{"id":109178,"date":"2014-03-06T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=a8f517731002153556afd53961d0f56b"},"modified":"2014-03-06T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T07:48:00","slug":"evidence-shows-kiev-putschists-recruited-euromaiden-snipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/evidence-shows-kiev-putschists-recruited-euromaiden-snipers\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Shows Kiev Putschists Recruited Euromaiden Snipers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\"><b>Evidence Shows Kiev Putschists Recruited Euromaidan Snipers<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet confirmed it. On February 25 , he and EU foreign policy Catherine Ashton spoke.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They were monitored. They didn&#8217;t know it at the time. Their discussion was leaked.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Paet talked to Ashton after returning from Kiev, he said. &#8220;At the time, (he) was already in Estonia,&#8221; he added.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">On Wednesday, he held a press conference. He issued a statement saying Euromaidan killings demand an independent investigation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Estonia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry confirmed the leaked phone call&#8217;s authenticity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We reject the claim that Paet was giving an assessment of the opposition&#8217;s involvement in the violence,&#8221; it stressed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s impossible reinterpreting what he meant.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He only commented on what he heard in Kiev. He spilled the beans. Intentionally or not, he confirmed what&#8217;s been independently believed all along.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ukraine&#8217;s legitimate President Viktor Yanukovych was wrongfully blamed. He had nothing to do with Euromaidan killings.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The operation was a classic false flag. It was staged to blame him. It&#8217;s now exposed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Cui bono matters most. Yanukovych&#8217;s involvement had everything to lose and nothing to gain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Catherine Ashton&#8217;s spokesperson, Maja Kocijancic, was silent. &#8220;(W)e don&#8217;t comment on leaked phone conversations,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officials loyal to Yanukovych reportedly hacked phones used by Paet and Ashton. They uploaded what they heard online.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Paet was heard saying &#8220;there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;All the evidence shows&#8221; they were shooting at people from both sides. They targeted police and protesters. Yanukovych was wrongfully blamed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ashton was nonplussed. She was tongue-tied. She was caught red-handed. She&#8217;s part of the dirty scheme to oust him.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">She reacted saying: &#8220;Well, yeah&#8230;that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s terrible. I think we do want to investigate.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;I mean, I didn&#8217;t pick that up. That&#8217;s interesting. Gosh.&#8221; Expect all-out efforts to bury the story. Whether it&#8217;s possible remains to be seen.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Paet spoke to Kiev doctor Olga Bogomolets. She&#8217;s a Bogomolets National Medical University professor.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s named after her great-grandfather Oleksandr. He founded and served as its Institute of Dermatology and Cosmetology chief.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">She said snipers shot protesters and police. Paet called Dr. Bogomolets&#8217; evidence &#8220;quite disturbing.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">She showed him photos. They revealed &#8220;the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it&#8217;s really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don&#8217;t want to investigate what exactly happened,&#8221; said Paet.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">During weeks of protests, nearly 100 people were killed. Another 900 were injured.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">US-linked Putschists were responsible. Perhaps CIA elements were involved. The game is as old as empire. Victims are blamed for perpetrator crimes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Saddam was accused of having nonexistent WMDs. Gaddafi faced numerous false charges.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Assad repeatedly is blamed for US-supported death squad crimes.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Media scoundrels regurgitate official lies. They&#8217;re complicit in imperial lawlessness.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">So-called British forensic expects wrongfully blamed Yanukovych for putschist-linked sniper killings.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They refused to reveal their identity. They claimed useful evidence obtained for future prosecutions, they said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They called what happened politically sensitive. They were part of an elaborate false flag scheme. Yanukovych was wrongfully blamed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Paet blamed putschists for cover-up. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want to investigate what exactly happened,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They want it suppressed. Snipers were neo-Nazi hitmen. Yanukovych maintained his innocence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He gave no orders to shoot, he stressed. He&#8217;s wrongfully accused of mass murder. He&#8217;s blamed for US-linked putschists&#8217; crimes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">This type information should making game-changing headlines. Expect all-out efforts to keep fingers pointed the wrong way.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Expect little said about Putin&#8217;s 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nomination. Norwegian Nobel Institute director Geir Lundestad revealed it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among Nations of the World (IASUCANW) nominated him.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s one of 278 candidates. They include 47 organizations. On Tuesday, Nobel Committee members met. They added their own proposals.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They focused on recent global turmoil. According to Lundestad:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Part of the purpose of the committee&#8217;s first meeting is to take into account recent events, and committee members try to anticipate what could be the potential developments in political hotspots.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Other 2014 nominees include Pope Francis, Edward Snowden, Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, and Malala Yousafzai.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">She&#8217;s perhaps the world&#8217;s most famous teenager. She&#8217;s called one of the world&#8217;s 100 most influential people. In April 2013, Time magazine featured her on its cover.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">She was nominated last year. She&#8217;s a Pakistani blogger\/activist for women&#8217;s rights and education.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">In October 2012, she boarded a school bus. Gunmen targeted her. She was shot in the left side of her forehead.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">She was unconscious in critical condition. She survived. She remains threatened.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">On October 10, this year&#8217;s Peace Prize winner will be announced.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov both are worthy. They collaborate for peace.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They go all-out for it. They want conflicts resolved diplomatically. They persevere against long odds.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They persist tirelessly. They deserve recognition for their efforts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Last October, IASUCANW President Georgiy Trapeznikov said its nominating &#8220;letter was sent to the Nobel Committee September 16 and it was received September 20.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Vladimir Putin has proved his adherence to the cause of peace.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We know very well what peacemaking role our president played in conflict regions, especially Beslan and South Ossetia.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s very much involved in resolving Syria&#8217;s conflict peacefully. He supports unity governance resolution in Ukraine the same way.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His press secretary Dmitry Pekov said:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;The primary criterion for the president is satisfaction from a job well done.&#8221; He seeks no special recognition or awards.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">State Duma MP Iosif Kobzon said Putin deserves this year&#8217;s prize. He&#8217;s polar opposite Obama.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Barack Obama is the man who has initiated and approved the United States&#8217; aggressive actions in Iraq and Afghanistan,&#8221; said Kobzon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He bears full responsibility for Libya, numerous proxy wars and Ukraine violence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Nobel Committee members deplore peace. They represent powerful monied interests.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They believe war is peace. It shows in their annual selections.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Past winners included Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, FW de Klerk, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, and four US warrior presidents.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Announcing Obama&#8217;s award, Committee members said:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It reflects his &#8220;extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s &#8220;work(ed) for a world without nuclear weapons.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He &#8220;created a new climate in international politics.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world&#8217;s attention and given its people hope for a better future.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Throughout his tenure, he waged war on humanity. He has new targets in mind. He wants unchallenged global dominance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He stops at nothing to get it. Putin is polar opposite. He supports peace and stability.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He champions multi-polar world cooperation. He deserves recognition for his efforts. So does Lavrov for his dedicated collaboration.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Expect malicious Russia bashing to deny them. Warriors win peace prizes. Peacemakers are spurned.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin opposes imperial lawlessness. He won&#8217;t rollover for America. Doing the right thing tarnishes him.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s public enemy number one. Being on the right side of history has a price. Waging war on humanity is rewarded.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">A Final Comment: NATO Saber-Rattling<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The North Atlantic Council (NAC) is NATO&#8217; &#8220;principle political decision-making body.&#8221; On March 4, it met. It did so at Poland&#8217;s request. It did it under the North Atlantic Treaty&#8217;s Article 4.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It calls for members to &#8220;consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any&#8221; is threatened.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Article 5 considers an armed attack (real or otherwise) against one or more members, an attack against all. It calls for collective self-defense.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">No threat whatever exists. Ukraine isn&#8217;t a NATO member. Not yet at least.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natolive\/news_107716.htm\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">statement<\/span><\/a> said &#8220;Russia continues to violate Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to violate its international commitments.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;These developments present serious implications for the security and stability of the Euro&#8230;Atlantic area.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Allies stand together in the spirit of strong solidarity in this grave crisis.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We undertake to pursue and intensify our rigorous and on-going assessment of the implications of this crisis for Alliance security, in close coordination and consultation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We continue to support all constructive efforts for a peaceful solution to the current crisis in accordance with international law.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We welcome the ongoing efforts undertaken by the United Nations, the European Union, the OSCE and the Council of Europe.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We will continue to consult with Ukraine within the NATO-Ukraine Commission.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We will engage with Russia in the NATO-Russia Council. We will hold a meeting&#8221; Wednesday. What follows remains to be seen.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His new book is titled &#8220;Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><b>Evidence Shows Kiev Putschists Recruited Euromaidan Snipers<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet confirmed it. On February 25 , he and EU foreign policy Catherine Ashton spoke.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They were monitored. They didn&#8217;t know it at the time. Their discussion was leaked.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paet talked to Ashton after returning from Kiev, he said. &#8220;At the time, (he) was already in Estonia,&#8221; he added.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Wednesday, he held a press conference. He issued a statement saying Euromaidan killings demand an independent investigation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Estonia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry confirmed the leaked phone call&#8217;s authenticity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We reject the claim that Paet was giving an assessment of the opposition&#8217;s involvement in the violence,&#8221; it stressed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s impossible reinterpreting what he meant.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He only commented on what he heard in Kiev. He spilled the beans. Intentionally or not, he confirmed what&#8217;s been independently believed all along.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ukraine&#8217;s legitimate President Viktor Yanukovych was wrongfully blamed. He had nothing to do with Euromaidan killings.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The operation was a classic false flag. It was staged to blame him. It&#8217;s now exposed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cui bono matters most. Yanukovych&#8217;s involvement had everything to lose and nothing to gain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Catherine Ashton&#8217;s spokesperson, Maja Kocijancic, was silent. &#8220;(W)e don&#8217;t comment on leaked phone conversations,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officials loyal to Yanukovych reportedly hacked phones used by Paet and Ashton. They uploaded what they heard online.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paet was heard saying &#8220;there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;All the evidence shows&#8221; they were shooting at people from both sides. They targeted police and protesters. Yanukovych was wrongfully blamed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ashton was nonplussed. She was tongue-tied. She was caught red-handed. She&#8217;s part of the dirty scheme to oust him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She reacted saying: &#8220;Well, yeah&#8230;that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s terrible. I think we do want to investigate.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I mean, I didn&#8217;t pick that up. That&#8217;s interesting. Gosh.&#8221; Expect all-out efforts to bury the story. Whether it&#8217;s possible remains to be seen.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paet spoke to Kiev doctor Olga Bogomolets. She&#8217;s a Bogomolets National Medical University professor.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s named after her great-grandfather Oleksandr. He founded and served as its Institute of Dermatology and Cosmetology chief.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She said snipers shot protesters and police. Paet called Dr. Bogomolets&#8217; evidence &#8220;quite disturbing.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She showed him photos. They revealed &#8220;the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it&#8217;s really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don&#8217;t want to investigate what exactly happened,&#8221; said Paet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During weeks of protests, nearly 100 people were killed. Another 900 were injured.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>US-linked Putschists were responsible. Perhaps CIA elements were involved. The game is as old as empire. Victims are blamed for perpetrator crimes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saddam was accused of having nonexistent WMDs. Gaddafi faced numerous false charges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Assad repeatedly is blamed for US-supported death squad crimes.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Media scoundrels regurgitate official lies. They&#8217;re complicit in imperial lawlessness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So-called British forensic expects wrongfully blamed Yanukovych for putschist-linked sniper killings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They refused to reveal their identity. They claimed useful evidence obtained for future prosecutions, they said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They called what happened politically sensitive. They were part of an elaborate false flag scheme. Yanukovych was wrongfully blamed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paet blamed putschists for cover-up. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want to investigate what exactly happened,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They want it suppressed. Snipers were neo-Nazi hitmen. Yanukovych maintained his innocence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He gave no orders to shoot, he stressed. He&#8217;s wrongfully accused of mass murder. He&#8217;s blamed for US-linked putschists&#8217; crimes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This type information should making game-changing headlines. Expect all-out efforts to keep fingers pointed the wrong way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Expect little said about Putin&#8217;s 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nomination. Norwegian Nobel Institute director Geir Lundestad revealed it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among Nations of the World (IASUCANW) nominated him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s one of 278 candidates. They include 47 organizations. On Tuesday, Nobel Committee members met. They added their own proposals.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They focused on recent global turmoil. According to Lundestad:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Part of the purpose of the committee&#8217;s first meeting is to take into account recent events, and committee members try to anticipate what could be the potential developments in political hotspots.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Other 2014 nominees include Pope Francis, Edward Snowden, Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, and Malala Yousafzai.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She&#8217;s perhaps the world&#8217;s most famous teenager. She&#8217;s called one of the world&#8217;s 100 most influential people. In April 2013, Time magazine featured her on its cover.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She was nominated last year. She&#8217;s a Pakistani blogger\/activist for women&#8217;s rights and education.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In October 2012, she boarded a school bus. Gunmen targeted her. She was shot in the left side of her forehead.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She was unconscious in critical condition. She survived. She remains threatened.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On October 10, this year&#8217;s Peace Prize winner will be announced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov both are worthy. They collaborate for peace.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They go all-out for it. They want conflicts resolved diplomatically. They persevere against long odds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They persist tirelessly. They deserve recognition for their efforts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last October, IASUCANW President Georgiy Trapeznikov said its nominating &#8220;letter was sent to the Nobel Committee September 16 and it was received September 20.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Vladimir Putin has proved his adherence to the cause of peace.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We know very well what peacemaking role our president played in conflict regions, especially Beslan and South Ossetia.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s very much involved in resolving Syria&#8217;s conflict peacefully. He supports unity governance resolution in Ukraine the same way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His press secretary Dmitry Pekov said:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The primary criterion for the president is satisfaction from a job well done.&#8221; He seeks no special recognition or awards.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>State Duma MP Iosif Kobzon said Putin deserves this year&#8217;s prize. He&#8217;s polar opposite Obama.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Barack Obama is the man who has initiated and approved the United States&#8217; aggressive actions in Iraq and Afghanistan,&#8221; said Kobzon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He bears full responsibility for Libya, numerous proxy wars and Ukraine violence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nobel Committee members deplore peace. They represent powerful monied interests.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They believe war is peace. It shows in their annual selections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Past winners included Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, FW de Klerk, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, and four US warrior presidents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Announcing Obama&#8217;s award, Committee members said:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It reflects his &#8220;extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s &#8220;work(ed) for a world without nuclear weapons.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He &#8220;created a new climate in international politics.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world&#8217;s attention and given its people hope for a better future.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Throughout his tenure, he waged war on humanity. He has new targets in mind. He wants unchallenged global dominance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He stops at nothing to get it. Putin is polar opposite. He supports peace and stability.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He champions multi-polar world cooperation. He deserves recognition for his efforts. So does Lavrov for his dedicated collaboration.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Expect malicious Russia bashing to deny them. Warriors win peace prizes. Peacemakers are spurned.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Putin opposes imperial lawlessness. He won&#8217;t rollover for America. Doing the right thing tarnishes him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s public enemy number one. Being on the right side of history has a price. Waging war on humanity is rewarded.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A Final Comment: NATO Saber-Rattling<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The North Atlantic Council (NAC) is NATO&#8217; &#8220;principle political decision-making body.&#8221; On March 4, it met. It did so at Poland&#8217;s request. It did it under the North Atlantic Treaty&#8217;s Article 4.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It calls for members to &#8220;consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any&#8221; is threatened.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Article 5 considers an armed attack (real or otherwise) against one or more members, an attack against all. It calls for collective self-defense.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No threat whatever exists. Ukraine isn&#8217;t a NATO member. Not yet at least.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natolive\/news_107716.htm\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a> said &#8220;Russia continues to violate Ukraine&rsquo;s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to violate its international commitments.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These developments present serious implications for the security and stability of the Euro&#8230;Atlantic area.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Allies stand together in the spirit of strong solidarity in this grave crisis.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We undertake to pursue and intensify our rigorous and on-going assessment of the implications of this crisis for Alliance security, in close coordination and consultation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We continue to support all constructive efforts for a peaceful solution to the current crisis in accordance with international law.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We welcome the ongoing efforts undertaken by the United Nations, the European Union, the OSCE and the Council of Europe.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We will continue to consult with Ukraine within the NATO-Ukraine Commission.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We will engage with Russia in the NATO-Russia Council. We will hold a meeting&#8221; Wednesday. What follows remains to be seen.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His new book is titled &#8220;Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. 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