No matter how many times the American people say no to regime change in Syria through “limited military action with no boots on the ground” (in other words – WAR) the warmongers in both parties never give up.
The same applies to war against Russia (in other words – World War III). The American people do not under any circumstances want to declare war on Russia for the benefit of an ethno-Nazi Lvov-Kiev statelet run by a CIA-installed junta.
But is that what Congress is actually doing as we speak?
Behind the White House’s political smokescreen in Ferguson and New York, US lawmakers were busy sliding through a pre-declaration of war against Russia.
Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich warns about the House’s reckless adoption of the HR 758: “NATO encirclement, the US-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at the Russian border, a US nuclear first-strike policy, are all policies which attempt to substitute force for diplomacy.”
US Declares War on Russia, from 21st Century Wire:
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/12/04/us-declares-war-on-russia-step-one/
H.Res.758 – Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/758
Pepe Escobar: THE US CONGRESS HAS DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIA. I can’t emphasize enough how terrifying – and stupid – this is. And now it’s official. House Resolution 758 was approved yesterday by an overwhelming, bipartisan 411-10 score at the US Congress.
This resolution, rushed to a vote only two weeks after it was introduced, depicts Russia as an “Aggressor Nation” which has invaded Ukraine and was behind the downing of MH-17. The resolution virtually calls for war on Russia.
Take a very good look at the language:
The President of the United States, in consultation with the US Congress, must “conduct a review of the force posture, readiness, and responsibilities of the United States Armed Forces and the forces of other members of NATO to determine if the contributions and actions of each is sufficient to meet the obligations of collective self defense under article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and to specify the measures needed to remedy any deficiencies.”
Translation: the US Congress wants the Empire of Chaos to use NATO’s collective security doctrine under article 5 (an attack on one member is an attack on all members) to advance a war on Russia, even though Ukraine is not a member (but will soon become a major non-NATO ally).
The resolution now goes to the Senate. If it becomes law, the resolution allows the President of the United States to declare war on Russia bypassing the formal permission of Capitol Hill.
See the vote breakdown here:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2014/h548
Only 10 Members of Congress Opposed Bill Pushing for War with Russia:
The worst part is, many of them don’t even bother reading bills like this:
http://rt.com/usa/211879-ndaa-congress-read-bills/
Call or email Congress. Let them know that we the people do not agree to fight a war against Russia (a country which has shown no hostility towards the United States) nor do we agree to support the Kiev fascist clique!
Find Your Representative:
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Contacting Senators:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/general/one_item_and_teasers/contacting.htm
Freedom Fries are never free! Tell Congress that instead of declaring war on Russia, we could try the old trick of renaming food again. Here are some suggestions:
Borscht could be renamed freedom soup, vodka could become spirits of liberty, caviar could be Pussy Riot eggs, and Beef Stroganoff could be Beef Bandera!
Also let them know that we do not buy into the propaganda myths used by the government and the media to bring us back into a Cold War based solely on Russophobia.
These anti-Russia myths include:
Myth #1 – It is in America’s national security interests to weaken Russia. Russia is our enemy and always has been.
Stephen Cohen: “So for saying this, I’m called a Putin apologist. These people have no understanding. They don’t care about real national security. So I’m the patriot. I’m the one who cares about American national security. And all they’re doing is the old kind of McCarthy-ite red baiting.”
The American Who Dared Make Putin’s Case:
http://www.newsweek.com/american-who-dared-make-putins-case-231388
No, Russia has not always been America’s enemy. More often than not, we have been friends. Let’s take one example from history that very few people know about.
Tarpley’s 2013 CSPAN Lecture on Russian Fleets of 1863:
CrossTalk – Russophobia:
Myth #2 – Putin is an evil dictator who wants to invade Europe and establish a new USSR.
We’ve all heard politicians and media talking heads tossing around the quote from Putin that he wants to restore the USSR, but here is the actual quote:
“Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.” – Vladimir Putin.
Abysmal War Propaganda. Falsehoods in the New York Times – Mr. Putin Tests the West in Ukraine:
Vox Populi – Readers Comments Show anti-Putin Propaganda Not Working:
The Crimea Referendum – Why You Probably Shouldn’t Care:
Here’s a balanced and informed analysis of Vladimir Putin which claims that he is “neither the defiant counterweight” to Anglo-American dominance, nor the “Putler” of Euromaidan fantasy. I don’t completely agree with this analysis / critique, but it’s definitely worth a read:
Sorry America, Ukraine isn’t all about you:
You can see it in the aftermath of the Odessa fire massacre that killed over 40 pro-Russian separatists: It shut up even Navalny. The liberal-yuppie elites’ momentum is over. Putin’s popularity among the rest of the country has never been higher. So if Putin is neither the defiant counterweight hero or the neo-Stalinist imperialist, but rather playing a Russian version of vicious Nixon politics, what should the West do? That’s easy: Stay the Hell out of Russia’s way for a while…
http://pando.com/2014/05/14/sorry-america-the-ukraine-isnt-all-about-you/
Putin ‘like Hitler’? How did Prince Charles get it so wrong?:
A more pro-active Russian ruler would have sent troops to Kiev a long time ago. Thus did Czar Alexis when the Poles, Cossacks and Tatars argued for it in 17th century. So also did Czar Peter the Great, when the Swedes occupied it in the 18th century. So did Lenin, when the Germans set up the Protectorate of Ukraine (he called its establishment “the obscene peace”). So did Stalin, when the Germans occupied the Ukraine in 1941.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-like-hitler-how-did-prince-charles-get-it-so-wrong/5383160
How I know that V. V. Putin isn’t Hitler:
Hitler grabbed territory and made war and committed genocide in order to grab territory. Putin has grabbed territory in order to keep what he has. Putin has fought to hold on to South Ossetia, Dagestan and the Russian naval port of Sevastopol because neither he nor anyone else in Russia can see where the continuous slicing away of Russian influence will end. Russia thinks this way in no small part because they were on the receiving end of Hitler’s Drang nach Osten.
Putin may treat gay people as badly as they’re treated in Alabama, and he may be an autocratic White Tsar. He’s no Yeltsin, but he surely isn’t Hitler.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-i-know-that-v-v-putin-isnt-hitler/
Myth #3 – There are no Nazis in Ukraine. The Maidan coup was a popular, grassroots movement.
Brzezinski Mapped Out the Battle for Ukraine in 1997:
Understanding Brzezinski’s long-term view of Ukraine makes it easier to comprehend why the US has given $5 billion to Ukraine since 1991, and why today it is hyper-concerned about having Ukraine remain in its sphere of influence. It may also help explain why in the past year the US and many of its media outlets have feverishly demonized Vladimir Putin.
Brzezinski: “Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”
Brzezinski wrote that US policy should be “unapologetic” in perpetuating “America’s own dominant position for at least a generation and preferably longer still.”
USAID Exposed in Cuba – What it Tells Us About US Subversion Worldwide:
Not only has Ukraine suffered because of this admitted US-backed political destabilization over the years, but as revealed by the Guardian and other sources, all of Eastern Europe has fallen prey to this brand of foreign-backed subversion, manipulation, and regime change.
http://nsnbc.me/2014/12/13/usaid-exposed-cuba-tells-us-us-subversion-worldwide/
There are No Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. And the Obama Administration does not support Fascists:
Washington Fuels Rise of Neo-Nazism and Anti-Semitism in Ukraine. The Role of John McCain:
The Odessa Massacre – May 2, 2014:
Ukraine Crisis Today – Democracy caught on camera:
Ukraine Crisis – What You’re Not Being Told:
Myth #4 – Kiev is trying to free eastern Ukraine from the Russian invaders.
Death and destruction in Eastern Ukraine – in their own words:
Watch this video and hear the voices of Ukrainian people, both from the east and the west:
Ukraine Crisis – Death and destruction continues in Eastern Ukraine / Хунта убивает людей. [ENG SUB]:
Former Ukrainian PM Elena Bondarenko’s Open Letter to the Citizens of the World:
Alexander Turchinov the Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, deprived me of the right to speak from the podium as a member of the opposition Party of Regions, only for this: I declared “Any power that commissions its army to bomb its peaceful cities, is criminal.” After which, he magnanimously gave the radical parliamentarians the option to call for shooting the opposition.
The everyday life of an opposition deputy is this: constant threats, unofficial ban from the airwaves, targeted persecution. Everyone who calls for peace is immediately branded as an enemy of the people, just as in 1930’s Germany, or in McCarthyite US.
http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2014/12/former-ukrainian-pm-elena-bondarenkos.html
Ten ways you can tell if Russia has invaded Ukraine or not:
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/ten-ways-you-can-tell-if-russia-has-invaded-ukraine-or-not#.VAZNRvl_uYt
Myth #5 – Joining the EU and accepting IMF loans is Ukraine’s best chance to develop into a free, democratic and prosperous nation.
If you really believe this, well… think Greece!
What is the “European way of life”? For the working class, not just in Greece but across the continent, it means social misery—drastic cuts in jobs, wages, public services and living conditions—to satisfy the demands of the same banks, financial institutions and corporate giants that were responsible for the economic meltdown that erupted in 2008.
Will the IMF Bailout Turn Ukraine Into Another Greece?:
http://www.thenation.com/article/179212/will-imf-bailout-turn-ukraine-another-greece
Ukraine Can’t Afford the IMF’s Shock Therapy:
Crimean leaders blame Kiev for selling Ukraine off for IMF loans:
…the country’s entire gas pipeline system will be handed over for free in the American company Chevron’s ownership the moment the basic agreement is signed, while the owners of the Mariupol, Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk steel mills will be obliged to surrender their 50% stakes to Germany’s Ruhr. The Donbass coal industry will be handed over to Ruhr’s subsidiary in Finland…
Gas prices for municipal companies will have to be increased by 50% and for private will double. Electricity tariffs will be raised by 40%, housing utility tariffs will be raised, too, gasoline excises will go up 60% and transportation tariffs 50%, while state support for childbirth will be cancelled, the free distribution of textbooks will be annulled at schools and the VAT relief will be scrapped in rural regions…
“VAT will be introduced on medications, which will push up prices and bring citizens’ living standards down,” Kovitidi said.
“The planned annulment of the moratorium on the sale of farmland looks appalling. The selloff of Ukraine’s black soil zone, including to foreign countries, may have disastrous economic and social consequences,” she said.
With friends like the IMF and EU, Ukraine doesn’t need enemies:
You can’t destroy an economy in order to save it.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/5/ukraine-economy-imfeuropeanunionrussia.html
Medicine and Meat Out of Reach Amid Ukrainian Price Shock:
The plight of Zhytomyr’s 270,000 residents shows how bailout-mandated austerity and the strains of an eight-month insurgency are playing out in everyday life.
“Glory to Ukraine?” said Valya, 76, referring to a slogan of the street uprising. “Glory for what? Higher prices? The war? We’re just tolerating the authorities.”
http://en.ukraina.ru/analytics/20141124/1011261086.html
Ukraine’s healthcare system in crisis:
http://en.ukraina.ru/opinions/20141213/1011483434.html
About 100,000 teachers in Ukraine may lose jobs due to new government’s austerity program:
http://tass.ru/en/world/766330
Here is the reality:
– Ukraine is none of our business. It’s very far away and the US has no national interests connected with Ukraine.
– Ukraine is Russia’s business. It borders Russia.
– Ukraine is the victim of a fascist coup. America and Russia agree (and have always agreed) on the topic of fascism: it’s bad.
– Ukraine is not worth risking a military confrontation with Russia (a nuclear power) over. It’s called World War III: it’s a bad idea.
– Ukraine is not worth the blood of even a single American soldier.
– If anything, we should be supporting Russia as an ally against fascism!
https://bperet.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/ukrainian-uprising-coup-some-things-you-may-have-missed/
Ukraine – Fascist Dictatorship Masquerading As Democracy:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-fascist-dictatorship-masquerading-as-democracy/5418412
Why Everything You’ve Read about Ukraine is Wrong, from Forbes:
25 Recent Events in Ukraine the U.S. Wants You To Forget:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/25-recent-events-in-ukraine-the-u-s-wants-you-to-forget/5393572
Chances are, if you’re reading this and it’s the year 2014, the economy of your own country is in serious trouble. Contact your elected representatives and tell them to butt out of Russia’s business and get to work on an economic recovery plan for your country.
http://tarpley.net/docs/five-point-program.pdf
Meanwhile in Michigan – The Rev. Pinkney Case:
Meanwhile in Michigan… a Human Rights Violation You May Have Missed!
GET ACTIVE… OR GET RADIOACTIVE!
Petitions
No to War, Hot or Cold, with Russia:
http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/no-to-war-hot-or-cold-with-russia
Petition to Keep Ukraine out of NATO:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/keep-ukraine-out-of-nato
Act Now to Avoid War over Ukraine! To President Obama:
Halt Momentum Toward War in Ukraine:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/halt-momentum-toward-war-in-ukraine?source=direct_link
Tell the White House and Congress: No support for neo-Nazis in Ukraine!
Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.
“Whenever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers. But she does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the wellwisher to freedom and independence for all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She well knows that by once enlisting other banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extridition, in all wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom….She might become the dictress of the world but would no longer be ruler of her own spirit… Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.”
– John Quincy Adams
A Russian Grandma’s Advice to Obama:
CIA’s Chechen Terrorists AKA “ISIS” Attack in Grozny as Putin Gives Key Address in Kremlin:
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