UN: Russian Troops Blocking Georgians From Returning Home
TBILISI, Georgia — Russian troops remaining in Georgian territory are effectively preventing Georgians from returning to their homes, a U.N. rep...
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Georgia to cut diplomatic ties with Moscow
AP | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said...
U.S. and Russia Lock Horns
Eric Margolis | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
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"Old Europe" is trying to avoid a clash with Moscow, while "new Europe" - Georgia, Poland, the Czechs, and Balts - frightened of Russia's growing power, urges the US to confront Russia.
Putin Accuses Bush Of Provoking Georgia Crisis To Help McCain
The Times Online | Tony Halpin | Posted 08.28.2008 | Home
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Vladimir Putin accused President Bush tonight of orchestrating the war in Georgia in a plot to get John McCain elected to the White House. In his mos...
Stop Dreaming Joe Biden and Democrats and Do the Right Thing
Joe Lauria | Posted 08.28.2008 | Politics
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Europe has had public health care, free universities and a greener economy for decades now. But in America we still dream of such things. Joe Biden couldn't stay away from the word.
A New Cold War Does Not Benefit Obama
Lionel Beehner | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
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McCain likes to say that Obama is willing to lose a war (in Iraq) to win a campaign. Interestingly, it appears that McCain is willing to start a new cold war to win a campaign.
Running for War President at Any Cost
Robert Scheer | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
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McCain needs a new Cold War. He can win only as a war president. He neither knows nor cares much about the economic meltdown, the consequence of the deregulation mania that he supports.
US Slams Russian Recognition Of Breakaway Areas
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
CRAWFORD, Texas — In an escalating war of words, President Bush on Tuesday urged Russia to reconsider its "irresponsible decision" to shower ind...
Russia Recognizes Breakaway Georgian Regions
AP | DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
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MOSCOW — Russia stunned the West on Tuesday by recognizing the independence claims of two Georgian breakaway regions, and U.S. warships plied th...
No End to History
Julia Plevin | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics
Russia invaded Georgia? Really? That seems more like something I read in history class than something that should be all over newspapers and bl...
US Enters Georgia With Aid
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 08.24.2008 | Home
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ABOARD THE U.S.S. MCFAUL — A U.S. Navy destroyer loaded with humanitarian aid reached Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi on Sunday, bringing bab...
Russia Wants Control Of Key Georgia City Despite Pullout Claims
AP | BELA SZANDELSZKY | Posted 08.23.2008 | Home
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POTI, Georgia — Thousands of Georgians demanded that Russian troops leave the outskirts of this strategic Black Sea port on Saturday and took to...
"New Cold War" Leaves Voters Cold But Shows Obama's Need
William Bradley | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
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It turns out that McCain's hot rhetoric in the wake of the Russia-Georgia War isn't catching on. But McCain is still seen as the national security/geopolitics maven.
Russia Is Now Foreign Policy Issue #1---Or Should Be
Tom D'Antoni | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
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On June 16, 2001, with Vladimir Putin at his side, George Bush said of the Russian President, "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very str...
Democracy Promotion's Discontent
Jim Goldgeier and Derek Chollet | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
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Given how politically tarnished democracy promotion efforts have become during the past seven years, any effort they undertake must overcome stiff resistance on both the right and the left.
The Legacy of Beijing, 2008
Andy Rosenberg | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
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The most worrisome aspect of the Beijing Games' legacy may be the lesson that aggressive regimes of the future will take from it -- attack your adversary while the world is glued to the Opening Ceremonies.
Russian Forces Dig In Deep In Georgia Despite Promise To Pull Out
AP | MIKE ECKEL | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
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GORI, Georgia — Russian forces lingered deep in Georgia on Thursday, digging trenches and setting up mortars a day before Kremlin officials prom...
The Metropolitan Opera in the Service of Putin?
David A. Andelman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Home
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Throughout the Nazi era in Germany, while Hitler and his minions were in the process of enslaving much of Europe, Wilhelm Furtwaengler served as chief...
US To Russia: Leave Georgia "Now"
Reuters | Posted 08.21.2008 | Home
TBILISI - Russia began pulling tanks and troops back over its frontier, pledging all forces would quit Georgia's heartland by Friday night, but the Un...
NATO: Russia Halts Military Cooperation
AP | PAUL AMES | Posted 08.21.2008 | Home
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Russia has halted all military cooperation with NATO, the Western alliance said Thursday, in the latest sign of East-West te...
In Red State Alaska, Dem Senate Hopeful Moves With Confidence
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
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It's hardly news that Republicans have outperformed Democrats in recent years when it comes to Alaska. But Anchorage Mayor and U.S. Senate hopeful Mar...
Is Georgia 2008 a Repeat of Hungary 1956, With John McCain as Agent Provocateur
Allan Lichtman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
The crisis in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia eerily recalls a tragedy of the Cold War, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. That year, after revol...
Practicing Paper Tigerism: Threatening to Boycott Russia's 2014 Sochi Olympics
Monroe Price | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
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The lights are about to go out on Beijing 2008, and -- guess what -- there's already talk of a Georgia-related U.S.-organized boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Norway: Russia To Cut All Military Ties With NATO
AP | BJOERN H. AMLAND | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home
OSLO, Norway — Russia has informed Norway that it plans to suspend all military ties with NATO, Norway's Defense Ministry said Wednesday, a day ...
Mikhail Gorbachev Sets the Record Straight
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
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Since 2001, George W. Bush and the neo-cons who run his foreign policy have treated the Russian Federation like a banana republic.
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