Cheney's sharp criticism miffs Russia
Detroit Free Press
05/04/06
Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as 'tools of intimidation or blackmail.' It was a hard slap at Vladimir Putin as the United States seeks Russia's cooperation in punishing Iran. Cheney's criticism -- some of the administration's toughest language about Russia -- came just two months before President Bush joins Putin in St. Petersburg for a summit of major industrial powers...
http://tinyurl.com/94eco
Comrade Cheney vs. President Putin
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
05/05/06
So what is this 'blackmail' Cheney is talking about? It is the Russians abandoning the doctrine of socialist internationalism and putting good old capitalist theory into practice. Instead of continuing to offer oil and natural gas to Ukraine at below-market prices, they insist on charging the price set by the international market. To Cheney, this is 'blackmail:' an economist would call it capitalism. I don't know if this signifies Cheney's formal conversion to Marxism, but surely it ought to dispel the myth that our Vice President believes in anything approaching the free market. Or, perhaps, he believes that capitalism is a system reserved for the U.S. Whatever is going on here, the brazen hypocrisy of Cheney's remarks are hard to take: here, after all, is the vice president of a nation that imposes draconian economic sanctions on countries that fail to kowtow to its every edict, making accusations of 'blackmail!' Here is a nation whose president refuses to take the nuking of Iran off the table as a distinct possibility -- and it's the Russians who are the blackmailers. Go figure! Cheney, however, was just getting started...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8942
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
05/04/06
Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as 'tools of intimidation or blackmail.' It was a hard slap at Vladimir Putin as the United States seeks Russia's cooperation in punishing Iran. Cheney's criticism -- some of the administration's toughest language about Russia -- came just two months before President Bush joins Putin in St. Petersburg for a summit of major industrial powers...
http://tinyurl.com/94eco
Comrade Cheney vs. President Putin
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
05/05/06
So what is this 'blackmail' Cheney is talking about? It is the Russians abandoning the doctrine of socialist internationalism and putting good old capitalist theory into practice. Instead of continuing to offer oil and natural gas to Ukraine at below-market prices, they insist on charging the price set by the international market. To Cheney, this is 'blackmail:' an economist would call it capitalism. I don't know if this signifies Cheney's formal conversion to Marxism, but surely it ought to dispel the myth that our Vice President believes in anything approaching the free market. Or, perhaps, he believes that capitalism is a system reserved for the U.S. Whatever is going on here, the brazen hypocrisy of Cheney's remarks are hard to take: here, after all, is the vice president of a nation that imposes draconian economic sanctions on countries that fail to kowtow to its every edict, making accusations of 'blackmail!' Here is a nation whose president refuses to take the nuking of Iran off the table as a distinct possibility -- and it's the Russians who are the blackmailers. Go figure! Cheney, however, was just getting started...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8942
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 5. Mai, 14:37
