Flashpoint in Ukraine : how the US drive for hegemony risks World War III
2014
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"Flashpoint in Ukraine provides insight into today's gravest geopolitical crisis since WW II. Possible global war looms. Per the Western mainstream media, the crisis arose due to pro-democracy activists overturning a brutal dictatorship, which led swiftly to Russian incursion into Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. Per the 20 highly-credentialed analysts who have contributed to this anthology, it's an entirely different story. Obama's pivot is global, in pursuit of unchallenged worldwide dominance, leading to multiple direct and proxy wars. Neocon-dominated Washington seeks to marginalize its Russian and Chinese rivals, surrounding both countries with US bases. Ukraine is in the eye of the storm, the crown jewel of NATO eastward expansion, the last step in Washington's drive to incorporate all former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact countries into NATO and install missile defense sites on Russia's very border. To that end, the US has poured some $5 billion into 'pro-democracy' NGOs which, counter to intention or not, were soon swept aside by neo-Nazi groups, and leading to the installation as President of former central banker, Arseniy Yatseniuk, advance leaked as the unelected pick of Victoria Nuland, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Russia did not invade Crimea and in fact has taken an extremely measured response with primary emphasis on diplomacy and ending the crisis, while NATO, European and US spokespersons and media are seeking to dramatize and indeed resurrect a 'Russian threat.' Eastern resistance forestalls Obama's imperial project. The West appears willing to pursue it, at the risk not just of Ukrainian civil war and potential East/West confrontation but of global nuclear war. The flashpoint in Ukraine risks the unthinkable"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Flashpoint in Ukraine : how the US drive for hegemony risks World War III / edited by Stephen Lendman.
Author:
Lendman, Stephen, editor of compilation
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Atlanta, GA : Clarity Press, Inc., 2014.
Collation:
pages cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Washington's recklessness and irresponsibility endanger the world / Paul Craig RobertsWashington has set the world on a path to war / Paul Craig RobertsThe new cold war's Ukraine gambit / Michael HudsonThe geo-politics behind Euromaidan / Mahdi NazemroayaCrisis in Ukraine : Russia extends its control over the Black Sea and strategic waterways / Michel ChossudovskyThe geostrategic significance of Ukraine in NATO's drive to the East / Rick RozoffUkraine's IMF deal means Greece-like depression / Jack RasmusHangover in Ukraine : Treaty of Versailles spirits packaged in Bretton Woods bottles : the morning after / Jeffrey SommersContaining Russia / Stephen LendmanMother Russia : an elusive prize / John KozyThe labyrinth of geography in a time of terror : from K Street to Kiev and back again / Matthew T. WittThe norms of justice, international law, and the "duty to protect" / Robert AbeleUkraine : from coup to police state / Andrew KolinPutin v. Obama : geopolitical opposites / Stephen LendmanObama's Ukrainian power grab, sanctions and the boomerang effect / James PetrasPropaganda war on Russia / Stephen LendmanObama's advancing empire : putsch, pillage and duplicity / James PetrasDecline of the American Empire? / James PetrasIs Ukraine a turning point in history? / Rodney ShakespeareThe Ukraine crisis : decoding its deep structural meaning / John McMurtry.
ISBN:
978098607314497809845255849780986073151
Dewey class:
947.7086
Language:
English
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BRN:
2252558
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