Euro Maidan 2014: The Ruptured Rebellion of Incoherent Revolution [View all]

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http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/22515-euro-maidan-2014-the-ruptured-rebellion-of-incoherent-revolution

This is a great narrative from an America author, Derek Monroe, from Illinois. He was in Ukraine. He presents the complicated, multi-faceted positions of those who have taken power and the money behind them. It is a companion piece to the video I have posted in video and multi-media presented on TRNN with interview by Paul. It's excellent too. At the end of the article is a video by the BBC. I hope you have time to watch the TRNN video and read the article which I regard as the best coverage I have come across at this time from Kiev.

Arriving in the capital city of Ukraine, Kiev in the midst of the 10th week of protesters' revolt against Yanukovich government was a very surreal experience. While the center of the independence square (Maidan) has been renamed as EuroMaidan and completely built up with structures of all sorts, life outside of 1.5 square mile perimeter continued as usual. Supermarkets were full; the wealthy were shopping, sipping overpriced lattes in coffee shops and cruising up and down the city's premiere shopping district. Some common people were lining up at the side of the German Embassy on Chmelnitskogo street near a huge banner on the embassy building that proclaimed, "we are stronger together." Although it creates a very wry image of a country that looks like a person carrying another on the stretcher, having this degree of optimism on the wall while requiring a Euro 35 fee (a 10th of regular salary in Kiev) to enter its doorstep was, to say the least, strange. But it was a reality that had its own parameters of judgment and taste. Generally things were looking up in Kiev as the local and international elite was finally looking forward to the nearly finished Hilton opening its doors soon. At least the American universe is widening beyond McDonald's, the local language school with imported teachers, Mormon missionaries and the Hyatt where Sen. McCain allegedly stayed when he wanted to work his charm at the Maidan. To be fair to the senator with at least 8 houses, he would be considered poor by the standards of oligarchs bankrolling the revolution two blocks away.

more........lots more!

edit to add this teaser:

My contact continued: "You see, it is amazing how far your American dollar can go in places that your people cannot even find on the map. And when it gets dark in the tunnel of BS, you might want to ask your friends at National Endowment for Democracy, USAID or even the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from Germany to lend you a flashlight. Just make they have batteries in them," the contact uttered his last words and disappeared into a dark night of Kiev's suburban wasteland.