{"id":90847,"date":"2014-02-18T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=90847"},"modified":"2014-02-24T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:12:17","slug":"us-and-eu-are-paying-ukrainian-rioters-and-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=90847","title":{"rendered":"US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser \/> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul Craig Roberts &#8212; Activist Post Feb 17, 2014<\/h1>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars. Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which to subvert Ukraine.<\/h5>\n<div id=\"attachment_88814\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Protesters-in-front-of-burning-police-bus-in-central-Kiev-Sunday-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88814\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88814\" title=\"Protesters in front of burning police bus in central Kiev Sunday night\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Protesters-in-front-of-burning-police-bus-in-central-Kiev-Sunday-night-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Protesters-in-front-of-burning-police-bus-in-central-Kiev-Sunday-night-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Protesters-in-front-of-burning-police-bus-in-central-Kiev-Sunday-night.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters in front of burning police bus in central Kiev. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>One reader wrote: \u201cMy wife, who is of Ukrainian nationality, has weekly contact to her parents and friends in Zhytomyr [NW Ukraine]. According to them, most protesters get an average payment of 200-300 grivna, corresponding to about 15-25 euro. As I additionally heard, one of the most active agencies and \u2018payment outlets\u2019 on EU side is the German \u2018Konrad Adenauer Stiftung\u2019, being closely connected to the CDU, i.e. Mrs. Merkel\u2019s party.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>As I reported on February 12, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2014\/02\/12\/washington-orchestrated-protests-destabilizing-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Washington Orchestrated Protests Are Destabilizing Ukraine<\/span>,\u201d<\/a> Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, a rabid Russophobe and neoconservative warmonger, told the National Press Club last December that the US has \u201cinvested\u201d $5 billion in organizing a network to achieve US goals in Ukraine in order to give \u201cUkraine the future it deserves.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Nuland is the Obama regime official who was caught red-handed naming the members of the Ukrainian government Washington intends to impose on the Ukrainian people once the paid protesters have unseated the current elected and independent government. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article37599.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Sourc<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e<\/span><\/a>)<\/h5>\n<h5>What Nuland means by Ukraine\u2019s future under EU overlordship is for Ukraine to be looted like Latvia and Greece and to be used by Washington as a staging ground for US missile bases against Russia.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">From the responses I received to my request for confirmations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2014\/02\/14\/russia-attack-paul-craig-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">information sent to me from<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Moldova<\/span><\/a>, there is enough evidence that Washington fomented the violent riots for western newspapers and TV channels to investigate. But they haven\u2019t. As we know, the presstitutes are enablers of Washington\u2019s crimes and duplicities. However, the US media <em>has<\/em> reported that the Ukrainian government is paying Ukrainians to rally in favor of the government.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2014\/02\/16\/ukraine-government-protests\/5435315\/\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Source<\/span>)<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5>As Karl Marx wrote, money turns everything into a commodity that is bought and sold. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if some protesters are working both sides of the street.<\/h5>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<div id=\"attachment_86549\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ukraine-protests-mccain-murphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86549\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86549\" title=\"Senators Mccain and Murphy address protesters in Kiev. Click to enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ukraine-protests-mccain-murphy-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> John McCain can be seen here speaking at a rally organized largely by the Neo-Nazi Svoboda movement in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. To John McCain\u2019s right is neo-Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok and to his left is US Senator Chris Murphy (D) Connecticut. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Of course, not all of the protesters are paid. There are plenty of gullible dupes in the streets who think they are protesting Ukraine government corruption. I have heard from several. There is little doubt that the Ukraine government is corrupt. What government isn\u2019t? Government corruption is universal, but it is easy to go from the frying pan into the fire. Ukrainian protesters seem to think that they can escape corruption by joining the EU. Obviously, these gullible dupes are unfamiliar with the report on EU corruption issued February 3 by the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs. The report says that a business-political nexus of corruption affects all 28 EU member countries and costs the EU economies $162.2 billion per annum.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2014\/02\/eu-report-corruption-widespread-bloc-20142313322401478.html\" target=\"_blank\"> (<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Source<\/span>)<\/a> Clearly, Ukrainians will not escape corruption by joining the EU. Indeed, the corruption will be worse.<\/h5>\n<h5>I have no objection to Ukrainians protesting government corruption. Indeed, such gullible people could benefit from the lesson they would learn once their country is in the hands of corrupt Brussels and Washington. What I object to is the lack of awareness on the part of the protesters that by permitting themselves to be manipulated by Washington, they are pushing the world toward a dangerous war. I would be surprised if Russia is content to have US military and missile bases in Ukraine.<\/h5>\n<h5>It was fools like Nuland playing the great game that gave us World War I. World War III would be the last war. Washington\u2019s drive to exploit every opportunity to establish its hegemony over the world is driving us all to nuclear war. Like Nuland, a significant percentage of the population of western Ukraine are Russophobes. I know the case for Ukrainian dislike of Russia, but Ukrainian emotions fueled with Washington\u2019s money should not direct the course of history. No historians will be left to document how gullible and witless Ukrainians set the world up for destruction.<\/h5>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\" http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2014\/02\/us-and-eu-are-paying-ukrainian-rioters.html#bPqusuc4lqOwlO61.03\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em>This article first appeared at Paul Craig Roberts&#8217; website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Institute For Political <\/span><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Economy<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which to subvert Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90847"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91390,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90847\/revisions\/91390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}