Monday, May 9, 2022

The Ugly Truth About Ukraine: the 2014 Massacre in Odessa; the History of Ties to the CIA and the Nazis; and the Present Day Involvement of U.S. / NATO Imperialist Violence and Coercion in Ukraine.

Curfew for Anniversary of Odessa Massacre That Sparked RebellionApril 30, 2022, Joe Lauria, Special to Consortium News, at < https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/30/curfew-for-anniversary-of-odessa-massacre-that-sparked-rebellion/ >

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Ukraine: The American Tyranny of Power”, April 30, 2022, Tim Duff, L.A. Progressive, at < read://https_www.laprogressive.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.laprogressive.com%2Fwar-and-peace%2Fukraine-american-tyranny-of-power >. {The url above is for the reader version”; the url for the webpage version is < https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/ukraine-american-tyranny-of-power >}.PR 30, 2022

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Former CIA Contract Pilot Tosh Plumlee: 'There are many more American soldiers like Willy Joseph Cancel already in Ukraine”, May 4, 2022, Phillip F. Nelson, Covert Action Magazine, at < read://https_covertactionmagazine.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcovertactionmagazine.com%2F2022%2F05%2F04%2Fformer-cia-contract-pilot-tosh-plumlee-there-are-many-more-american-soldiers-like-willy-joseph-cancel-already-in-ukraine%2F >. {The url above is for the reader version”; the url for the webpage version is https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/04/former-cia-contract-pilot-tosh-plumlee-there-are-many-more-american-soldiers-like-willy-joseph-cancel-already-in-ukraine/ >}.

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Introduction by dmorista:

The first of this trio of articles, Curfew for Anniversary of Odessa Massacre That Sparked Rebellion”, points out that the memory of the horrific murders in the burning of the Trade Unions Building in Odessa, on May 2nd, 2014, is still alive enough that the city government declared a curfew to keep people off the streets. There are more penetrating observations in the article, but by far the most important feature is the link to the 1:18:39 long video entitled Roses Have Thorns, Part 6, The Odessa Massacre (See, Roses Have Thorns (Part 6) The Odessa MassacreWatchdog Mediaat < https://www.watchdogmediainstitute.com/p/roses-have-thorns-part-6-odessa-massacre.html >). It is one segment of a 17 part documentary that features hours of extremely disturbing raw footage of the events and the crimes, the brutality, and the massacres of the Fascist Legions of Ukraine. It begins with Euromaidan and Crimea, Part 1, November 2013 - March 23, 2014”, and continues on to The Attempted Siege of Donetsk 2, Part 17, July 13 - 17, 2014. The complete set of the 17 part documentary is available at “Roses Have Thorns - Casualties of the Ukrainian Revolution”, Watchdog Media, at < https://www.watchdogmediainstitute.com/p/blog-page.html >. And in addition Watchdog Media added an 18th video that looks at the shoot down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 that took place on July 17, 2014, over the disputed areas in Ukraine. The Western Corporate Controlled Media, and the heavily compromised European Court, of course decided to blame the shoot down on the Separatist Forces in the DonBas area, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

The Part 6 video has some video footage of fascist meetings (very similar to Trump MAGA rallies but in a distinctly Ukrainian style) and also features video of  Fascist thugs breaking down doors and walking around the corridors of the Trade Union Building (again very similar to Trump MAGA videos from January 6th but Ukrainian style, more violent and ultimately successful as they murdered 48 Russian speakers that day and had already taken control of the Ukrainian State Apparatus). The viewer can clearly see the Fascist thugs killing several of the people at the Trade Unions HQ building. Some of them jumped from the 3rd or 4th floor and were lying gravely injured on the ground, and these Ukrainian Fascists / Soccer Hooligans, came up to these injured people and beat them with clubs and stabbed them repeatedly, killing them where they lay on the ground. The ridiculous fiction of the noble democratically inclined Ukrainian independence movement is shown up for the absurdity that it really is. This is required viewing.

Next the second article, Ukraine: The American Tyranny of Power”, takes a longer view look at the relationship between Ukrainian Fascism and the Imperialist Operations of the U.S. It notes that there are Ukrainian fascists cooperating with the U.S. whose grandparents or even Great Grand Parents were firsts recruited by the Nazis and then ended up working, surrpetitiously with U.S. covert and intelligence agencies.

The article further points out that a current day Ukrainian fascist organization ... Centre UA, it’s founder Pierre Omidyar and the billionaire funders that support it ... stated purpose thus, following the Mackinder outline, was to pull Ukraine out of the Russian orbit and deliver it to United States corporations and oligarchs. This is what exactly happened, along with all the obligatory payoffs. In a few short years after the Centre UA was established, Vice President Joe Biden’s son was named to the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the largest Ukraine gas producer. Hunter Biden heads Burisma’s legal department and works with international organizations.

The Obama administration and its privatizing corporate partners overthrew the Yanikovich pro-Russian Ukraine government, and installed a regime of neo-Nazis and American elites. They did this for their own enrichment, and the US media never mentioned a word about it. It was business as usual and the average Ukrainian citizen didn’t benefit, just the 'super-predator' American elite who organized the blatant coup.” (Emphases added). {A note here, the MacKinder outline refers to Halford MacKinder's thesis about controlling Central Eurasia to control the world. He wrote an article about his ideas in "The Geographical Pivot of History", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No.4, (April 1904), 421–437, after presenting the ideas to a meeting of the Royal Geographic Society}

The MacKinder Thesis that called Eurasia (and to some degree Africa) the World Island was very influential among U.S. geostrategic analysts and advisors to the Presidents. From Nicholas Spykman (a Dutchman who eimigrated to the more lucrative and infinitely more powerful U.S. earning an undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley, and who taught at Yale from 1928 until his death in 1943. His key book was America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company {1942}), to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski; the MacKinder thesis was further developed and honed. American leaders tried, with great success, to control the two geographical ends of Eurasia, both the European and the East Asian areas. The preoccupation with Ukraine and Russia, during an epoch that clearly sees China as the greatest rival to the U.S., are artifacts of that view of control over the areas, the larger land mass of Eurasia and Africa, that MacKinder had named "The World Island", and an area that encompasses Ukraine, Russia, and some neighboring regions that MacKinder called and the "Pivot Area"; and that he saw as the most important areas on the Earth for maintaining a globe spanning empire's power. (See, "The Geographical Pivot of History", Wikipedia, at < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History > for a couple of good maps in addition to the text; and "Nicholas J. Spykman", Wikipedia, at < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_J._Spykman > for an introductory discussion of Spykman's developments of MacKinder's ideas).

Finally the third article, “Former CIA Contract Pilot Tosh Plumlee: 'There are many more American soldiers like Willy Joseph Cancel already in Ukraine”, points out that there are at least a couple of hundred Americans already involved in combat operations in Ukraine. Quite likely, there are many more, and the first couple of Americans have been killed in combat in Ukraine. There presence is hidden by making sure they are mercenaries, working for some private company that has contracted out the job of training Ukrainian military and para-military operatives how to use the wide variety of weaponry that has been supplied to them by the U.S. and other NATO countries' militaries. The immediate candidate for a comparison with the current situation in Ukraine, was the Iran-Contra supply of weapons and murderers to attack Nicaragua during the Reagan Regime. The supply of weapons to Ukraine has been, perhaps, the largest such operation in U.S. Imperial Intervention and Covert Operations History.

Curfew for Anniversary of Odessa Massacre That Sparked Rebellion

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Odessa has imposed a two-day curfew on the anniversary of the burning alive of anti-Maidan protestors on May 2, 2014, reports Joe Lauria. 

By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News

Authorities in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have set a 24-hour curfew from May 1-3 to prevent protests commemorating the burning alive on May 2, 2014 of 48 people who had rejected the U.S.-backed coup in Kiev earlier that year. 

The city, which is  “(under the control of Ukrainian troops) announced the introduction of a ‘curfew’ in the city from 22-00 on May 1 to 5-00 on May 3. For the duration of the ‘curfew’ Odessans are not allowed to leave their homes,” said the group Repression of the Left and Dissenters in Ukraine in a Telegram post. “Obviously, this decision of the authorities is due to the fact that May 2 is a very important date for the inhabitants of Odessa.”

On that day eight years ago hooligans and far-right groups deliberately set fire to a labor union building where protestors against the coup had taken refuge.  Police did not intervene. Video footage shows at least one police officer and others firing their guns into the building. The crowd is cheering as many of the people trapped inside jumped to their deaths.

The events of that day “have not yet been investigated by law enforcement agencies of Ukraine,” the group said. Pleas at the time from the United Nations and the European Union for Ukraine to investigate were ignored. Three Ukrainian local government probes were stymied by the withholding of secret documents.

report on the incident from the European Council (EC) at the time makes clear it did not conduct its own investigation but relied on local probes, especially by the Verkhovna Rada’s Temporary Investigation Commission. The EC complains in its reports that it too was barred from viewing classified information. Relying on the local inquiries, the EC reports that  pro-Russian, or pro-federalist, protestors attacked a pro-unity march in the afternoon, prompting street battles. Then:

“At around 6.50 p.m. pro-federalists broke down the door [of the trade union building] and brought inside various materials, including boxes containing Molotov cocktails and the products needed to make them. Using wooden pallets which had supported tents in the square, they blocked the entrances to the building from the inside and erected barricades. When they arrived at the square at around 7.20 p.m., the pro-unity protesters destroyed and set fire to the tents of the Anti-Maidan camp. The remaining pro-federalism protesters entered the Trade Union Building, from where they exchanged shots and Molotov cocktails with their opponents outside. …

At about 7.45 p.m. a fire broke out in the Trade Union Building. Forensic examinations subsequently indicated that the fire had started in five places, namely the lobby, on the staircases to the left and right of the building between the ground and first floors, in a room on the first floor and on the landing between the second and third floors. Other than the fire in the lobby, the fires could only have been started by the acts of those inside the building. The forensic reports did not find any evidence to suggest that the fire had been preplanned. The closed doors and the chimney effect caused by the stairwell resulted in the fire’s rapid spread to the upper floors and a fast and extreme rise in the temperature inside the building.”

The local investigation thus blamed the anti-Maidan protestors for starting the fire throughout the building. But this video, which shows events on that day leading to the fire, depicts the main blaze in the lobby. It shows Right Sector extremists lobbing Molotov cocktails into the building and a policeman firing his gun at it. It does not show any cocktails thrown from the building. It doesn’t show clashes earlier in the day, though one pro-unity protestor says they were attacked at Cathedral Square and they’ve come to burn the anti-Maidan protestors in the building for revenge:

 

The New York Times buried the first news of the massacre in a May 2, 2014 story, saying “dozens of people died in a fire related to clashes that broke out between protesters holding a march for Ukrainian unity and pro-Russian activists.”

The Times then published a video report that said dozens were killed in a fire, “and others were shot dead when fighting between pro- and anti-Russian groups broke out on the streets of Odessa.” The video narrator says “crowds did their best to save lives.” It quotes Ukrainian police saying a “pro-Kiev march was ambushed … petrol bombs were thrown” and gun battles erupted on the streets.

The late Robert Parry, who founded Consortium Newsreported on Aug. 10, 2014:

The brutality of these neo-Nazis surfaced again on May 2 when right-wing toughs in Odessa attacked an encampment of ethnic Russian protesters driving them into a trade union building which was then set on fire with Molotov cocktails. As the building was engulfed in flames, some people who tried to flee were chased and beaten, while those trapped inside heard the Ukrainian nationalists liken them to black-and-red-striped potato beetles called Colorados, because those colors are used in pro-Russian ribbons.

‘Burn, Colorado, burn’ went the chant.

As the fire worsened, those dying inside were serenaded with the taunting singing of the Ukrainian national anthem. The building also was spray-painted with Swastika-like symbols and graffiti reading ‘Galician SS,’ a reference to the Ukrainian nationalist army that fought alongside the German Nazi SS in World War II, killing Russians on the eastern front.”

“Every year on May 2, residents of Odessa come to the House of Trade Unions, where the tragedy occurred, to honor the memory of the victims,” the Ukrainian leftist group said. “But also every year on this day they are attacked by representatives of ultra-right groups with the inaction of the police.”

“This year,” the group said, “the authorities decided to prevent any gathering on May 2nd. Everyone who leaves their home on May 2 will be detained under the terms of the ‘curfew.'”

Sparked Donbass Rebellion

This event became the trigger for the uprising in the Donbass,” Repression of the Left and Dissenters in Ukraine said. Eight days after the Odessa massacre, coup resisters in the far eastern provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, bordering on Russia, voted in a referendum to become independent from Ukraine. 

The U.S.-backed coup government then launched a military attack against the breakaway provinces, which continued for nearly eight years, killing thousands of people before prompting Russian intervention in the civil conflict.  Russia says it has proof that the Ukrainian military, which had amassed 60,000 of its troops at the line of contact, were on the verge of an offensive to retake the provinces. OSCE maps showed a dramatic increase of shelling from the government side into the rebel areas in the last week of February.

On Feb. 24 Russia invaded Ukraine with the stated purpose of “de-Nazifying” and “de-militarizing” Ukraine to protect Russian-speakers and the people of Donbass. In a televised address three days before the invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned the events of May 2, 2014 in Odessa.

“One shudders at the memories of the terrible tragedy in Odessa, where peaceful protesters were brutally murdered, burned alive in the House of Trade Unions,” he said. “The criminals who committed that atrocity have never been punished, and no one is even looking for them. But we know their names and we will do everything to punish them, find them and bring them to justice.”

The demonstrators in Odessa that day were protesting the violent overthrow on Feb. 21, 2014 of the democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych. U.S. involvement in the coup is revealed in a leaked telephone conversation between Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at the time.  



he same tyranny being used here in America, to subvert and control. Truth is the first casualty of war.

UKRAINE THE TYRANNY OF POWER 

The history of the US intelligence operations goes back to World War II. Stephen Bandera was released from prison by OSS officers in 1944. Bandera was a Nazi operative whose militia slaughtered Poles, Jews and communist workers on the eastern front. The OSS/CIA recruited Bandera so he could fight the advancing Soviet Union. In all the years since then, the CIA has never had an annual audit of its trillion dollar budget, and of course nothing has changed.
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