31 January, 2009
You have to admire the French. The ordinary people there know how to stick up for themselves – instead of meekly bowing down and accepting whatever bitter gruel the elite tries to cram down their throats. And they don’t just write a few angry letters (or blog posts!), or send checks to some [...]
I call this the end of Act I because it has sealed the reality of a true multilateral geopolitical arena. Of course, there are still further acts to come. And any faithful playgoer know that Act I merely establishes who are the actors. It is in Act II that we see what really happens. And then there’s Act III, the denouement.
It now appears very certain that Georgian President Saakashvili had long planned a military strike against the Russian Autonomous Regions to seize back the breakaway territory starting with South Ossetia, but executed it very poorly.
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Also tagged Abkhazia, bush, caspian, caucasus, cheney, EU, McCain, Medvedev, NATO, palestine, putin, rumsfeld, united states, washington
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The EU politicians with their unsophisticated vision seem unable even to identify – least to condemn – the actual aggressor. They cannot admit that the mad Tbilisi ruler who has sent Georgia’s NATO-sponsored army to South Ossetia and thus inflicted unprecedented disgrace on his country is in fact their creature.
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The West, led by the US and the UK have inflamed the situation by sending an armada into the Black Sea, promised to re-arm Georgia, broken off any meaningful dialog with Russia, and re-invented the Cold War. And in so doing, backed Russia into a corner by refusing to recognize its legitimate rights.
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Also tagged Abkhazia, Asia, BBC, bush, capitalism, caspian, cheney, cia, cnn, cold war, communism, democracy, elections, EU, GE, georgia, germany, imperialism, israel, left, McCain, media, NATO, oil, ossetia, propaganda, putin, right, Saakashvili, south ossetia, soviet union, the state, The Times, Tito, uk, Ukraine, un, united states, war, war on terror, washington, WWII
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Source: Moon of Alabama
Isn’t it funny how some ‘western’ politician[s] still bluster about the signed ceasefire agreement over Georgia and Russian peacekeepers in Georgia. But they do this, of course, with a purpose. They want to change the accepted and signed ceasefire agreement.
To understand what is happening here, one has to go back to the [...]
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The Russified South Ossetia/Abkhazia vs. Georgia crisis has brought home an uncomfortable lesson for the US/NATO and Western powers outraged at Russia’s quick and powerful response to the invasion of South Ossetia by NATO-led mercenaries and the ‘so-called independent Georgian Army’ – there is no big stick they can reach for to punish Moscow.
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For the first time since the collapse of the USSR, Russia went on the offensive. Its victory accomplished in a few hours rewrote the global balance of power. Yet, the American public knows little or nothing of these earth-shaking events.
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Analogies of the Ossetia fiasco and its fallout with past events are coming thick and fast. Condoleezza Rice — bless her heart — says, “This is no longer 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia.” James Townsend, a former Pentagon official now with the Atlantic Council, compared the situation to Hungary in 1956.
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South Ossetian officials say more than 2,000 of their civilians were killed in the attack. The Russian envoy in South Ossetia, Dmitry Medoyev, said the scene in Tskhinvali was horrific. ‘The town looks like Stalingrad during WW2, with fallen trees, power lines, burnt Georgian tanks all over the streets.
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Also tagged ANC, atrocities, cia, EU, food, GE, georgia, independent, media, mercenaries, MIT, NATO, New York, oil, ossetia, poland, refugees, right, Saakashvili, south ossetia, stalin, uk, Ukraine, un, usa, war, water
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TMPress International Newswire
TMPress ™ – United News & Press Features
(TMPress International – New York – August 13, 2008) – US tactics on Monday this week seem to indicate that a rumor was set to spread by Internet and Western media outlets that intervening Russian forces entering mainly-Russian South Ossetia may or may not have [...]
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IT’S UNDENIABLE THAT THE AMERICAN SOCIAL MODEL (the vaunted “American Way of Life”) is a paradox in the world. All you have to do is look around at other nations and the difference is clear as the Rome sky in July. Even today at the nadir of its profound social crisis because of its flagrant, outright failure, America continues unabashedly to hammer away at its people how fortunate they are, while simultaneously proposing itself to the world as the paradigm, the quintessence, the very epitome of western civilization.
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The contradictions in Europe’s economies are becoming stark. In Britain, the government has resorted to its highest level of borrowing since the public finance records first began in 1946. It borrowed $49 billion in the last three months, an annual rate of $200 billion, which is close to 10 percent of GDP.
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Also tagged ANC, capitalism, china, cia, constitution, crisis, debt, development, economy, EU, finance, food, GE, germany, inflation, media, MIT, MoD, oil, progressive, un, united states, war
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Information Clearing House
[The following essay by Petras is sure to kick off a storm of debate on the Left about the FARC in Colombia following the release of the hostages and of course what Fidel has to say on the subject. The Ed]
08/07/08 ‘ICH’ — – I have been a supporter of the Cuban Revolution [...]
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MEDIA ALERT: SELLING THE FIREBALL – GEORGE BUSH AND IRAN June 25, 2008
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
When George Bush arrived in Britain last week as part of his “farewell tour”, the real reasons for the visit were buried well out of sight. The tour was not, as the Guardian [...]
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Source: Reporters Without Frontiers against Hugo Chávez
AUTHOR: Salim LAMRANI
Translated by Iris Buehler. Revised by James Hollander
Taking advantage of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’ state visit to France on November 19 and 20, 2007, Reporters Without Frontiers (RSF) published a letter addressed to French president Nicolas Sarkozy in which they denounce [...]
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