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Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange joins us to discuss the devastation of Ukraine that has been wrought by decades of corruption, colour revolution, debt slavery and war. We talk about how Ukraine arrived at this spot and the possible way forward.
I haven’t really fleshed this out completely, but I will throw it out just for the hell of it. We DO NOT need a revolution, we need an evolution.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revolution
When most people think of revolution, they consider the first definition listed there, “an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.”
And yet, how long after the revolution do conditions fall right back into the way they were before? In Ukraine? Arab Spring Egypt? Soviet Russia? Hell even in the USA, how long after the American Revolution before conditions reverted? 200+ years? I think most here can see that the US is slowly creeping toward something authoritarian, if we aren’t already there (and that is being generous and skipping over a great deal of the country’s early history.)
Which is why I am beginning to feel that revolutions bear out more closely to the fourth definition, “a procedure or course, as if in a circuit, back to a starting point.” Which simply means that no matter where the course takes you, when the revolution is complete, you wind up right back where you started.
edit: and of course I don’t mean an evolution in the darwinist/eugenics sense. Only as a growth or development out of whatever this system, instinct, or tendency that keeps us making the same mistakes over and over again.
At least it seems at a standstill, at least for us,the complete spectator like at a hockey game not for the regular eastern ukrainian who wanted nothing of this.
Couldn’t be as easy as with Crimea where it was basically Russia and they had naval bases there. Like the real reason Syria wasn’t bombed is the Russian docking rights in Syria. I’m afraid to say that Russia (which is not a dictatorship) is the only lever pushing against neo-imperalism. Let them face defeat like everyone who knocked at Russia’s door, and of course we know the US only attacks countries without nukes…
OffGuardian.org is providing a lot of coverage of the Kolomoisky debacle – including some translations of Russian language sources
Ukraine latest: arrests, large-scale security operation launched:
http://offguardian.org/2015/03/25/ukraine-latest-arrests-large-scale-security-operation-launched/
ColonelCassad: Kolomoisky is finished:
http://offguardian.org/2015/03/25/colonelcassad-kolomoiskys-over/
Kolomoisky taped threatening Naftogaz:
http://offguardian.org/2015/03/25/kolomoisky-taped-threatening-naftogaz/
The following lecture from Feb 2015 by Steve Cohen is a useful summation of the current situation in Ukraine and how it developed – the lecture lasts 60 mins with 30 mins of Q&A – recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqGgGenH5dk
Cohen appears every week on the John Batchelor podcast to discuss the Ukraine crisis. I find this a useful way of keeping track of events.
Latest interview is here
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts/tues-4715-hr-2-jbs-stephen-f-cohen-nyu-princeton
Previous interviews appear in the archive here
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts