World-News

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.

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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



The war that never was

AntiWar.Com
by Nebojsa Malic

09/11/08

Had there actually been a war on terrorism, targeting the jihadists, Washington could have counted on help from just about anyone. Once it was obvious that America was pursuing not Islamic fanatics but global hegemony, offers of assistance dried up. Worse yet, Washington has done its best to annoy and alienate other powers, such as China and Russia in particular, from the bogus ‘missile shield’ in Eastern Europe to the secession of Kosovo in February this year. In August, when the U.S. client regime of Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia decided to ‘reintegrate’ a couple of pro-Russian provinces refusing to accept his authority, Moscow struck back. Howls of outrage from the West only underscored the hypocrisy over Kosovo. Either no one in Washington realized that the price of crushing Serbia would be ‘losing’ Russia, or they didn’t care...

http://www.antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=13443


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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Auf den Krieg zwischen Russland und Georgien folgt der schwerste diplomatische Konflikt seit Ende des Kalten Krieges.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28571/1.html

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Friedensratschlag wirft Bundesregierung Beschädigung des Völkerrechts vor

Der Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag wirft der deutschen Bundesregierung Fehler in der Russlandpolitik und eine Beschädigung des geltenden Völkerrechts vor. Die Anerkennung der abtrünnigen georgischen autonomen Provinzen Südossetien und Abchasien durch die russische Regierung sei "nicht mehr und nicht weniger völkerrechtswidrig, als es die Anerkennung der serbischen autonomen Provinz Kosovo durch den Westen", moniert der Sprecher des Friedensratschlags, Peter Strutynski. Die Friedensbewegung hätte vor einem solchen Schritt, der die UN-Resolution 1244 (1999) missachte, gewarnt und auf das in der UN-Charta festgeschriebene Prinzip der "territorialen Unversehrtheit" der Staaten hingewiesen. Diese Warnungen aber habe die Bundesregierung in den Wind geschlagen. "Mit welchem Recht pochen nun heute Bundeskanzlerin Merkel und ihr Außenminister Steinmeier auf eben diesen Völkerrechts-Grundsatz im Fall Georgiens? Wenn das Völkerrecht für alle gelten soll, dann muss sich jeder daran halten", so Strutynski. "Mit der Aushöhlung des Gleichheitsgrundsatzes der UN-Charta wird das geltende Völkerrecht insgesamt beschädigt."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18507

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Kalter Krieg ums Öl: die USA und China auf Kollisionskurs, der Kampf um die letzten Öl-Reserven der Welt
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Rebirth of Reason
by Tibor R. Machan

08/20/08

The pacifist impulse is not a strong one within the current Russian leadership which is mostly made up of but barely reformed ex-Soviets. Unless Russian leaders become less bent on physically ruling the region and firmly, credibly commit to co-existence with their vulnerable neighbors, the NATO option simply cannot be discounted. Some kind of security measure will have to be available to these countries and arguably any will irk the Russians. And Mr. Friedman, who is an educated individual concerning geo-political matters, ought to know this and provide his commentary on the recent Russian v. Georgian conflict in that light. In short, what advice does he have for leaders of countries like the Republic of Georgia given the evident aggressiveness of Russia?

http://tinyurl.com/5w9tbx



US role in Georgia crisis cannot be ignored

AntiWar.Com
by Stephen Zunes

08/21/08

The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia — and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories — is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis. It has been nearly impossible to even broach this subject of the U.S. role. Much of the mainstream media coverage and statements by American political leaders of both major parties has in many respects resembled the anti-Russian hysterics of the Cold War. It is striking how quickly forgotten is the fact that the U.S.-backed Georgian military started the war when it brutally assaulted the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali in an attempt to regain direct control of the autonomous region...

http://www.antiwar.com/zunes/?articleid=13332


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Georgia Was Tricked, But By Russia Or US?

By Ian Bell

As an economically embattled US flails after former glories, it fashions Nato into a blunt instrument. Whatever the organisation's purpose during the Cold War, it currently stands revealed as an expeditionary force on behalf of Washington's interests. That is not a useful development for Nato, Europe, America or the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20602.htm



NATO using aid as 'cover' for Black Sea build-up: Russia

"Under the cover of needing to deliver humanitarian goods, NATO countries continue to boost their naval grouping," Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of general staff, told a news conference in Moscow.

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n150257



Senator back from Georgia wants tough action against Russia

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that his visit to Georgia, Ukraine and Poland, at Sen. John McCain's behest, persuaded him that the United States and its allies must take tough steps to prevent further Russian military aggression against its smaller neighbors.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/49913.html



The proof that Russia is digging in deep in the heart of Georgia

Luke Harding watches Russian soldiers constructing trenches near the port of Poti, suggesting they are going nowhere fast.

http://tinyurl.com/6fch4o



Double Standards on Russia-Kosovo

Russia, Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection

By J. Victor Marshall

"By selectively turning principles into propagandist slogans for scoring points, the United States no longer occupies the political high ground. Washington's lectures sound like hectoring, not sincere admonitions that could sway international public opinion and restrain Russian actions."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20629.htm



Russia warns U.S. naval build-up may lead to war and accuses America of shipping arms to Georgia

Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even higher today after Moscow warned that the American naval build-up in the Black Sea could be seen as a 'declaration of war'.

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Georgia War Shows 'Weak' Russia, U.S. Official Says

"Russia is going to have to come to terms with the reality it can either integrate with the world or it can be a self-isolated bully. But it can't be both. And that's a choice Russia has to have," Fried said.

http://tinyurl.com/69vsjh


From Information Clearing House

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Cheney trip to Georgia planned before crisis
http://us.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/25/cheney.georgia/index.html


Informant: Loring



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Spiked Online
by Frank Furedi

08/18/08

All of a sudden, we are confronted with the prospect of a new Cold — or Not-So-Cold — War. What started off as an opportunistic and misconceived local land-grab by a juvenile Georgian government has, in the space of a week, turned into a dangerous and potentially catastrophic international crisis...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5595/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Full spectrum dominance

Pepe Escobar: Welcome to the New Cold War.
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