Revisiting the “Battle of Tskhinvali”
Counterpunch August 16, 2008 What took place in South Ossetia on August 7, was not an invasion or a siege; it was a massacre. The people had no way to defend themselves against a fully-equiped modern army. It was a war crime. Photo: South Ossetian soldiers evacuate local residents from Tskhinvali on 11 August 2008. There are no military installations in the city of Tskhinvali. In fact, there are no military targets at all. It is an industrial center consisting of lumber mills,...
August 17, 2008
Schroeder blames ‘gambler’ Saakashvili for conflict
The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has blamed Georgia for starting the conflict in South Ossetia and described its President as a “gambler”. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, he criticised President Mikhail Saakashvili and warned against speeding up the country’s accession to NATO. “Imagine that we had been forced into military action on the side of Georgia as a NATO member, on the side of an obvious gambler, as one must describe Saakashvili,”...
August 16, 2008
Russians losing propaganda war
The Bush administration appears to be trying to turn a failed military operation by Georgia into a successful diplomatic operation against Russia. It is doing so by presenting the Russian actions as aggression and playing down the Georgian attack into South Ossetia on 7 August, which triggered the Russian operation. Yet the evidence from South Ossetia about that attack indicates that it was extensive and damaging. Blame game The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford has reported: “Many Ossetians I met...
August 16, 2008
Saakashvili Defends the “New World Order” On Glenn Beck
At one minute, five seconds into the clip here from Glenn Beck’s neocon propaganda hour, we hear the sock puppet Saakashvili make reference to the New World Order. According to Saakashvili, he is not concerned so much for his own personal safety, he is more worried about the “region,” in other words the little globalist and NATO fiefdoms carved out of the corpse of the former Soviet Union, only the latest additions to the New World Order. Saakashvili actually uses this phrase,...
August 15, 2008
Murdoch-Owned WSJ: Russia-Georgia Conflict Offers Glimpse at New World Order
Gerald F. Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, has been involved in covering every presidential election since 1980 and writes the weekly Capital Journal column for the Journal. Click here for Seib’s full bio. This is a week in which Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama likely are thinking more about Georgia the country than Georgia the state, and for good reason: The hostilities that have erupted between Georgia and Russia are telling us a lot about the world order one...
August 12, 2008
Georgia: the messy truth behind the morality tale
The black-and-white reading of the horrific violence in South Ossetia overlooks the role of the ‘war on terror’ in destabilising the region. It is remarkable how quickly other people’s bloody tragedies can be transformed into simple morality tales by Western observers sitting in cushioned, air-conditioned offices. Almost as soon as the terrible violence broke out in Georgia and South Ossetia, voices in the West were insisting that this was a straightforward tale of a plucky independent...
August 12, 2008
America’s Israeli-Occupied Media
There should be little doubt that the Israeli government is making every effort to jump-start a war against Iran sooner rather than later. Many Israelis not surprisingly believe it is in their interest to convince the United States to attack Iran so that Israel will not have to do it, and they are hell-bent on bringing that about. Unfortunately, their efforts are being aided and abetted by a U.S. mainstream media that is unwilling to ask any hard questions or challenge the assumptions...
August 12, 2008
Fabled Enemies Trailer
Fabled Enemies is unlike any 9/11documentary ever put together. Rather than focusing on the physical anomalies at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, this film follows the intelligence ties of Osama Bin Laden, the alleged hijackers, and those who were actually detained on 9/11. The movie delves deeply into the roles of separate Nations that were involved in supporting the 9/11 attacks. From Israel to Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, and even the United States itself, no one is spared in...
August 12, 2008
ZBig Propaganda: Russia’s Invasion of Georgia Is Reminiscent of Stalin’s Attack on Finland
On Sunday I talked with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the elder statesman who was national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, about the Russian invasion of Georgia. He long tangled with Soviet power. Now he takes on Putin: Nathan Gardels: What is the world to make of Russia’s invasion of Georgia? Zbigniew Brzezinski: Fundamentally at stake is what kind of role Russia will play in the new international system. Unfortunately, Putin is putting Russia on a course that is ominously similar to Stalin’s...
August 11, 2008
Scott Horton interviews Glenn Greenwald on FBI’s smear campaign against dead physicist Bruce Ivins
Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald August 5th, 2008 Glenn Greenwald, author and legal blogger for Salon.com, discusses his new radio show, new developments in the 2001 anthrax case, the FBI’s smear campaign against dead physicist Bruce Ivins, media trumpeting of government claims, the widespread fear created and power gained by the anthrax attacks and questions about Washington insiders’ taking Cipro before the attacks. MP3 here. (35:50) Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional...
August 6, 2008
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- Journo: FISA vote 'step toward fascism'; ACLU sues gov't
- Impeach bill: Bush lied America into war
- US: Real or not, Iranian missile tests must stop
- Poll: Turnout expected to skyrocket in November
- After FISA flip, Obama vets Dodd for VP
- Group: Obama finance disclosure less than Bush
- McCain questioned about PNAC, 9/11
- Poll: Obama up 48-40
- Antiwar
- The Most Dangerous Man in America
- The Narrative Versus the News
- Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
- Big Three Block Iran Attack
- Bush Covered Up Musharraf Ties With al-Qaeda, Khan
- Kosovo Casts Shadow on South Ossetian Standoff
- Double Standards in the Global War on Terror: Anthrax Department
- Please Mr. President, Don't Make Promises to Fools
- Who Started Cold War II?
- Arar Faces Uphill Legal Battle
- Truth News
- The Matrix & Other 9/11 Hollywood Symbolism
- Did Tom Clancy’s “lucky assertions” foretell the Georgia Conflict of 2008 in 2001 and the SPP of 2005 in 2004?
- We Are Change L.A. questions Dennis Kucinich about 9/11
- Fmr President Ford secretly told FBI about panel’s doubts on JFK murder
- Flashback: U.S.-Georgia training begins amid Russia strain
- Pentagon closes controversial intelligence unit
- What the Iraq Forgery Says About 9/11
- Chemical Traces of High Explosives in WTC Debris
- Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
- Get Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship
