Datum:Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:56:13 +0200Von:German-Foreign-Policy <newsletter@german-foreign-policy.com>Antwort an:newsletter@german-foreign-policy.comAn:libertom@htp-tel.de
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Kiev Rhetoric to ‘Cleanse Sub-Humans’
| Finian CUNNINGHAM | 24.06.2014 | 00:00 |
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the US-installed prime minister of the fascist junta that overthrew the elected Ukrainian government in February, is delivering on his recently declared Nazi campaign of extermination.
Last week, the former investment banker, unveiled an altogether different portfolio when he promised that military forces under the control of the Kiev junta would «cleanse sub-humans» from the country’s restive eastern regions. Using Final Solution rhetoric of his Nazi heroes, Yatsenyuk was referring to the ethnic Russian populations of the southeastern regions of Ukraine, who are refusing to acknowledge the US-backed coup in Kiev as legitimate.
Days after Yatsenyuk’s extermination program was published on the Ukrainian embassy website in the US (it has since been redacted), the newly elected puppet president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, unveiled a «unilateral ceasefire». Poroshenko’s «peace plan» has been lauded by his backers in Washington and NATO as a genuine initiative to end nearly two months of violence.
However, within hours of the Kiev regime’s unilateral ceasefire being announced the violence committed by its military forces has intensified. Russian President Vladimir Putin this weekend urged the Kiev junta to halt the military operations and to engage in the national dialogue with the separatist self-declared People’s Republics of Donetz and Lugansk.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on a visit to Saudi Arabia at the weekend, voiced Moscow’s alarm over the escalating violence in Ukraine’s south and east. That violence has included the shelling of border posts inside Russian territory.
What the Western-backed Kiev regime is engaging is nothing near a ceasefire or a truce in hostilities. Stripped of cynical rhetoric avowing peace, amnesty and dialogue, the actions of the Kiev forces speak of Nazi-like «cleansing» of civilian populations.
Here are just some of the «ceasefire» actions in the hours following Poroshenko’s declared truce that supposedly came into effect last Friday at 2300 hours local time. In the early hours of Saturday morning, churches in Slavyansk, Donetz, came under artillery fire, according to Viktor Borodai, the locally elected prime minister of the Donetz People’s Republic.
Elsewhere in Slavyansk district, incendiary bombs were dropped by warplanes on the village of Semyonovka. The use of internationally banned White Phosphorous firebombs has been previously reported in Slavyansk.
In Lugansk region, the village of Ananyevka has been subjected «to continuous shelling» from members of Kiev’s National Guard, a spokesman for the Lugansk People’s Republic told Russian news agency Itar-Tass. The so-called National Guard is comprised of paramilitaries formed by the neo-Nazi Pravy Sector, the group that supplied the shock troops instrumental in carrying out the CIA-backed coup in Kiev against the then elected President Viktor Yanukovych on February 23.
Some 18,000 civilians are continuing to flee the ongoing violence in the Donetz and Lugansk regions to seek refuge across the border in Russia, said Anatoly Kuznetzov, deputy director of Russia’s Migration Service. He was speaking two days after Kiev’s so-called unilateral ceasefire officially came into effect. «The refugee crisis is snowballing,» added Kuznetzov.
Apart from the indiscriminate violence meted out by Kiev’s forces, which has seen women and children being slaughtered in their own homes from mortar and artillery fire, the mass exodus of civilians is also due to the severe shortages in food, water and electricity that are impacting communities.
This deprivation of basic utilities seems to be a result of deliberate military targeting of power and pumping stations.
«The Donetsk People's Republic is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster,» said Alexander Borodai.
The locally elected leader said that Kiev artillery had destroyed most of the pumping stations, which was leaving households across the region without any drinking water.
«The pumping stations are destroyed. We asked for a ceasefire in order to repair them, but the shooting went on, and two repair workers were killed and another two wounded as a result,» said Borodai.
He added: «We thought of drilling wells in Donetsk, but the subsoil waters are undrinkable, and that means that soon there will be a tremendous flow of refugees to the Russian Federation as there will be no supply of drinking water».
Nearly 400 people in Ukraine’s southeastern regions have already died since the US-installed junta in Kiev launched its so-called anti-terror operations at the end of April. Most of the victims – over 70 per cent – have been civilians, according to UN figures. That «anti-terror» campaign was preceded only days before it began by a secret visit to Kiev by CIA director John Brennan, who met the top leadership of the regime, including Yatsenyuk.
The indiscriminate use of violence by military forces is a war crime. So too is the deliberate targeting of basic human needs of food, water and electricity. That the NATO-backed regime in Kiev is engaging in such criminality should be of no surprise. After all, NATO forces perfected the same criminal practices in their subjugation of former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which is probing human rights violations in Ukraine, has put two senior figures associated with the Kiev regime on an international wanted list. Self-styled interior minister Arsen Avakov and the appointed governor of Dnepropetrovsk, Oleg Kolomoisky, are accused of multiple crimes against humanity, according to evidence gathered from thousands of eyewitnesses by the Russian committee.
To that list, should be added the names of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Petro Poroshenko and the heads of Kiev’s military planning, Andriy Parubiy and Dmitry Yarosh, both of whom are also leaders of the Right Sector paramilitaries.
All of them are responsible for a «ceasefire» that is but a cynical Orwellian cover name for mass murder and, indeed, genocide. If there is any doubt about that intent, just check Yatsenyuk’s owned declared aims of «cleansing sub-humans» iterated last week.
The timing of the Kiev regime’s latest terror campaign is not insignificant either. This weekend, Russians commemorated the deaths of 25-30 million of their compatriots who lost their lives to the Nazi German war of extermination against Untermensch (sub-humans) launched on Soviet Russia on June 21, 1941. The guns behind that historic vile campaign were defeated 69 years ago. But abominably, the mentality behind it still persists today. Ask Yatsenyuk and his US-backed regime.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/06/24/kiev-delivering-on-rhetoric-to-cleanse-sub-humans.html |
Israelis can try, but they can't ignore the occupation. By Gideon Levy | Jun.
15, 2014 |
The
only way still open for the Palestinians to remind the Israelis of
their existence and plight is the way of violent struggle.
The
abduction of three yeshiva students in the West Bank last Thursdaywas
ordered in advance – by Israel. At the time of writing, Saturday,
their fate was unknown and concern for their welfare outweighed all
other issues connected to their disappearance. But no matter what
happens in the end, whether they return home safely or not, God
forbid, whether the responsible party turns out to be global jihad or
the local kind, the context of the action cannot be ignored. -
Perhaps
the operation took Israel’s oh-so-sophisticated espionage agencies
by surprise, but it could not have been a real surprise to anyone. –
Those
who stubbornly refuse to release Palestinian prisoners, some of whom
have been incarcerated for decades, from before the signing of the
Oslo Accords in 1993, and some of whom Israel has promised to set
free; those who imprison detainees without trial for years; those who
ignore the hunger strike by 125 “administrative” detainees, some
of whom are dying in hospitals; those who intend to feed them using
force, and those who planned to pass sweeping laws to prohibit their
release – these people cannot pretend to be surprised or shocked by
the abductions. They arranged for them in advance. –
Israel,
which is so worried about the welfare of every one of its citizens,
has for years arrogantly ignored the Palestinian concern for the
welfare of their prisoners. –
Israel
holds the copyright to concern for its people, as it does for the
worship of the heroes of the national struggle. Meir Har-Zion [a
founding member of Unit 101, who in 1953 led a retaliatory raid
against a Bedouin tribe after his sister and others were killed while
making an illegal trip to Petra] was a national hero; Ahmad Sa’adat
[the secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine] is a base murderer. -
Gilad
Shalit was all ours, but the fate of Walid Daka, who has been
imprisoned in Israel for more than 30 years, for the crime of
membership in a militant cell that killed an Israeli soldier –
without a single furlough or conjugal visit – is of no interest to
anyone here.
No
one here cares about the thousands of Palestinian prisoners. Last
week, Israelis were much more interested in Meir Sheetrit’s
housekeeper than in 125 hunger strikers who have been slowly starving
to death for 53 days now. –
Among the
thousands of Palestinian prisoners are some base murderers, but also
many political prisoners – and all of them are seen as heroes of
the Palestinian national struggle. It’s the same in every national
struggle. Behind them stands an entire society, which is no less
worried about their fate than Israelis are for that of their loved
ones. -
In killing
the peace process, Israel shut the gates of its prisons, and the
Israeli message to the Palestinians was razor-sharp: The only way
your sons will be freed is through a violent operation. On Thursday
night, the conclusions were taken. But the context of the abductions
extends far beyond the prisoner releases.
The
curtain has come down on the peace process, however fruitless that
process may have been, and with it the last Palestinian hope for
national liberation through negotiations. Life in Israel and the West
Bank settlements is back on track, a life of freedom and
accomplishment, reality shows and circuses, entirely untouched by the
occupation. –
The
same cannot be said for the Palestinians: They have none of this, and
for them every delay in a solution to the conflict only extends their
suffering, humiliation and tribulations.
Anyone
who thought the Palestinians would sit quietly and wait until Israel
deigned to change its tune or government was deluded. Anyone who
thought the settlers would continue to live in security in the
territories suffered a grave disappointment: Thursday’s abduction
was merely a wake-up call, a taste of what could lie ahead. –
The
only way still open for the Palestinians to remind the Israelis of
their existence and their plight is the way of violent struggle. All
other paths have been blocked. If the Gaza Strip doesn’t fire
Qassam rockets at Israel, the Gaza Strip doesn’t exist. And if, in
the West Bank, yeshiva students aren’t abducted, then the West Bank
disappears from Israel’s consciousness. 1
Abductions
or murders are aimed at puncturing Israel’s intolerable
complacency, and as such they should surprise no one. In the past few
months, this complacency has reached new, inconceivable heights.
Just
look at the nonsense that has captured Israel’s attention. The
terrifying reminder that has landed on our heads is only the trailer
for what we could expect if we continue to live between Benjamin
Ben-Eliezer’s safety-deposit box and the kiss of Ahi and Anna on
the Israeli version of “Big Brother.” -
That’s
the annoying nature of the occupation. It will chase after us, even
if we bury our heads even deeper into the sand.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Last Batch of Chemical Stockpiles Exits Syria – OPCW
| News | 23.06.2014 | 20:02 |
The Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed Monday the withdrawal of the last consignment of chemical stockpiles from Syria.
“A major landmark in this mission has been reached today. The last of the remaining chemicals identified for removal from Syria were loaded this afternoon aboard the Danish ship Ark Futura,” OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü said at a news briefing broadcast live on the OPCW website.
“The next stage in this mission is the completion of the maritime operations to deliver the chemicals for destruction at the assigned facility on board the US vessel Cape Ray and at commercial facilities in Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America,” Üzümcü said.
The director-general added that the neutralization of chemical substances aboard the Cape Ray could be completed within 60 days.
After a deadly chemical weapons attack on a Damascus suburb on August 21, Russia made a proposal to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal that was later approved of by the US.
Following the deal, Syria agreed to hand over its estimated 1,000-metric-ton arsenal to international control and joined the United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Iraq: Implications of Full-Blown War |
 The US popular opinion views the military campaign in Iraq as a big foreign policy gaffe and opposes any nation’s involvement in new overseas conflicts. Any new military action would be strongly opposed by a majority of Americans. Neither the US, nor NATO can do anything more than air strikes. It makes Iran the only regional player to come to the Iraq’s rescue... The US should think long and hard about the implications of what it does in the Middle East. So far it regional policy has been a miserable failure and the mistakes committed backlash with dire fallout. 
Andrei AKULOV | 24.06.2014
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From the pages of Orwell and «1984»: Irregular warfare against Eurasia
| Wayne MADSEN | 23.06.2014 | 00:00 | |
«Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible». These are the words from «1984», George Orwell’s fictional novel and eerily correct prognostication of future events from geopolitics to the loss of privacy and the rise of the surveillance state. Oceania fictionally represented the British Isles, North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia. In Orwell’s world, Eurasia was comprised of Russia and Europe while another power, Eastasia, included China, Korea, and Japan.
Today, a modified form of the dystopian future world map of Orwell is becoming reality as Russia and China increasingly cooperate economically, politically, and militarily to ensure that the forces of Oceania – centered in Washington, London, Berlin, and Paris – do not overrun Eurasia.
At last month’s third annual International Security Conference in Moscow, a conclave sponsored by the Russian Defense Ministry, Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces, General Valery Gerasimov stated that Western-financed and organized «color revolutions», such as those employed twice in Ukraine and once in Georgia, represent a form of irregular warfare against Eurasia. Gerasimov’s statement about North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries, which resemble Orwell’s Oceania, launching irregular warfare against Eurasia could have been torn from the pages of «1984». Gerasimov cited information warfare, economic sanctions, and support for «proxy criminal organizations» and extremist groups as part of the West’s irregular warfare construct directed against Eurasia.
Gerasimov also said that color revolutions were part and parcel of Western military strategy against Eurasia since the non-military tactics employed were often followed by military force to bring about regime change. This is now the case with the Ukrainian government’s NATO-supported military offensive against federalists in eastern Ukraine, as well as in NATO support for Islamist rebels battling against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Military intervention, including air attacks, was also employed by NATO after the Islamist uprising in eastern Libya that eventually forced Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi from power.
Gerasimov’s comments about color revolutions was supported by none other than Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a non-profit think tank that often reflects the views of the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department. Cordesman said color revolutions sponsored by the West were a new form of warfare against Russia and China.
Belarusian Defense Minister Yury Zhadobin cited the «godfather» of George Soros- and CIA-financed themed uprisings and revolutions, Gene Sharp, the director of the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston as the prime motivator of the uprisings witnessed in Europe and the Middle East. The armed forces of Russia, China, and Belarus now consider the West’s support for regime change through color revolutions as being part of the military doctrines of the United States and NATO. The military planners in Moscow, Beijing, and Minsk also view Western private military contractors – mercenaries -- such as the former Blackwater, now Academi, as being part of the West’s regime change scenario after the outbreak of color revolutions.
The reasons for the West’s color revolution and regime change project for Eurasia are clear. With Russia and China at the forefront of developing new Eurasian energy schemes involving natural gas and new transportation routes evoking memories of the old Silk Road, the West feels threatened by the emergence in Eurasia of a dynamic new market that could not only rival but eclipse the European Union and Washington’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The emergence of a new Eurasian identity has alarmed the political leaders of de facto Oceania. Eurasia places economic development and respect for traditions over what many in Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and other countries of the region see as a Western «culture» that emphasizes pop culture, homosexuality, destruction of social safety nets, disrespect for religion, destruction of the traditional family unit, and unbridled vulture capitalism that promotes draconian austerity.
The Moscow security conference met at about the same time that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met at the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in Shanghai. There, Xi emphasized that Asia has entered the 21st century at that the Cold War mentality should be abandoned. Observers from Japan and the United States looked on as Asian delegates roundly rejected President Barack Obama’s Cold War military «pivot to Asia» and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s revanchist imperial military buildup in east Asia. In many respects, the United States Pacific forces and Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea represent the militaristic «Eastasia» of «1984», an entity that was allied for a period of time with Oceania.
Not only was the «Power of Siberia» natural gas pipeline, which will begin pumping natural gas from Siberia to China in 2018, agreed upon in Shanghai but there are plans to restore the old Silk Road as a major trans-Eurasian highway that will link China to Europe via the trans-Siberian highway and Europe’s E-30 highway. Eventually, an A-class motor highway will link Amsterdam with Beijing via the Asian Highway Network. This network of modern highways will restore the ancient Silk Road of Asia and move goods and passengers throughout Eurasia and, in the process, build new infrastructures in the remotest parts of the Eurasian heartland. This prospect has the banking houses of Europe and America concerned since they will be locked out of the financial sweepstakes.
Eurasia’s leaders, from Putin and Xi, to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are well aware that the color revolutions that have wracked Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan have been financed by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and Foundation and that Soros’s hedge fund empire is nothing more than a front for the international House of Rothschild banking cartel. NATO and the Obama administration, which represent the interests of Soros and the Rothschilds, will stop at nothing to destroy the Eurasian initiative. The «Euromaidan» overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who rejected a union with the European Union and appeared ready to forge ties with Eurasia, was part of the West’s (or «Oceania’s) first indirect military aggression against Eurasia.
Some Eurasian leaders are aware that the West is trying to derail the developing Eurasian Union. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed transforming CICA into a new Organization for Security and Development in Asia (OSDA), which would be the closest thing to a Eurasian counterpart to NATO. Stressing Eurasia’s rejection of Western «values», Nazarbayev stressed that OSDA would be built upon Asian «tradition and values». Nazarbayev appeared to be speaking for a number of Eurasian leaders in rejecting the lewd permissiveness of Western culture as witnessed by «Pussy Riot’s» and FEMEN’s displays of vulgarity and gratuitous nudity in places of religious worship in Russia, Ukraine, and other countries.
There is a new competitor to America’s version of Oceania now emerging in Orwell’s Eurasia. Halford John Mackinder’s «Heartland Theory», which was espoused in his book «The Geographical Pivot of History», postulated that the power that controlled Eurasia’s heartland between the Volga and Yangtze and the Arctic Sea and Himalayas would control the destiny of the world. If the Eurasian Union becomes a successful political and economic union, the United States, Britain, Western Europe, and Japan will be confined to a economically anemic and socially decadent coastal «Rimland» where the few remaining assets will be fought over by the hungry jackals of the banking houses of Wall Street, City of London, and Frankfurt. The outbreak of wars in Syria, Ukraine, and Iraq are but the first shots of the impending war between «Oceania» and «Eurasia».http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/06/23/from-pages-of-orwell-and-1984-irregular-warfare-against-eurasia.html
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Wasser & Salz = Würde Palästinensische Gemeinde Deutschland
e.V. (PGD)wendet sich gegen Doppelmoral
...
Erstaunlich,
mit welcher Intensität
und Wachsamkeit die Presse
und die Politik die Entführung
der israelischen
Siedler im
Besetzten Palästina beobachtet und dem Geschehen Aufmerksamkeit
schenkt. Auf der anderen Seite verlieren
sie kaum ein Wort über
die grausame alltägliche
Verschleppung palästinensischer
Jugendliche durch die Besatzungsmacht Israel.
Beängstigend
ist dagegen die Schweigsamkeit westlicher und in erster
Linie
deutscher
Politiker und
Medien im Fall der
sich seit Wochen im Hungerstreik befindenden rund 200
palästinensischen, politischen Häftlinge in israelischen
Gefängnissen – obwohl sie zum Teil bereits seit über 57 Tagen
hungern. Sie kämpfen mit den leeren Mägen gegen die brutalen und
menschenverachtenden
Haftbedingungen und gegen
die zum Teil international geächtete Praxis der Administrativhaft.
Sie stehen auf gegen einen angeblich
demokratischen Staat, der
per Gesetz die Folter an politischen Häftlingen manifestiert hat.
Und sie bleiben stehen – auch wenn sich inzwischen 67
in akuter Lebensgefahr
befinden.
Die
sogenannte "Administrativhaft",
gegen die die Häftlinge mit ihrem Hungerstreik protestieren,
ermöglicht es den israelischen Behörden, Verdächtige ohne
Anklage
aufgrund geheimer Ermittlungsergebnisse für jeweils verlängerbare
Zeiträume von sechs
Monaten festzuhalten. Zurzeit befinden sich knapp 200 von rund 5.000
Palästinensern in israelischen Gefängnissen in Administrativhaft,
zum Teil seit
mehreren Jahren.
Die Praxis der Verwaltungshaft verstößt gegen das im
Internationalen Abkommen über bürgerliche und politische Rechte
verbriefte Recht auf ein faires Gerichtsverfahren. Unter diesen
Umständen grenzt es schon fast an Ignoranz, ja sogar an
abscheulichen Sarkasmus, wenn der israelische Staat noch mit der
Aufwertung des Assoziationsabkommens mit der EU beschenkt wird.
Die
palästinensisch-politischen
Häftlinge werden
entgegen
der internationalen Konventionen
nicht nur aus ihrer Heimat verschleppt und in die Gefängnisse der
Besatzungsmacht gesteckt, sie werden auch
gefoltert und
monatelang festgehalten – und zwar ohne einen Richter zu sehen. Und
trotzdem schweigt die deutsche politische Elite und macht sich somit
in diesem Fall mitschuldig. Denn keiner kann behaupten, er habe es
nicht gewusst.
Erstaunlich
die Moralpredigten
deutscher
Politiker, wenn es
um Menschenrechte überall
in der Welt geht.
Beängstigend aber ihr Schweigen, ja fast schon das Totschweigen,
wenn es um den Verstoß
gegen die Menschenrechte in Israel
geht.
Erstaunlich
auch, dass keiner dieser sonst so lautstarken Moralprediger aufsteht
und fordert, Israel,
das ja bekanntermaßen weit
weg von Europa liegt, aus
europäischen kulturellen und sportlichen Ereignissen auszuschließen.
Denn Israel ist seit
Jahrzehnten eine Besatzungsmacht,
unterdrückt
ein anderes Volk und
ignoriert
zahlreiche internationale
Beschlüsse und Konventionen
kategorisch.
Mit
Erstaunen müssen wir die Damen und Herren an der Spree nun fragen:
Ist es inzwischen tatsächlich so, dass Schweigen zu massiver
Menschenrechtsverletzung und zu Gefängnissen voller politischer
Häftlinge inklusive gesetzlicher Rückendeckung zum Foltern an
diesen Häftlingen tatsächlich noch zu
dem Schutz der deutschen Staatsraison
gehört?
Wir
fordern die deutsche Regierung auf, ihre schützende Hand über das
Verbrecherregime in Israel nun aufzuheben.
Hannover
20.6.2014, Raif Hussein, Friedhofsallee 16, 30519 Hannover,
raif@raif-hussein.de
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