Sputnik International — Manafort Scandal Shows US Media's Fascination With Non-Existent 'Russian Trace'

Sputnik International backs up Roger Stone's account of the fact surrounding Paul Manafort and Ukraine. It's a propaganda hoax based on the "Putin did it" meme that now dominates US news and politics. 

This hoax is on the same level as Saddam and Iraq's non-existent WMD. Hopefully the US public is now savvy enough to figure this out, but I tend to doubt it. The US elite rushing into a war in Syria involving Russia, Iran and China, with nary a peep heard in the US.

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Manafort Scandal Shows US Media's Fascination With Non-Existent 'Russian Trace'

John Helmer — Secret Record Revealed In Austrian Court – Yanukovich Pressured Into Union With Eu By Nuland Threat To Imprison Firtash

Neocons caught playing dirty.

A Vienna, Austria, court has ruled that Victoria Nuland (right), the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, attempted to pressure the President of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovich (left), into accepting Ukrainian association with the European Union (EU) by threatening Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash with arrest, extradition to the US, and imprisonment on allegations of bribery several years ago in India.

The details were exposed for the first time in public in a proceeding in the Landesgerichtsstrasse Regional Court last Thursday (April 30). Austrian judge Christoph Bauer was presiding on the application by the US Government for the extradition of Firtash. The transcript of the proceeding has not yet been issued publicly, nor the official text of the judge’s ruling from the bench.

Judge Bauer rejected extradition, ruling there had been improper political interference by the US Government in the Firtash case. This is a violation, according to Bauer’s judgement, of Article 4, section 3 of the US-Austria Extradition Treaty of 1998. “Extradition shall not be granted,” the proviso declares, “if the executive authority of the Requested State determines that the request was politically motivated.” Read the treaty in full here.

A New York Times reporter, David Herszenhorn (below, left), tweeted during the proceedings against Firtash (right, centre), and then published a report of what was translated for him from the German....

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Secret Record Revealed In Austrian Court – Yanukovich Pressured Into Union With Eu By Nuland Threat To Imprison Firtash

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