by James Corbett
GRTV.ca
March 5, 2014
In late 2004, protests erupted after Viktor Yanukovych won the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential election, with protestors claiming that the vote had been rigged. The protests forced a revote, in which Yanukovych’s rival, Viktor Yuschenko, was elected president. This movement, dubbed the Orange Revolution for the orange ribbons and clothing sported by its members, was one of a series of so-called colour revolutions which swept the former Soviet Republics in the last decade.

Monday we asserted-- and we stand by it-- that there's no legitimate reason to assume Shenna Bellows can't defeat Susan Collins in Maine. Although she vowed to Maine voters, she would only seek the Senate seat twice, she's embarking on her fourth run. And she's not even that popular. How does Susan Collins’ 2008 re-election vote (61%) compare with other Maine Senate elections? In 2006 (also a good year for Democrats) Olympia Snowe’s re-election vote was 13% higher at 74%!

 Not Yanukovych's snipers- thanks brian:Consider this news, when considering whose snipers?

In Kiev, an Israeli army vet fights with his fascist bretheren

Interfax-Ukraine
March 4, 2014
Kerry calls Russia’s action invasion of Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called Russia’s actions an invasion of the territory of Ukraine.
At a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday he praised the restraint shown by Ukraine’s interim government in the face of the Russian invasion.

1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by future U.S. president John Adams.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.

Interfax
March 4, 2014
Lavrov: Allegations on Ukraine-U.S. talks on housing missile shield aimed at worsening Russia-West relations
MADRID: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov describes unconfirmed reports on ongoing negotiations between the new Ukrainian authorities and the U.S. on the possibility of deploying U.S. missile defense elements in Ukraine in exchange for financial aid as gambling and an attempt to aggravate relations between Russia and the West.

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war

RT | March 4, 2014

Ukraine’s statement at the UN that ‘16,000 Russian soldiers had been deployed’ across Crimea sparked a MSM feeding frenzy that steadfastly ignored any hard facts that got in their way.
Especially unwelcome is the fact that the so-called ‘invasion force’ has been there for 15 years already.

March 5, 2014 (Nile Bowie for RT) - As divisions deepen between the eastern and western regions of Ukraine, the backers of the putsch regime in Kiev portray Russia as a reckless aggressor to absolve their own responsibility for engineering the crisis.A woman and a young boy walk past pro-Russian self-defence activists standing guard in front of the Crimean Cabinet of the Ministers in Simferopol on March 2, 2014.

This is Myles Eckert of Toledo, Ohio. He is 8 years old. He is hugging the gravestone of his father who died in Iraq when he was 5 weeks old. He never saw his father. He learns of his father through his medals, ID tags, wedding ring, photos and family stories. Myles had wanted to go to the cemetery to talk to the man he never knew. At her son’s request, his mother stayed in the car so he could be alone to talk. His mother took this photo. His father died because our politicians and our news media were willing to believe lies fed to us by Israel.

This is it, the final interview of the Alt Media series of podcasts here on Trans Resister Radio. For the series finale we are once again joined by Tom Secker of InvestigatingTheTerror.com and SpyCulture.com. Tom's trademark realism comes in handy as we search for answers as to what alternative media is at present, and where it could go in the future.

President Obama’s defense plan has positive aspects but is not part of a coherent strategic vision for the nation. With this failing, Obama, as commander-in-chief, is not unique. Ever since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the United States has lacked a vision of what it wanted to do in the world and […]

A familiar clutch of hawks have taken wing over the rapidly developing crisis in Ukraine, as neo-conservatives and other interventionists claim that President Barack Obama’s preference for diplomacy over military action invited Russian aggression. At stake in the current crisis, according to these right-wing critics, are not only Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, but also […]

With the eyes of the world fixed on Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the prospect of a wider war engulfing all Ukraine, our attention has been diverted from what may be the most significant aspect of this crisis: the ascension of a genuinely fascist mass movement into the corridors of power. Our "mainstream" media shrugs […]

Who can keep up? The revelations – mainly thanks to the documents Edward Snowden took from the National Security Agency – are never-ending. Just this week, we learned that GCHQ, the British intelligence agency whose activities are interwoven with the NSA’s, used a program called Optic Nerve to intercept and store “the webcam images of […]

Another PR coup outflanks decrepit Western "world order." March 5, 2014 (LD - Tony Cartalucci) - The BBC was busy attempting to spin an incident in which Russia's RT presenter Abby Martin directly challenged Russian foreign policy on-air during her outspoken program, "Breaking the Set." Ms.

Independent candidateAdolph Reed, who exploded onto the national scene last week with an incisive article-- and Bill Moyers interview-- about the demise of the left, said he expected pushback from liberals. And he got it.

Militants staged an attacked north of Baghdad in the city of Samarra. They were able to hold the local city council building, but were eventually overcome. At least 42 people were killed and 74 more were wounded across the country.

 

 
by Sami Jamil Jadallah
Washington is under siege, America is under siege as more than 14,000 die hard Pro-Israel Americans Jews and Gentiles gather in Washington for the 2014 Annual Policy Conference.

Press TV – March 4, 2014

Russia says it will retaliate against any possible sanctions that the United States may impose on Moscow over its involvement in Ukraine.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow would have to respond in such situations that are provoked by “Washington’s rash and irresponsible actions.”

If enough people search for something, Google eventually turns those searches into auto-completes . . .

Who the hell is searching for this crap? Who knew that Facebook cause cancer?

 

NYT's delusional analysis won't stop inevitable fall of Wall Street's proxy regime in Thailand.March 5, 2014 (ATN) - For the past decade, the regime of billionaire, accused mass murderer, convicted criminal and fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra has been coddled by the West, in particular the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street and their massive lobbying firms in Washington D.C. Starting in the 1990's, Thaksin Shinawatra has accumulated a long list of ignominious accomplishments including: 

You'd think the loonies and liars of the Right would have to decide whether President Obama is a power-mad tyrant of Hitleresque or Stalinesque proportion or a sniveling weakling.

Boiling Frogs Post | From the official story of 9/11 to the drug war narrative to Omidyar’s hope and change, people allow themselves to believe the most transparent lies and propaganda. But why? On this edition of the BFP roundtable, James Corbett, Guillermo Jimenez and Sibel Edmonds...

by Judith A. Curry My invited talk at the American Physical Society Meeting in Denver. The abstract for my talk: Causes and implications of the growing divergence between climate model simulations and observations For the past 15+ years, there has … Continue reading →

In Kiev, an Israeli army vet led a street-fighting unit

He calls his troops “the Blue Helmets of Maidan,” but brown is the color of the headgear worn by Delta — the nom de guerre of the commander of a Jewish-led militia force that participated in the Ukrainian revolution. Under his helmet, he also wears a kippah.

"Delta" in Kiev

Russia Today anchor Abby Martin shows courage in criticizing Russia’s moves in Crimea, NY Times blog slimes Martin as “Truther”….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible that will pay $15 to the PBC Podcast!
–Putin slams US in news conference, won’t rule out use of force
–Kerry in Kiev, offers $1 billion, repeats his mocked statement
–Netanyahu visit downplayed due to Ukraine coverage

By Jean Pascal Zanders | The Trench | March 4, 2014

By Dr. Yousaf Butt | Arms Control Law | March 4, 2014

Coming hot on the heels of his insane statement: Video featured in previous postJohn Kerry: Absolutely hypocritical and totally ludicrous!

Instead of interfering in primaries, Israel should be allowing local Democrats to pick their own candidates and have the DCCC concentrate on going on the offense against the Republican excesses that have brought so much pain to the country.

Guillermo Jimenez | In the theater of the absurd that is the War on Drugs, the rational gives way to the irrational — the logical to the illogical. We observe the narcotics supply-chain of individuals and the law enforcement apparatus, both trapped in seemingly hopeless situations...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
March 4, 2014
Statement by the North Atlantic Council following meeting under article 4 of the Washington Treaty

 
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” (Mark Twain)
 
William A. Cook

By Neil Faulkner | No Glory in War | January 5, 2014

Military historian Max Hastings and education minister Michael Gove say we should should blame the Germans for World War I and celebrate the victory for ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’. Archaeologist Neil Faulkner disagrees.

By JANETTE D. SHERMAN, MD and JOSEPH MANGANO | CounterPunch | March 4, 2014

The third anniversary of the Fukushima meltdown will occur on March 11th.
The news is that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and major Japanese corporations want to re-open the 50 other nuclear power plants that closed when Fukushima blew up, calling them a friendly economic source of cheap power.  Will this end up with business as usual?

With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear.  Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should be the guiding principles.  Naturally, such rhetoric warrants closer analysis.

#Terrornoia Update | Peter Dale Scott primers; rebel chaos spreads in Syria and the Levant; more terror strikes in Asia and Africa; and deep state terror intrigue: 9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics, Zawahri still a dark force in global jihad, FBI Had Direct Link to Bin Laden in 1993...

 
 
by Patrick Strickland
Palestinian civil society groups in present-day Israel have rejected a discriminatory bill passed into law by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, on 24 February, which defines Palestinian Christian citizens of Israel as “non-Arab.”

Stars and Stripes
March 4, 2014
NATO issues warning over Ukraine ahead of crisis talks with Russian officials
By John Vandiver and Slobodan Lekic

I don't expect lazy Beltway reporters to dig this deep, but the real story of yesterday's DCCC Red-to-Blue announcement was less about a bunch of lame recruits like Blue Dog Gwen Graham (FL) and "mystery meat" no issues candidates like Domenic Recchia (NY) and Ann Callis (IL), than it was about which candidates and which districts got left out again.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
March 3, 2014
Romanian transit center celebrates major milestone
By Senior Master Sgt. Steve Horton
HQ 3rd Expeditionary Air Forces Public Affairs

Below is a video of the talk Scott Horton and I gave at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, DC this month. We were initially scheduled to give the talk together, but due to weather conditions Scott was delayed. I handle the first half of the talk and Q&A, and Scott managed to make it towards the very end, thankfully.
We would both like to thank the Future of Freedom Foundation for inviting us to speak.

By Yossi Gurvitz | Yesh Din | March 2, 2014

A 14 year old boy goes to meet friends. He comes home with bullets in his neck and hand. The IDF considers that to be “a minor infraction”

Things are again beginning to escalate in Syria....

I had a long talk about the crucial issues facing the country with Arlington, Virginia Delegate Patrick Hope. His vision is progressive and his temperament matches his vision. He'd make a great addition to the Congressional Progressive Caucus. I asked him to introduce himself to DWT readers. He just sent this today:Thank you for this opportunity to write a guest post on Down With Tyranny.