EU unblocks ‘unprecedented levels’ of cash to secure gas for Ukraine on the EurActiv news site. (Hat tip to Bill Harvey)
Ukraine Dips Into Dwindling Reserves to Pay Gazprom by Kenneth Rapoza for Forbes.
The International Monetary Fund will lend Ukraine the money needed to buy gas from Russia’s Gazprom, which will continue to sell gas to Ukraine at a subsidized rate. This means Ukrainians, but European Union members who depend on Russian gas, will get safely through the winter.
It also means Ukraine will be in hock to the IMF, which will have to impose austerity on the Ukrainian people and sell off national assets, such as agricultural land, to pay back the IMF loan. It is a win-win deal for everyone except the unfortunate Ukrainian people.
Dr. Adadevoh
Doctor Stella Adadevoh Isolated Ebola Case, Stopped Nigaria Outbreak by Jonathan Cohn for The New Republic.
Nigeria is free of new Ebola outbreaks, and has been for more than six weeks. This is an important accomplishment. It would not have been the case except for a brave Nigerian physician, Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, who acted promptly to isolate an Ebola carrier and lost her own life to infection.
North Korea’s Gulags: a horror “without any parallel in the contemporary world” by Max Fisher for Vox.
The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read by Mark Ames for Pando Daily.
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Dr. Stella Adadevoh, Ebola, Gazprom, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Nigeria, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine
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