World - Part 60

Humiliation: Ukrainian MP & thugs beat state TV Channel head into resigning (VIDEO)
A Ukrainian nationalist MP assisted by a group of helpers abused and threatened interim head of Ukraine’s National TV. They accused him of being anti-Ukrainian and bullied him into signing his resignation, claiming to be members of a new media regulator ...[Read more]
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Paul Craig Roberts on Crimea, US Foreign Policy and the Transformation of Mainstream Media
Today's big media companies are run by corporate advertising executives and former government officials, not journalists - that's why the mainstream media "cannot take positions on any important issue contrary to the government's propaganda," according to ...[Read more]
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A Distorted Lens Justifying An Illegitimate Ukrainian Government
Why does Western media ignore critical information about the snipers that killed Euromaidan protesters in Ukraine? Support it or oppose it, a coup d’état took place in Kiev after an EU-brokered agreement was signed by the Ukrainian government and the m ...[Read more]
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Israeli Defense Minister Suggests Military Action against Iran because the US is “Weak”
We (Israelis) have to look out for ourselves” Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was quoted as saying at an event at Tel Aviv University. According to Haaretz, Ya’alon is not convinced that the Obama administration will stop Iran’s nuclear pro ...[Read more]
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Latinos become the majority in California, but remain political lightweights
US sociologists have long said that the majority of Americans will not be Caucasian past the coming decades. Already in California, Latinos have become the majority demographic, though political representation is another matter. In March, for the first ti ...[Read more]
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Journalist Calls for Accountability in Police Killings in USA
Journalist and professor D. Brian Burghart saw a gaping information hole when he realized no one knows how many civilians are killed by law enforcement every year. So he launched the database Fatal Encounters to keep track. Aiyana Jones and Eugene Mallory ...[Read more]
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What the Western Media Won’t Tell You: Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians Also Voted to Join Russia
“On the 16th of March We Choose” neo-Nazi Ukraine “Or” Russia Media reports acknowledge that 83.1 percent of eligible Crimean voters cast their ballot in the March 18th referendum. The final tally of the vote was 96.77 percent in favor of joining ...[Read more]
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Ron Paul on Crimea: None of America’€™s business
Ron Paul is once again speaking up about the situation in Crimea, and this time the former congressman is condemning critics from his own country who are seemingly obsessed with the recent secession. The former Republican representative for Texas told RT ...[Read more]
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The forgotten coup – and how the godfather rules from Canberra to Kiev
Washington's role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually wi ...[Read more]
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Putin: Crimea similar to Kosovo, West is rewriting its own rule book
Crimea’s secession from Ukraine was just like Kosovo’s secession from Serbia, and any arguments otherwise are just attempts to bend the West-advocated rules that were applied to the Kosovo case, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. The statements ca ...[Read more]
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Here Are the 5 Companies Making a Killing Off Wars Around the World
Global military spending was down in 2012 for the first time since 1998. And for the second year in a row, arms sales from private industry to governments were down as well last year. Despite the decline in military spending, the business of war remains a ...[Read more]
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