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F William Engdahl: US in decline as Russia asserts its rising power

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The US provoked Russia to respond militarily and the US as the dominant power is beginning to stumble and "to look desperately for ways to hold on to that power."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20682.htm



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The Economics of War (Georgia Edition)
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1090919/12759198/56801/0/

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Putin's Ruthless Gambit

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch: "To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary to view the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significant geopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energy riches of the Caspian Sea basin - with former Russian president (now prime minister) Vladimir Putin emerging as the reigning grand master of geostrategic chess and the Bush team turning out to be middling amateurs, at best."

http://www.truthout.org/article/putins-ruthless-gambit

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Russia reacts to NATO ships

"We don't understand what American ships are doing on the Georgian shores, but this is a question of taste, it's a decision by our American colleagues," Putin reportedly said. "The second question is why the humanitarian aid is being delivered on naval vessels armed with the newest rocket systems."

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Sep/20080902News018.asp



David Miliband and David Cameron blunder over Russia

The most frightening sight in recent weeks has not been the media's metamorphosis of Russia from genial, if rather uncouth, bear into snarling wolf, but the knee-jerking of British politicians.

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Bush Poised To Punish Russia For Invasion

President Plans To Cancel Once-Celebrated Nuclear Deal Between Nations: Withdrawing the agreement from Capitol Hill would have little actual impact, as the deal very likely would not gain approval during Bush's presidency.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/world/main4417480.shtml


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Weitergeleitet durch das Dugi-News-Team am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung.

Russia is reportedly preparing to cut oil supplies to Poland and Germany in response to threatened EU sanctions over the Georgia conflict.

http://itn.co.uk/news/8f02b79ce3d577562e3be22f55a917ec.html


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"We will have to react somehow, to react, of course, in a military way," Medvedev was quoted as saying Tuesday by the RIA-Novosti news agency.

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By James Gerstenzang

Cheney aide was in Georgia before war began What was a top national security aide to Vice President Dick Cheney doing in Georgia shortly before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's troops engaged in what became a disastrous fight with South Ossetian rebels -- and then Russian troops?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20630.htm



Cheney slams "unjustified assault" on Georgia

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney upped U.S. pressure on Moscow on Wednesday, calling the Russian occupation of Georgia an "unjustified assault" and pledged to ensure the nation's territorial integrity.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2747273420080827



Tough talking Miliband warns Russia

He accused Mr Medvedev of trying to "redraw the map" of the Caucasus in a way that threatened the stability of the entire region through his unilateral recognition of the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2985183.html?menu=news.topheadlines


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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/26/russia/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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War With Russia Is On The Agenda

By Paul Craig Roberts

Thinking about the massive failure of the US media to report truthfully is sobering. The United States, bristling with nuclear weapons and pursuing a policy of world hegemony, has a population that is kept in the dark--indeed brainwashed--about the most important and most dangerous events of our time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20626.htm



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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

08/22/08

The U.S. missile defense program, which contributed to the deterioration of U.S.-Russian relations that helped generate the Russian-Georgian conflict, has benefited from that conflict and may cause a further downward spiral in the relationship between these two great powers. Along with the recognition of Kosovo’s independence from Serbia and repeated rounds of an expanding NATO — a Cold War alliance the Russians perceive as hostile — to Russia’s doorstep, the unilateral U.S. abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to pursue missile defense humiliated a weakened Russia. But with oil prices high, economic growth robust, and new bold leadership, a much stronger and grumpier Russian bear has emerged from hibernation, as predicted by U.S. doves as early as the mid-1990s...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2300


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Russian Jerks Meet Western Knee-Jerks

Steve Weissman, Truthout: "The Russians can be real jerks, but they are not the only ones dragging us into a cold war redo. Blockheads on all sides are bringing back the risk of all-out nuclear conflict, along with a new arms race and the thrusting of American power from the Russian borderlands to wherever we see a Russian proxy. Even if Barack Obama and Joe Biden manage to win the election in November, the financial cost of a rush to yesteryear could cripple any real chance for a better tomorrow."

http://www.truthout.org/article/russian-jerks-meet-western-knee-jerks



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