Republished from Truthseeker article of 29 June 2014 on RT.
Find out why Ukraine is making the world a scarier place. There are parliamentary moves to quit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Nazis are making 'regular reconnaissance visits to nuclear power stations'; Billionaire governor, whose Privatbank is top recipient of new IMF bailout has been being placed on international wanted list for 'banned methods of warfare and aggravated murder'. In 'Seek Truth from facts', Daniel Bushell interviews intelligence expert, William Engdahl and reports on Ukraine's oligarch mafia's relations with the United States and interviews economist Professor Michael Hudson; former US intelligence officer Scott Rickard; and the prosecutor who put Yulia Timoshenko's partner behind bars, Martha Boersch.
Below is the transcript of the June 29, 2014 episode of Seek Truth from Facts, minus some introductory material.
Announcer: Ukraine's new coalition calls officially for “pre-emptive nuclear strikes”.
Governors on the international wanted list.
And the sordid past of the new oligarch President.
RT: Pensions halved to $3 a day, heating costs doubled, forced sell-off of the country’s land and resources - all part of IMF “knee-breakers” imposed round the world, now in Ukraine.
In a bombshell announcement ignored by mainstream media, even the IMF itself now admits austerity doesn’t work, cuts and economic slumps are vicious circles.
Let’s speak to leading economist and author Professor Michael Hudson, great to talk to you, so why are Ukraine’s new oligarch leaders doing this?
Prof. Michael Hudson, author of The Bubble and Beyond:There was a Chilean-type military coup d'etat there. The people of Ukraine do not sign off on the IMF IOUs and sign the transfer of property. The coup d'etat leaders in Kiev signed up and what do they want? Their aim is not to help Ukraine, their aim is to get rich for themselves and to move as much of their money into London, New York and other centers as they can.
RT: To run Ukraine, assistant secretary of state Vic Nuland appointed the Fatherland party led by Yulia Timoshenko.
Martha Boersch, trial lawyer and former Federal Prosecutor: Because the money was being siphoned off by Lazarenko and Timoshenko, Ukraine at that time, as they have today, ran up a huge gas debt.
RT: Timoshenko’s business partner Pavel Lazarenko has served six years for stealing huge sums from the public, as the pair ran vast gas transit monopoly United Energy Systems.
Boersch: You could characterize her as an unindicted co-conspirator.
RT: Documentary Stealing Popcorn notes US political protection keeps her clear of those massive criminal charges to this day.
Jason Felch, investigative reporter:So we know that the political interests of the United States Government at the highest level probably didn’t want Yulia Timoshenko drawn into theLazarenko case.
RT: WikiLeaked cables from the US Embassy state “oligarch” Timoshenko has stolen vast sums from Ukraine and “hid” them in London to pretend “she wasn’t involved in business”.
BBC reports she was wanted for alleged involvement in the murders of the Head of Ukraine’s National Bank, Members of Parliament as well as business rivals.
This is her on Interpol’s international most wanted list.
Timoshenko denies the claims and her campaign slogan is “fighting the oligarchs”. Unless she means her alleged hits on rival billionaires, George Washington University reports the slogan causes “epic laughter” and notes Ukrainians shout “vorovka” - Mrs Thief - to her face.
Let's talk to former US intelligence officer Scott Rickard, really great to see you. Is the US still protecting Ukraine’s criminals?
Scott Rickard, former U.S. intelligence officer: Certainly they’re protecting them, and they’re bolstering them, they’re putting them in a position where they can basically control the financial outcome of Ukraine, hiding the money in Isle of Man, hiding in the Cayman Islands and then Cyprus and working with the Western oligarchs to launder money. Poroshenko’s right in bed with the right guys.
RT: Timoshenko’s party has been joined in power by this man as the country’s President, or as the US ambassador to Kiev in a leaked cable admitted “disgraced oligarch”.
“Weapons, prostitutes, drugs, these are the things Poroshenko is associated with” in Ukraine, claims investigative reporter Greg Kolyada, adding Poroshenko’s not “self-made” as claimed by mainstream media. He got rich by “plundering state property with armed gangs” with his convict father, who was jailed for “large-scale theft” of state property.
Indymedia describes Poroshenko as the most corrupt person in Ukraine. In a country branded by a former State Department official as “the global epicenter of badness”, being the most corrupt is some achievement.
But “disgraced oligarchs” can do what they like, writes the SCF Foundation, as long as they carry out White House orders.
Leaked cables reveal secret meetings before the coup with the US ambassador, other top officials, as well as Mrs. Clinton, where among various instructions she told him the quickest ways to steal Ukraine into NATO membership.
If previous administrations made at least some pretense of being for the public, Ukraine is now literally a government “of the oligarchs, by the oligarchs, for the oligarchs”. Eighteen of the country’s 24 regions have had oligarchs and cronies parachuted into power by the new regime.
Igor Kolomoysky, “the head of the Ukrainian mafia” the US put in charge of an extremely sensitive Eastern region. He owns Ukraine banks, metals, resources, food, transport, military and oil industry.
The multibillionaire has a fetish for “gold statues”, notes Ukraine Business Insight, and lives in Switzerland.
“Looting of state property, bribes and murdering rivals” were part and parcel of becoming an oligarch in the “global epicenter of badness”.
Their appointment to actually run the country has now blown everything into the open.
Leaked conversation between governor Kolomoysky and presidential candidate Tsarev:
Kolomoysky: Tomorrow, f***, they will go after all your family, f***. Because we’re gonna hang them right in the town square, f***. And put a contract on your life, f***, big money. One million dollars. For your life. They’ll be looking for you everywhere.
RT: The newly-appointed oligarch was recorded putting an alleged hit on a presidential candidate and his family in Eastern Ukraine.
In another leaked call an official reveals Kolomoysky’s also behind the Odessa massacre, the deadliest attack so far in Ukraine’s civil war, where he paid Nazis from the infamous Right Sektor Party that burnt, slaughtered and strangled dozens of civilians to death, including elderly women.
In a fairly predictable development, handing state power to an oligarch and criminal suspect has turned him “crazy”.
Kolomoysky has his own private army, and set up the Azov Battalion of openly Nazi mercenaries, which London’s Sunday Times admits is behind the bloodshed that has caused revulsion among the population.
He’s now been placed on the international wanted list sent to Interpol in connection with “banned means and methods of warfare, aggravated murder, and abductions in Eastern Ukraine”, all in a few months since he was put in power.
Leading intelligence author William Engdahl’s investigated post-coup Ukraine he finds what’s happened is “so astonishing as almost to defy belief”.
Dr. Engdahl joins us, really great to speak to you, why do you write “US policies have put gangsters and murderers in Ukraine in power”?
William Engdahl, investigative journalist: I’ve already seen reports that the government has signed over the pipeline, the gas pipeline distribution network, they’ve signed that off to Chevron. German companies have grabbed metallurgical assets in Eastern Ukraine and coal assets, extremely prized coal assets there, so they’re already looting the crown jewels of Ukraine and the, I don’t know what you want to call it, the puppet regime that’s sitting in Kiev is doing their bidding. Now you’ve got a chocolate king as president, his opponent was the gas queen Yulia Timoshenko who looted billions from her country, from her fellow countrymen and is associated with figures of organized crime. So you’ve got a bunch of gangsters essentially and Nazi thugs running Ukraine and that is hardly a stable thing for peace in Europe.
Germany wants to go to war to defend a bunch of Nazis in Kiev because they get hot-headed and start creating incidents with Russia? I don’t think so but they better realize that’s the agenda that some people in Washington have. Because they want, not the American people and not the United States, but this tiny power cabal that have so much power in Washington, they want not only a new cold war, they want a new hot war. That’s a pretty dangerous thing to be playing around with. This is an escalation toward a new dimension of horror for mankind.
RT: Timoshenko revealed her real oligarch face in a leaked call pledging to nuke the Eastern part of Ukraine.
Leaked conversation between Deputy Nestor Shufrich and Fatherland leader Yulia Timoshenko:
Shufrich: What shall we do with the eight million Russian(-speakers) in Ukraine?
Timoshenko: Kill them with nuclear weapons.
RT: The openly Nazi Svoboda party, led by Oleg Tyagnibok, was rewarded for its appalling violence during the coup with six major cabinet posts, including Security Chief in charge of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Svoboda’s official manifesto calls for building nuclear weapons again in Ukraine, and “pre-emptive nuclear strikes without declaring war”, in other words open and supreme violation of international statutes.
Gunmen from Ukraine’s other big Nazi coalition Right Sektor were caught attempting to break into Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant.
Ukraine: Triumph, Tragedy, or Farce? report: The neo-Nazis are paying regular reconnaissance visits to nuclear power stations, with obvious intent to hold the whole world hostage. They have paid visits to bacteriological laboratories and, according to the people working there, got hold of bacteriological material that can be used for biological warfare. Other terrorists have merely been dreaming of such weapons – Ukrainian ones, with the connivance of or on direct orders from someone in the junta, may actually use them – to Senator McCain’s delight.
RT: Turkey is reportedly in talks with Ukraine’s new rulers to buy the project documentation for one of the world’s most powerful nuclear strategic weapons, the intercontinental ballistic missile NATO calls Satan.
Governments are now voicing concern that Kiev may be violating the international Missile Technology Control treaty, and the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation.
Having “gangsters and murderers” in charge is unlikely to end well for Ukraine. When that country also has nuclear weapons technology, with plans to use them, it’s an international threat. Seek truth from facts, this is the Truthseeker.
Comments
DennisK (not verified)
Wed, 2014-07-23 08:50
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This article destroys its own credibility
Sheila Newman
Fri, 2014-07-25 17:26
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Nazism more than a fashion statement - reply to Dennis K
[Editor's note: We should precise that the Odessa Massacre referred to here is the recent event of 2 May 2014, in order to avoid confusion with the Odessa Massacre of 1941. The 2 May 2014 atrocity is reported here
and here:http://scgnews.com/the-odessa-massacre-what-really-happened among many other sources.]
Hi Dennis K.
Hope you will appreciate that I have gone to some trouble to respond carefully.
You wrote that "
This article destroys its own credibility by using the word "Nazi" ad infinitum."
Hadn't noticed such excessive use of 'Nazi' in this article, but agree that Daniel Bushell's work is very confronting and generally scares me, so I don't look at it all that often. That said, he is usually right, just too close to the awful truth. For me, the Nazi ideology in the Svoboda political party in Ukraine seems undeniable and fits into the history of Russia vs Nazi affiliations in Ukraine. We will try to get together an 'About Ukraine and the Nazis' page on candobetter.net to deal with this one.
You also write:
"That term is 70 years old. Can people not think of anything new to label political opponents? I mean, the original hippies that used it are in nursing homes now."
An oldie but not a goodie? That is the way I thought it might be at first, as a kind of grotesque attempt to label a nationalist movement in Ukraine. Footage of the Svoboda leader, Oleh Tyahnybok,[1] was kind of persuasive that he really is a Nazi, but it was the participation of Svoboda and the extreme persecution of communists and anti-Kiev protesters at the Odessa Massacre, that convinced me, on top of the special history of Ukraine vis a vis Nazis and the official celebration of the role of a Nazi collaborator ( Stepan Bandera) in the second world war. The extreme cruelty of the Svoboda paramilitary at the Odessa massacre, seemed very Nazi style, and they wore Nazi insignia. They barricaded the doors of a trade union building where anti-government protesters were then set fire. When people jumped out the windows but survived, there was systematic beating of those survivors and, notably, they were ultimately stabbed or strangled to death. Apparently those who made it to hospital all had stab wounds as well as burns and injuries from jumping. [The footage is widely available and there are multiple direct reports. See the film called "Fascism as it is" by Andrew Karulov embedded in the notes below for a statement on this.] Reports also exist about how snipers targeted both sides of the Maidan. These also seemed like hallmarks of fascism, and since the Nazi insignia appears prominently among people in the crowds, and the Svoboda logo seems derived from the Nazi insignia, no matter how vieux jeux this may seem, I do find it credible. Oh, also, attacks on people marching in anti-Nazi war commemoration parades in Ukraine. Some references for these statements in the footnote. [2]
Fashion is one thing and you can have fascism under different names, but the ultimate use for Nazi and like movements is to frighten other citizens into submission. They are doing this very well in Ukraine. (See [2] again)
You also wrote:
"Nazi" is used so often to describe people against global ethnic homogenisation, its no wonder that young people end up adopting Nazi imagery as means of saying "F$%# You" to the system.
Initially you seemed to question whether there really are actual Nazis operating at a significant level in Ukraine (Kiev side). Just above, you seem to concede that young people may indeed be adopting Nazi imagery as a means of revolt against a system that marginalises them. So you seem to be saying that they are putting on a kind of act, but not sincerely being Nazis. However, it is clear that some people wearing Nazi insignia are going through with the whole thing - anti-communist, sadistic, bullying, beating up citizens and politicians, and political murder - where the Odessa massacre is only one example of several to hand.
You say:
Is the tail wagging the dog here? Is the mainstream media and popular repetition of the "Nazi" theme causing young people to take it up in opposition to the globalist ideals of that media?
Well, this is something you and I have touched on before here. That is, that people may feel they have nowhere to go except towards the extreme right in order to find expression of their disagreement with mass immigration taking over their jobs and communities. It is probably true that the globalist media has a role in modeling some of this behaviour. I would suggest that the behaviour is also manipulated to a large degree by power elites (sorry about the cliche)via the globalist media in order to sow unrest in the communities they seek to disorganise, by getting people acting out roles of Nazis to frighten ordinary citizens and attack alternative political organisations, especially communists and socialists.
However, my understanding is that in Ukraine the Nazi narrative (with its historical opposition to communism) has a long-lasting life of its own since WW2 due to oppression under the Soviet regime causing people to embrace the Nazi promise to liberate Ukraine from communism. Even though the Nazis had a documented plan to get rid of the Ukrainians and slavs, many Ukrainians believed them and presumably felt they had little choice. This acknowledges that the Stalinist regime was a terrifying and deadly one. It does not however take the position, for instance, that communism or socialism are any worse than capitalism and, if they embody social rights, I would say they are better. However, I also have a position that anarchism - or local democracy - is better than any overarching political hierarchy. People prefer to retain power in their local communities and delegate upwards, rather than receive policies from distant imposed governments - such as the Victorian State Government - when those governments do not really represent them and do not really permit them any significant say in public life. I prefer the European system of communes - like France's (which is unfortunately changing).
So, again, my understanding is that there is significant actual Nazi activity, however anachronistic that may seem to someone in Australia today.
The globalist capitalist agenda is also to blame by removing social protections and promoting rampant unemployment, unfair wages, criminal powerbrokers in the form of the oligarchs who behave like an ultra-rich mafia - as they also do in the United States, Russia and elsewhere, but here they are promoted unfettered by the United States and NATO.[3]
You wrote:
I would hazard a guess it does, just how people became "satanists" to rebel against Christian moral tightness.
There may as you say be something in that, however my understanding of Satanism is that it is seen as another way to get power over people, just as the Christian religion is. i.e. they are both kinds of political systems that use magical thinking (praying, sacrifices, deities etc). The Christian Church (with christianity as its doctrine or ideology) was the major form of government in the Middle Ages and was one of the forces, along with royalty that battled the French revolutionary forces and Napoleon. Satanism was also derived from 'pagan' or naturalistic religions of animism etc and these religions - like local governments by clans and tribes - were taken over by the Roman empire with its gods and later by the Roman Church (which became the ideological head of the Roman Empire). So pagans were designated as anti-Christ. Where the 'devil' came in I am not sure, but there must have been a lot of opportunities.
You wrote:
Oh, and of course the russian media would say this!
Criticism of the media needs more analysis than this. I find that RT interviews people on both sides, whereas the mainstream anglo (and EU media) does not. There are also numerous alternative sites to get more info from, and people whom one can actually contact. RT gives a lot more detail and variation and documents that you can investigate, whereas the mainstream media in US/Australia gives almost nothing but rumour and does not even acknowledge the other side. The Oz media representation of the recent downing of aircraft has been almost pure fiction, totally illogical and based on no evidence at all and leaving out entirely the role of the Kiev regime. Its political theory seems to be some pop-psychology one about personalities on the world stage. Sorry, but that ignores the geopolitics entirely. In fact, it is my strong impression that the Australian PM was so taken in by his disinformation sources that he actually had absolutely no idea even that there was bombfire going on in East Ukraine all the time, making his suggestion of putting in an international force to safeguard the accident scene completely ridiculous. And that is just one of my criticisms. See my articles for further ones.
NOTES, REFERENCES
[1] Oleh Tyahnybok is the leader of Svoboda. Although criminal proceedings against him for anti-semitism have not yet succeeded, his actions and words embrace Nazi-values of anti-semitism, anti-communism, and violence. A reference to start with is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleh_Tyahnybok#cite_ref-SIEKP81212_2-0":
"In October 1991 Tyahnybok became a member of the Social-National Party of Ukraine. He is characterised as representative of Ukraine's far right. From 1994 until 1998, Tyahnybok served as a member of the Lviv Regional Council. In 1998, Tyahnybok was first elected to the Ukrainian Parliament as a member of Social-National Party of Ukraine; in the parliament he became a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine faction. In 2002, Tyahnybok was reelected to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of Victor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine bloc. In parliament he submitted 36 motions for debate, but the parliament adopted only four of them. In the majority of his motions, he opposed the introduction of the Russian language as the second official state language; proposed recognition of the fighting role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army during World War II; called for the lustration (regulation of political involvement) of former communist officials, security service officers and undercover agents; and demanded the prohibition of communist ideology. None of these motions was adopted.
On 20 July 2004 Tyahnybok was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction after he made a speech in the Carpathian Mountains at the gravesite of a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In the speech, which was aired on television in the summer of 2004, he made comments such as,
"[You are the ones] that the Moscow-Jewish mafia ruling Ukraine fears most"
and
"They were not afraid and we should not be afraid. They took their automatic guns on their necks and went into the woods, and fought against the Muscovites, Germans, Jews and other scum who wanted to take away our Ukrainian state.""
[2] The following film contains footage of violent fascist and nationalist activities with neo-nazi insignica prominent and public. In the film, people are seen repeatedly carrying an image of Stepan Bandera, who collaborated with the Nazis in WW2 in an effort to achieve Ukrainian independence from Stalin's regime. Roman Shukhevych who was a political assassin and carried out many executions of Poles during WW2 for the Nazis is also celebrated as a hero in this footage. That this ambiguous hero is celebrated widely and publicly in Ukraine gives insight into how ambivalent the Ukraine population may be towards Nazi philosophy. Oleh Tyahnybok is also shown as a public figure in one of these events, around 08.15 minutes. At 9.33 minutes footage of the unbelievably awful Odessa Massacre begins. Note that other massacres of people in public buildings have also occurred in the same style in Ukraine since then, but I cannot document everything here. At 12.02 we see Victoria Nuland (foreign ambassador for United States) and John McCain in company with Oleh Tyahnybok and the acting President of Ukraine, Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov, who was also received by the President of the United States, prior to Porischenko being 'elected'.
Below is a less sensational, but with more detailed documentation, film by journalists about fascism in Ukraine today. It documents murders and disappearances, harassment of journalists, and shows some footage from the Odessa Massacre as well as other incidents.
Battleground Ukraine by Professor Andrei Fursov
[3] Promotion of fascists and oligarchs by US/NATO: I'll refer to the above film from 12.02 minutes and note that the US has constantly suppressed criticism of Ukraine or even consideration of its likely role in the bringing down of the Dutch airliner and of its continuous bombing of East Ukraine, its use of Nazis, etc. See the first part of this video compilation:
DennisK (not verified)
Sun, 2014-07-27 23:12
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It's the action, not the label
James Sinnamon
Mon, 2014-07-28 08:05
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Nazi menace to humanity cannot be exaggerated
Dennis K wrote:
Your post seems to be splitting hairs.
If it is possible to take issue with the over-use of the term "Nazi", then surely that is preferable to what the mainstream media are doing: concealment of the facts that the extreme right-wing Ukrainian Government includes 3 Nazis and its security forces are dominated by Nazis and the demonisation of those who are fighting against them?
Whatever label we give to these people, they are thugs and killers in the pay of the ruling elites of Ukraine and the West no less than German Nazis were in the pay of German elites and the most corrupt elites in Britain and the United States from the 1920s until 1945.
Islamist jihadists, who have waged a bloody war against Syria since 2011 and, before that, Iraq and Libya, are no less in the pay of the ruling global elites.
The conflicts of 2014 in Syria and Ukraine are no less a struggle for the future of humanity than was the Second World War.
Those who are fight Nazis and their like in Syria and Ukraine are no less fighting for us than were Australians on the Kokoda Track or the Red Army at Stalingrad in 1942.
DennisK (not verified)
Mon, 2014-07-28 09:46
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Subtle differences are the most important one.
Sheila Newman
Thu, 2014-07-31 22:54
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Response to Dennis K's subtle important differences
DennisK (not verified)
Thu, 2014-08-07 21:51
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To be honest, I'm still
V (not verified)
Mon, 2014-07-28 11:12
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Narrowly consolidated media makes bad stuff easy
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