Russia
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SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH GERHARD SCHRÖDER
The end of unipolar America is not just evident in the rise of a Democratic presidential candidate, Obama, but also in the policies of rationally thinking Republicans. If you read the nonpartisan Baker-Hamilton report on the future of Iraq, you will find it difficult not to recognize that the next US president will hardly have… Continue reading
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Russian South Ossetians Continue to Bury Thousands Killed, as Russia Stands Down … Georgia Celebrates With Eastern European Allies … McCain and Obama the Same as the `New Cold War' Begins …
The political leaders of the New West, the UK, Poland, the Ukraine and the Baltic States may have all showed up in Tbilisi, Georgia last week to celebrate Georgia’s great military blunder under Misha Saakashvili and ‘so-called independence to wage war’ with invasion of the Russified Autonomous Republic of South Ossetia, but few of them… Continue reading
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US Gambles with Russia: Stoking a Global War? By Stephen Lendman
One nation above others is an obstacle – Russia. It’s powerful and can’t be intimidated like most others. It’s also dominant where Washington wants control – the Eurasian vastness with its huge oil, gas and other resources. For years, American sought dominance over it. Saw an opening when the Soviet Union dissolved. And one way… Continue reading
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BEAT THE DEAD HORSE Or PUTIN’S REVENGE By Gaither Stewart
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. Continue reading
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Pop ‘til We Drop? by JOHN FEFFER
We are currently at 6.6 billion and expected to approach 9 billion some time before 2050. Mother Earth is mad as hell and isn’t going to take us anymore. We’ve heard this all before. Continue reading
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This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression By Seumas Milne
The outcome of six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has triggered an outpouring of the most nauseating hypocrisy from western politicians and their captive media. As talking heads thundered against Russian imperialism and brutal disproportionality, US vice-president Dick Cheney, faithfully echoed by Gordon Brown and David Miliband, declared that “Russian aggression must not… Continue reading
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Meeting on GEORGIA, NATO & THE SPREAD OF WAR
Stop the War Coalition T: 020 7278 6694 www.stopwar.org.uk Friends Meeting House (Small Hall) 6.30 pm, Thursday 14 August, 2008 with MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus KATE HUDSON, Chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament BORIS KAGARLITSKI, former director Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow and author of, ‘Empire of… Continue reading
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Meeting on GEORGIA, NATO & THE SPREAD OF WAR
Stop the War Coalition T: 020 7278 6694 www.stopwar.org.uk Friends Meeting House (Small Hall) 6.30 pm, Thursday 14 August, 2008 with MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus KATE HUDSON, Chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament BORIS KAGARLITSKI, former director Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow and author of, ‘Empire of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: INVASION – A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE – PART 2 By Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 22, 2007 Blaming ‘External Interference’ A striking feature of Soviet media performance on Afghanistan was its focus on “external interference” – primarily US in origin – and the role of this interference in fuelling the war. In 1988, Pravda reported that Afghan president… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 