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 Medvedev talks tough but US installations in Poland, Czech R. and Kosovo, SPEAK LOUDER posted by quin, 2008-09-01 23:28:55
Siberian tigers and five point plans are all hot air and theatrics in the face of REAL American installations in Kosovo and future missile offensive systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. Russians are culturally a bit slow and thick, so let’s spell it out once again. (full story)
peace/war / international
  From Putin’s Siberian tiger to Sarah Palin’s tits -- semiotic overload posted by finch, 2008-09-01 05:22:22
The symbolism is not lost this week but it’s to be expected! From sabre rattling geopolitical confrontations between superpowers to the selection of presidential running mates prior to the US elections. Propagandists, ad men and marketers across the social, political and cultural divide are tugging at our basic instincts and collective archetypal (un)conscious. (full story and 4 comments)
social/political / international
 Russia remains a Black Sea power posted by M K Bhadrakumar via rialator, 2008-08-31 09:50:03
If the struggle in the Caucasus was ever over oil and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) agenda towards Central Asia, the United States suffered a colossal setback this week. Kazakhstan, the Caspian energy powerhouse and a key Central Asian player, has decided to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Russia over the conflict with Georgia, and Russia's de facto control over two major Black Sea ports has been consolidated. (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
 Joe Biden: "The Real War" -- Russia, China, India! posted by Umberto Pascali via rialator, 2008-08-29 03:44:54
On Aug 27 2008 at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden presented the plan for the real war, the war against China, Russia. He repeated the key points pushed by Zbigniew Brzezinski [lunatic hawk] in his obsessive determination to go to the final clash with Russia and Asia. (full story and 2 comments)
peace/war / international
 Obama’s ‘rhetorical flourishes’ cannot compensate for his LACK of INTEGRITY posted by barra, 2008-08-29 00:11:54
The sideshow that is the American race for the presidency is characterised by one-liners, slogans and as the BBC so accurately put it -- especially in Obama’s case -- an abundance of meaningless persuasive expressions or “RHETORICAL FLOURISHES!” The description couldn’t be more accurate with Obama in his ‘flight’ for the presidency. However, people around the globe are not as stupid as the American masses. American tactics and strategies are transparent outside the USA! (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 Ask any American to define democracy! posted by yarrow, 2008-08-28 04:33:57
[The most amenable slave is one who thinks he is free; never before have so many surrendered their rights to so few.]
Propaganda minister Rupert Murdoch has thrown his media empire into overdrive in a vain attempt to alter historical fact. It was Georgian forces that invaded South Ossetia and targeted civilians; Russia responded to the attack and chased the US equipped, Israeli trained Georgian troops back into their holes! However, American media would have you believe that Russia is the aggressor. Perhaps next week they will dust off Bin Laden and utilise him to some advantage – you never know with America in election mode. Osama always managed to make an appearance whenever George W Bush needed a boost – what are friends of the family for? (full story)
peace/war / international
Russia, Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection posted by J. Victor Marshall via reed, 2008-08-28 03:08:08
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. (full story)
social/political / international
 Transcript of Medvedev's speech on recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia posted by Oleg Shchedrov via rialator, 2008-08-26 09:11:28
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday signed decrees recognising the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Following is the Reuters translation of his statement, which was posted on the Kremlin web site: (full story)
social/political / international
 Laughing all the way to a ‘first NUCLEAR strike!’ posted by gan, 2008-08-24 03:02:13
History records the circumstances and strategies that Franklin D Roosevelt utilised against Imperial Britain during WWII. How he delayed US military involvement in the war until Churchill, in desperation, signed the Atlantic Charter, which effectively ended the British Empire. Such was Churchill's desperation and FDR's determination to subvert Imperial Britain that Roosevelt at one stage seemed as though he would only supply military hardware to a very beleaguered Britain. Section 3 of the Charter reads:
“Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them;” [Bye bye British Empire -- nice one, Franklin!] (full story and 2 comments)
peace/war / international
 Condi Rice: busy war whore posted by peptide, 2008-08-22 02:49:12
Armed with American slogans, metaphors, outright lies and palettes of US ‘toilet paper’ money for ‘aid/loans’ (bribes) US Secretary of State, Condi Rice, has never moved so fast! One minute Georgia, then Warsaw, Prague, Brussels then Baghdad at blistering pace! Rice has demonstrated -- if nothing else -- that she is able to move as fast on her feet as on her knees! (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
At what cost the LIES we tolerate? posted by finch, 2008-08-20 04:27:46
Few societies today believe in their governments, in fact most people view their governments as criminal! Few people trust or believe their political leaders especially in view of the implausible explanations offered for highly questionable events such as 9/11, Iraq WMD and the anthrax letters. We all remember Colin Powell's academy award winning performance at the UN, which resulted in a shift of opinion in favour of pre-emptive war. Today we know EVERYTHING Powell said was a LIE yet we tolerate it! Should we then expect a person like Cheney to desist from his loathsome criminal activities? (full story)
social/political / international
Reality Bites ['merika] Again posted by J. H. Kunstler via dingo, 2008-08-19 08:43:08
The feeble American response to Russia's assertion of power in the Caucasus of Central Asia was appropriate, since our claims of influence in that part of the world are laughable. The US had taken advantage of temporary confusion in Russia, during the ten-year-long post-Soviet-collapse interval, and set up a client government in Georgia, complete with military advisors, sales of weapons, and even the promise of club membership in the western alliance known as NATO. These blandishments were all in the service of the Baku-to-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which was designed specifically to drain the oil region around the Caspian Basin with an outlet on the Mediterranean, avoiding unfriendly nations all along the way. (full story)
social/political / international
 Government cover-up and the Anthrax attacks posted by Tom Engelhardt via rialator, 2008-08-18 21:46:05
And yet, by the end of 2001, it had become clear that, despite the accompanying letters, the anthrax in those envelopes was from a domestically produced strain. It was neither from the backlands of Afghanistan nor from Baghdad, but -- almost certainly -- from our own military bio-weapons labs. At that point, the anthrax killings essentially vanished… Poof!... while 9/11 only gained traction as the singular event of our times. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Regress report on Bush-Cheney regime posted by budgie, 2008-08-18 09:30:57
No need to remind the American public the economy is in RECESSION; the Georgian distraction hasn’t succeeded with the savvy US public, has it? The Fed continues to print (unpegged) toilet paper money that you will soon be able to paper your walls with. The Iraq success story needs no embellishment; Bush’s boys couldn’t have done a better service for Iran by gifting it Iraq. Iraqi Shia have steadily removed minority Sunis from positions of power, while consolidating their own power base, effectively annexing Iraq to Iran. Even the puppet PM Maliki, has demanded that occupation forces withdraw from his nation. (full story)
social/political / international
 Your own private ‘Crawford’ (Texas) posted by quin, 2008-08-17 00:10:03
G W Bush cut a very lonely/ALIENATED figure at a press conference at his ranch in Crawford, Texas today. Like a demented parrot he continued to repeat “demands” that Russia withdraw from ‘sovereign’ Georgian territory, all the while completely unaware that his ‘demands’ inadvertently attract attention to the hundreds of (UNWANTED) U.S. military bases throughout the world! (full story)
peace/war / international
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