McCain Honored by Country He Put First - Georgia
Throughout his failed 2008 presidential run, Republican John McCain campaigned on a theme of "Country First." As it turns out, that country was Georgia. After his bellicose August 2008 declaration to...
View ArticleEuropean Union, Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, Moldova with Transdnistria, and the...
If i must choose the first and more important cause for the creation of the European Union surely i would choose the wish of peace between some europeans after the WWII. After long years of cold war,...
View ArticleATTENTION OBAMA ADMINISTRATION - End the Brinksmanship Diplomacy in Georgia
Urge the Obama Administration to end its brinksmanship in Georgia and throughout the former Soviet Union and ask them to cancel NATO military exercises scheduled to Start this week. (May 6, 2009).The...
View ArticleWhat is in Georgia's future?
So what is going to happen to Georgia in 2009? Will it settle down over there or will it heat up and boil over like it did a few months ago. The latest news from the region hasn't been encouraging...
View ArticleWas Georgia Invasion of S. Ossetia a Neo-Con October Surprise?
Tom Hayden, long time anti war activist, has a very interesting article on TPM entitled "Was Georgia a Neo-Con Conspiracy? A Lesson for Obama."It now appears that the same neo-conservatives who...
View ArticleGeorgia: *now* they tell us
A week ago it was the BBC; today it's the New York Times finally revealing to the world what those who read the left press were well aware of from day one - events in South Ossetia and Georgia were not...
View ArticleNYT: Georgia Lied about Russia.
What a surprise. Two days after the election, the NYT admits that (I guess 'we are all Georgians' no longer) Georgia lied about everything.NYTTBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent...
View ArticleThe Bush Doctrine
Okay, I'm not up for the post of VP, but I've got to admit I didn't know what was meant by the term: The Bush Doctrine
View Article500 Dead located in South Ossetia
From Reuters Via the NYT:"Preliminary information received by the investigation team by questioning neighbors and relatives showed that over 1,600 people died in South Ossetia as a result of the...
View ArticleUh oh..Saakashvili-o's!
Folks, it seems as if everyone's favorite Georgian President is spoiling for a Round 2 with Moscow.
View ArticleConversations with a non voter
This diary is nothing more than my best recollection of a couple of conversations with a non voting individual referred to as joven, which is Spanish for young man.
View ArticleOn Touring The World, Or, Blogging-It's A Collective Thing
For the past two weeks we have paid more attention to the rest of the world than usual, what with the Olympics drawing our attention to Asia, and the conflict in the Balkans forcing us to learn that...
View ArticleA Visit to a South Ossetian Village Illuminates Georgians’ Views
The roads and kitchen gardens of Khetagurovo, in South Ossetia (Georgia) are marked with large craters created by artillery shells. Many of the craters are close together. A Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleThe Georgia/South Ossetia/Russia/US Crisis
The question is: why would Georgia's president Saakashvili invade a sworn enemy, which has a Russian peace keeping force stationed there to defend Ossetia's autonomy? It would appear to be a suicide...
View ArticleTblisi, Georgia may be more important than Atlanta, Georgia...
in the current presidential campaign. Is it possible that the Bush administration and Republican strategists urged on--through their emissary, the ever loyal warrior Condoleeza--an attack on South...
View ArticleWill Republican attempt to restart Cold War accidentally remind people of...
For the last seven years, Republicans have poked the real pain we felt on 9/11 to convince us that small nations who weren't involved in those attacks would be an "existential" threat to the United...
View ArticleGeorgia -- Things are getting even stickier
The New York Times is reporting that Russian troops have detained 21 Georgian soldiers in the Georgian port of Poti. The Georgian soldiers, and 5 U.S.-owned Humvees that were in the port awaiting...
View ArticleAre Neocons Scamming Us On the Russo-Georgian Conflict?
Not everyone is as naive as the Straussians assume. There is beginning to be lots of speculation concerning the Russo-Georgian conflict that erupted a little more than a week ago. HuffingtonPost.com...
View ArticleSTRATEGERY '08: The Neocons' Caucusus Project
Here's a primer on what has been unfolding in the Caucusus, and how it has affected the political debate here in America. I'm aware this has been blogged about here before, this is just my take on it.
View ArticleSmoldering Feud, Then War---Tensions at Obscure Border Led to Georgia Russia...
All quotes and information from "Smoldering Feud, Then War---Tensions at Obscure Border Led to Georgia Russia Clash," The Wall Street Journal, Saturday/Sunday, August 16-17, 2008, page 1.Tension in...
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