According to\u00a0a recent report by Gabriel Gatehouse of the BBC, witness testimony and photographic evidence both conflict with Parubiy\u2019s account of how the overthrow a year ago occurred<\/span><\/a>. The United States Government strongly supported Yanukovych’s overthrow, and denies that it was a coup. The Obama Administration calls it an expression of Ukrainian democracy, and says that the replacement Government was\u00a0\u201cduly elected\u201d (though by whom was left unsaid by Mr. Obama)<\/span><\/a>, and that when elections for a new Ukrainian President were held in northwest Ukraine on 25 May 2014, in which no one in the rebelling region participated, the residents in the rebelling region were terrorists if they refused to accept the election\u2019s winner as being their President. The residents still refused to accept the winner of that election as being their leader. The Government, on 2 May 2014, massacred an estimated 100+ peaceful demonstrators against the Government, in Odessa<\/span><\/a>, and sent troops into the southeast to take over their local governments, and so the civil war started. Mr. Parubiy was a member of the small team that planned the Odessa massacre<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The residents in the area of Ukraine that is\u00a0being bombed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and even\u00a0firebombed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Parubiy\u2019s Government had opposed the overthrow, because\u00a0they had voted 90% for the person who was being overthrown<\/span><\/a>; they did not feel that an imposed new leader would be acceptable to them. The continued bombing of them by the replacement Government has thus-far failed to persuade the residents there to support Parubiy\u2019s Government; and, so, those residents have declared their region to be no longer a part of Ukraine. Ukraine\u2019s President, Petro Poroshenko, disagrees;\u00a0he says that they have no right to do that and that they are therefore \u2018terrorists\u2019 for seceding from Ukraine<\/span><\/a>. The United States Government\u00a0supports<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that position, and\u00a0Congress voted more than 98% for it<\/span><\/a>. However, U.S. President Barack Obama,\u00a0whose Administration ran that coup and actually selected the leader of the interim government to replace Yanukovych, Ukraine\u2019s current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk<\/span><\/a>, hasn\u2019t yet decided whether to send Ukraine more weapons than he has already sent.<\/span><\/p>\n Canada’s Parliament held a Reception, 24 Feb. 2015, for Parubiy:<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2015\/02\/24\/in-the-city-ukrainian-deputy-speaker-hosted-on-the-hill\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse The Deputy Speaker of Ukraine\u2019s parliament, Andriy Parubiy, who had been the co-founder of the Nazi-inspired Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine, met in Washington on Wednesday, February 25th, with members of the U.S. House and Senate who support his request that the U.S. Government donate weapons to his virtually bankrupt Government. 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