Orange Revolution 2.0?

Stephen Lendman

Stephen Lendman: Ukrainian Protests Continue

Ordinary Ukrainians are being manipulated. Internal street thugs are involved. They're militants. They've been recruited to cause trouble. They're mostly young. They're Western oriented. Washington's dirty hands are involved. Color revolutions are a US specialty. At issue is eliminating independent sovereign states. It's co-opting former Soviet Republics. It's drawing them into NATO. It's increasing American dominance. It's using EU membership as bait. It's doing so despite no tangible benefits. Promises made to be broken substitute. Weakening Russia is prioritized.

So-called spontaneous uprisings are manufactured. Ukrainians should know better. They've been through this before. Memories are disturbingly short. Washington manipulated Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. Ongoing Ukrainian protests bear its earmarks. Whether it succeeds remains to be seen. Ordinary people ended up losers. Promises made were fake. Exploitation followed. Once deceived should have been enough. Good sense isn't a man on the street attribute. PT Barnum allegedly said "(t)here's a sucker born every minute." Con men, corporate predators, and ruthless nations take full advantage. Ukrainians were had once. They're being set up again. They're not mindful enough to understand. Awakenings usually come too late to matter. Shutting stable doors after horses are stolen won't get them back. What's ahead remains to be seen.

Washington developed manipulating tactics through years of trial and error. They're down to a science now. Often they work. Rand Corporation strategists were involved. In the 1990s, they developed the concept of "swarming." It relates to communication patterns and movements of bees and other insects. They're applied to military conflicts and street protests. Key US organizations are involved. More on swarming below.


Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To Take On Russia And China

Paul Craig Roberts

The several days of organized protests in Ukraine are notable for the relative lack of police violence. Unlike in the US, Canada, Thailand, Greece, and Spain, peaceful protesters have not been beaten, tear gassed, water cannoned, and tasered by Ukrainian police. Unlike in Egypt, Palestine, and Bahrain, Ukrainian protesters have not been fired upon with live ammunition. The restraint of the Ukrainian government and police in the face of provocations has been remarkable. Apparently, Ukrainian police have not been militarized by US Homeland Security.

What are the Ukrainian protests about? On the surface, the protests don’t make sense. The Ukrainian government made the correct decision to stay out of the EU. Ukraine’s economic interests lie with Russia, not with the EU. This is completely obvious.

The EU wants Ukraine to join so that Ukraine can be looted, like Latvia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and Portugal. The situation is so bad in Greece, for example, that the World Health Organization reports that some Greeks are infecting themselves with HIV in order to receive the 700 euro monthly benefit for the HIV-infected. The US wants Ukraine to join so it can become a location for more of Washington’s missile bases against Russia.

Why would Ukrainians want to be looted? Why would Ukrainians want to become targets for Russia’s Iskander Missiles as a host country for Washington’s aggression against Russia? Why would Ukrainians having gained their sovereignty from Russia want to lose it to the EU? Obviously, an intelligent, aware, Ukrainian population would not accept these costs of joining the EU. So, why the protests?


US officials will no longer to provide information on Guantánamo hunger strikers

Fred Mazelis

A spokesman for the US military announced this week that the authorities will no longer provide public information on how many prisoners at the American gulag at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are participating in hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention.

A report by the Associated Press cited an email from Navy Commander John Filostrat, speaking for the Joint Task Force Command Guantánamo.

“JTF-Guantánamo allows detainees to peacefully protest, but will not further their protests by reporting the numbers to the public,” Filostrat said. “The release of this information serves no operational purpose and detracts from the more important issues, which are the welfare of detainees and the safety and security of our troops.”

The latest policy and its Orwellian defense (“the welfare of the detainees!”) are in some ways the logical extension of the longstanding practice of brutal force-feeding of hunger striking prisoners, in which a nasogastric feeding tube is forced into their stomachs, causing great pain. The practice has been widely denounced as a form of torture.

The American military had earlier concluded that force-feeding was necessary because it feared that deaths caused by the protests would focus greater worldwide attention on the inhuman conditions at Guantánamo, as well as the by now well-known fact that the vast majority of the detainees are guilty of nothing, even by the legally dubious standards of the US “war on terror.” Apparently the US government has now decided that it would be even more effective to pretend that the remaining 162 prisoners at Guantánamo do not exist.


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