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Who Told Kiev Nazis about CO Beetles? False Narrative on Iran; US Military Spending > All Others Combined
Burning Ukraine’s Protesters Alive. Kiev is using neo-Nazis to set fire to occupied buildings, first in Odessa when pro-regime militants chased dissidents into the Trade Unions Building and then set it on fire. As some 40 or more ethnic Russians were burned alive or died of smoke inhalation, the crowd outside mocked them as red-and-black Colorado potato beetles, with the chant of “Burn, Colorado, burn.” Afterwards, reporters spotted graffiti on the building’s walls containing Swastika-like symbols and honoring the “Galician SS,” the Ukrainian adjunct to the German SS in World War II. Who told them about Colorado potato beetles?
U.S. Pushing False Narrative About Iran & Nuclear Weapons. Historian and investigative journalist Gareth Porter discusses how fabricated documents from Israel are used to show that Iran is a dishonest negotiating partner and wants to produce nukes,
Glenn Greenwald, How I Met Edward Snowden. The email began: “The security of people’s communications is very important to me,” and its stated purpose was to urge me to begin using PGP encryption so that “Cincinnatus” could communicate things in which, he said, he was certain I would be interested. Invented in 1991, PGP stands for “pretty good privacy.” It has been developed into a sophisticated tool to shield email and other forms of online communications from surveillance and hacking.
Your Must-Do Assignment for 2014: Read This Chart and Pass It On. If we don’t inject some logic and comprehension into the debate on military spending, we will continue to damage the well-being of our country and the world. Will you share this chart showing that the US is grossly spending more than all our perceived enemies combined?
Sources: Popular Resistance, Real News Network, TomDispatch, Truthout.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
