Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The Minsk Peace Deal: Farce Or Sellout?

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, February 13, 2015

The Minsk Peace Deal: Farce Or Sellout?

Click here to access article by Paul Craig Roberts from his blog.

There are plenty of reasons to cast doubt on the latest Minsk peace agreement. Roberts lists many of the most obvious. It seems that whenever the Empire's installed government in Ukraine loses on the battlefield, they readily make these agreements to provide more time for the arrival of US military aid.

I think that Bernhard is spot-on in this article entitled "Minsk 2.0 Is Just The Pause Button".

And the Saker is even more cynical in regard to this treaty in an article entitled "The useless agreement which everybody wanted". In the article he makes reference to Debaltsevo, an area where an estimated 5000 Kiev troops are surrounded by Novorussians.

Meanwhile it appears that the Kiev regime does not have much support of its own people to fight in the regime's war.