The EU’s financial rule by banker mechanisms has already been almost as great a failure as the oligarch-marketization of Russia after 1990. It is a complex system of one-way powers of life deprivation and social ruin which I define in The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure (1999, 2013). Elected governments lose all control to the new absolute and overriding imperative of European rule – to grow and multiply private transnational money sequences. In accord with the ruling formulae, the Greek economy has been slashed by 25 per cent, unemployment is an official 28 per cent excluding the unpaid, the public health system is dismantled to pay foreign banks, wages are cut by a quarter, the public sector is sacked and privatized, and jobless youth rises to 60 per cent even with mass emigration. These outcomes now await Ukraine.

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The nationwide coalition of pro-democracy parties and groups holds new revolutionary demonstrations Sunday against Egypt‘s public prosecutor, who never acts against the country‘s putschists and thieves: the coup commanders and collaborators.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (The Commission) has requested that the Egyptian Interim Authority immediately suspends the penalties of 529 people who were sentenced to death following a court hearing in Minya, Egypt on 22nd March.

Another mass sentences farce without due process condemns to death Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Badie along with 682 other Egyptians perceived as dissidents by coup authorities.

Der britische Außenminister William Hague wird nächste Woche nach eigenen Angaben die Ukraine, Moldawien und Georgien besuchen.

„Ich plane, in der kommenden Woche unter anderem auch in diese Länder zu reisen“, sagte Hague am Montag in London.

Die jüngste Entwicklung in der südukrainischen Stadt Cherson zeugt nach Ansicht des russischen Außenamtes davon, dass die Wahlkampagne in der Ukraine entgegen den Beteuerungen Kiews alles andere als „friedlichen Charakter“ hat.

Eben deshalb kann Jazenjuk nicht länger als verlässlicher Partner von Obama angesehen werden. Es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass Kiew den Konflikt mit dem Osten des Landes absichtlich schürt, um die USA und Europa zu aktiveren militärischen Aktionen zu bewegen.

“The goal is not to go after Mr. Putin personally; the goal is to change his calculus, to encourage him to walk the walk, not just talk the talk“ on diplomacy to resolve the crisis, Obama said in Manila during a trip to Asia.

Tory Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has told top army brass that it‘s not worth getting involved in Ukraine even if Moscow invades

Der ukrainische Übergangspräsident Alexander Turtschinow hat das Innenministerium und den Geheimdienst SBU mit Ermittlungen zu dem Attentat auf Kernes beauftragt.

At about 11:30 am (8:30 GMT) local time Kernes was taken to the local hospital. The City Hall‘s website says that doctors are fighting to save his life.

“They shot him in the back from the forest,” Kernes’s friend Yury Sapronov told Vesti Ukrainy news outlet. “The injury is serious. His lung is pierced and his liver pierced all the way through.”

Peaceful rallies in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov turned violent as a crowd of several thousand football ultras attacked a crowd of some 300 anti-government protesters

Members and supporters of the Svoboda party joined a march in Lvov on Sunday in commemoration of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, initially formed from Ukrainian volunteer fighters.

The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Germany initiated the conversation.

There is growing pressure on Russian journalists in Ukraine, as there have been numerous reports of detentions, deportations, threats and physical violence. It‘s gotten so bad that major TV networks are now urging international organisations to step in.

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Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad submitted on Monday a presidential candidacy application to the Supreme Constitutional Court.

Speaker of the People‘s Assembly, Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, announced that the Assembly received a notification from the Supreme Constitutional Court stating that Mr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad, born in Damascus in 1965 and his mother‘s name is Anisa Makhlouf, submitted an application on April 28th, 2014 for presidential candidacy and he also submitted the required documents according to article 21st of the Supreme Constitutional Court‘s law.

(24.04.) The OPCW-UN Joint Mission confirms delivery of a further shipment of chemical weapons material. Today’s operation brings the total of chemical material removed and destroyed in country to 92.5%.

„I welcome the significant progress of the last three weeks, and I strongly encourage the Syrian authorities to conclude the removal operations as part of their efforts to achieve the 30 June 2014 deadline. Particular thanks goes to Member States for their steadfast support,“ said OPCW-UN Joint Mission Special Coordinator Sigrid Kaag.

In addition to the removal operations, the Syrian authorities have destroyed buildings, equipment and empty mustard gas containers, and decontaminated other containers in a number of chemical weapons storage and production sites. A majority of these sites are now closed.

The PLO‘s central council adopted a plan on Sunday to pursue the attempt to join 60 United Nations bodies and international agreements, according to a statement from the governing body of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.