The Dutch Safety Board’s (DSB) preliminary report on the causes of the crash of Malaysian Airlines MH-17 is noteworthy for what it fails to report. It tells us pretty much what we already know or have surmised from photographs of the crash site. The report states that – “The damage
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Cowichan Conversations: The Ukraine Crisis Remains Unresolved — Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Russia Wants War!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger There is an abundance of information out there showing that the US purposely funded extreme right wing militants to over throw the elected Ukrainian government, a task that they accomplished a mere two weeks before the scheduled election. The map above pretty much tells the reality
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Ukranian Soldiers Captured and Then Released by Ethnic Russians (Video)
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We have read accounts which differ substantially from the MSM line accusing Russia of sending troops and military equipment into eastern Ukraine. Here is some video which expands on that. Is it true? This is certainly at odds with unquestioned MSM reports that dominate the news cycle.
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Fidel Castro compares NATO with Hitler’s SS: says US/Israel responsible for the creation of ISIS
Below: Demo in Poland protesting this weeks NATO summit in Wales In an article published in Cuban state media iconic revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, calls out NATO and imperialist war mongering. He compares statements by NATO representatives with Nazi SS talk. Castro: “Many people are astonished when they hear the
Continue readingdrive-by planet: NATO summit targets Russia: nuclear threat increases with risk of war
Protest in Newport, Wales, against NATO aggression Government leaders of NATO countries meet in Wales this week to make plans for the escalation of military preparedness, with Russia squarely in the cross hairs. This includes the likely endorsement of a rapid response force made up of as many as 4,000
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: NATO Leaders Huddle and Fume While Putin Chuckles
NATO’s Drang Nach Osten There’ll be an absolute glut of righteous indignation when NATO leaders convene this week in Wales to decide whatever to do with that big bad bully, the Russian Bear, Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, as The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins writes, Putin will be kicking back in Red Square laughing
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Banging the War Drum – Washington Post
It was earlier this month that the German financial newspaper, Handelsblatt, warned of the dangerous spread of war fever throughout Europe. The paper found that Europeans were being “mentally mobilized” for war. Something eerily similar is happening in America. In today’s Washington Post, columnist Anne Applebaum questions whether the European
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Oh, Crap! Sorry, I Meant the Ukraine.
Vlad Putin, it seems, has a response to the hectoring recently from the likes of Sideshow Steve Harper and John Baird and others – “meet me in the Arctic.” The Guardian reports that Putin has had enough of Western criticism of Russian involvement in the Ukraine whose government he likens to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Big Summit Next Week – Maybe the Biggest in Years
NATO leaders gather in Wales next week for what could be the alliance’s most important summit in years. Instead of focusing on housekeeping issues to tidy up the not very successful adventure in Afghanistan, alliance members will find their plates full with developing approaches to the Ukrainian chaos and the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Inching Ever Closer to a Shooting War with Russia
Foggy Rasmussen Why do I get the feeling that there are some in the West who would welcome a conflict with Russia? I watched a documentary last night on the final two years of the Soviet Union, the Gorbachev-George H.W. Bush years. Some great commentary came from Bush Sr.’s Soviet-affairs
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Russian Army Now Fighting in Ukraine
NATO claims that Russian army artillery units manned by Russian soldiers have entered Ukraine and are firing on Ukrainian forces. The Russian move represents a significant escalation of the Kremlin’s involvement in the fighting there and comes as a convoy of Russian trucks with humanitarian provisions has crossed into Ukrainian
Continue readingAlberta Diary: A few harmless slaps were landed, but last night’s PC leadership debate in Edmonton was no donnybrook
The Three Tory Amigos just before last night’s Edmonton debate. Below: Mr. Lukaszuk, who your blogger says was the debate winner, frontrunner Jim Prentice, and the challenger with the best chance, Ric McIver. If last night’s Alberta Progressive Conservative Leadership debate in a North Edmonton Ukrainian community hall shows anything,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Have You Heard the Latest?
Have you heard the latest about last month’s Malaysian Airlines MH-17 shootdown over Ukraine? No? Neither have I. When the Boeing 777 plunged to the ground killing everyone aboard, Western leaders were quick out of the gate to finger Vlad Putin, directly or indirectly, and Ukraine’s pro-Russia separatist militias for
Continue readingHarper—not a man for our time
Vladimir Putin is a corrupt bully and I don’t like the guy. Nor do I like the mischief he’s up to in Ukraine. Nonetheless, I am not impressed by Stephen Harper’s self-righteous ranting about him. I find Harper very hard to agree with even when he’s on the right side
Continue readingdrive-by planet: U.S. analysts on MH17 – ‘Ukrainian forces to blame’: Ron Paul – Obama ‘hiding truth’
Following the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH-17, anti-Russian rhetoric was hard to miss on MSM. The rhetoric has toned down of late. The Obama administration has also been noticeably quieter on the subject of MH-17. For former rep Ron Paul the ratcheting down of the volume in itself raises questions,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When Confidence Fails
Few who lived through the Cold War with its constant threat of nuclear annihilation realize the role confidence played in preventing an outbreak of apocalyptic hostilities. Even at times when we thought the “other side” might be nearing the point of pre-emptive attack, we had a sufficient degree of confidence
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: One of the most Powerful Countries in the World Can no Longer be Trusted
There is a Public Relations firm operating in both the United States and Canada, Ketchum Inc., that has for the past several years, been working with Vladimir Putin, to sell Russian influence in the United States. They run an English language website, ThinkRussia.com and when tensions first began to rise
Continue readingdrive-by planet: The West’s dangerous game: anti-Russia media hype and the MH-17 blame game
Obama continued with the blame game this week as a raft of new sanctions were introduced against Russia. In remarks directed at Moscow, he said that the ‘destabilization of a sovereign country [Ukraine] cannot be accepted in 21st century Europe.’ Obama must have a short and highly selective memory. It
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