Surprise! Media Blackout on America's Illegal Regime Change in Ukraine

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Referenda Expose Illegal Western Regime Change in Ukraine
by Finian Cunningham

Western governments and their media cannot accept the results of the
latest referenda or engage in a rational assessment. Not because the
referenda lack legitimacy. But rather because recognizing the reality
of widespread dissent within Ukrainian society against the Kiev cabal,
which the referenda demonstrably show � that exposes the reality of
criminal Western regime change in Ukraine.

Following the massive popular votes calling for independence in
Eastern Ukraine, Western political leaders engaged in a predictable
contest of who could throw the biggest stones in a glass house.

The referenda held in the Donetsk and Lugansk constituencies recorded
over 90 per cent popular support for the respective self-declared
People�s Republics, with voter turnout over 75 per cent. The referenda
pave the way for secession from Ukraine and for the application to
join the Russian Federation.

Nonetheless, Western political figures and media continued in their
threadbare accusations that Russia was destabilizing Ukraine. The day
after the independence ballots, European Union foreign ministers
enacted further sanctions against Russian individuals and commercial
companies.

The London-based Economist accuses Moscow of waging an �apparent proxy
war against Ukraine�. While the Financial Times reported: �The US and
its leading European allies are preparing wider sanctions on Russia�s
economy� if Moscow is seen to disrupt Ukrainian presidential elections
on May 25�.

The contradiction to that particular Western lie is that Russian
leader Vladimir Putin last week urged the Eastern Ukrainian
populations to delay their referenda until after the country�s
presidential poll later this month. As it turned out the Eastern
Ukrainians went ahead with their ballots on independence as planned.
Yet Western leaders and media persist in their claims that Moscow is
instigating the anti-Kiev protests and fomenting �pro-Russian
separatists� even though it is clear that the referenda were organized
independently from Moscow.

�Congratulations on the birth of the Lugansk Republic,� said Vasily
Nikitin, deputy head of the region�s separatist movement. �We are now
preparing an appeal to the UN and international community asking them
to recognise us.�

Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetz People�s Republic, said his
country now wants to join Russia.

The Governor of the Lugansk People�s Republic, Valery Bolotov, spoke
with clarity about the significance of the vote. �We have chosen our
path of independence from arbitrariness and bloody dictate of the Kiev
clique, fascism and nationalism�.

No wonder the Western governments and media do not want to treat the
referenda with respect or give the people their right to speak out.
What the people of Eastern Ukraine are saying � like in Crimea earlier
in March � is an excruciating blow to the Western propaganda myths
being pumped out on a daily basis in the West.

For its part Moscow said it respected the �voice of the people� and
urged the Western-backed regime in Kiev to enter into dialogue with
the newly ascendant popular assemblies in the East of the country.

But the unelected junta in Kiev immediately pilloried the plebiscites
as �a farce� conducted �by terrorists�. Seriously, how is one supposed
to dialogue with such depraved mentality?

The Russian foreign ministry decried the intransigence expressed by
Kiev as �a criminal refusal to dialogue�.

Of course, where the self�styled government in Kiev gets this
belligerent and irrational attitude from is precisely the fawning
indulgence bestowed on it by Washington and its European allies.

Admittedly, the referenda in Donetz and Lugansk may not have conformed
to normal international standards. True, there were no official
international observers present and there are questions over the
validity of electoral registers. But nevertheless, the votes are
significant expressions of popular opinion. Such expressions should be
respected. As well as voicing a desire for political independence from
the Western-backed regime in Kiev, the massive electoral turnout also
reveals the lack of legitimacy of the Western-backed junta.

Perversely, the most egregious violation of electoral conduct in
Donetz and Lugansk last weekend was the systematic deadly violence
against civilians � including serious allegations of shoot-to-kill
orders � violence that is condoned and supported by the Western
governments. Yet, laughably, all that the West seems to find fault
with in the electoral conduct is negligible by comparison to a reign
of terror that citizens are being subjected to directed by the junta
in Kiev.

The Kiev regime�s obscurantist doublethink and hypocrisy merely
reflects that of its political patrons in the West.

Within 24 hours of the largely ethnic Russian people of Donetz and
Lugansk heaping electoral scorn on the coup plotters in Kiev � who
seized power in a violent putsch against the elected government of
President Viktor Yanukovcyh on February 22 � the regime was afforded
the highest accolades of European Union support.

Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, flew to Kiev
and held a joint press conference with the junta�s acting prime
minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Van Rompuy echoed the deprecatory words
of Yatsenyuk, describing the referenda as �illegal and illegitimate�.
The set piece had the unmistakable air of being contrived at the
highest EU levels as a spoiler to what was a salutary East Ukraine
snub to the Western-backed coup in Kiev.

The irony of Van Rompuy lecturing about democracy is too cringing for
comfort. The former Belgian premier was selected, not elected, for the
top EU post back in 2009. The 67-year-old, described by Brussels
insiders as the �Belgian waffler� because of his boring personal
style, is thus a grey bureaucrat with no popular mandate. And yet he
commands a salary equivalent to more than $500,000 � paid for by
European taxpayers. That makes him the most highly paid political
figure in the world, with his remuneration package even exceeding that
of US President Barack Obama.

Then on next day, Tuesday, Yatsenyuk was hosted in Brussels by the
president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso. Barroso is
another arch bureaucrat with no popular legitimacy, who has overseen
draconian economic austerity cuts imposed on the European public ever
since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, but somehow he
could allocate �1 billion to Yatsenyuk�s regime, as an initial
installment of an overall EU �aid package� worth �11 billion. This all
constitutes illegal infringement of Ukrainian sovereignty conducted by
EU bureaucrats in cahoots with unelected demagogues in Kiev.

Again, like Van Rompuy, Barroso lambasted the referenda held in Donetz
and Lugansk as �illegal� and all the while referred to Yatsenyuk as
the �prime minister� and to the �government of Ukraine� even though
this cabal and its neo-Nazi shock troops occupy government buildings
owing to a violent Western-backed regime change operation, involving
covert mass murder of some 100 protesters and police in Kiev�s Maidan
Square on February 20.

European governments also denounced the votes for independence.
Britain�s Foreign Secretary William Hague, Germany�s Chancellor Angela
Merkel and French President Francois Hollande hurled brickbats with
reckless abandon, excoriating the polls as illegal and asserting that
the only valid election is the forthcoming Ukrainian presidential vote
on May 25. How these European leaders can ascribe an election carried
out amid widespread lethal violence against civilians by the Kiev
junta as �valid� defies credibility.

The White House and US State Department issued statements condemning
the East Ukraine referenda, but somewhat surprisingly President Obama
and his foreign minister, John Kerry, remained low-key on the matter.
Maybe they were trying to not confer any recognition of the votes by
letting their underlings perform the rhetorical hatchet jobs.

The Western indulgence of the coup in Kiev � which has deployed state
forces and neo-Nazi paramilitary death squads against civilian
populations in the East and South of Ukraine since it launched its
�anti-terror� campaign last month � will ensure that violence will
continue to escalate. This is in spite of the so-called Geneva
agreement signed on April 17 between the US, EU, Russia and the Kiev
junta, which explicitly calls on all sides to de-escalate.

Russian President Vladimir Putin�s peace proposal worked out last week
with Swiss President Didier Burklater as chairman of the Organization
for Cooperation and Security in Europe also emphasizes dialogue
between the Ukraine factions.

Following the referenda, the Eastern region has even more democratic
mandate and should be afforded autonomy, or at the very least the
respect of recognition as political representatives. What mandate does
the coup in Kiev have? On what authority � apart from the barrel of a
gun � does the junta act to suppress people who simply oppose its
reactionary self-imposed rule?

Western governments and their media cannot accept the results of the
latest referenda or engage in a rational assessment. Not because the
referenda lack legitimacy. But rather because recognizing the reality
of widespread dissent within Ukrainian society against the Kiev cabal,
which the referenda demonstrably show � that exposes the reality of
criminal Western regime change in Ukraine.


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