In Ukraine today, the Obama administration is pursuing a dangerous neo cold war policy, overtly supporting a national chauvinist government that seized power in a coup and has used open neo Nazi groups as shock troops in its war against largely ethnic Russian forces in the Eastern Ukraine, drawn from the ranks of  unemployed factory workers whose factories were closed by EU de industrialization policies and who have faced discrimination of all kinds in the post Soviet period.  Robert Parry, a journalist who won the George Polk award when he wrote important exposes of the CIA's dirty war against Nicaragua and the Iran-Contra scandal and in mainstream media(even though these acts led to his departure from Newsweek and mainstream media) has as an independent journalist  pointed to the facts of what is really happening in Ukraine as against the Obam