Obama : “sell us our mineral rights or you are going to look like Libya, Iraq and Syria, if you keep the rights to yourselves..”

For America, democracy is a state that sells its mineral rights and agricultural land to US investors, otherwise, it imposes sanctions, and that’s what the US wants from Ukraine, professor of economics at the University of Missouri Michael Hudson told RT.
RT: What do you think of the expansion of US sanctions on Russia? Obama said they will have, as he called it, more of a bite. What impact will they have?

Michael Hudson: I do not think they will have much impact. He was 45 minutes late for his speech because his speech writers, I think, were re-reading Orwell’s “1984” to learn just what “double speak” really meant. It is very significant that Obama began by talking about the Malaysian airplane because on Tuesday Antony Cordesman, the famous American international security advisor, reiterated what the CIA has said that “we don’t know who shot down the airplane, we don’t know because the Ukrainian government in Kiev is refusing to turn over the audio tapes of the talk with the airplane, and is blocking the UN crews from going there.”
At the beginning Obama tried to prejudice the issue, and the story really begins not just on Tuesday and not even with Ukraine, but earlier this year with Greece. Greece was subjected to European austerity, it was told to sell off half of its gas rights, but then Russian Gazprom was the largest bidder. This was to be half of the privatization that Greece was going to do. The EU under pressure of the US said “Oh, never mind, you can’t sell your gas rights to Russia.” So basically all of this fight is about oil and gas, and when Obama says “we are not fighting a new Cold War”, that’s a double speak for “yes, we are fighting a new Cold War” and just like American recent words, it is all about oil and gas.
The US is basically saying to Ukraine what it said to other countries “sell us our mineral rights or you are going to look like Libya, Iraq and Syria, if you keep the rights to yourselves, we are going to say you are not a democracy.” A democracy is a country that sells its mineral rights and agricultural land to American investors – that’s American definition of democracy. “If you don’t do that, we’ll impose sanctions on you” http://rt.com 

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