{"id":152825,"date":"2015-05-20T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=152825"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:40:27","slug":"ukraine-cancer-europes-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/ukraine-cancer-europes-heartland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: A Cancer in Europe’s Heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Stephen Lendman<\/p>\n

(RINF<\/a>) – Ukraine is an example of what happens when lunatics run the asylum. It’s a US-installed Nazi-infested fascist police state headed by an illegitimate anointed oligarch mega-crook.<\/p>\n

It tolerates no opposition. Free expression is banned. Independent journalists risk harassment, assault, arrest, imprisonment, even death.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is a dagger pointed at Russia’s heartland. It’s bankrupt. It’s perhaps headed toward defaulting on its debt.<\/p>\n

It declared a moratorium on repayments, legislatively authorized. It’s step one toward default, short of declaring it.<\/p>\n

Yet Kiev continues spending millions of dollars daily waging low-level aggression on Donbass ahead of escalating it full-blown.<\/p>\n

Since taking office last year, Poroshenko increased military spending four times. It’s budgeted fourfold more than in 2014.<\/p>\n

He wants war, not peace. He ludicrously claims Russia intends a summer offensive against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

He lied claiming Russia has 50,000 troops on Ukraine’s border. A “Russian invasion” is coming, he blustered.<\/p>\n

Since Minsk II ceasefire terms were agreed on, Ukraine systematically violated virtually all its provisions – key ones straightaway.<\/p>\n

Yet Poroshenko turned truth on its head claiming “(t)here is convincing evidence that Ukraine strictly complies with the Minsk agreements and militants constantly violate them.”<\/p>\n

“Militants regularly shoot Ukrainian positions, engage in reconnaissance and subversive activity and provoke armed confrontations in order to disrupt peaceful settlement of the conflict.”<\/p>\n

False! Clear evidence shows Kiev forces systematically violate Minsk multiple times daily. Claiming otherwise is state propaganda amounting to Big Lies – blaming victims for its own crimes.<\/p>\n

Kiev propaganda reads like bad fiction. Fabricated regime data published in the state-controlled Kiev Post claim complete or partial loss of 28 towns and villages since Minsk II in February.<\/p>\n

Members of its so-called “cabinet of ministers” said so. They claim “a powerful strike force” of Russian and “separatist” soldiers target Mariupol.<\/p>\n

Poroshenko irresponsibly accused Russia of “aggression” numerous times since conflict erupted in April 2014 – despite no evidence whatever proving it.<\/p>\n

His baseless accusations wore thin long ago. They continue while his forces continue shelling Donbass daily.<\/p>\n

According to Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin:<\/p>\n

“Over the last 24 hours (alone), 33 shellings from Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces were registered. The enemy continues to use heavy weaponry.”<\/p>\n

It includes artillery, tank guns, armored vehicles, mortars, anti-aircraft weapons, grenade launchers and small arms.<\/p>\n

Heavy shelling continues daily – virtually ignored in the West. Propaganda reports blame Donbass freedom fighters for Kiev crimes.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s military wants increased funding for war. US combat troops continue training its forces for escalated aggression on Donbass. Launching it could begin any time.<\/p>\n

Fascist regimes operate this way. Many of Washington’s close allies are rogue police states – notably Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Fort Russ<\/a> published damning information of its viciousness, including:<\/p>\n

thousands of political prisoners – 4,023 “for support of separatism,” 753 for opposing mobilization and war, or alleged collection of information about a military base;<\/p>\n

former opposition MP\/anti-Maidan activist Oleg Kalashnikov murdered in cold blood;<\/p>\n

eight other former officials murdered to silence them;<\/p>\n

dozens of journalists arrested, disappeared or murdered – 215 openly attacked; about 100 Russian journalists deported and\/or threatened with death;<\/p>\n

institutionalized torture of political prisoners; many Donbass rebels and civilians tortured to death;<\/p>\n

evidence of Nazi-infested National Guard and likeminded volunteer battalion members committing rapes, robberies and other crimes;<\/p>\n

terminating former Yanukovych government civil servants without just cause – some openly assaulted;<\/p>\n

taking control of more than 20 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate churches;<\/p>\n

dozens of priests and parishioners attacked – many forced to flee cross-border following death threats;<\/p>\n

banning Russian media, films, communism and its symbols – mandating imprisonment for performing Soviet Russia’s national anthem;<\/p>\n

state control of media – regime propaganda alone allowed;<\/p>\n

police state prosecutions, convictions and imprisonment of regime opponents.<\/p>\n

Obama’s Ukrainian allies are xenophobic, ultranationalist, anti-Semitic, hate-mongering over-the-top Nazi-infested war-mongering fascists.<\/p>\n

One rogue state supports another – partners in high crimes!<\/p>\n

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/p>\n

His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/p>\n

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n

Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/p>\n

It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Stephen Lendman (RINF) – Ukraine is an example of what happens when lunatics run the asylum. It’s a US-installed Nazi-infested fascist police state headed by an illegitimate anointed oligarch mega-crook. It tolerates no opposition. Free expression is banned. Independent journalists risk harassment, assault, arrest, imprisonment, even death. Ukraine is a dagger pointed at Russia’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}