25th March, 2014
A leader of the Ukrainian ultranationalist group Right Sector and active participant in the Maidan street protests in Kiev has been shot dead in western Ukraine.
Ultranationalist leader in Maidan protests is shot dead in Ukraine
Posted by seumasach on March 25, 2014
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Infamous Ukrainian nationalist Sasha Beliy fatally shot
Posted by seumasach on March 25, 2014
25th March, 2014
MOSCOW, March 25 (RAPSI) – Ukrainian nationalist Aleksandr Muzychko (alias Sasha Beliy), who has been placed on the international wanted list on suspicions of killing Russian servicemen, has been fatally shot, newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reports.
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Lavrov-Kerry dialogue procedes
Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2014
“According to Lavrov, Kerry realizes that it is necessary to “push” the Ukrainian authorities into fulfilling the February-21 agreement on the crisis settlement, which was signed by ousted President Viktor Yanukovich, opposition leaders and foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland.”
Russia not clinging to G8 if West does not want it – Russian FM
24th March, 2014
Russia is not clinging to the G8 format, as all major world problems can be discussed at other international venues such as G20, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
“The G8 is an informal club, no one gives out membership cards and no one can expel members,” Lavrov told a media conference at the Hague. “If our Western partners believe that this format has exhausted itself, let it be. We are not clinging to it.”
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Kiev trains paramilitaries
Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2014
Kiev hands over 23 summer camps to Nazis for paramilitary training
22nd March, 2014
Ukrainian Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh has opposed the absorption of the Right Sector (neo-Nazi) youth into the new National Guard.
Notwithstanding, the Minister of Education, Serhiy kvit (Svoboda), decided to entrust the facilities of 23 summer camps, scattered throughout the country, to the far-right youth group to organize up paramilitary training courses.
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Massive anti-Maidan rallies grip eastern Ukraine
Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2014
Massive anti-Maidan rallies grip eastern Ukraine as residents demand referendum
23rd March, 2014
Rallies have swept eastern Ukraine, with residents protesting against Kiev’s coup-imposed government and demanding a referendum to decide on the future of the region. Thousands took to the streets in Kharkov, Donetsk, Lugansk, and Odessa on Sunday.
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Yatsenyuk offers “broad autonomy” to East Ukraine
Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2014
As reported in the New York Times
“The acting government in Kiev has also been slow to reach out to Russian speakers and specifically to the East. The interim prime minister, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, did give a speech in Russian last week offering broad autonomy to Ukraine’s eastern regions, which are vital to the country’s weak economy, even with rundown coal mines and outmoded factories.”
This seems to confirm that the Kerry-Lavrov plan for a federalized Ukraine. It will not go down well with the Right sector. The dual power situation in Kiev remains to be resolved.
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Russia’s countermove in Iran
Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2014
23rd March, 2014
Neocons hoped the Ukraine-Crimea crisis, which they encouraged, would drive a spike into the Obama-Putin collaboration and restore neocon dreams of a U.S. military attack on Iran. But the scheme could instead push Russia and Iran closer together, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.
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The truth about wireless computer-based teaching
Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2014
KI researcher: ‘Kick out politicians who give students hazardous e-readers with unproven educational value
Olle Johansson, Associate Professor in Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
(Source:Newsvoice)
23rd January, 2014
Thanks to the so-called PISA* (OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment) survey, in Sweden we now know: student scores in maths, reading comprehension and natural sciences are plummeting. The results are prompting rage in Swedish schools. Something is wrong.
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“New Cold War” fizzles out
Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2014
Cailean Bochanan
22nd March, 2014
We are nearly a week into the “New Cold War” and we haven’t got as far as kicking the Russians out of the G8. At the same time a remarkably laid back Barak Obama has, uncharacteristically for a US president, taken the military option off the table- did Kennedy do that during the Cuban missile crisis at the height of the Cold War? The West will therefore limit itself to a non-military response. But Western hegemony, the empire, rests entirely on military force as we have seen repeatedly in the last thirty years. To rely on moral authority or diplomatic finesse is to go naked. Legal authority looks equally questionable. The EU has declared the Crimean referendum invalid on the grounds that it runs contrary to the Ukrainian constitution- the same constitution that it trashed by supporting the 22nd February coup in Kiev.
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Kerry’s lonely crusade against Venezuela
Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2014
Mark Weisbrot
21st March, 2014
Images forge reality, granting a power to television and video and even still photographs that can burrow deep into people’s consciousness without them even knowing it. With a wide variety of sources and people on the ground to talk to, I thought I was immune to the repetitious portrayals of Venezuela as a failed state in the throes of a popular rebellion. But even I was not prepared for what I saw in Caracas: how little of daily life appeared to be affected by the protests, the normality that prevailed in the vast majority of the city. I, too, had been taken in by media imagery.
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Riyadh takes wrong road to stability
Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2014
Nicola Nasser
21st March, 2014
As the Arab Spring spread in 2011, some analysts thought Saudi Arabia had what it would take for full-scale revolt.
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