Georgia
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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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Back to the future: “Chaos and instability Washington’s official policy line” By William Bowles
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. Continue reading
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Recycling the spin cycle By Jerome Spring
Before joining the London Independent to become its diplomatic editor, Anne Penketh trailed around Moscow, Paris and New York as a foreign correspondent. Apparently, she tries to “separate the spin cycle from the news cycle”. In a main article on Russia and Georgia in the Independent of the 20 August, she asserted that “the Georgian 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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Aprés la deluge — wracking up the fear quotient By William Bowles
20 August 2008 Russia is following a course “horrifyingly similar to that taken by Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s former national security adviser The other night I went to a meeting on the situation in Georgia organized by the Stop the War Coalition at which one of the 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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Georgia – Another Pawn in the ‘Great Game’ By William Bowles
On August 7th, Georgia launched an unprovoked and vicious assault on the capital city of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, killing perhaps as many 2000 civilians, many of them women, children and old people and destroying much of the city including the main hospital and the university. 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
The New Dark Age 