Punkonomics (@DearBalak)

Oh HELLO!?!

In a previous post and video/audio podcast, we discussed mostly Venezuela and only marginally touched upon the coup/revolution in Ukraine. Here are some collected links:

• Is the U.S. Backing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?Exposing troubling ties in the U.S. to overt Nazi and fascist protesters in Ukraine (Article with lots of images and video links):
  http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/us-backing-neo-nazis-ukraine
• A Coup or a Revolution? Ukraine Seeks Arrest of Ousted President Following Deadly Street Protests (Video/Audio):
  http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/24/a_coup_or_a_revolution_ukraine
• A New Cold War? Ukraine Violence Escalates, Leaked Tape Suggests U.S. Was Plotting Coup (Video/Audio): 
  http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/20/a_new_cold_war_ukraine_violence
• Maps of Language and Politics in a Divided Ukraine (Maps):
  http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/02/world/ukraine-divided/

BONUS: Here’s a propaganda clip by the Ukrainian Right Sector, a significant part and even leaders of the protests that led to toppling the elected government this week*

* if you are familiar with Jewish history you may recognize some of the names of the Right Sector’s inspirational leaders as “legendary” anti-Semites with a distinguished record of Jew-killing from the late middle-ages to the Holocaust. mhmm.