Putin Once Again Punks Barry and the Boys

The sound of the fury is deafening as it rolls forth across the fruited plain today. The crybaby American power elite, the at one time biggest, baddest bully on the whole spinning globe is throwing an ugly and prolonged snit over the reviled Russian leader Vladimir Putin sending troops into Ukraine to protect his own borders. The U.S. warmongers and whiners are braying today in a keening cacophony of petulant assholes who have had the grievous injury of not getting their way. The neo-Nazi backed fascist coup d’etat executed against Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych was to have been a triumphal bit of vengeance for Putin’s daring to offer up asylum to former government contactor turned patriotic NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden thereby sparing the young man a living hell of torture and imprisonment followed by a Stalin style show trial in The Homeland as well as his derailing of the war on Syria which was always based on lies from the onset.

No doubt that Putin stewed during the American led campaign of lies and hypocrisy carried out by dishonest demagogues and state media stooges during the Sochi Olympics and the ousting of Yanukovych by scum and thugs was obviously timed to inflict the ultimate indignity. But once again, Putin being the masterful politician and former KGB spy schooled Obama again. I always got a kick out of the assertions of my liberal friends that Barack Obama was like the Michael Jordan of politics, carefully and deliberately studying the defense of the Detroit Pistons Bad Boys and would at the exact moment of opportunity erupt in a whirling dervish of superhuman daredeviltry single-handedly winning the title as his badly outclassed opponents were left in a heap of despair watching the coronation of the champion. Well to use another of those wonderful sports analogies Putin just punked Obama again and made him into his bitch, there is nothing quite like being butt-fucked six ways from Sunday on the world stage. Obama is nothing more than an amateur and a narcissist, a self-important fool who was never really cut out for the big leagues to begin with.

Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry ripped Putin for his “incredible act of aggression” in Ukraine but this is the same stammering dolt whose chestnuts were pulled out of the fire over attacking Syria back in September by the Russian leader, it would have been an unmitigated disaster. Such an ingrate not to mention a colossal hypocrite and a fitting representative of a rogue state that flagrantly violates every premise of international law on a daily basis but when you are a member of the American elite the law can just be damned - laws are for the little people. Kerry is understandably pissed off  being one of the high-rolling Davos elite and an honorary piece of the corrupt Eurotrash that would have benefited enormously from cramming their latest round of crippling austerity programs stright up the asses of the Ukranian people. Not that Yanukovych personally stuck it to Kerry by nationalizing a Heinz Ketchup factory like Hugo Chavez did but that is another ongoing U.S. backed coup in a country that doesn’t sit on Russia’s border. Kerry's tirades actually began earlier this week when he carped about the lack of taste for U.S. intervention being the attitudes of a "poor country". This guy has no business whatsoever acting as Secretary of State as it is very obvious that he is a walking conflict of interest thanks to his marrying into the Heinz family fortunes and his history of flip-flopping, for example wining and dining his pal Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and then pushing for a military intervention to remove him from power.

Taking the place of the neo-Nazi loving Senator McCain on the on the Sunday morning bloviation circuit Kerry was everywhere today pushing the lies of the American gangster state. Other than appearing on Fox Kerry hit for the cycle appearing on all of the big three regular television networks to kick Putin in the balls – ostensibly for sending troops into Ukraine but really to avenge the twin insults of Snowden and Syria. The longtime Massachusetts Senator is man with a notoriously chronic case of diarrhea of the mouth while on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Kerry made the ludicrous statement that - "You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext". But in typical fashion the ever ridiculous hosts, in this case longtime insider and gravy train rider Bob Schieffer failed to call him on such obvious bullshit. What was allowed to go totally unmentioned is that the flag-wrapped exceptionalist people who run The Homeland have invaded another country on “completely trumped up pretext” in the 21st century when Obama's predecessors George W. Bush and Dick Cheney attacked and invaded Iraq - a country that did not even remotely threaten the U.S.  Saddam Hussein did NOT have weapons of mass destruction yet a costly and disastrous - at least in terms of American prestige - war was started under the exact type of completely made up horseshit that Kerry has the gall to  accuse Putin of. Hell, if anyone should understand this it is John Kerry – he ran against Bush for the presidency in 2004 for Christ’s sake.

On NBC’s "Meet the Press" Kerry whined about kicking Russia out of G8 and boasted about economic sanctions, pity the poor wounded empire that is unable to militarily bully Mr. Putin like it does everyone else and as for economic sanctions, none could more onerous and cruel than those which that have been inflicted upon the American people themselves. The failed economic policies of the Obama regime (or for that matter any establishment Republican regime) represent the ongoing fleecing of Americans to provide free gambling money to Wall Street casinos and to pay tribute to the global finance mafia that Kerry is a mouthpiece for.

Everyone is joining in on the scam too.  Mealy mouthed piss babies like Senator Lindsey Graham – in full bitch fit mode are going after Obama hammer and tong after dear leader was fed yet another one of those vodka-marinated shit sandwiches by Putin. Graham of course is fending off a tea party challenge to her longtime Senate seat and yet another public lynching of Obama, especially for not being tough enough on Putin sells well with the Jesus freaks, rubes and Birchers in the Palmetto State. Even the opportunistic Sarah Palin has slithered out of her spider hole to bemoan the lack of backbone by Obama in not launching a full-scale military invasion of Russia - which she could presumably see from her back porch.

On days like this I am ashamed to be an American but considering what a corrupt fascist shithole that this country has become I am pretty fucking  proud of it.

After Instigating Coup U.S. Needs to Stay the Hell Out of Ukraine

The U.S. warmongers are still drunk off of the magic elixir of their joyous weekend coup d'etat of the democratically elected government of Ukraine and the accompanying delight of sticking it to the hated Vladimir Putin during his international Olympic showcase at Sochi. The bloodlust of vampires like the deranged Senator John McCain and his ilk albeit temporarily slaked by a week of mayhem in the streets of Kiev will be back soon as there will be the imminent demands that the Obama administration engage in backing a rogue occupying force that is ready to engage in some serious pogroms against their hated enemies. While the corrupt media was exulting in such raw propagandizing as the replacement of a statue of Vladimir Lenin with a golden toilet - reminiscent of the military psyops exercise of hauling down the statue of Saddam Hussein during the early days of the Iraq 'Shock and Awe" invasion. There was also a bit of a lurid tale making the rounds about a golden toilet that looked like a throne in the palace of ousted president Viktor Yanukovich but that was exposed early on as a hoax before it ended up on Rachel Maddow and Bill O'Reilly's shows on Monday night cable television's electronic cesspool.

That the at least temporarily in power western backed group that is in the orbit of the sleazy Yulia Tymoshenko, a woman who is the celebrated head of the media cult of personality and who has her own history of corruption relied on vicious goons including neo-Nazis to oust Yanukovich is lost on the cheerleaders masturbating over the latest episode of the "two-minutes hate".  Hell, it was only a few short months ago when President Barack Obama and Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry were ready to scramble the bombers to attack Damascus targets in a war against the regime of Bashar al-Assad that they and the war pigs who run the establishment were throwing in with fiendish Islamist militants affiliated with al Qaeda and a taste for human flesh. Despite the best efforts of the American war machine and the chronic meddling of one Saudi prince who goes by the nickname of "Bandar Bush" we managed to avoid getting dragged into that morass thanks to none other than Putin himself who pounced on a typical  Kerry diarrhea of the mouth moment to ride to the rescue and spare us all another disastrous Middle East war. The reigning war freaks within the Washington 'consensus' of the elite have been itching to feed Putin to the pigs ever since and inciting a civil war on Russia's borders does exactly that - at least in their eyes.

Today, after managing to get through the closing ceremonies at Sochi without going ballistic over blatant meddling in Ukraine by Washington and Europe Putin let it rip correctly denouncing the west for backing "terrorists" and "extremists" to oust a democratically elected leader - he didn't mention the Nazis though but the images from Kiev and the manhunt for the on the run Yanukovich speak for themselves. The U.S. is once again exposed as nothing more than a criminal state which it has been since the end of WW II when the hellspawn that is the CIA was created and one of the first things that Allen Dulles and his fellow treacherous scum did was enter into a pact with Nazi war criminals including General Reinhard Gehlen to form an alliance against the Soviets. This shit is getting old and the Cold War should be in the past and the current flock of red-baiters including McCain and the rest of the Neocons have been so discredited that in a sane country they would have long ago been exiled from any sort of legitimacy. But as with the Arizona legislature and their attempt to turn gays into the new 'niggers' (or Juden) under their white supremacist Jim Crow II jihad against decent civilization it is apparent that we are never going to get past any of this and will remain necklaced by the heinous prejudices of that much hyped but truly mediocre "greatest generation". Sure they are dying out but their policies are resurgent and in continuing to push for the destabilization with Russia they may yet incinerate the rest of us.

The coming weeks will see more saber-rattling, neocon lies on what should be publicly owned media airwaves but have been hijacked by the fascist fifth column and will surely embolden those like McCain to continue to instigate and raise funds for the same type of murdering psychopaths that are typically supported by the empire. Note the Latin American death squads of the hallowed Ronald Reagan. There are however voices of sanity although they will continue to be mocked and marginalized by the venal, ass-kissing careerists in the so-called mainstream media. The libertarian icon Ron Paul has already spoken out against U.S. intervention in a ginned up civil war:

The usual interventionists in the US have long meddled in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In 2004 it was US government money that helped finance the Orange Revolution, as US-funded NGOs favoring one political group over the other were able to change the regime. These same people have not given up on Ukraine. They keep pushing their own agenda for Ukraine behind the scenes, even as they ridicule anyone who claims US involvement.

A recent leaked telephone conversation between two senior government officials made it clear that not only was the US involved in the Ukrainian unrest, the US was actually seeking to determine who should make up the next Ukrainian government!

Senator John McCain, who has made several trips to Ukraine recently to meet with the opposition, wrote last week that the US must stand up to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Crimea.

Why are US government officials so eager to tell the Ukrainians what they should do? Has anyone bothered to ask the Ukrainians? What if might help alleviate the ongoing violence and bloodshed if the Ukrainians decide to remake the country as a looser confederation of regions rather than one tightly controlled by a central government? Perhaps Ukraine engaged in peaceful trade with countries both to the west and east would benefit all sides. But outside powers seem to be fighting a proxy war, with Ukraine suffering the most because of it.

If you asked most Americans how they feel, my bet is that you would discover they are sick and tired of the US government getting involved in every crisis that arises. Certainly the American people want none of of this intervention in Ukraine. They understand, as recent polls have shown, that our interventionist foreign policy is only creating more enemies overseas. And they also understand that we are out of money. We could not afford to be the policemen of world even if we wanted to be.

While widely ridiculed by the presstitutes former Congressman Paul has been nothing if not consistent against the cancer that is the American warfare state. It took a lot of balls to oppose wars and interventionism when Paul did, back in the days when the alternative internet media was  in its infancy and the PNAC dominated Bushreich was embarked on a world domination tour abroad and a relentless attack on civil liberties in The Homeland. Paul rose to the occasion repeatedly, never more so when he took over the stage at the ridiculous Republican presidential 'debate' back in 2007 to assign a reading list to at the time front-runner Rudy "Mr. 9/11" Giuliani. The blowhard former Big Apple mayor never recovered and has become a punchline today.

It is up to those whose bullshit detectors are always on high, fully understand that the domestic media does nothing but distort, obscure and spin that which is true in order to push the big business of war and military expenditures and wrap it all up in the star-spangled Hitlerian 'Big Lie' of spreading "democracy" to take a stand against this latest and very dangerous provocation of Russia. 

You won't find the truth on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, MSNBC, CNN or any of the other propaganda arms of a criminal empire but you will find it here and in the alternative media. There is a reason why the state wants to use their vast unconstitutional spying apparatus,  their rigged courts and their bought and paid for Congress to destroy freedom of speech on the internet and that the legitimacy of their coup in Ukraine has already been already come into question only makes them more intent at doing so.