I survived the Georgian war. Here’s what I saw.
Lira Tskhovrebova Christian Science Monitor October 8, 2008 In a speech before the United Nations last month, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili implored world leaders to set up an international investigation to find out the truth about the war in South Ossetia. I couldn’t agree more. But I think the results of an honest investigation would [...]
INTERVIEW – U.S. warns of punitive measures against Russia
Sue Pleming Reuters North American News Service Sep 25, 2008 16:00 EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Russia will face a “very strong reaction” from Washington and others if it does not meet an Oct. 10 deadline to withdraw troops from “security zones” around Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a senior U.S. [...]
Russian Navy ships head to Venezuela
AP | USAToday.com MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American nations amid increasingly strained relations with [...]
NATO, with eye on Russia, weighs rapid-reaction force
Star Tribune Last update: September 18, 2008 – 8:57 PM You don’t have to listen closely to hear those sabers rattling. The question is which do you prefer, cold war 2 or world war III? It seems … read more to me like we will get one then the other. Lucky us. And for all [...]
Is CNN Getting Kicked Out of Russia?
The ExileD By Yasha Levine You probably didn’t know that CNN censored Putin for being just too darn sensible. Yep, it’s true. About two weeks ago, Putin gave the network an exclusive 30-minute interview. And you know what happened? Nothing. It was never allowed to air. CNN doesn’t know it yet, but that decision might [...]
Rolling Back The “Unipolar” World
By Mike Whitney 10/09/08 “ICH” — – For the past week, Dick Cheney has been traveling through the Caucasus trying to drum up support for punitive action against Russia for its role in the recent fighting in South Ossetia. The Vice President vowed that the Moscow’s action “will not go unanswered”. Cheney is determined to [...]
Video: Georgian Soldiers Randomly Target Civilian Homes
Apparently taught well by their American and Israeli trainers, in this video Georgian troops get their jollies shooting up civilian apartment buildings in Tskhinval, South Ossetia, following a night of merciless shelling on August 8. If you listen to the soundtrack here, you can tell the soldiers are enjoying themselves, same as trigger-happy Blackwater mercs [...]
Human Rights Watch Attempts to Pass Off Israeli Cluster Bombs as Russian
Moon of Alabama September 2, 2008 Editor’s note: It should come as no surprise HRW would attempt to claim Russia used cluster bombs. HRW came into existence in 1978 as the U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, designed to monitor the former Soviet Union’s compliance with the Helsinki Accords. HRW is a foundation NGO, funded by the [...]
Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as ‘cold war’ escalates
Russia is deploying the threat to sell a “game changing” air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new “cold war” with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. By Philip Sherwell in New York and William Lowther in Washington Last Updated: 11:29AM BST 31 Aug 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [...]
Russia may cut off oil flow to the West
Telegraph.co.uk By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Fears are mounting that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over coming days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and Nato naval actions in the Black Sea. Any such move would be a dramatic escalation of the Georgia crisis and play havoc with the oil markets. Reports [...]
U.S. citizen among Georgian commandos
Russia Today August 28, 2008 VIDEO A U.S. passport was found in a building in South Ossetia occupied by Georgian troops, a Russian military spokesperson revealed on Thursday. After Russian peacekeepers cleared the heavily defended building, a passport belonging to a Texan named Michael Lee White was discovered inside.
Russia warns NATO over build-up of warships in Black Sea
RussiaToday.com Russia’s military says it is bewildered by the build-up of NATO’s naval force in the Black Sea – and scoffed at claims the warships were delivering humanitarian aid. Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, told a media briefing that there are currently ten NATO warships with cruise missiles in [...]
Nuclear Chicken in Poland – Putin Can’t Afford to Back Down
By Mike Whitney “Don’t blame the mirror if your face is crooked.” Vladimir Putin quoting Russian proverb 24/08/08 “ICH” – – If the Bush administration proceeds with its plan to deploy its Missile Defense System in Poland, Russian Prime Minister Putin will be forced to remove it militarily. He has no other option. The [...]
Sen Biden: US To Consider $1 Billion Emergency Aid For Georgi
Nasdaq.com The United States will consider providing $1 billion in emergency aid to Georgia, a top U.S. lawmaker said Monday on his return from a visit to the conflict-torn nation. “When Congress reconvenes, I intend to work with the administration to seek Congressional approval for $1 billion in emergency assistance for Georgia,” Democratic Senator Joseph [...]
Russian General Says Georgia May Commit False Flag Terror Attacks
Paul Joseph Watson | InfoWars.com Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Anatoly Nogovitsyn warns that Georgia may be planning to commit false flag terror attacks by using mercenaries dressed in Russian uniforms, as Russia moved to guard sensitive infrastructure against terrorist attacks. In a news briefing on Monday, he said: “I cannot rule out that they [...]
VIDEO. Gorbachev describes Georgia Attack: Media “Lies from Begining to End”
“It’s a kind of ‘Information War’…”
BBC Video Proves Georgia to Blame for Hostilities
The BBC video here was aired two days before Russia intervened to stop Georgia’s ethnic cleansing operation in South Ossetia. It needs to be viewed by Bush, Condi, Robert Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, little Billy Kristol and all the neocons and their associated slavering bloggers and newspaper columnists calling for war against Russia, a nation bristling [...]
US must share power in new world order, says Turkey’s controversial president
In his first interview with a foreign newspaper since becoming head of state, Abdullah Gül tells Stephen Kinzer of his vision for his country as a bridge between nations Stephen Kinzer | The Guardain.co.uk Days after Russia scored a stunning geopolitical victory in the Caucasus, President Abdullah Gül of Turkey said he saw a new [...]
