Obama in Europe
Stephen Lendman || NATO is an imperial tool. It's a global killing machine. It targets humanity. It ravages one country after another. It threatens world peace.
Belgian police officers stand guard as the motorcade
carrying US President Barack Obama drives down empty
streets to Zaventem international airport in Brussels.
■ Obama left Monday. He spent two days in Poland. Ostensibly for Polish Freedom Day. Marking its liberation from Soviet Russia's control. He met with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Then with Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian and Slovakian officials.
■ He met one-on-one with Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko. He pledged full US support. Political, economic and military. To harden fascist governance. To crush Eastern Ukrainian freedom fighters. To head Ukraine for NATO membership. To establish US bases on Russia's borders. To encroach on its entire Western flank. To target its heartland. To weaken and isolate a major rival. To replace it with pro-Western vassal govenance if all goes as planned.
■ On June 4 and 5, he was at NATO headquarters in Brussels. He met with other G-7 leaders. It's no longer G-8. Russia is excluded. Obama came to pressure European allies for stiffer sanctions. He'll get little more than already imposed.
■ On June 6, Obama [heads] for France to commemorate D-Day's 70th anniversary. His agenda prioritizes bashing Russia. It's enlisting greater support for Kiev putschists.
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Bill Van Auken || Obama escalates NATO confrontation with Russia
Patrick Martin || Obama heads to Europe for week of meetings directed against Russia