As the US and EU apply sanctions on Russia over its annexation' of Crimea, JP Sottile reveals the corporate annexation of Ukraine. For Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto, there's a gold mine of profits to be made from agri-business and energy exploitation.
… Ukraine - the corporate annexation JP Sottile … March 2014 News Food Farming Corporations Ukraine USA EU Russia hitler-ukraine.png As the US and EU apply sanctions …
Hidden from mainstream media exposure, the World Bank and IMF loan has opened up Ukraine to major corporate inroads, writes Joyce Nelson. Loan conditions are forcing the deeply indebted country to open up to GMO crops, and lift the ban on private sector land ownership. US corporations are jubilant at the 'goldmine' that awaits them.
… Ukraine opens up for Monsanto, land grabs and … GMOs Corporations Food Farming Corporations Ukraine USA Russia ambushed-cut.jpg Hidden … the World Bank and IMF loan has opened up Ukraine to major corporate inroads, writes …
Ukraine's state-owned nuclear generator is suing anti-nuclear activists in its latest attempt to stifle public debate over the country's ageing fleet of 15 nuclear reactors, while refusing to release information in breach of international obligations.
… Ukraine sues anti-nuclear campaigners The Ecologist | 28th August 2015 News Ukraine Energy Nuclear Human Rights EU Finance sunpp-cut.jpg Ukraine's state-owned nuclear generator is …
Taxpayer-financed development banks have lent €500 million to Ukraine's biggest agribusiness company so it can undercut EU chicken producers, writes Fidanka Bacheva McGrath - while polluting the environment and grabbing land from local farmers.
… EU taxpayers finance Ukraine's 'chicken oligarch' Fidanka Bacheva … CEE Bankwatch | 17th September 2015 News Ukraine EU Farming Land Grabs Finance … development banks have lent €500 million to Ukraine's biggest agribusiness company so it …
High principles dominate the rhetoric on freedom-loving Ukraine, writes JP Sottile. But more mundane realities - like the interests of US oil corporations and Ukraine's vast shale gas capacity - might just be part of the volatile equation.
… Ukraine, Chevron, Condi Rice and shale gas ... … the dots JP Sottile | 18th March 2014 Comment Ukraine Fossil Fuels USA Fracking … dominate the rhetoric on freedom-loving Ukraine, writes JP Sottile. But more mundane …
For the US fracking industry - and for Vice-President Joe Biden - fracking is more than just a way to bring in vast amounts of cash, writes Steve Horn. It's also a key weapon in the US's long war with Russia, as Biden made clear this week in Kiev.
… Fracking weaponized - Joe Biden's Ukraine crusade Steve Horn | 25th April 2014 Comment Fracking Russia Ukraine USA Politics Fossil Fuels Energy … During his two-day visit this week to Kiev, Ukraine, Vice President Joe Biden unfurled …
As tensions grow between US-dominated NATO and Russia, former cold warrior William R. Polk hears the echoes of the Cuban missile crisis - only this time, it's Russia that feels forced to fight for its vital strategic interests. We must hear the lessons of 1962 Cuba - and negotiate a just and durable peace, before we sleep-walk into a world-destroying war.
… Ukraine and the Cuban missile crisis - we must … 2015 News War Nuclear USA Russia NATO Ukraine Politics tijuana-jesus-cut.jpg Would … welcome the advance of NATO to its borders in Ukraine? Photo: Jesus overlooks Tijuana from a …
The mainstream media are working hard to obscure NATO's hideous plot to rekindle the Cold War in Ukraine, writes Diana Johnstone, as they seek to engineer our 'consent' for yet more heinous acts to come. To prevent the horror of a full scale war, first we must grasp the truth.
… Ukraine - we must not 'consent' to genocide … Diana Johnstone | 8th May 2014 Comment Ukraine Russia USA War Media Politics … hideous plot to rekindle the Cold War in Ukraine, writes Diana Johnstone, as they seek …
North America's environment campaigners face a fearsome enemy in the 'Big Club', writes Alexander Reid Ross - the nexus of fossil fuel and infrastructure corporations, government, militarized police, private security contractors, PR agencies, astroturf NGOs and quasi-judicial bodies. But the activists are winning key victories in their battle to halt the industrialization of Cascadia.
… and to allow for reverse natural gas flows to Ukraine from its EU neighbors." Fossil fuels … and 'national security' The reference to Ukraine is crucial, because it suggests … reasons for the EU's militaristic interest in Ukraine (gas pipelines). According to the …
The world is in the grip of a massive wave of militarism of which most of us are blissfully ignorant, writes John Pilger. When did mainstream media last tell you about the US's $1 trillion nuclear weapon renewal? NATO's massive build up of military power on Russia's eastern frontier? The encirclement of China by nuclear-armed US bases? The world is at war. Pass it on!
… War Nuclear Media Politics USA China Russia Ukraine bikini-atoll-cut.jpg The world is in … such a demonstrable threat to Russia. Ukraine - once part of the Soviet Union - has … literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the …
The US's drive to become a top global oil and gas exporter by fracking has been blown wide open by a 96% write-down of California's Monterey Shale - meant to hold two thirds of the US's shale oil. How long before the whole enterprise is exposed as a monstrous Ponzi scheme?
… Obama administration are using the crisis in Ukraine to put pressure on their puppet allies … Ben Rhode said : "Frankly, the Ukraine crisis has brought into sharp relief …
Jeremy Corbyn came under attack yesterday for his refusal to countenance the use of nuclear weapons, writes Commander Robert Green. But his stance is honourable and both legally and strategically correct - especially with his opposition to renewing the Trident nuclear missile system.
… with the reckless nuclear posturing over Ukraine. 'The 1996 advisory opinion by the … no international impact when South Africa and Ukraine abandoned nuclear weapons.' Neither …
A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
… the thyroid cancer epidemic in Byelarus, the Ukraine and parts of the Russian Republic. … a big rise of thyroid cancer in Byelarus, the Ukraine and the Russian Republic after …
To tackle the world's most pressing problems, writes Winslow Myers - like climate chaos, insecurity, hunger, poverty and disease - we must build a life-affirming peace free of the Earth-destroying nuclear weapons whose dark shadow bears down on us all.
… separatists and their opponents in the Ukraine-or between Russia and NATO? It will … feel secure until Palestinians feel secure. Ukraine will not feel secure until Russia …
The election of President Trump is driving the planet towards oblivion - according to the elite scientific body behind the Doomsday Clock, writes Chris Busby. But isn't Trump's commitment to reduce East-West antagonism and ally with Russia's President Putin against terrorism reducing the risk of nuclear war? So far, Trump is sticking to his promises. Let this one be no exception!
… and the absurd attempts by the US to bring Ukraine into the operation. Is this why the … will be a Russian invasion, like the one in Ukraine. There is even a book about this …
The true nature of western civilization is hard to grasp from within, says Professor John McMurtry, because we perceive it through media whose primary purpose is not to convey the truth, but conceal it. What is actually playing out is a global war of empire and capital against the Earth and her people, backed up by the omnipresent threat of overwhelming force.
… wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, and Syria. All are claimed to be for … within Europe itself, as in Yugoslavia and Ukraine. War criminal facts disappear into …
While mainstream media promulgate a fictitious message of Russian threats in the Baltic, Vladimir Putin's next big play lies far to the south, writes Oliver Tickell. The gross intransigence of the EU, the IMF, the European Central Bank and Germany are forcing Greece into a powerful new economic and energy alliance with Russia that will reshape Europe - and for the better.
… see a re-run of important elements of the Ukraine play of December 2013, when Russia … which it would buy $15 billion in bonds from Ukraine, supporting its collapsing currency, …
Who has the longest nose of them all? Worthy winners of France's fiercely contested 'Prix Pinocchio' 2014 were selected last night, recognising corporate greed, hypocrisy and malfeasance, based on a record vote since the awards began.
… the ground, particularly in Argentina and the Ukraine, is quite different. In these …
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the withdrawal of an ad extolling the virtues of fracking, ruling that it is misleading, exaggerating, and lacks substantiation. In the process it has undermined the Government's entire case for fracking in the UK.
… exaggerated the outcome of the 2009 Russia-Ukraine dispute for the UK and misled as to …
Michael Mann will be remembered as the creator of the 'hockey stick' graph of rising global temperatures, which has put him forever in the crosshairs of climate change sceptics. But as Brendan Montague found, he is a curiously unlikely hero, or villain: rather a dedicated scientist living the American dream, who just happened, to his own surprise, to stumble on something big.
… grandfather was a newspaper merchant who fled Ukraine during increasingly deadly pogroms, …
Nuclear power was originally sold on a lie, writes Dave Elliott. While we were being told it would make electricity 'too cheap to meter', insiders knew it cost at least 50% more than conventional generation. Since then nuclear costs have only risen, while renewable energy prices are on a steep decline. And now the nuclear behemoths are crumbling ... not a moment too soon.
… Then came the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine in 1986, with the cloud spreading …
If the Scots vote yes on Thursday the UK's already tight military budget will be squeezed even harder, writes Paul Ingram, dramatically increasing the chances of nuclear disarmament. Adding to the UK's headache: the only medium term alternative base for its Trident submarine fleet would be ... in Georgia, USA.
… of Crimea, the civil war in eastern Ukraine (now becalmed if not quite over under …
Before rushing to finance projects in Africa and the Middle East, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) should address its environmental and social lending criteria, says Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath
… ArcelorMittal operations in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and most …
The magnitude of Corbyn's victory today represents an irreversible seismic shift in British politics, writes Oliver Tickell. Finally the Tories face serious, principled opposition that will reveal them as the far-right ideologues they truly are. The reverberations will echo far, wide, long and deep, including to the US where the socialist Bernie Sanders is well on his way to winning the Democratic nomination.
… whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine or elsewhere; unquestioning support …