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Table of Contents
Introduction / 9
Stephen Lendman
Washington’s Recklessness Endangers the World / 15
Paul Craig Roberts
Washington Has Set the World on a Path to War / 19
Paul Craig Roberts
The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit / 26
Michael Hudson
Obama’s Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the
Boomerang Effect / 46
James Petras
Ukraine and Regime Change / 49
Michael Parenti
Ukraine: Another Step in Capitalism’s Global Dominance
Strategies and Power Inside the Transnational Global Corporate
Class and US-NATO Global Empire / 54
Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon
Orange Revolution 2.0 / 64
Stephen Lendman
Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine:
Another War Based on Lies, Pretexts, and Profiteering? / 80
Cynthia McKinney
The Geo-Politics Behind EuroMaidan / 90
Mahdi Nazemroaya
Crisis in Ukraine: Russia Extends its Control over the
Black Sea and Strategic Waterways / 109
Michel Chossudovsky
The Geostrategic Significance of Ukraine
in NATO’s Drive to the East / 114
Rick Rozoff
Who Benefits from the Ukraine Economic Crisis? / 119
Jack Rasmus
Mother Russia: An Elusive Prize / 131
John Kozy
Hangover in Ukraine: Treaty of Versailles Spirits
Packaged in Bretton Woods Bottles. The Morning After / 138
Jeffrey Sommers
The Labyrinth of Geography in a Time of Terror / 152
Matthew T. Witt
Containing Russia / 163
Stephen Lendman
The Ukraine Crisis and the Propaganda System in Overdrive / 171
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
The Norms of Justice, International Law, and the ‘Duty to Protect’ /
200
Robert Abele
The Odessa Massacre / 215
Stephen Lendman
Ukraine: From Coup to Police State / 219
Andrew Kolin
The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East / 227
James Petras
Is Ukraine a Turning Point in History? / 234
Rodney Shakespeare
Washington Intends Russia’s Demise / 241
Paul Craig Roberts
The Ukraine Crisis: Decoding its Deep Structural Meaning /
244
John McMurtry
Contributors / 262
Index / 265
Flashpoint in Ukraine provides insight into today's gravest
geopolitical crisis since WW II. Possible global war looms.
Viewed from the perspective of 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.
Viewed from the perspective of the 22 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 banker, Arseniy Yatseniuk, advance leaked as the unelected
pick of Victoria Nuland, US Assistant Secretary of State for European
and Eurasian Affairs.
While, as it is argued here, Russia did not invade Crimea and in fact has taken an extremely measured response with primary emphasis on diplomacy and ending the crisis, 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.
This book explains what everyone needs to know, to get the world
off the bandwagon to war.