Please distribute this information, contact your elected officials, network with peace advocates, speak at public meetings, organize protests (even one person with a sign or with flyers can educate and make a difference), and educate your communities, especially if you live in the U.S., Canada or the UK. Time is of the essence.

From Global Research, November 21, 2014
http://www.globalresearch.ca/all-out-war-in-ukraine-natos-final-offensive/5415354
by Professor James Petras

There are clear signs that a major war is about to break out in Ukraine:  A war actively promoted by the NATO regimes and supported by their allies and clients in Asia (Japan) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia).  The war over Ukraine will essentially run along the lines of a full-scale military offensive against the southeast Donbas region, targeting the breakaway ethnic Ukraine- Russian Peoples Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk, with the intention of deposing the democratically elected government, disarming the popular militias, killing the guerrilla resistance partisans and their mass base, dismantling the popular representative organizations and engaging in ethnic cleansing of millions of bilingual Ukraino-Russian citizens.  NATO’s forthcoming military seizure of the Donbas region is a continuation and extension of its original violent putsch in Kiev, which overthrew an elected Ukrainian government in February 2014.

The Kiev junta and its newly ‘elected’ client rulers, and its NATO sponsors are intent on a major purge to consolidate the puppet Poroshenko’s dictatorial rule.  The recent NATO-sponsored elections excluded several major political parties that had traditionally supported the country’s large ethnic minority populations, and was boycotted in the Donbas region.  This sham election in Kiev set the tone for NATO’s next move toward converting Ukraine into one gigantic US multi-purpose military base aimed at the Russian heartland and into a neo-colony for German capital, supplying Berlin with grain and raw materials while serving as a captive market for German manufactured goods.

An intensifying war fever is sweeping the West; the consequences of this madness appear graver by the hour.

War Signs:  The Propaganda and Sanctions Campaign, the G20 Summit and the Military Build Up

The official drum- beat for a widening conflict in Ukraine, spearheaded by the Kiev junta and its fascist militias, echoes in every Western mass media outlet, every day.  Major mass media propaganda mills and government ‘spokesmen and women’ publish or announce new trumped-up accounts of growing Russian military threats to its neighbors and cross-border invasions into Ukraine.  New Russian incursions are ‘reported’ from the Nordic borders and Baltic states to the Caucuses.  The Swedish regime creates a new level of hysteria over a mysterious “Russian” submarine off the coast of Stockholm, which it never identifies or locates – let alone confirms the ‘sighting’.  Estonia and Latvia claim Russian warplanes violated their air space without confirmation.  Poland expels Russian “spies” without proof or witnesses.  Provocative full-scale joint NATO-client state military exercises are taking place along Russia’s frontiers in the Baltic States, Poland, Romania and Ukraine.

NATO is sending vast arms shipments to the Kiev junta, along with “Special Forces” advisers and counter-insurgency experts in anticipation of a full-scale attack against the rebels in the Donbas.

The Kiev regime has never abided by the Minsk cease fire. According to the UN Human Rights office 13 people on average –mostly civilians –have been killed each day since the September cease fire. In eight weeks, the UN reports that 957 people have killed –overwhelmingly by Kiev’s armed forces.

The Kiev regime, in turn, has cut all basic social and public services to the Peoples’ Republics’, including electricity, fuel, civil service salaries, pensions, medical supplies, salaries for teachers and medical workers, municipal workers wages; banking and transport have been blockaded.

The strategy is to further strangle the economy, destroy the infrastructure, force an even greater mass exodus of destitute refugees from the densely populated cities across the border into Russia and then to launch massive air, missile, artillery and ground assaults on urban centers as well as rebel bases.

The Kiev junta has launched an all-out military mobilization in the Western regions, accompanied by rabid anti-Russian, anti-Eastern Orthodox indoctrination campaigns designed to attract the most violent far right chauvinist thugs and to incorporate the Nazi-style military brigades into the frontline shock troops.  The cynical use of irregular fascist militias will ‘free’ NATO and Germany from any responsibility for the inevitable terror and atrocities in their campaign.  This system of ‘plausible deniability’ mirrors the tactics of the German Nazis whose hordes of fascist Ukrainians and Ustashi Croats were notorious in their epoch of ethnic cleansing.

G20-plus-NATO: Support of the Kiev Blitz

To isolate and weaken resistance in the Donbas and guarantee the victory of the impending Kiev blitz, the EU and the US are intensifying their economic, military and diplomatic pressure on Russia to abandon the nascent peoples’ democracy in the south-east region of Ukraine, their principle ally.

Each and every escalation of economic sanctions against Russia is designed to weaken the capacity of the Donbas resistance fighters to defend their homes, towns and cities.  Each and every Russian shipment of essential medical supplies and food to the besieged population evokes a new and more hysterical outburst – because it counters Kiev-NATO strategy of starving the partisans and their mass base into submission or provoking their flight to safety across the Russian border.

After suffering a series of defeats, the Kiev regime and its NATO strategists decided to sign a ‘peace protocol’, the so-called Minsk agreement, to halt the advance of the Donbas resistance into the southern regions and to protect its Kiev’s soldiers and militias holed-up in isolated pockets in the East.  The Minsk agreement was designed to allow the Kiev junta to build up its military, re-organize its command and incorporate the disparate Nazi militias into its overall military forces in preparation for a ‘final offensive’.  Kiev’s military build-up on the inside and NATO’s escalation of sanctions against Russia on the outside would be two sides of the same strategy:  the success of a frontal attack on the democratic resistance of the Donbas basin depends on minimizing Russian military support through international sanctions.

NATO’s virulent hostility to Russian President Putin was on full display at the G20 meeting in Australia: NATO-linked presidents and prime ministers, especially Merkel, Obama, Cameron, Abbott, and Harper’s political threats and overt personal insults paralleled Kiev’s growing starvation blockade of the besieged rebels and population centers in the south-east.  Both the G20’s economic threats against Russia and the diplomatic isolation of Putin and Kiev’s economic blockade are preludes to NATO’s Final Solution – the physical annihilation of all vestiges of Donbas resistance, popular democracy and cultural-economic ties with Russia.

Kiev depends on its NATO mentors to impose a new round of severe sanctions against Russia, especially if its planned invasion encounters a well armed and robust mass resistance bolstered by Russian support.  NATO is counting on Kiev’s restored and newly supplied military capacity to effectively destroy the southeast centers of resistance.

NATO has decided on an ‘all-or-nothing campaign’:  to seize all of Ukraine or, failing that, destroy the restive southeast, obliterate its population and productive capacity and engage in an all-out economic (and possibly shooting) war with Russia.  Chancellor Angela Merkel is on board with this plan despite the complaints of German industrialists over their huge loss of export sales to Russia.  President Hollande of France has signed on dismissing the complaints of trade unionists over the loss of thousands French jobs in the shipyards.  Prime Minister David Cameron is eager for an economic war against Moscow, suggesting the bankers of the City of London find new channels to launder the illicit earnings of Russian oligarchs.

The Russian Response

Russian diplomats are desperate to find a compromise, which allows Ukraine’s ethnic Ukraine- Russian population in the southeast to retain some autonomy under a federation plan and regain influence within the ‘new’ post-putsch Ukraine.  Russian military strategists have provided logistical and military aid to the resistance in order to avoid a repeat of the Odessa massacre of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian fascists on a massive scale. Above all, Russia cannot afford to have NATO-Nazi-Kiev military bases along its southern ‘underbelly’, imposing a blockade of the Crimea and forcing a mass exodus of ethnic Russians from the Donbas.  Under Putin, the Russian government has tried to propose compromises allowing Western economic supremacy over Ukraine but without NATO military expansion and absorption by Kiev.

That policy of conciliation has repeatedly failed.

The democratically elected ‘compromise regime’ in Kiev was overthrown in February 2014 in a violent putsch, which installed a pro-NATO junta.

Kiev violated the Minsk agreement with impunity and encouragement from the NATO powers and Germany.

The recent G20 meeting in Australia featured a rabble-rousing chorus against President Putin.  The crucial four-hour private meeting between Putin and Merkel turned into a fiasco when Germany parroted the NATO chorus.

Putin finally responded by expanding Russia’s air and ground troop preparedness along its borders while accelerating Moscow’s economic pivot to Asia.

Most important, President Putin has announced that Russia cannot stand by and allow the massacre of a whole people in the Donbas region.

Is Poroshenko’s forthcoming blitz against the people of southeast Ukraine designed to provoke a Russian response – to the humanitarian crisis?  Will Russia confront the NATO-directed Kiev offensive and risk a total break with the West?

James Petras latest book is THE POLITICS OF IMPERIALISM:THE US, ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST (CLARITY PRESS:ATLANTA)

As Great Britain’s actions abroad have resulted in the death and suffering of millions of children, and its actions at home have resulted in child rape, torture, trafficking, and murder at the top, by the Windsor family, Church of England officials, and government officials (www.itccs.org, [1]), down to the sexual abuse in their school system, the award given to Tony Blair is the starkest reminder of the Orwellian situation we are now in.

He represents the leaders of the West. Everyday people are needed to speak out and confront the madness, the lies, and the crimes sweeping out from the West. Fraudulent non-profit organizations such as Save the Children that perpetuate this misery must also be exposed.

Silence is consent. To take no action is to participate in these horrible crimes.

We must save the children indeed.

Please sign petition demanding that Save the Children revoke this award given to Tony Blair.
https://www.change.org/p/save-the-children-revoke-the-global-legacy-award-given-to-tony-blair

From Interventions Watch, November 20, 2014:

Tony Blair wins Save The Children’s ‘Global Legacy’ award.

The United States and the Anglo-European 1% repeat the same pattern over and over again — that is, aggression seeking complete dominance. Rivals are not tolerated. This is true of Cuba, Russia, North Korea, and any country that will not “integrate” or “harmonize” with Anglo-European policy.

Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission also said, “Dividing terrorism to good and bad has created and spread the terrorist groups in the region and has endangered the regional and international security.”

As nations and peoples of the world seek to extricate themselves from Western dominance, they have powerful resources in their ancient  wisdom and knowledge, and in their Earth-based traditions. These are far greater than modern artificial technologies.

Posted on Farsi News, November 17, 2014

TEHRAN (FNA)- A group of American professors in separate messages to a conference titled ‘Minus Dignity, Plus Sanction’ in Tehran on Monday underlined that the US has now kept its promises with regard to Iran, adding that Washington has imposed sanctions on Tehran due to its opposition to Iran’s independence.

The American professors made the statements in video messages to the conference which focused on the western sanction imposed against Iran.

Dr. Randy Short, American university professor, human rights activist and political commentator pointed to Iran-Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) negotiations, and said, “I am worried about the negotiations (between Iran and the six world power) because the US has a bad record in fulfilling its undertakings.”

He said the US has imposed sanctions against Iran not because of Iran’s nuclear program, but due to its independence.

He said Washington’s problem is that the Central Bank of Iran and the country’s economy are not under the control of the US and Europe, and they mainly “fear that Iran will become the superior power in the Central Asia region”.

Anthony James Hall, Canadian professor of Globalization Studies, said that “if we closely look at the US history we see that the sanctions are meant to weaken Iran and it has nothing to do with the human rights, but they (the US and its allies) have a problem with Iran’s independence”.

He noted that all the freedom-seekers of the world have pinned hope on Iran, and said, “The US will never accept an agreement which will benefit Iran.”

Earlier this year, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei outlined the general policies of the program to promote the “economy of resistance”, which can lead the Iranian nation to victory in “the economic war” imposed by the West.

The Supreme Leader called the western sanctions against Iran “a full-fledged economic war” and said that the Islamic Republic was determined to force the West to retreat.

Under the program, the government must take action to expand the production and exportation of knowledge-based products, increase domestic production of strategic goods, and develop markets in neighboring countries.

It also encourages greater privatization and increased exports of electricity, gas, petrochemicals, and oil byproducts instead of crude oil and other raw materials.

On Sunday, Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said imposing sanctions against Tehran is an already failed policy.

“The sanctions imposed on Iran are a failed policy; the sanctions tool has never been able to make the Iranian nation withdraw from its righteous positions,” Boroujerdi said in a meeting with new Italian Ambassador to Tehran Mauro Conciatori.

“Sanctions have only resulted in ample financial loss for the European industrial and trade companies,” he added.

Elsewhere, he underlined that the continued regional crises are the result of the US and its allies’ strategic mistakes, and said, “Dividing terrorism to good and bad has created and spread the terrorist groups in the region and has endangered the regional and international security.”

Source:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930826001594

Posted under Fair Use Rules.

Additional information:

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/World/Middle-East/2012/0608/Iran-s-nuclear-program-4-things-you-probably-didn-t-know/President-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-never-said-that-Israel-should-be-wiped-off-the-map.

http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/rumor-of-the-century/

http://web.mit.edu/mitir/2009/online/mossadegh.htm

http://warisacrime.org/content/waking-Tehran — The book reviewed in this article was never published. It would have been too damning to the official U.S. account.

http://www.esquire.com/features/iranbriefing1107

From Russia Insider, November 11, 2014
By Federico Pieraccini

The truce in Ukraine is at risk.

Last night Donetsk was subjected to hours-long artillery bombardment, the most intense in weeks.

Looking at the Ukrainian side, there are other signals their forces may launch a full-scale offensive.

The recent elections in Ukraine have created a very difficult political situation.

Political representation in the Rada is everything that foreign actors have been dreaming of since the onset of destabilization of Ukraine in Febuary.

The goal of filling the parliament with politicians who harbor radical ideas, and above all a strong anti-Russian sentiment has been achieved.

Essentially, these political groups are, directly or indirectly, related to the most extreme factions of nationalist Ukrainians such as the National Guard.

The information that has filtered out in recent months has made it possible to certify that these private battalions are financed by oligarchs close to foreign actors, especially in the US.

For these reasons, the fragile cease fire is holding less and less with each passing day. There have even been reports of Ukraine military vehicles operating in areas under rebel control.

In recent weeks it could be observed the Ukrainian forces in theater have increased their firepower, the number of vehicles at their disposal and strengthened the positions they occupy.

In the mean time, the National Guard, which draws the most of the worst war criminals and neo-Nazi fighters, has completed a training process for the men of its punitive battalions. The training took weeks, said the deputy head of the National Security Council Vladimir Polevoy: “The soldiers were trained according to the standards established and perfected the techniques of war,” – at a press conference in Kiev. He insisted the National Guard units, including those fighting in the south-east of Ukraine, would be composed of qualified men only.

In the current situation the main drivers toward renewed fighting are:

• Political motivation
• A diversion from the catastrophic economic situation
• Foreign pressure toward the resumption of active conflict

Kiev’s strategy is unclear and it is difficult to predict future developments for the next few weeks. What is clear is that the most violent factions continue to push for a resumption of the conflict. More likely than not, the current situation will not hold for much longer.The so called winter-factor seems to be less relevant than originally thought. We will see if that is indeed the case, or if the period of “frozen conflict” will be a prelude to full-scale fighting in spring.

Federico Pieraccini is a military analyst who writes the WAR UPDATE blog for RI.  He has covered conflicts in Ukraine, Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.  

Native of Florence, Italy, he maintains a popular blog (in Italian), called Fractions of Reality, which seeks to present interesting information about Russia and Ukraine not widely available in the mainstream Italian media.  He lives in Milan

Source: http://russia-insider.com/en/military_politics_ukraine/2014/11/10/06-29-30pm/resumption_all_out_war_ukraine_seems_more_and_more

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-resumption-of-all-out-war-in-eastern-ukraine/5413156

From Russia Insider, November 11, 2014
By Damir Marinovic

This guy, Harald Kujat, is a big deal in the German military.  He was Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces.  He doesn’t believe Western and Ukrainian evidence of a Russian invasion.

This comes from a recent episode of one of the most popular political talk shows in Germany, Maybrit Illner.

The other guests on the show including Martin Shulz, President of the European Parliament, kept talking about “Russian aggression”.

General Kujat doesn’t buy it.  Here’s what he said:

• It’s lot of speculation. Proof of Russia’s involvement with regular force has not come to my attention so far.
• For example, the announcement of the Ukrainian President that 23 Russian armed vehicles have been destroyed on Ukrainian soil.  There are no photos of surviving Russian soldiers nor of killed Russian soldiers.
• We have been shown five satellite pictures as a proof that Russian Forces are in the Ukraine. Three of them were marked officially as “on Russian territory”. Two of them are marked as “on Ukraine territory”. The Russian pictures are marked with the exact location, while the Ukrainian ones have no mention of location and coordinates.
• We have to be very careful about what the Ukraine and the West says.

Source:
http://russia-insider.com/en/germany_military_tv_ukraine/2014/11/11/08-38-23am/top_german_general_western_evidence_russian Top German General: Western Evidence of Russian Invasion is Baloney

For more information on Harald Kujat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Kujat

See also:

Russian invasion threat is a hoax—interview with Veterans Today

Russian invasion threat is a hoax—interview with Veterans Today

Phantom tanks and the desperation of Kiev

Phantom tanks and the desperation of Kiev