\u201cShow me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.\u201d
\n\u2013 ancient proverb<\/p>\n
The conflicts in Ukraine, Venezuela, and Syria have one thing in common: the U.S. government is in favor of the groups who aspire to topple \u2013 or who have toppled \u2013 the government in power.\u00a0Thus, U.S. politicians are giving either political, financial, or military support to these \u201copposition\u201d movements.<\/p>\n
But in all three cases there are leading groups steering the \u201copposition\u201d that want absolutely nothing to do with democracy \u2013 these groups are as far-right as politics gets: European-style fascism in Ukraine, Islamic extremism in Syria, and in Venezuela the elite-favored tradition of military dictatorships.<\/p>\n
But there has been a virtual U.S. media blackout as to the leadership of the movements in Ukraine, Syria, and Venezuela, and for good reason; if these groups come to power, the country will be far worse off than it is now.\u00a0The American public would give zero support to these groups if they knew the truth, which is why the level of U.S. media misinformation about these groups is as Orwellian as the workings of Obama\u2019s NSA.<\/p>\n
Take Ukraine for example.\u00a0The day after democratically elected government forces fled from the capital Kiev, the successful opposition political leaders sucked the enthusiasm out of the \u201crevolution\u201d when they informed the public that they would be presiding over a \u201cdoomed\u201d transitional government, because they \u201chave to make some unpopular decisions.\u201d\u00a0The new nominee for Prime Minister called his new cabinet a \u201cKamikaze government<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The government is suicidal because they are seeking loans from western financial institutions \u2013 like the IMF and European Commission \u2013 that come at a heavy price; in exchange for money Ukraine will have to implement a massive austerity program where the living standards of Ukrainians will be destroyed in Greek-like fashion.<\/p>\n This was the original reason why the now-ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych began to lean towards Russia, since Putin agreed to give Ukraine the money with no strings attached.\u00a0Of course, this background information \u2013 which is crucial to understanding the events in Ukraine \u2013 was simply ignored in the western media, which misleadingly referred to the protests as \u201cpro-EU protests.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s true that the suppression of a small pro-EU protest helped ignite wider sections of the population against the Ukrainian government, but the average Ukrainian would of course, not risk life and limb only to be torn asunder by a pro-EU austerity program.<\/p>\n The U.S. media also ignored the motor force of the Ukrainian protesters: the Ukrainian fascist party Svoboda, whose already-large presence in the Ukrainian parliament has been empowered because of the protests.\u00a0There was yet another U.S. media blackout about the role of Svoboda in the protests, whose members or sympathizers acted as the shock troops against the democratically elected government.\u00a0As writer Mike Whitney<\/a> recently noted:<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States helped defeat Nazism in World War 2. Obama helped bring it back.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s possible that once the current transitional government completes its austerity-suicide mission, the Svoboda party could then take total power and seek to funnel the immense anger of the austerity programs into anti-Russia and anti-Jewish sentiment.\u00a0Svoboda was already rewarded for its role in the protests and given six ministerial posts in the transitional government, including the deputy prime minister and the powerful Secretary of the Security and National Defense Committee.\u00a0But once the transitional government discredits itself with austerity, Svoboda will blame the senior member of the coalition, the \u201cFatherland\u201d party, and seek to boost itself into total power.<\/p>\n This nightmarish scenario seems entirely possible now, and if it happens, Svoboda will undoubtedly be indebted to President Obama and the U.S. media for their role in giving the protests political cover, not to mention the critical role played by the U.S. in helping strategize the overthrow of\u00a0<\/b>Yanukovych \u2013 the audio recording of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland goes into Machiavellian detail about how the U.S. was working to bring about the coup; and the significance of this incredible recording was ignored by the U.S. media, which reduced the story to how \u201crude\u201d Nuland had acted by uttering an expletive about the European Union.<\/p>\n In Syria, Obama has consistently relied on the right-wing extremists as the leaders of the opposition against the Assad government.\u00a0The role of these al-Qaeda style Islamic extremists has been ignored by the media, even as their atrocities pile up on Youtube.<\/p>\n