Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	How Russia Clobbered Georgia and Lost the War
(Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz for RIA Novosti) - Some critics have pointed to the conflict in Georgia as another example of botched Bush administration foreign policy, but in fact America's real strategy was brilliantly executed and it achieved exactly the intended outcome. Unfortunately it's not an...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 20, 2008	NATO's 'Caucasus Council'
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political observer Andrei Fedyashin) - The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels on August 19 at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique. In the end it turned...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 16, 2008	Chronicle of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: Fact sheet
In the Soviet times South Ossetia was an autonomous area within Georgia. In 1991 Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, abolished the autonomy. The South Ossetian authorities rejected that decision and put up an armed resistance to the Georgians. In January 1991 open warfare broke...... [view]

Posted By:  nursheikha Posted On:  Aug 15, 2008	The Political Batman
Political - Rogues Originally uploaded by DiscoWeasel These guys should have been featured in The Dark Knight’s movie. ... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008	Cannon fodder for the market
Reflections of Fidel: PERHAPS some governments are unaware of the concrete facts, and so for that reason Raúl’s message setting Cuba’s position seemed to us to be very timely. I shall be generous in the aspects that cannot be dealt with in a brief and precise official statement. ...... [view]

Posted By:  nursheikha Posted On:  Aug 7, 2008	First it was the Tibetan Buddhist monks to boycott the Olympics, now the Muslim Uighurs?!?
Peace… Originally uploaded by sheilaz413 Its probably the CIA behind this again like it is whenever you hear a troublespot in the world…just another glorious feeding frenzy news for all the muslim/islam-haters… So just because you’re muslim...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 27, 2008	The two Koreas - Part II
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: ON October 19, 1950, more than 400,000 voluntary Chinese combatants, on orders from Mao Zedong, crossed the Yalu and waylaid the US troops that were advancing towards the Chinese border. The US units, surprised by the vigorous response of the country that they had...... [view]

Posted By:  jofrey Posted On:  Jul 18, 2008	Muerte de un presidente
Como si fuese un documental para la televisión, salio al aire este 2008, se presenta el análisis del asesinato de George W. Bush, ocurrido el 19 de octubre de 2007. En el documental aparecen imágenes de archivo y  entrevistas elaboradas, presentado todo esto de una forma limpia y...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008	THE POWERLESS POWERS
Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]

Posted By:  ascendency Posted On:  Jul 11, 2008	Bush And Johnson Sitting In A Tree
bff …screwing over you and me! Today the EPA Deputy Director announced today that he will solidify his status as lapdog of the Bush/Cheney administration by taking no concrete action against CO2 emissions , as mandated in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency , and...... [view]

Posted By:  ighih Posted On:  Jul 11, 2008	Bush And Johnson Sitting In A Tree
bff …screwing over you and me! Today the EPA Deputy Director announced today that he will solidify his status as lapdog of the Bush/Cheney administration by taking no concrete action against CO2 emissions , as mandated in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency , and...... [view]