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October 7, 2014 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – The Western press recently reported the destruction of a Soviet-era statue of Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The Washington Post would claim in its report, " Ukrainians just pulled down a massive Lenin statue. What does that signal for Russia
Links From Ukraine to Syria: UN’s Selective Defense of Human Rights October 5, 2014 ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) -Â For the past several years, the United Nations has served as a platform for Syria’s enemies to air allegations of human rights abuses and even attempts to use such allegations to justify military aggression against Syria itself. Tales of "barrel bombs" being used against civilians, the bombardment of enemy positions at the cost of civilian lives and the destruction of vital infrastructure have all been constructs in the West’s narrative against the Syrian government. Now that the US is itself bombing Syria, killing Syrians including innocent men, women and children, as well as vital infrastructure local populations depend on for their survival, the UN has grown suddenly quiet
Back in the States, the Financial Times reports US Poised to Become World’s Leading Liquid Petroleum Producer .
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Links As in Libya, So in Syria: The Folly of Interventionism September 7, 2014 ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) – The United States has been inching its way toward intervention in Syria since hostilities began in 2011. From the beginning the US State Department admitted that terrorist armies were waging war against Damascus, but both the US government, its allies in Europe, and prominent media organizations across the West repeatedly claimed that the conflict was not an invasion by multinational terrorist organizations, but rather a “pro-democracy uprising.†Now, years into the conflict, the US is finally at the threshold of direct military intervention, announcing that it would begin flights over Syria to gather “intelligence.†As in Libya… The familiar narrative taking shape should sound strikingly familiar to the lead up to NATO intervention in Libya in 2011. There, just as in Syria, heavily armed terrorists, not “pro-democracy activists†were waging war against Tripoli.
Bloomberg reports France Asks for More Action From ECB to Correct Overvalued Euro . French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for more action from the European Central Bank to lower the value of the euro, amid concerns the 18-nation region might be headed toward deflation.“The monetary policy has started to change,†Valls said today in a speech made at the Socialist Party’s summer school in La Rochelle, France.
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