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Sull'Ucraina e la guerra mondiale alle porte
1) John Pilger: Rompere il silenzio sulla guerra mondiale alle porte
2) Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to Joint United States and Romanian Participants in Carpathian Spring Military Exercise (May 20, 2014)
3) Rick Rozoff: Biden in Romania Talks Reveals Extramundane Nature of US Push for War
4) Vladimir Putin: West’s Refusal of Dialogue May Lead to Ukraine’s Membership in NATO / Moscow to Respond if US Speeds Up European Missile Defense
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http://www.resistenze.org/sito/os/lp/oslpee20-014525.htm
www.resistenze.org - osservatorio - lotta per la pace - 20-05-14 - n. 499
Rompere il silenzio sulla guerra mondiale alle porte
John Pilger | johnpilger.com
Traduzione per Resistenze.org a
cura del Centro di Cultura e Documentazione Popolare
13/05/2014
Perché tolleriamo la minaccia di un'altra guerra mondiale nel nostro nome?
Perché acconsentiamo le menzogne che giustificano questo rischio? La dimensione
del nostro indottrinamento, ha scritto Harold Pinter, è un "brillante,
persino arguto, atto di ipnosi di grande successo", come se la verità
"non accadesse nemmeno mentre accade".
Ogni anno lo storico statunitense William Blum pubblica il suo "sommario
aggiornato dei dati di politica estera USA", che mostra come dal 1945 gli
Stati Uniti abbiano tentato di rovesciare oltre 50 governi, molti dei quali
democraticamente eletti, abbiano grossolanamente interferito nelle elezioni di
30 paesi, bombardato le popolazioni civili di 30 nazioni, fatto uso di armi
chimiche e batteriologiche e attentato alla vita di leader stranieri.
In molti casi il Regno Unito ne è stato complice. Il grado di sofferenza umana
provocato, per non parlare dei crimini, è poco noto in occidente, malgrado la
presenza del più sofisticato sistema di comunicazioni del mondo e del
giornalismo nominalmente più libero. Che il maggior numero di vittime del
terrorismo - del "nostro" terrorismo - sia di musulmani è taciuto,
come è taciuto che lo jihadismo estremo, quello dell'11 settembre, sia stato
nutrito come arma dalla politica anglo-statunitense (operazione ciclone in
Afghanistan). Nel mese di aprile, il Dipartimento di Stato USA ha reso noto
che, in seguito alla campagna della NATO del 2011, "la Libia è diventata
un rifugio sicuro dei terroristi".
Nel corso degli anni è mutato il nome del "nostro" nemico, dal
comunismo all'islamismo, ma generalmente si tratta di società indipendenti
dall'egemonia occidentale o che occupano territori nevralgici dal punto di
vista strategico o ricchi di risorse naturali. I leader di queste nazioni
recalcitranti deposti di norma con la violenza, come i democratici Muhammad
Mossedeq in Iran e Salvador Allende in Cile, o uccisi come Patrice Lumumba in
Congo. Tutti sono oggetto di campagne caricaturali e vilipesi dai media
occidentali, come Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez e ora Vladimir Putin.
Il ruolo di Washington in Ucraina è diverso solo per le implicazioni nei nostri
riguardi. Per la prima volta dagli anni di Reagan, gli USA minacciano di
trascinare il mondo in una guerra. Con l'est Europa e i Balcani oramai
avamposti NATO, l'ultimo stato cuscinetto al confine con la Russia viene
dilaniato. Noi occidentiali stiamo sostenendo i neonazisti in una nazione dove
i nazisti ucraini sostennero Hitler. Dopo aver ideato il colpo di stato nel
mese di febbraio contro il governo democraticamente eletto a Kiev, è fallito il
piano di Washington di sequestrare alla Russia la sua storica e legittima base
navale in Crimea. I russi si sono difesi, come hanno fatto per oltre un secolo
contro ogni minaccia e invasione occidentale.
Ma l'accerchiamento militare della NATO ha subito un'accelerazione, insieme con
gli attacchi orchestrati dagli Stati Uniti ai danni degli ucraini di etnia
russa e se Putin viene provocato a intervenire in loro aiuto, il suo ruolo di
paria predestinato giustificherebbe una guerriglia della NATO che potrebbe
rovesciarsi nella Russia stessa.
Invece Putin ha frustrato il partito della guerra cercando un'intesa con
Washington e l'UE, ritirando le truppe russe dal confine e scoraggiando i
russofoni nell'Ucraina orientale a partecipare ai provocatori referendum.
Questa popolazione russofona e bilingue, un terzo del totale, aspira da tempo a
una federazione democratica che rifletta le differenze etniche del paese, nel
contempo autonoma e indipendente da Mosca. La maggioranza di queste persone non
sono né "separatiste" e né "ribelli", ma cittadini che
vogliono vivere sicuri nella loro patria.
Come le rovine dell'Iraq e dell'Afghanistan, l'Ucraina è diventata un parco
divertimenti della CIA, governata da un funzionario della CIA, John Brennan, a
Kiev, assieme a "unità speciali" che monitorano attacchi selvaggi
contro coloro che si oppongono al colpo di stato di febbraio. Guardate i video,
leggete le denunce dei testimoni oculari del massacro di Odessa di questo mese.
Bande di criminali fascisti hanno dato fuoco alla sede dei sindacati, uccidendo
41 persone intrappolate al suo interno. Guardate la polizia impassibile.
Ascoltate la testimonianza di un dottore che ha tentato di salvare alcune
persone "ma sono stato fermato dai sostenitori dei nazisti ucraini. Uno di
loro mi ha cacciato brutalmente, promettendomi che presto io e gli altri ebrei
di Odessa avremmo avuto la medesima sorte... mi chiedo perché il mondo intero
se ne stia in silenzio".
Gli ucraini russofoni stanno lottando per la sopravvivenza. Quando Putin ha
annunciato il ritiro delle truppe russe dal confine, il segretario della difesa
della giunta di Kiev, un membro fondatore del partito fascista Svoboda, si è vantato
che gli attacchi contro "i ribelli" sarebbero continuati. In stile
orwelliano, la propaganda occidente ha ribaltato i fatti, asserendo che
"Mosca cerca di fomentare il conflitto e la provocazione", secondo
William Hague. Il suo cinismo fa il paio con i grotteschi complimenti di Obama
alla giunta golpista per la sua "notevole moderazione" dopo il
massacro di Odessa. Illegittima e fascista, la giunta è descritta da Obama come
"eletta". Ciò che conta non è la verità, ha detto una volta Henry
Kissinger, ma ciò che è percepito come vero.
Nei media statunitensi le atrocità di Odessa sono state presentate come
"oscure" e "tragiche", con i "nazionalisti"
(neonazisti) che hanno attaccato i "separatisti" (persone che
raccoglievano firme per un referendum a sostegno della Federazione Ucraina).
Il Wall Street Journal di Rupert Murdoch ha dannato le
vittime: "Il rogo è stato probabilmente appiccato dai ribelli ucraini,
dice il governo". La propaganda in Germania è stata pura guerra fredda,
con il Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung che
avvertiva i suoi lettori della "guerra non dichiarata" della Russia.
Per i tedeschi è una spiacevole ironia che Putin sia l'unico leader a
condannare il riemergere del fascismo nell'Europa del 21° secolo.
Una popolare banalità è che "il mondo è cambiato dopo l'11
settembre". Ma cosa è cambiato? Secondo il grande informatore Daniel
Ellsberg, un colpo di stato silenzioso è avvenuto a Washington e ora governa il
militarismo rampante. Il Pentagono ultimamente svolge "operazioni speciali",
guerre segrete, in 124 paesi. In patria, l'aumento della povertà e la riduzione
delle libertà sono il tradizionale corollario di uno stato di guerra
permanente. Aggiungiamo il rischio di una guerra nucleare e la domanda da porsi
é: perché tolleriamo tutto questo?
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/20/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-joint-united-states-and-romanian-partic
The White House
Office of the Vice President
For Immediate Release May 20, 2014
Remarks
by Vice President Joe Biden to Joint United States and Romanian Participants in
Carpathian Spring Military Exercise
Otopeni Military Airbase
Bucharest, Romania
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Let me begin by saying, Mr. Minister, thank you, and
it’s very hot in here. I was supposed to -- I was told it was going
to be cooler here, but thank you for the great weather.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s an honor to have a chance to see our militaries work
together in this Carpathian Spring Joint Military Exercise. The last
time I saw you working together was in Afghanistan. And it is -- it’s a
great benefit to both of us that we are side by side. It’s
my pleasure to take a moment to recognize all that you do to keep the
people safe and strong in our alliance.
...I even advocated for Romania’s early entry into NATO when I was a United
States senator.
...
And I especially want to pay tribute to the 26 Romanians who gave their lives
in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the 143 who were wounded...
In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally. I never doubted
that for a moment as the effort to admit Romania into NATO was underway,
serious and steadfast partner that you’ve been from day one. About a
thousand Romanians remain in Afghanistan -- four serving without caveats,
fully in the fight, alongside our women and men. And I’m pleased that you
will continue to support the post-2014 mission in Afghanistan.
Romania today is hosting U.S. Marines at the M-K Airbase, which also supports
logistical operations for Afghanistan. You’re building a fleet of
F-16s. Romania is working to bring its defense budget up to 2 percent of
GDP, as all NATO allies should and must.
To the Americans here today, let me say that I believe you are the greatest
generation of warriors the world has ever produced. And that is not
hyperbole. You represent a generation of Americans equal to any that has
ever gone before you. I’ve seen you in Bosnia and Kosovo, Baghdad
and Basra, Fallujah and Ramadi, Kabul and Kandahar. I’ve even seen you in
those FOBs up in the Kunar Valley. You’re an incredible group of
warriors.
You and your family are part of an unbroken chain of patriots who’ve stood
guard since World War II over freedom’s frontier, right here in Europe.
I could not be more proud of all of you.
We too care deeply about the alliance, Mr. Minister. America’s commitment
to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in
our view -- a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time. So
I’m here to say on behalf of the President what I hope you already know:
You can count on us. Period. We do what we say, and we mean
what we say.
Today aggression in Crimea, less than 250 miles from Romanian territory, from
NATO’s borders reminds us why we need NATO and why Romania belongs to
NATO...
So long as Russia’s efforts to destabilize Ukraine continues we must remain
resolute in imposing greater costs on Russia, imposing those costs
together. But our strategy is about more than just imposing cost.
It’s fundamentally about investing in a revitalized NATO that
emerges from this crisis and works toward a successful summit in Wales,
stronger and more united. America and our NATO allies have
urgently stepped up our military presence in the air, land and on the sea
of NATO’s eastern flank. In just the past weeks we’ve had ships visit.
The USS Truxton, Cook, Taylor, as well as the Dacian Viper F-16
exercise. And in the coming days, new ships -- the Vella Gulf will enter
the Black Sea to conduct port visits and maritime training. Period.
Since mid March the U.S. has been flying refueling missions over Poland and
Romania in support of NATO’s AWACs. And we are on track to open up a
missile defense site at Deveselu, next year. We support the Supreme
Allied Commander of Europe’s intention to finalize contingency plans for
the Black Sea allies by the Wales summit. And we have -- we have assigned
extra strategic planners to help NATO meet that goal. As President
Obama said, “NATO nations never stand alone.” NATO nations never stand
alone.
I want to thank our Romanian colleagues for standing with us, alongside us,
emboldening us, making us stronger. And I thank each and every one
of the American troops for their continued patriotic service. Each and
every one of you is doing your countries a great service.
May God bless Romania, may God bless America, and may God protect our troops.
Thank you for your service. (Applause.)
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http://en.ria.ru/world/20140522/190048201/OPINION-Biden-in-Romania-Talks-Reveals-Extramundane-Nature-of-US.html
RIA Novosti - May 22, 2014
OPINION:
Biden in Romania Talks Reveals Extramundane Nature of US Push for War
Rick Rozoff
MOSCOW: US Vice President Joseph Biden appeared at a military base in the
capital of Romania on May 20 and, against the backdrop of this year's
annual Carpathian Spring joint military exercises, announced that Washington's
willingness to go to war over the mutual military support clause of the
1949 North Atlantic Treaty, the founding document of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, is not only clear and unwavering, but indeed of a
mock-religious - extramundane and sempiternal - nature.
In his precise words: "America's commitment to collective defense under
Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view - a sacred obligation
not just for now, but for all time." In aeternum, in saecula saeculorum
and in line with eschatological imperatives.
Biden, the once, (near) future and perennial candidate to succeed the current
commander-in-chief of the world's sole military superpower (the exact
words of his current superior, President Barack Obama in his Nobel Peace Prize
acceptance speech of five years ago), an abrasive and pugnacious Walter
Mitty of a malign bent who has often experienced difficulties distinguishing
between fact and fiction, campaign claims and occurrences in the real
world, and his own modest abilities and megalomaniacal inflation thereof, began
his speech in Romania upbraiding his hosts for not providing him the
clement weather a personage of his elevated stature deserves and
had, moreover, been promised, querulously and inconsistently grousing,
"it's very hot in here. I was supposed to - I was told it was going to
be cooler here, but thank you for the great weather."
A Roman emperor, Trajan for example, the conqueror of Dacia (modern-day
Romania), would have severely chastised and as severely punished the
leaders of a subjugated province for not having secured nicer weather for a
visiting imperial dignitary of Biden's rank.
Though his modern avatar did commend the military prowess of Romanian troops
serving under NATO command in Afghanistan, martial values serving in lieu
of miracle-working ones, evidently. The American satrapy, a NATO member for a
decade, maintains one of the largest troop contingents remaining in
Afghanistan, 1,000 soldiers, and Bucharest will continue to provide NATO with
cannon fodder in South Asia even after the formal completion of troop
withdrawal at the end of this year.
The vice president acknowledged that Romania, with whom then-Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice signed an agreement in 2005 for the acquisition of bases
and the stationing of military personnel and equipment, is housing a permanent
force of US Marines at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta on
the Black Sea. That base is also home to US Army Europe's Task Force East and
the US Marine Corps' Black Sea Rotational Force, the latter a Special Purpose
Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) used as the model for US
Africa Command's SPMAGTF.
Biden also obliquely pressured Romania in regard to demands of the US (and at
least implicitly NATO, because of interoperability exigencies) for the
country, like neighboring Bulgaria, to replicate the purchase of American F-16
Fighting Falcons by Poland at the beginning of the century - 48 in all,
the largest military outlay in Polish history - by reminding the Romanian
officials present that "You're building a fleet of F-16s."
Bucharest like Sofia was being pressured to purchase 24-36 apiece of the
General Dynamics-manufactured warplanes before the US-generated economic
downturn of six years ago led to a scaling back of that number.
With characteristic bravado and brusqueness, he also stated:
"America and our NATO allies have urgently stepped up our military
presence in the air, land and on the sea of NATO's eastern flank. In
just the past weeks we've had ships visit. The USS Truxton, Cook, Taylor,
as well as the Dacian Viper F-16 exercise. And in the coming days, new
ships - the Vella Gulf will enter the Black Sea to conduct port visits and
maritime training. Period."
The four US warships mentioned are guided missile vessels and part of the US
Navy's Aegis Combat System, which is being integrated into the US-NATO
European Phased Adaptive Approach interceptor missile system to cover all of
Europe west of Russia, the Mediterranean Sea Basin and the South Caucasus.
USS Truxton and USS Donald Cook are Arleigh Burke class destroyers, USS Taylor
is a Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate and USS Vella Gulf a Ticonderoga
class cruiser.
With an anachronistic martial ethos more suitable to a - much - earlier epoch,
say, the late Roman Empire, the deputy commander-in-chief of the world's
sole military superpower flattered US military personnel at the event as
"the greatest generation of warriors the world has
ever produced." He immediately added, "And that is not
hyperbole," though of course it is.
Last month's Dacian Spring joint US-Romanian week-long exercise he alluded to
consisted of drills with US F-16s and host country MiG-21 Lancers.
At the end of his ex officio declamations, Biden shifted from sub-imperator to
pontifex maximus in tone, dispensing benedictions broadcast: "May God
bless Romania, may God bless America, and may God protect our troops." It
is uncertain which deity, of the underworld or other sphere, has conferred
on him the office of bestowing blessings, as it were on the eve of a campaign,
a war.
Adjectives like grandiose, magniloquent, millenerial and bombastic come to mind
in reference to the pronouncements of Mr. Biden. But they, even, are too
generous and elevated in tone.
Having recently had occasion to re-read Imperial Purple (1892), a series of belletristic
sketches of the first twenty-five Roman emperors by American-born writer
Edgar Saltus, I am more reminded of one or more of the later of those the
author, a friend and colleague of such fellow writers as Oscar Wilde and
Arthur Symonds during his London years, limned with a combination of urbane
bemusement and visceral repugnance. Commodus, say, or Heliogabalus.
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http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140523/190076131/Moscow-to-Respond-if-US-Speeds-Up-European-Missile-Defense-.html
RIA Novosti - May 23, 2014
West’s
Refusal of Dialogue May Lead to Ukraine’s Membership in NATO – Putin
ST. PETERSBURG: Russia fears that the West’s refusal to engage in dialogue on
Ukraine may lead to Kiev joining NATO and the US deploying missile defense
systems in the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
"The coup [in Ukraine] has occurred, and they do not want to talk to us.
What should we think of? The next step will be Ukraine's membership in the
NATO. They never ask us about that, and they do not engage in dialog with us,
as we could see for the last two decades. 'No dialog,' they say, 'it is
none of your business, and it does not concern you'," Putin said.
"Ukraine may become a member of the NATO tomorrow, and the next day
Defense Missile elements of the United States may be deployed there,"
the Russian president said during remarks at the annual St. Petersburg
International Economic Forum, which is hosting official delegations from
62 countries and CEOs of 146 major world companies.
The European Union, US and NATO representatives refused to attend the event.
Russian NATO envoy Alexander Grushko said Monday that Moscow had insisted on an
immediate meeting of the NATO-Russia Council due to a sharp deterioration
of the situation in crisis-hit Ukraine. The alliance suggested holding a
meeting of ambassadors on May 27 but Moscow asked to postpone the summit.
On April 1, NATO ended all practical cooperation with Russia over Ukraine, only
maintaining contacts at the ambassadors' level and higher. The foreign
ministers of NATO members are to review relations with Moscow at their next
meeting in June.
Putin earlier accused Western countries of supporting the unconstitutional coup
in Ukraine at a time when Moscow was calling for searching for a way out
of the crisis in the country through dialog.
The statement came at a time of strained Russia-EU relations, after the EU,
together with the US, imposed sanctions on Russian officials for allegedly
escalating the Ukrainian crisis.
Ukraine went through a regime change resembling a military coup on February 22,
after months of clashes between the Russian-oriented authorities and
supporters of Ukraine’s affiliation with Europe. The country’s parliament
ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, changed the constitution and scheduled
early presidential elections for May 25.
Since March, when the former Ukrainian Crimean peninsula rejoined Russia,
anti-government protests have been spreading across the mainly
Russian-speaking southeastern regions of the Ukraine. The Donetsk and Luhansk
regions proclaimed autonomy earlier this month.
Ukraine’s new interim authorities, backed by radical ultranationalist groups,
launched a special operation to crack down on the protesters in mid-April,
which has already led to dozens of deaths and injuries.
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http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140523/190076131/Moscow-to-Respond-if-US-Speeds-Up-European-Missile-Defense-.html
RIA Novosti - May 23, 2014
Moscow
to Respond if US Speeds Up European Missile Defense – Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW: Moscow hopes Washington understands that Russia will be forced to react
if the US speeds up the placement of missile defense systems in Europe,
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Friday.
“If there is really another look at the European Phased Adaptive Approach to
the creation of a missile defense system speeding up to the phase where
it’s time to place metal to the cement, then we will regret that because we cannot
respond indifferently to attempts that negatively influence the national
potential of Russian strategic nuclear restraint,” Ryabkov said.
Late last month, the U.S. Navy deployed for the first an advanced version of a
missile-interceptor for its Aegis missile defense system, initiating the
second phase of Washington’s plan to boost missile defenses in Europe.
The US missile defense system in Europe, which NATO and the US say is aimed at
countering threats from North Korea and Iran, has been a particular source
of friction in US-Russian relations for a number of years.
Russia and NATO formally agreed to cooperate on the system at the 2010 NATO
summit in Lisbon, but talks foundered, in part over Russian demands for
legal guarantees that the system would not target its strategic nuclear
deterrent.
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