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Flashpoint in Ukraine provides insight into today's gravest geopolitical crisis since WW II. Possible global war looms. Viewed from the perspective of Western mainstream media, the crisis arose due to pro-democracy activists overturning a brutal dictatorship, which led swiftly to Russian incursion into Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. Viewed from the perspective of the 20 highly-credentialed analysts who have contributed to this anthology, it’s an entirely different story. Obama's pivot is global, in pursuit of unchallenged worldwide dominance, leading to multiple direct and proxy wars. Neocon-dominated Washington seeks to marginalize its Russian and Chinese rivals, surrounding both countries with US bases. Ukraine is in the eye of the storm, the crown jewel of NATO eastward expansion, the last step in Washington's drive to incorporate all former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact countries into NATO and install missile defense sites on Russia’s very border.To that end, the US has poured some $5 billion into “pro-democracy” NGOs which, counter to intention or not, were soon swept aside by neo-Nazi groups, and leading to the installation as President of former banker, Arseniy Yatseniuk, advance leaked as the unelected pick of Victoria Nuland, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.While, as it is argued here, Russia did not invade Crimea and in fact has taken an extremely measured response with primary emphasis on diplomacy and ending the crisis, NATO, European and US spokespersons and media are seeking to dramatize and indeed resurrect a “Russian threat”. Eastern resistance forestalls Obama's imperial project. The West appears willing to pursue it, at the risk not just of Ukrainian civil war and potential East/West confrontation but of global nuclear war.The flashpoint in Ukraine risks the unthinkable.This book explains what everyone needs to know, to get the world off the bandwagon to war.
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Stephen Lendman is a writer and broadcaster on The Progressive Radio Network. His work is exceedingly widely distributed online, with his articles carried on numerous listservs and websites such as Information Clearing House, Countercurrents, Rense,AltNews, Uruknet, Global Research, Counterpunch, and more. Lendman was awarded the Mexican Press Club's International Investigatory Journalism Award in 2011. Chinese editions of his two books, How Wall Street Fleeces America and Banker Occupation have now been released.

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The Washington-sponsored coup in Kiev is a reckless act. Such irresponsibility on the part of the US government should alarm the entire world.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US government has been raising the strategic threat that Washington poses to Russia. The US government violated its agreement not to take NATO into Eastern Europe. The US government withdrew from the ABM treaty.

The US government arranged with Poland to place US anti-ballistic missile bases on Russia's border. The US changed its war doctrine to permit pre-emptive nuclear attack. The US government financed "color revolutions" in Georgia and Ukraine, former constituent parts of both Russia and the Soviet Union.

The US government ignored Russia and attacked and dismembered Serbia. The US government trained and equipped the Georgian military and encouraged Georgia to attack the Russian peacekeeping force in South Ossetia. And now Washington has overthrown the democratically elected government of Ukraine and installed a puppet government.

Washington's Kiev coup is a direct strategic threat to Russia. Ukraine was long part of Russia and the Soviet Union. Indeed, southern and eastern parts of Ukraine are former territories of Russia that Soviet governments added to Ukraine for various reasons.

Crimea, overwhelmingly Russian, was stuck into Ukraine in 1954 by Khrushchev. Khrushchev did not include Sevastopol, the site of Russia's Black Sea fleet, when he transferred Crimea to Ukraine. Sevastopol was transferred to Ukraine by US pressure when the Soviet Union broke apart and Ukraine emerged as an independent country.

In exchange, Russia was given a lease on the naval base until 2042. The lease permits 25,000 troops and specified numbers of military aircraft, tanks, and artillery in Crimea. The 16,000 Russian troops that the White House and presstitute media intentionally misreported as an invasion force were already present in Crimea under terms of the lease agreement.

Washington either overlooked or worked with the Russophobic ultra-nationalist groups in western Ukraine who sport Nazi emblems and speak of killing Russians and Jews.

Washington used its funded NGOs ($5 billion according to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland at the National Press Club in December 2013) to begin street protests when the elected Ukrainian government turned down the offer to join the European Union.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarity Press, Inc. (May 12, 2014)
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0986073148
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Tommy b
5.0 out of 5 stars Much needed antidote to lack of coverage and understanding of what is really happening
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2015
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Very current. Why is the US demonizing Russia? It seems there is a huge push for a very serious war, with brutal consequences. I was hoping in my twilight years to enjoy some peace and love, but it seems that there are people in the West who are "jones-ing" hard for a full blown one world thing, which means that any nation that does not obey will be messed with. This is not what I grew up thinking, when I put my hand on my heart and pledged allegiance to the flag...

Stephen Lendman writes in a style that is concise and wastes no words. Every sentence it seems is packed with a singular thought that describes it as he sees it. Which makes for a directly easy read. The US instigated or facilitated the coup in 2014, and now Ukraine is a flashpoint. My heart goes out to the people who suffer under this war zone as a result. The plan of the West is to surround Russia on all sides, militarily. And blame Russia for defending itself. Isn't that an old game? Demonize Putin. Putin bad. Rah Rah.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020
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Was the only book on the 'other side' of the coup. I remember watching the fat guy at the Kiev 'protest' getting hit with a blast from the water canon. Then it turned ugly and there's very little of the truth left on YouTube. I noticed dozens of books about Ukraine are in the pipeline to be released in 2021. With talkshow hosts blurring the line between what's Russian and what's Ukrainian I wouldn't trust what they'll write. Probably 0'Reilly has a Killing Ukraine book, 0bama's jealousy of Putin is continuing with Trump and Biden. And of course we've been taught to mistrust elections in communist countries. So nobody drove a duly elected Government out of Ukraine.
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X. Z.
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best book on current Ukrainian crisis
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2014
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This is the best book on current Ukrainian crisis. It tells everything that mainstream media tries to hide or ignore. It highlights important points that has been under reported or not reported by MSM: role of nationalist/fascist groups and US support for them. The book also clarifies the role of economics, and geopolitics in US stakes as it orchestrated the crisis through propaganda and Putin/Kremlin- bashing in Washington supported mainstream American media.
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guy blaske
5.0 out of 5 stars Some honesty.
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015
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An in depth review of what has happened and continues to take place in Ukraine written by a group of very knowledgeable and highly educated individuals. If you don't understand what's going on over there and how it got to this point after reading this book, I don't know what to tell ya.
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1.0 out of 5 stars worthless
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2015
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worthless....got bored on page 2
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Does a good job explaining what's happening beyond the mass media news outlets.
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Drew Hunkins
5.0 out of 5 stars Putting a BRIC in its place
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2014
Without a doubt this is the most important book of 2014, especially now that the Western capitalist bloc has essentially implemented an extremely dangerous possible First Strike strategy against Russia. With some top flight talent, Petras, Roberts, Parenti, et al., contributing crucial and astonishingly informative and trenchant essays, Flashpoint in Ukraine is another outstanding offering by Clarity Press.

It's an irresponsible understatement to label this a must-read. With the neo-fascists ensconced in Kiev intent on violently crushing the activist citizens of eastern Ukraine and with the new billionaire candy magnate's vituperative denunciations of virtually every proposal or protest emanating from the east, it's clear NATO, Washington imperial planners and the IMF are using almost every possible means to encircle, harass and destabilize Russia, focusing now on its western flank. Over the past several years Putin and Russia have been striking out on their own independent course free of the dictates of certain Western investors, this is their unforgivable sin. Unlike how Yeltsin the drunkypoo threw the entire nation open to be robbed, pillaged and exploited, Putin's regime is steering Russia toward more independence and less meddling by foreign capital.

As some of the brilliant, cosmopolitan thinkers and intellectuals showcased in Flashpoint in Ukraine explain, this Western-Washington aggression towards Russia, starting with the Nuland planned putsch it inspired in Kiev is all about capitalist imperial aggrandizement with NATO expansion and IMF/EU hegemony at the forefront.

Flashpoint in Ukraine points out that Washington guaranteed the naive nitwit Gorbachev that NATO expansion would forever go easy and never infringe on Russia's territorial integrity. The book expounds on the specifics of how and why this guarantee quickly turned into a cruel manipulation that now has the world witnessing NATO troop buildups in Poland and the Baltic states. And of course these same powers just ousted a President of Ukraine who had spurned an IMF austerity program. Obviously Russia has no historical reason whatsoever to be even a tiny bit concerned about its western borders and neighbors, it has absolutely no historical reason for concern whatsoever, absolutely none. Throughout all of history the one constant was that Russia could always be rest assured that its western border neighbors would be nothing but safe, peaceful and secure. Why of course.

This current "pivot to Asia" is dangerous business, it's a strategic move by the western capitalists to steer international investment toward Wall Street and the London market and to isolate two of the emerging BRICs. China and Russia are to be subdued and kept in dependent subservient roles. Moreover, as some of the very astute writers in Flashpoint in Ukraine document, the fact that Russia is an ally of Assad and has always been steadfast in vetoing any sort of military action by the United States and the Zionist power configuration against Syria and Iran is yet another reason the Western instigated and financed coup in Kiev was orchestrated.

Putin's been vilified and demonized by the silly and politically brain dead Pussy Riot and the corporate media mouthpieces throughout much of the world, he's enemy number one, not the Washington war planners and western intelligence agencies that have viciously attacked a handful of nations over the past 12 years, it's they who are largely viewed as benign actors, it's Putin who's to be pilloried.

As a debater it's always been acknowledged that resorting to the nuclear war argument as the ultimate consequence is a cheap and shrill ploy that plays on exaggeration and fear mongering. However, in this particular case there's nothing melodramatic about citing possible nuclear war as a horrifying possibility. Lendman's put together an expansive yet cogent work that explains all one needs to know about the neo-Nazi takeover of Kiev and the dangerous destabilization campaign aimed at a Moscow that refuses to kowtow to the prerogatives of Western power.
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Zalco
5.0 out of 5 stars un antidote contre la désinformation
Reviewed in France on July 8, 2014
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Ce livre est absolument salutaire en des temps de désinformation massive. Lorsque l'on entend les médias mainstream déclarer à l'unisson qu'il n'y a pas de nazis en Ukraine, alors que les images quotidiennes qui nous arrivent par you tube prouvent le contraire, lorsque le système déclare que la guerre violente menée contre la population en révolte de l'Ukraine orientale est une guerre contre des "terroristes"; ce par quoi il faut comprendre qu'une population révoltée contre un pouvoir illégitime et criminel est dorénavant étiquetée comme "terroriste" et s'expose à des mesures draconiennes de l'Otan et de ses "alliés", lorqu'un régime mis en place par le renversement d'un gouvernment élu avec l'appui financier de puissances extérieures est qualifié de seul légitime, au moment même ou il écrase toute opposition interne par la terreur et la violence, on a l'impression d'avoir atteint le fond de la folie. Mais c'est une folie qui a une logique et un système. Car ce dont il s'agit, comme toujours dans ces cas là c'est de démoniser la victime (en l'occurence les russophones d'Ukraine ainsi que la Russie qui les soutient) et de justifier à ce titre un ensemble de mesure qui conforteront la domination occidentale, voire viseront à détruire et assujetir la Russie, perçue comme un ennemi héréditaire. Mais comme le démontrent les auteurs de cet ouvrage, cette logique criminelle, servant des buts expansionistes, nous conduit droit à une guerre mondiale qui signifierait l'extinction de l'espèce humaine. Car parler de troisière guerre mondiale, équivaut à parler de "guerre ultime". La Russie n'est pas une quelconque puissance régionale, mais un pays qui aligne une puissance de feu (nucléaire) supérieure à celle des Etats-Unis et de leurs alliés. Tenter de légitimer un conflit avec la Russie par des racourcis historiques stupides du genre Poutine = Hitler, est aussi absurde que criminel et pose la question de savoir si nous sommes gouvernés en Occident par des gens vraiment sains d'esprit. Il semblerait que les milieux d'affaire en Europe et aux Etats-Unis se posent la même question, incapables qu'ils sont d'arrêter une logique qui leur fait perdre un marché de la taille de la Russie.
Au moment où la population russophone du Donbass est exterminée et privée de ses droits élémentaires (avant tout le droit à la langue russe), il est primordial pour tout lecteur anglophone de lire et relire cet ouvrage.
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