Farcical ’Elections’ in Ukraine

Orwell and Kafka had a baby, and named it Petr Poroshenko!     It was a classic circus, as much of a fairy tale ’election’ as one might expect from oligarchical fascists backed by the…

Egypt’s Illegitimate President

    Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former head of the military that overthrew Egypt’s legitimately elected president Mohammed Morsi in a 2013 coup d’état, is almost certain to win a landslide victory in today’s presidential…

How the Ukrainian Civil War Started

Fortunately, the origin of the Ukrainian civil war is remarkably well-documented in tapped phone-conversations and in cell-phone videos that have been posted online for all the world to see, despite what might have been the…

US Ukraine Policy Reaching Dead End

The world attention is focused on the prowess of the resistance fighters who effectively beat off the attacks of chasteners and mercenaries against the Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. It gets US Ukraine policy plans…

Crimea: an EU-US-Exxon Screwup

On 17 May, William Broad’s piece, “In Taking Crimea, Putin Gains a Sea of Fuel Reserves”, appeared in the New York Times. Broad explained how the annexation of Crimea by Russia changed the legal claims…