Georgia
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Andrei ARESHEV: First Anniversary of 'Five Day War' in South Ossetia
Tensions were running high in the regions bordering Georgia’s breakaway republic of South Ossetia ahead of the first anniversary of the last year’s ‘five day war’. Soon after the checkpoints near the capital of Tskhinval were caught under fire, Russia’s Defence Ministry promised to take adequate measures to protect the citizens of the de facto… Continue reading
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Aleksander B. KRYLOV: Five-day war: the lessons that Russia again fails to learn
Following the break-up of the USSR and the armed conflicts of the early 1990s the situation in the South Caucasus followed the path that proved unfavourable to Russia. The United States and its allies started gaining a footing in the region and pursued a policy of gradually ousting Russia from the South and, in the… Continue reading
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The End of Chimerica? By M K Bhadrakumar
It all began with United States Vice President Joseph Biden choosing a tour of Ukraine and Georgia on July 20-23 to rebuke the Kremlin publicly for its “19th-century notions of spheres of influence”. Clearly, Biden’s jaunt was choreographed as a forceful demonstration of the Barack Obama administration’s resolve to keep up the US’s strategic engagement… Continue reading
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The Biden and Clinton Mutinies By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
At the superficial level Obama is presiding over an undisciplined administration; on a more realistic and sinister construction, he is facing mutiny, publicly conducted by two people who only a year ago were claiming that their qualifications to be in the Oval Office were far superior to those of the junior senator from Illinois. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Biden pushes Bush NATO policy
Video: Biden pushes Bush NATO policy. VP Joe Biden told Georgia and the Ukraine the US still supports their membership in NATO Continue reading
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A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia has laid out its welcome carpet leading all the way from the rugged Caucasus, a theater of events that is interesting in the highest degree to US-Russia relations, to the Russian capital to receive Obama. It is a carpet of intriguing design, laden with compelling legends of the roots of conflict that acted as… Continue reading
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NATO War Games In Georgia: Threat Of New Caucasus War by Rick Rozoff
That the last two series of planning exercises and war games have been scheduled in the South Caucasus, and the current one in a nation that not only borders Russia but fought a five-day war with it only nine months ago, and that the military bloc running the exercises and its main member, the US,… Continue reading
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The Prospects of a New Cold War? Towards the Consolidation of the Russian-led CSTO Military Alliance By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
In the post Soviet space the late 2000s’ geopolitical reality is different from that of the 90s because Russia is vigorously attempting to reassert its power and to reinforce its own national security. Moscow is strongly defending its interests in the so called Near Abroad, (i. e. the former Soviet Union, which is the core… Continue reading
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Video – Life between empires (Georgian trap Pt3)
Georgian newspaper publisher Malkhaz Gulashvili. As Georgia and the surrounding region undergo further militarization by the two superpowers, Gulashvili provides a radical proposal to help create a peaceful and independent Georgia. Continue reading
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Video: The Georgian trap Pt. 2
One outcome of the war was Russia’s recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, something Russia was previously unwilling to do. Gulashvili believes that this was an objective of the United States, as it will inspire existing independence movements in other Russian territories, leading to the inevitable disintegration of Southern Russia. Continue reading
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Riding a Revolution to Nowhere By Boris Kagarlitsky
The mobs of protesters in Chisinau and Tbilisi are not demanding any radical changes to policies or the system as a whole. They are simply expressing frustration with the condition of their lives and society in general. But by failing to demand concrete solutions to those problems, they tacitly agree to endure them further. Continue reading
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War, Oil and Gas Pipelines: Turkey is Washington's Geopolitical Pivot By F. William Engdahl
For Washington Turkey today has become a geopolitical “pivot state” which is in the position to tilt the Eurasian power equation towards Washington or significantly away from it depending on how Turkey develops its ties with Moscow and its role regarding key energy pipelines. Continue reading
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Video – The Georgian trap
Video: As thousands demand Saakashvili’s resignation, Paul Jay investigates roots of 2008 Russia-Georgia War Continue reading
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Lavrov says Georgia conflict proves dangers of NATO expansion
It is enough just to imagine what would have happened if Georgia had been a NATO member, as Russia would have still had no other option but to act as it did last August,’ Continue reading
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French Kissing NATO’s Global Mission Creep By DIANA JOHNSTONE
NATO’s original raison d’être, the supposedly menacing Soviet bloc, has been dead for twenty years. But like the military-industrial complex itself, NATO is kept alive and growing by entrenched economic interests, institutional inertia and an official mindset resembling paranoia, with think tanks looking around desperately for “threats”. Continue reading
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Yana AMELINA Saakashvili vs. Opposition
The opposition’s inability to unite is due not only to the colliding ambitions of its leaders but also to the fact that Washington has not yet offered financial support to Saakashvili’s potential successors. Nevertheless, the insane Saakashvili is no longer Washington’s favorite. Continue reading
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Black Sea: Pentagon's Gateway to Three Continents and the Middle East By Rick Rozoff
Prior to the breakup of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and the Soviet Union two years later the Black Sea was mainly off limits to the West in general and to the Pentagon and NATO in particular. Continue reading
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The Eastern Partnership: The West's Final Assault On the Former Soviet Union By Rick Rozoff
The ultimate intent of the Eastern Partnership is to wean away all the other ex-Soviet states from economic, trade, political, security and military ties with Russia Continue reading
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Yuriy RUBTSOV: NATO in Ukraine and Georgia: out the door, back through the window
What is especially important for Russia is that during the meeting in Brussels many members of the alliance insisted that Moscow`s official position was heard and cooperation with Russia was resumed after the August war conflict in the Caucasus. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 