{"id":120288,"date":"2014-05-22T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=2ad64f7b0b5b6a951137ee6389b6a137"},"modified":"2014-05-22T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:37:00","slug":"washington-risks-global-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/washington-risks-global-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Risks Global War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\"><b>Washington Risks Global Wa<\/b>r<\/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;\">This writer&#8217;s edited and contributed to new book discusses what&#8217;s ongoing in depth. It explains why it matters. It sheds light on what&#8217;s likely coming.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">Flashpoint in Ukraine: Why the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III<\/span><\/a>.&#8221; Twenty-two distinguished analysts contributed content. They include:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Robert Abele<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Michel Chossudovsky<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Edward Herman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Nolan Higdon<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Michael Hudson<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Mickey Huff&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Andrew Kolin<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">John Kozy<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Cynthia McKinney<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">John McMurty<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Michael Parenti<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">David Peterson<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">James Petras<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Peter Phillips<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Jack Rasmus<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Paul Craig Roberts<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Rick Rozoff<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Rodney Shakespeare<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Jeffrey Sommers<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Matthew Witt &#8211; and this writer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Chapter topics include:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Introduction: Stephen Lendman&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington\u2019s Recklessness Endangers the World: Paul Craig Roberts &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington Has Set the World on a Path to War: Paul Craig Roberts&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The New Cold War\u2019s Ukraine Gambit: Michael Hudson&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Obama\u2019s Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Boomerang Effect: James Petras&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ukraine and Regime Change: Michael Parenti&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ukraine: Another Step in Capitalism\u2019s Global Dominance<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Strategies and Power Inside the Transnational Global Corporate Class and US-NATO Global Empire: Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Orange Revolution 2.0: Stephen Lendman&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine: Another War Based on Lies, Pretexts, and Profiteering?: Cynthia McKinney&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Geo-Politics Behind EuroMaidan: Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Crisis in Ukraine: Russia Extends its Control over the&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Black Sea and Strategic Waterways: Michel Chossudovsky &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Geostrategic Significance of Ukraine in NATO\u2019s Drive to the East: Rick Rozoff&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Who Benefits from the Ukraine Economic Crisis?: Jack Rasmus&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Mother Russia: An Elusive Prize: John Kozy&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Hangover in Ukraine: Treaty of Versailles Spirits Packaged in Bretton Woods Bottles. The Morning After: Jeffrey Sommers&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Labyrinth of Geography in a Time of Terror: Matthew T. Witt&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Containing Russia: Stephen Lendman&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Ukraine Crisis and the Propaganda System in Overdrive:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Edward S. Herman and David Peterson&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Norms of Justice, International Law, and the \u2018Duty to Protect:<span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: 12px;\"> <\/span>Robert Abele &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Odessa Massacre: Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ukraine: From Coup to Police State: Andrew Kolin&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East: James Petras&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Is Ukraine a Turning Point in History?: Rodney Shakespeare&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington Intends Russia\u2019s Demise: Paul Craig Roberts<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Ukraine Crisis: Decoding its Deep Structural Meaning: John McMurtry&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ukraine is by far the most significant post-WW II geopolitical crisis. Escalating it risks global conflict.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Obama bears full responsibility. Complicit EU partners share it. Putin deserves no blame for their lawlessness.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington stops at nothing to advance its imperium. Millions of corpses attest to its barbarity.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Replacing independent governments with subservient pro-Western ones is longstanding US policy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington-supported Kiev putschists staged the most brazen coup d&#8217;etat since Mussolini&#8217;s 1922 march on Rome. Claiming otherwise doesn&#8217;t wash. It denies reality.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">On February 22, 2014, Ukrainian freedom died. Fascist extremism replaced it. Coup plotters seized power. They did so extrajudicially. They began consolidating rule straightaway.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Obama&#8217;s new friends are thugs. He elevated a rogue&#8217;s gallery of ultranationalist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic societal misfits to power.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re fascists. They&#8217;re ruthless. They include extremist neo-Nazi thugs. They openly display swastikas, Iron Crosses, SS insignia, other Nazi symbols and Sieg Heil salutes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They represent mob rule. They&#8217;re convenient US stooges. They have no legitimacy whatever.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re exploiting Ukrainians nationwide. They&#8217;re attacking ordinary citizens. They doing it in Eastern cities. They&#8217;re waging war on their own people.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re murdering them in cold blood. Right Sector neo-Nazis are involved. So are foreign mercenaries. They&#8217;re hired guns.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re trained killers. They operate extrajudiciously. They do so with impunity. On direct orders from Washington. Transmitted to Kiev.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Coup-appointed putschists massed troops on Russia&#8217;s borders. They did so provocatively. The battle for Ukraine didn&#8217;t end with them usurping power.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Potential civil war looms. Regional conflict could follow. At risk is a major East\/West confrontation. Its spreading it globally. Preventing it matters most.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Hegemons operate this way. Washington is the most reckless one in world history. Major conflicts start this way.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Today is the most perilous time in world history. Potential nuclear war is possible. Preventing the unthinkable matters most.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Hopefully &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">Flashpoint in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>&#8221; will help. Readers will fully understand what&#8217;s ongoing. They&#8217;ll know why it matters.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;ll know who&#8217;s to blame. They understand the risk. They&#8217;ll realize we&#8217;re all in this together. Humanity&#8217;s fate hangs in the balance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">On May 3, Ron Paul <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ronpaul\/2014\/05\/13\/what-does-the-us-government-want-in-ukraine-n1836993\/page\/full\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">headlined<\/span><\/a> &#8220;What Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Kiev&#8217;s &#8220;military opened fire on its own citizens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Dozens have been killed in violence.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington blamed victims for Kiev&#8217;s crimes. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki turned truth on its head.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">She &#8220;condemn(ed) the outbreak of violence caused by pro-Russian separatists.&#8221; They&#8217;re courageous freedom fighters.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re Ukraine&#8217;s best and bravest. They reject Kiev putschists. They want fundamental freedoms everyone deserves. They deserve universal support.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Why are people protesting in eastern Ukraine,&#8221; asked Paul? &#8220;Because they do not believe the government that came to power after the US-backed uprising in February is legitimate.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;They do not recognize the authority of an unelected president and prime minister.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Would (Americans) accept an unelected government in Washington put in place with the backing of the Chinese and Iranians?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington &#8220;gave full support&#8221; to violent Maidan putschists. Now they back cracking down hard on Eastern Ukrainian freedom fighters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They falsely accused Putin of supporting them. &#8220;The real question is why (Washington) is involved in Ukraine in the first place,&#8221; Paul stressed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">We&#8217;re &#8220;broke. We cannot even fix our own economy. Yet we want to run Ukraine. Does it really matter who Ukrainians elect to represent them?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Is it really a national security matter worth risking a nuclear war with Russia whether Ukraine votes for more regional autonomy and a weaker central government? Isn&#8217;t that how the United States was originally conceived?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Has the arrogance of the US administration, thinking they should run the world, driven us to the brink of another major war in Europe?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Let us hope they will stop this dangerous game and come to their senses. I say let&#8217;s have no war on Ukraine!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Lunatics infest Obama&#8217;s administration. Francis Boyle addressed a possible East\/West nuclear war. Washington&#8217;s Ukraine policy risks it, he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">US-led NATO &#8220;promot(es) the destabilization and the breakup of Ukraine&#8221; for control. It wants its sovereignty co-opted.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It wants it part of NATO. It wants US bases on Russia&#8217;s borders. It wants its heartland targeted. It wants it weakened.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It wants it increasingly isolated. It wants it made another pro-Western vassal state. It risks global war to achieve its objectives.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">US-instigated Cold War 2.0 ruthlessness is out-of-control. It&#8217;s madness. It risks open conflict.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;The Obama administration and NATO are maneuvering humanity into a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis,&#8221; said Boyle.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s right on Russia&#8217;s borders. &#8220;Can World War III be far behind,&#8221; &nbsp;asked Boyle? Can cool heads prevail over neocon lunatics influencing US policy?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Can humanity be saved in time? It bear repeating what previous articles stressed. It&#8217;s fate hangs in the balance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">Flashpoint in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>.&#8221; World-class independent contributors made it the definitive work on this topic.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s must reading. It explains what everyone needs to know.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s more important now than ever. It bears repeating. We&#8217;re all in this together.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">We either survive or perish. There&#8217;s no in between. There&#8217;s no more dangerous time than now. There&#8217;s no more important time to act.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ordinary people can make a difference. It&#8217;s our choice. Survival depends on us.<\/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 as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #0433ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a><\/span><\/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 three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.&nbsp;<\/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&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><b>Washington Risks Global Wa<\/b>r<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This writer&#8217;s edited and contributed to new book discusses what&#8217;s ongoing in depth. It explains why it matters. It sheds light on what&#8217;s likely coming.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\"><span>Flashpoint in Ukraine: Why the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III<\/span><\/a>.&#8221; Twenty-two distinguished analysts contributed content. They include:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Robert Abele<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michel Chossudovsky<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Edward Herman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nolan Higdon<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael Hudson<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mickey Huff&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Andrew Kolin<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John Kozy<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cynthia McKinney<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John McMurty<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael Parenti<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>David Peterson<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>James Petras<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Peter Phillips<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jack Rasmus<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paul Craig Roberts<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rick Rozoff<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rodney Shakespeare<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jeffrey Sommers<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Matthew Witt &#8211; and this writer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chapter topics include:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Introduction: Stephen Lendman&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington&rsquo;s Recklessness Endangers the World: Paul Craig Roberts &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington Has Set the World on a Path to War: Paul Craig Roberts&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The New Cold War&rsquo;s Ukraine Gambit: Michael Hudson&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obama&rsquo;s Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Boomerang Effect: James Petras&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ukraine and Regime Change: Michael Parenti&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ukraine: Another Step in Capitalism&rsquo;s Global Dominance<\/div>\n<div>Strategies and Power Inside the Transnational Global Corporate Class and US-NATO Global Empire: Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Orange Revolution 2.0: Stephen Lendman&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine: Another War Based on Lies, Pretexts, and Profiteering?: Cynthia McKinney&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Geo-Politics Behind EuroMaidan: Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Crisis in Ukraine: Russia Extends its Control over the&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Black Sea and Strategic Waterways: Michel Chossudovsky &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Geostrategic Significance of Ukraine in NATO&rsquo;s Drive to the East: Rick Rozoff&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Who Benefits from the Ukraine Economic Crisis?: Jack Rasmus&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mother Russia: An Elusive Prize: John Kozy&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hangover in Ukraine: Treaty of Versailles Spirits Packaged in Bretton Woods Bottles. The Morning After: Jeffrey Sommers&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Labyrinth of Geography in a Time of Terror: Matthew T. Witt&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Containing Russia: Stephen Lendman&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Ukraine Crisis and the Propaganda System in Overdrive:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Edward S. Herman and David Peterson&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Norms of Justice, International Law, and the &lsquo;Duty to Protect:<span> <\/span>Robert Abele &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Odessa Massacre: Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ukraine: From Coup to Police State: Andrew Kolin&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East: James Petras&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Is Ukraine a Turning Point in History?: Rodney Shakespeare&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington Intends Russia&rsquo;s Demise: Paul Craig Roberts<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Ukraine Crisis: Decoding its Deep Structural Meaning: John McMurtry&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ukraine is by far the most significant post-WW II geopolitical crisis. Escalating it risks global conflict.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obama bears full responsibility. Complicit EU partners share it. Putin deserves no blame for their lawlessness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington stops at nothing to advance its imperium. Millions of corpses attest to its barbarity.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Replacing independent governments with subservient pro-Western ones is longstanding US policy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington-supported Kiev putschists staged the most brazen coup d&#8217;etat since Mussolini&#8217;s 1922 march on Rome. Claiming otherwise doesn&#8217;t wash. It denies reality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On February 22, 2014, Ukrainian freedom died. Fascist extremism replaced it. Coup plotters seized power. They did so extrajudicially. They began consolidating rule straightaway.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obama&#8217;s new friends are thugs. He elevated a rogue&#8217;s gallery of ultranationalist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic societal misfits to power.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re fascists. They&#8217;re ruthless. They include extremist neo-Nazi thugs. They openly display swastikas, Iron Crosses, SS insignia, other Nazi symbols and Sieg Heil salutes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They represent mob rule. They&#8217;re convenient US stooges. They have no legitimacy whatever.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re exploiting Ukrainians nationwide. They&#8217;re attacking ordinary citizens. They doing it in Eastern cities. They&#8217;re waging war on their own people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re murdering them in cold blood. Right Sector neo-Nazis are involved. So are foreign mercenaries. They&#8217;re hired guns.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re trained killers. They operate extrajudiciously. They do so with impunity. On direct orders from Washington. Transmitted to Kiev.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Coup-appointed putschists massed troops on Russia&#8217;s borders. They did so provocatively. The battle for Ukraine didn&#8217;t end with them usurping power.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Potential civil war looms. Regional conflict could follow. At risk is a major East\/West confrontation. Its spreading it globally. Preventing it matters most.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hegemons operate this way. Washington is the most reckless one in world history. Major conflicts start this way.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today is the most perilous time in world history. Potential nuclear war is possible. Preventing the unthinkable matters most.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hopefully &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\"><span>Flashpoint in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>&#8221; will help. Readers will fully understand what&#8217;s ongoing. They&#8217;ll know why it matters.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;ll know who&#8217;s to blame. They understand the risk. They&#8217;ll realize we&#8217;re all in this together. Humanity&#8217;s fate hangs in the balance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On May 3, Ron Paul <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ronpaul\/2014\/05\/13\/what-does-the-us-government-want-in-ukraine-n1836993\/page\/full\"><span>headlined<\/span><\/a> &#8220;What Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kiev&#8217;s &#8220;military opened fire on its own citizens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Dozens have been killed in violence.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington blamed victims for Kiev&#8217;s crimes. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki turned truth on its head.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She &#8220;condemn(ed) the outbreak of violence caused by pro-Russian separatists.&#8221; They&#8217;re courageous freedom fighters.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re Ukraine&#8217;s best and bravest. They reject Kiev putschists. They want fundamental freedoms everyone deserves. They deserve universal support.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Why are people protesting in eastern Ukraine,&#8221; asked Paul? &#8220;Because they do not believe the government that came to power after the US-backed uprising in February is legitimate.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;They do not recognize the authority of an unelected president and prime minister.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Would (Americans) accept an unelected government in Washington put in place with the backing of the Chinese and Iranians?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington &#8220;gave full support&#8221; to violent Maidan putschists. Now they back cracking down hard on Eastern Ukrainian freedom fighters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They falsely accused Putin of supporting them. &#8220;The real question is why (Washington) is involved in Ukraine in the first place,&#8221; Paul stressed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re &#8220;broke. We cannot even fix our own economy. Yet we want to run Ukraine. Does it really matter who Ukrainians elect to represent them?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Is it really a national security matter worth risking a nuclear war with Russia whether Ukraine votes for more regional autonomy and a weaker central government? Isn&#8217;t that how the United States was originally conceived?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Has the arrogance of the US administration, thinking they should run the world, driven us to the brink of another major war in Europe?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Let us hope they will stop this dangerous game and come to their senses. I say let&#8217;s have no war on Ukraine!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lunatics infest Obama&#8217;s administration. Francis Boyle addressed a possible East\/West nuclear war. Washington&#8217;s Ukraine policy risks it, he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>US-led NATO &#8220;promot(es) the destabilization and the breakup of Ukraine&#8221; for control. It wants its sovereignty co-opted.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wants it part of NATO. It wants US bases on Russia&#8217;s borders. It wants its heartland targeted. It wants it weakened.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wants it increasingly isolated. It wants it made another pro-Western vassal state. It risks global war to achieve its objectives.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>US-instigated Cold War 2.0 ruthlessness is out-of-control. It&#8217;s madness. It risks open conflict.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The Obama administration and NATO are maneuvering humanity into a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis,&#8221; said Boyle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s right on Russia&#8217;s borders. &#8220;Can World War III be far behind,&#8221; &nbsp;asked Boyle? Can cool heads prevail over neocon lunatics influencing US policy?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Can humanity be saved in time? It bear repeating what previous articles stressed. It&#8217;s fate hangs in the balance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\"><span>Flashpoint in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>.&#8221; World-class independent contributors made it the definitive work on this topic.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s must reading. It explains what everyone needs to know.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s more important now than ever. It bears repeating. We&#8217;re all in this together.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We either survive or perish. There&#8217;s no in between. There&#8217;s no more dangerous time than now. There&#8217;s no more important time to act.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ordinary people can make a difference. It&#8217;s our choice. Survival depends on us.<\/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 as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a><\/span><\/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 three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-120288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}