LUV News march 10

Subject: Re: LUV News march 10


"...In this piece, President Maduro is identified as "The socialist leader"
more
than once. Corporate media do not call President Obama "The capitalist
leader..."
Actually, President Obama should be called by his rightful title, Mightiest
Emperor of the Corporate Capitalistic States of America and Beyond.
Some folks would like us to believe that Obama is too modest to assume such
a high and mighty title. But the truth is that his Masters do not want him
to get too big for his britches.

Carl Jarvis





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MOLOTOV COCKTAILS IN VENEZUELA: THE UKRAINIAN FORMULA



British news reports that "[E]very night, hooded opposition militants emerge
around a square in eastern Caracas brandishing rocks and Molotov cocktails,
clashing with riot police and turning one of the capital's most affluent
neighborhoods into a battlefield." Since they're throwing Molotov
cocktails, should they succeed the US government will declare them to be the
legitimate government, ignoring elections, as it did in Ukraine. And, just
as it did in the Ukraine, the US government is pumping a fortune into
dissidents in Venezuela. Anything the Venezuelan government does to quell
the violence is depicted in US mainstream press as heavy handed, just as
they depicted in Ukraine.
In this piece, President Maduro is identified as "The socialist leader" more
than once. Corporate media do not call President Obama "The capitalist
leader," but that's how the mainstream press work it, after demonizing
socialism for generations.
________________________________________

CLINTON CLOUT



Christopher Ruddy appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" yesterday saying he
is going to take over the conservative market from FOX News with his
Newsmax. He said he is friends with Hillary Clinton and might endorse her
for president, while attacking mainstream media as cuddling liberals. One
recalls Fox News chief Roger Ailes did a fundraiser for Hillary when she ran
against Obama for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
One also recalls, when it looked like Hillary would get the Democratic
nomination for president in 2008, Bill Clinton saying he didn't know how
Hillary could run against a close friend like John McCain. The Democratic
faithful would question why the Clintons spend their time with conservative
and business friends if they had a clue about how the system works.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were both in the leadership of the corporate-funded
Democratic Leadership Council, which dragged the Democratic Party solidly
into the Republican economic realm in order to reap the heavyweight
corporate funding. These days, Democrats often raise more corporate bribes
than Republicans, in selling out the American people, and they owe much of
it to the Clintons.
________________________________________

CAN WE HOLD CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS?



"Advocacy and accountability groups are urging the U.S. Congress to enact
new mechanisms that would allow it to hold multinational corporations
accountable for rights infringements abroad," begins a piece at IPS News
this morning. With many transnational corporations more powerful than most
of the governments on the planet, and funding our elections, this may be a
longshot, but we always encourage activists to attempt a move toward
democracy.
________________________________________

Fareed Zakaria, CNN's master of propaganda, yesterday, while deceiving his
viewers with "invasion" stories about evil Russians, moved briefly to
claiming Russian tanks had moved in and took two territories from Georgia.
This distortion omits the fact that South Ossetians at the time were
claiming Georgia was attempting genocide against them, offering video (we
linked to them in LUV News at the time) showing homes being blown to bits by
an invading Georgian army (a previous truce had peaceful observers
separating South Ossetia from a Georgian military now armed by the USA and
Israel. Russia came in after this horror began, at the request of the
government of South Ossetia. Previously, at the breakup of the old USSR,
Abkhazia and South Ossetia fought wars with Georgia to secede, not having
historical ties to Georgia before Stalin, then running the USSR, forced them
into Georgia, his place of birth.
Although there's been no attempt for either Abkhazia or South Ossetia to
become part of Russia, the people of both are opposed to being part of
Georgia. Then Russian President Medvedev stated that "Western countries
rushed to recognize Kosovo's illegal declaration of independence from
Serbia. We argued consistently that it would be impossible, after that, to
tell the Abkhazians and Ossetians (and dozens of other groups around the
world) that what was good for the Kosovo Albanians was not good for them. In
international relations, you cannot have one rule for some and another rule
for others."
We think Americans should get the other side of these arguments as our
mainstream press push us ever closer to war with one side of events rallying
citizens based on half truths (recall those "weapons of mass destruction" in
Iraq).
I wrote an email to CNN host Brian Stelter yesterday saying "Reliable
Sources pretends to be fair and balanced, like FOX, but host Brian Stelter
today ridiculed Russia Today, which he called 'Putin TV.' He asked on Liz
Wahl to attack Russia Today, without mentioning Amy Martin's appearance on
his network lambasting the corporate media on Piers Morgan's program. It
would be impossible to be more biased than this in favor of corporate
viewpoint media against any who attempt to provide the public interest
viewpoint. I edit LUV News, which gives the public interest side, a
viewpoint Reliable Sources would never allow."
--Jack Balkwill

C'mon baby, light my (Crimean) fire


By Pepe Escobar

March 16 is C Day. The Crimean parliament - by 78 votes with 8 abstentions -
decided this is the day when Crimean voters will choose between joining the
Russian Federation or to remain part of Ukraine as an autonomous region with
very strong powers, according to the 1992 constitution.

Whatever "diplomatic" tantrums Washington and Brussels will keep pulling,
and they will be incandescent, facts on the ground speak for themselves. The
city council of Sevastopol - the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet -
has already voted to join Russia. And next week the Duma in Moscow will
study a bill to simplify the mechanism of adhesion.

Quick recap: this is a direct result of Washington spending US$5 billion - a
Victoria "F**k the EU" Nuland official figure - to promote regime change in
Ukraine. On the horizon, Crimea may be incorporated into Russia for free,
while the "West" absorbs that bankrupt back-of-beyond (Western Ukraine) that
an Asia Times Online reader indelibly described as the "Khaganate of
Nulands" (an amalgam of khanate, Victoria's notorious neo-con husband Robert
Kagan, and no man's land).

What Moscow regards as an illegal, neo-nazi infiltrated government in Kiev,
led by Prime Minister Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk - an Ukrainian Jewish banker
playing the role of Western puppet - insists Crimea must remain part of
Ukraine. And it's not only Moscow; half of Ukraine itself does not recognize
the Yats gang as a legitimate government, now boasting a number of oligarchs
imposed as provincial governors.

Yet this "government" - supported by the US and the European Union - has
already declared the referendum illegal. Proving its impeccable "democratic"
credentials, it has already moved to ban the official use of the Russian
language in Ukraine; get rid of the communist party, which amassed 13% of
the votes in the last election, more, incidentally, than the
neo-nazi-infested Svoboda ("Freedom") party, now ensconced in key government
security posts; and ban a Russian TV station, which happens to be the most
popular on Ukrainian cable.

Amid all the hysteria from Washington and certain European capitals, what's
not explained to puzzled public opinion is that these fascists/neo-nazis who
got to power through a coup will never allow real elections to take place in
Ukraine; after all they would most certainly be sent packing.

This implies that "Yats" and his gang - on top of it reveling at their red
carpet welcome at a pompous yet innocuous EU summit in Brussels - won't
budge. For instance, they used heavy muscle to send pro-Russian protesters
in front of the Donetsk government building running. Heavily industrialized
Donetsk is very much linked commercially to Russia.

Then there's an even more sinister possible scenario looming in the horizon;
an instrumentalization of the lunatic jihadi fringe of the 10% of Tatars in
Crimea, from false flags to suicide bombings. The House of Saud, according
to a solid Saudi source, is immensely interested in Ukraine, and may be
tempted to do a few favors for Western intelligence.

Will our love become a funeral pyre?
Arguably, for Moscow, keeping Crimea inside the Ukraine, with large
autonomous powers plus the current signed agreement to keep the base in
Sevastopol, is a much better deal than annexing it. It's as if Russia was
annexing what for all practical purposes was already a Russian province.

Yet the Kremlin may always decide not to annex, and use the all but certain
result of the referendum as a key pawn in a complex negotiation with, not
the EU, but fundamentally Germany. The EU is a mess. The "government" in
Kiev is a mess. What matters is what Vladimir Putin is discussing over the
phone with Angela Merkel.

Much has to do with Pipelineistan - as in the 9 billion euro (US$12.4
billion) Nord Stream, the steel umbilical cord between Russia and Germany
via the Baltic Sea. Merkel, the then Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, and
former German chancellor and now Nord Stream chairman Gerhard Schroeder were
very close when the pipeline project carrying Russian gas to Germany went
online in 2011. The project was initially proposed in 2005 when Schroeder
was chancellor and Putin was Russia's president, first time round.
Schroeder, earlier this week, said that NATO should shut up.

Moreover, two-way trade between Russia and the EU was around a whopping
US$370 billion in 2012 (no 2013 data yet), with Russia exporting mostly oil,
gas and cereals, and the EU exporting mostly cars, medicine, machine parts.
Forget about sanctions, that sacrosanct Washington mantra; they are really
bad for business.

Moscow, though, has a real, tangible and very serious red line. It does not
even have to bother about Ukraine in the EU because the overwhelming
majority of Europeans don't want it as part of their club. The red line is
North Atlantic Treaty Organization bases in Ukraine. Moscow might even
compromise on Ukraine remaining a sort of Finland between Russia and Europe.
With Crimea still inside the Ukraine, a NATO base side by side with the
Russian base in Sevastopol would be nothing short of psychedelic.

So a resolution in Crimea - whichever way it goes - does send a very clear
message from Moscow to the "West". Watch our red line. And unlike others, we
mean it, and we back it up with all we got.

No time to wallow in the mire
First US President Barack Obama solemnly declared that the referendum in
Crimea would "violate international law" (Kosovo, though, could merrily
secede from Serbia in 2008, to wild Washington fanfare.)

And this after he declared Crimea to be an "extraordinary threat to the
national security and foreign policy of the US". What next - Crimean
nationalists invading Iowa? No, just a ploy for the White House to deploy
the usual financial war.

All that when the brilliant "strategy" of Team Obama - keep demonizing Putin
to Kingdom Come - was reaching its apex.

But then Obama - noticing Angela Merkel was stealing the spotlight - called
Putin and stayed on the phone for nearly a full hour trying to "engage" him.
Why the change of heart?

A possible response may be supplied by the inescapable Dr Zbigniew "The
Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski, former national security advisor to that
Hamlet hick Jimmy Carter; the man who gave the Soviets "their Vietnam"; the
man who always dreamed that the US should rule over Eurasia; and Obama's
"invisible" top foreign policy mentor.

As Dr Zbig told WorldPost's Nathan Gardels, "The strategy of the West at
this moment should be to complicate Vladimir Putin's planning." Well, that
didn't work so well, did it? Then Dr Zbig advances that "NATO should invite
the Russians to participate in its ongoing discussions". It's not happening.


Dr Zbig is adamant "we have to formally recognize the new government in
Ukraine, which I believe expresses the will of the people there". In fact,
the will of perhaps half of the nation, at best. "Interference in Ukrainian
affairs should be considered a hostile act by a foreign power." That was
Obama's rationale until his phone call to Putin.

Dr Zbig got even more apocalyptic, stressing, "We should put NATO
contingency plans into operation, deploying forces in Central Europe so we
are in a position to respond if war should break out and spread." No wonder
US corporate media went bananas.

But then Dr Zbig falls back into sanity; "The best solution for Ukraine
would be to become as Finland has been to Russia." So in the end he may have
suggested to Obama "a compromise solution that is acceptable for Russia as
well as the West". And that will involve "serious economic aid and
investment". And guess who should take the lead, as in footing the bill?
"Germany, the most prosperous and strongest economy in the EU."

So in the end we fall back, once again, on what Angela and Vlad have been
discussing. Is it Finlandization? Or is it about who's trying to set the
night on fire?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-070314.html
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MOLOTOV COCKTAILS IN VENEZUELA: THE UKRAINIAN FORMULA


British news reports that "[E]very night, hooded opposition militants emerge
around a square in eastern Caracas brandishing rocks and Molotov cocktails,
clashing with riot police and turning one of the capital's most affluent
neighborhoods into a battlefield." Since they're throwing Molotov cocktails,
should they succeed the US government will declare them to be the legitimate
government, ignoring elections, as it did in Ukraine. And, just as it did in
the Ukraine, the US government is pumping a fortune into dissidents in
Venezuela. Anything the Venezuelan government does to quell the violence is
depicted in US mainstream press as heavy handed, just as they depicted in
Ukraine.
In this piece, President Maduro is identified as "The socialist leader" more
than once. Corporate media do not call President Obama "The capitalist
leader," but that's how the mainstream press work it, after demonizing
socialism for generations.

CLINTON CLOUT


Christopher Ruddy appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" yesterday saying he
is going to take over the conservative market from FOX News with his
Newsmax. He said he is friends with Hillary Clinton and might endorse her
for president, while attacking mainstream media as cuddling liberals. One
recalls Fox News chief Roger Ailes did a fundraiser for Hillary when she ran
against Obama for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
One also recalls, when it looked like Hillary would get the Democratic
nomination for president in 2008, Bill Clinton saying he didn't know how
Hillary could run against a close friend like John McCain. The Democratic
faithful would question why the Clintons spend their time with conservative
and business friends if they had a clue about how the system works.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were both in the leadership of the corporate-funded
Democratic Leadership Council, which dragged the Democratic Party solidly
into the Republican economic realm in order to reap the heavyweight
corporate funding. These days, Democrats often raise more corporate bribes
than Republicans, in selling out the American people, and they owe much of
it to the Clintons.

CAN WE HOLD CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS?


"Advocacy and accountability groups are urging the U.S. Congress to enact
new mechanisms that would allow it to hold multinational corporations
accountable for rights infringements abroad," begins a piece at IPS News
this morning. With many transnational corporations more powerful than most
of the governments on the planet, and funding our elections, this may be a
longshot, but we always encourage activists to attempt a move toward
democracy.

Fareed Zakaria, CNN's master of propaganda, yesterday, while deceiving his
viewers with "invasion" stories about evil Russians, moved briefly to
claiming Russian tanks had moved in and took two territories from Georgia.
This distortion omits the fact that South Ossetians at the time were
claiming Georgia was attempting genocide against them, offering video (we
linked to them in LUV News at the time) showing homes being blown to bits by
an invading Georgian army (a previous truce had peaceful observers
separating South Ossetia from a Georgian military now armed by the USA and
Israel. Russia came in after this horror began, at the request of the
government of South Ossetia. Previously, at the breakup of the old USSR,
Abkhazia and South Ossetia fought wars with Georgia to secede, not having
historical ties to Georgia before Stalin, then running the USSR, forced them
into Georgia, his place of birth.
Although there's been no attempt for either Abkhazia or South Ossetia to
become part of Russia, the people of both are opposed to being part of
Georgia. Then Russian President Medvedev stated that "Western countries
rushed to recognize Kosovo's illegal declaration of independence from
Serbia. We argued consistently that it would be impossible, after that, to
tell the Abkhazians and Ossetians (and dozens of other groups around the
world) that what was good for the Kosovo Albanians was not good for them. In
international relations, you cannot have one rule for some and another rule
for others."
We think Americans should get the other side of these arguments as our
mainstream press push us ever closer to war with one side of events rallying
citizens based on half truths (recall those "weapons of mass destruction" in
Iraq).
I wrote an email to CNN host Brian Stelter yesterday saying "Reliable
Sources pretends to be fair and balanced, like FOX, but host Brian Stelter
today ridiculed Russia Today, which he called 'Putin TV.' He asked on Liz
Wahl to attack Russia Today, without mentioning Amy Martin's appearance on
his network lambasting the corporate media on Piers Morgan's program. It
would be impossible to be more biased than this in favor of corporate
viewpoint media against any who attempt to provide the public interest
viewpoint. I edit LUV News, which gives the public interest side, a
viewpoint Reliable Sources would never allow."
--Jack Balkwill


C'mon baby, light my (Crimean) fire


By Pepe Escobar

March 16 is C Day. The Crimean parliament - by 78 votes with 8 abstentions -
decided this is the day when Crimean voters will choose between joining the
Russian Federation or to remain part of Ukraine as an autonomous region with
very strong powers, according to the 1992 constitution.

Whatever "diplomatic" tantrums Washington and Brussels will keep pulling,
and they will be incandescent, facts on the ground speak for themselves. The
city council of Sevastopol - the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet -
has already voted to join Russia. And next week the Duma in Moscow will
study a bill to simplify the mechanism of adhesion.

Quick recap: this is a direct result of Washington spending US$5 billion - a
Victoria "F**k the EU" Nuland official figure - to promote regime change in
Ukraine. On the horizon, Crimea may be incorporated into Russia for free,
while the "West" absorbs that bankrupt back-of-beyond (Western Ukraine) that
an Asia Times Online reader indelibly described as the "Khaganate of
Nulands" (an amalgam of khanate, Victoria's notorious neo-con husband Robert
Kagan, and no man's land).

What Moscow regards as an illegal, neo-nazi infiltrated government in Kiev,
led by Prime Minister Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk - an Ukrainian Jewish banker
playing the role of Western puppet - insists Crimea must remain part of
Ukraine. And it's not only Moscow; half of Ukraine itself does not recognize
the Yats gang as a legitimate government, now boasting a number of oligarchs
imposed as provincial governors.

Yet this "government" - supported by the US and the European Union - has
already declared the referendum illegal. Proving its impeccable "democratic"
credentials, it has already moved to ban the official use of the Russian
language in Ukraine; get rid of the communist party, which amassed 13% of
the votes in the last election, more, incidentally, than the
neo-nazi-infested Svoboda ("Freedom") party, now ensconced in key government
security posts; and ban a Russian TV station, which happens to be the most
popular on Ukrainian cable.

Amid all the hysteria from Washington and certain European capitals, what's
not explained to puzzled public opinion is that these fascists/neo-nazis who
got to power through a coup will never allow real elections to take place in
Ukraine; after all they would most certainly be sent packing.

This implies that "Yats" and his gang - on top of it reveling at their red
carpet welcome at a pompous yet innocuous EU summit in Brussels - won't
budge. For instance, they used heavy muscle to send pro-Russian protesters
in front of the Donetsk government building running. Heavily industrialized
Donetsk is very much linked commercially to Russia.

Then there's an even more sinister possible scenario looming in the horizon;
an instrumentalization of the lunatic jihadi fringe of the 10% of Tatars in
Crimea, from false flags to suicide bombings. The House of Saud, according
to a solid Saudi source, is immensely interested in Ukraine, and may be
tempted to do a few favors for Western intelligence.

Will our love become a funeral pyre?
Arguably, for Moscow, keeping Crimea inside the Ukraine, with large
autonomous powers plus the current signed agreement to keep the base in
Sevastopol, is a much better deal than annexing it. It's as if Russia was
annexing what for all practical purposes was already a Russian province.

Yet the Kremlin may always decide not to annex, and use the all but certain
result of the referendum as a key pawn in a complex negotiation with, not
the EU, but fundamentally Germany. The EU is a mess. The "government" in
Kiev is a mess. What matters is what Vladimir Putin is discussing over the
phone with Angela Merkel.

Much has to do with Pipelineistan - as in the 9 billion euro (US$12.4
billion) Nord Stream, the steel umbilical cord between Russia and Germany
via the Baltic Sea. Merkel, the then Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, and
former German chancellor and now Nord Stream chairman Gerhard Schroeder were
very close when the pipeline project carrying Russian gas to Germany went
online in 2011. The project was initially proposed in 2005 when Schroeder
was chancellor and Putin was Russia's president, first time round.
Schroeder, earlier this week, said that NATO should shut up.

Moreover, two-way trade between Russia and the EU was around a whopping
US$370 billion in 2012 (no 2013 data yet), with Russia exporting mostly oil,
gas and cereals, and the EU exporting mostly cars, medicine, machine parts.
Forget about sanctions, that sacrosanct Washington mantra; they are really
bad for business.

Moscow, though, has a real, tangible and very serious red line. It does not
even have to bother about Ukraine in the EU because the overwhelming
majority of Europeans don't want it as part of their club. The red line is
North Atlantic Treaty Organization bases in Ukraine. Moscow might even
compromise on Ukraine remaining a sort of Finland between Russia and Europe.
With Crimea still inside the Ukraine, a NATO base side by side with the
Russian base in Sevastopol would be nothing short of psychedelic.

So a resolution in Crimea - whichever way it goes - does send a very clear
message from Moscow to the "West". Watch our red line. And unlike others, we
mean it, and we back it up with all we got.

No time to wallow in the mire
First US President Barack Obama solemnly declared that the referendum in
Crimea would "violate international law" (Kosovo, though, could merrily
secede from Serbia in 2008, to wild Washington fanfare.)

And this after he declared Crimea to be an "extraordinary threat to the
national security and foreign policy of the US". What next - Crimean
nationalists invading Iowa? No, just a ploy for the White House to deploy
the usual financial war.

All that when the brilliant "strategy" of Team Obama - keep demonizing Putin
to Kingdom Come - was reaching its apex.

But then Obama - noticing Angela Merkel was stealing the spotlight - called
Putin and stayed on the phone for nearly a full hour trying to "engage" him.
Why the change of heart?

A possible response may be supplied by the inescapable Dr Zbigniew "The
Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski, former national security advisor to that
Hamlet hick Jimmy Carter; the man who gave the Soviets "their Vietnam"; the
man who always dreamed that the US should rule over Eurasia; and Obama's
"invisible" top foreign policy mentor.

As Dr Zbig told WorldPost's Nathan Gardels, "The strategy of the West at
this moment should be to complicate Vladimir Putin's planning." Well, that
didn't work so well, did it? Then Dr Zbig advances that "NATO should invite
the Russians to participate in its ongoing discussions". It's not happening.


Dr Zbig is adamant "we have to formally recognize the new government in
Ukraine, which I believe expresses the will of the people there". In fact,
the will of perhaps half of the nation, at best. "Interference in Ukrainian
affairs should be considered a hostile act by a foreign power." That was
Obama's rationale until his phone call to Putin.

Dr Zbig got even more apocalyptic, stressing, "We should put NATO
contingency plans into operation, deploying forces in Central Europe so we
are in a position to respond if war should break out and spread." No wonder
US corporate media went bananas.

But then Dr Zbig falls back into sanity; "The best solution for Ukraine
would be to become as Finland has been to Russia." So in the end he may have
suggested to Obama "a compromise solution that is acceptable for Russia as
well as the West". And that will involve "serious economic aid and
investment". And guess who should take the lead, as in footing the bill?
"Germany, the most prosperous and strongest economy in the EU."

So in the end we fall back, once again, on what Angela and Vlad have been
discussing. Is it Finlandization? Or is it about who's trying to set the
night on fire?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-070314.html


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