Obama’s National Security State Exposed — Edward Snowden Leaks
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nian regime’s proclaiming that Russia has issued a “declaration of war.”
But the real war in Ukraine is over. U.S. imperialism and its subservient EU allies have won, at least for the time being—that is, until the Ukrainian working masses absorb the lessons of imperialist exploita tion and organize independently of their capitalist oppressors everywhere, in the West and in the East. Indeed, the terribly poor Ukrainian people have al ready tasted the effects of Western “aid.” Eighty per cent of all Foreign Direct Investment in that country has been from the West, with little or no tangible re sults for the Ukrainian people and billions in profits, as always, for the corporate investors and financial speculators.
Clearly, Putin is alarmed at the prospect of hav ing a slavishly pro-EU and American regime es tablished on Russia’s border. The Western powers tal tyranny of Great Russian chauvinism, including after the break-up of the former USSR. The very same Stalinist core of large ly Soviet-era bureaucrats-cum-oligarchs that dominated the Ukraine then still pre vails today. They have continued the Stalin ist policy of subjugating the Ukraine, today in the name of capitalism and aimed at the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. This is central to understanding the receptivity to pro-Western propaganda of Ukrainians who have suffered greatly un der both the grotesque caricature of social ism that Stalinism always represented and the present capitalism brought in by these same bureaucrats.
The absence of a mass revolutionary so cialist alternative in Ukraine, as well as in The Meaning of the $3 (plus $1 postage)
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preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) and sent her home to wait, telling her there was nothing it could do. It did not tell her that, given the stage of her pregnancy and her condition, the fetus she was carrying had almost no chance of survival and that prolonging the pregnancy could put her health and possibly even her life at risk. Nor did the hospital tell her that the safest treatment option was to induce labor and terminate the pregnancy. “The following morning, Ms. Means returned to the hospital with painful contractions, bleeding, and an el evated temperature. The hospital monitored her contrac tions and gave her two Tylenol. After Ms. Means’ tem perature went down, the hospital again sent her home. “Later that night, Ms. Means returned to the hospital in extreme distress. Hospital staff again told her there was nothing they could do. While staff began preparing the paperwork to send her home yet again, Ms. Means began to deliver. The hospital then began tending to her miscar riage. She gave birth to a very premature son, who died within hours. Ms. Means’ medical records show acute chorioamnionitis and acute funistis, infections that Ms. Means developed after her water broke.