20 November 2008
black commentator: under barack obama prepare for repression, subterfuge & continuing wars
"…Suddenly [Rahm] Emanuel grabbed his steak knife and, as those who were there remember it, shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table.This is what the New York Times article (by Elisabeth Bumiller – June 15, 1997) titled, 'The Brothers Emanuel' reported about the war mongering pro apartheid Zionist Rahm Emanuel, who is Barack Obama's choice for White House Chief of Staff. Americans and the world should be truly alarmed.
'Dead!' he screamed.
The group immediately joined in the cathartic release: 'Nat Landow! Dead! Cliff Jackson! Dead! Bill Schaefer! Dead!"
The fact that Barack Obama has selected Rahm Emanuel for White House Chief of Staff is a clear signal as to Obama's actual hawkish and war like intentions; and though this choice comes as no surprise to those who did not drink the Obama corporate media Kool-Aid, it should serve as an urgent wake up call to what real leftists and so called progressives that remain in this nation. The installment of Barack Obama as president of the U.S. Empire will mean enormous and intensified political repression and subterfuge internally; and ongoing wars externally.
Now that the corporate media has served in the despicable role of ensuring that Obama is the next face of U.S. Empire, it unabashedly is in the process of attempting to prepare the U.S. citizenry and the world for further military build up and conflict under the Obama regime.
A recent example of this can be found in the November 16, 2008, TIME article (by Mark Thompson) titled, 'Why Obama Will Continue Star Wars' The continuation of the Star Wars so-called defense system is precisely what the corporate / military elite of the U.S. Empire want, despite the fact that it is unnecessary, ineffective, incredibly expensive and of course unduly and deliberately provocative - particularly as relates to Russia and other European nations.
In column after column this writer has attempted to alert readers to who and what Barack Obama really is and what this means for this nation and the world. In short order the 'chickens will [ultimately] come home to roost,' meaning that hopefully many more people will have gotten over their corporate-media induced, Barack Obama Kool-Aid stupor. The dangers of remaining in the stupor are nothing short of catastrophic.Politically conscious and justice & peace loving people have but one viable alternative: WE MUST ORGANIZE! We must do our utmost to urge people to be vigilant. We must constantly highlight the political capitalist systemic contradictions and the corporate give-aways of the Obama/Biden regime. Economic exploitation, disparity, and racism will in fact increase. We must prepare for the inevitable increased political repression against the people of this nation, clearly understanding that the very subterfuge of the corporate / military elite, and its hand maiden - the corporate media, is in fact what brought Barack Obama to power as the face of U.S. Empire.
The times are perilous. Vigilance and organization of and between Black, Brown, White, Red, and Yellow peoples must be the order of the day. Have no illusions as to what is ahead in the U.S. Empire and what is at stake.
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book). Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.
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08 October 2008
russian prez becomes video blogger

Dmitry Medvedev spoke about his upcoming address to the World Policy Conference in Evian in his first video address to the site's visitors
President Dmitry Medvedev has never been shy about showing off his Internet savvy, having spoken publicly about social networking sites and offering words of support for Russian web slang.
Now the president will be regularly addressing citizens in a new "video blog" section launched Tuesday on the Kremlin's web site.
"I'm using this means of communication for the first time," a serious Medvedev, apparently sitting at his Kremlin desk, told viewers in Tuesday's inaugural video. "I wanted to speak about some pressing problems the world is facing today."
In the two-minute clip, Medvedev, flanked by two large monitors, called for joint action on the global financial crisis and said he would push for support of a new European security treaty at an international conference Wednesday in Evian, France.
The events in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Georgia and elsewhere have demonstrated that the present security system is "extremely ineffective," Medvedev explained, calling for discussion of a new security system stretching from "Vancouver to Vladivostok."
"It is absolutely clear that the time has come for new solutions," Medvedev said.
Medvedev, who portrays himself as an avid Internet user, plans to use the new video section to regularly address citizens, a Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday, referring to the planned videos as "podcasts." ~ read more
29 August 2008
barack obama's 2008 democratic nomination acceptance speech
part 1 of 2 direct link to part 2
senator obama took the stage at 11 minutes past the hour - 9:11 p.m. cdt. thankfully, all the talk about his giving his speech 'from a greek temple' turned out to be another case of rovian hyperbole. senator obama delivers a great speech and its easy to see how so many have fallen under his spell. however, the reality is that there is no difference between senator obama's and senator mcmadman mccain's policies.
congressman ron paul told cnn that "their foreign policies are identical, there's no difference."
"they want more troops in afghanistan. they want to send more support to georgia to protect the oil line there. neither one says bring home the troops from iraq from the bases -- you know the bases are going to stay there, the embassy as big as the vatican, that's going to remain. So their foreign policies are exactly the same," he added.
the former republican presidential candidate said that the two candidates are both threats to the us national interests. ~ read more [link to cnn interview video]
the real reason why there is no difference in either obama or mcmadman mccain's policies is because they are both zionist puppets.====
learn more about the ashkenazi / khazar "jewish" imposters
see
the thirteenth tribe by arthur koestler
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benjamin h. freedman nee freidman:
the truth about khazars
u.s. presidents - jewish pawns
1974 speech
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and also:
rabbi chaim lefkowitz
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and also
jack bernstein
my farewell to israel the thorn in the mideast
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14 August 2008
pravda puts george w. bush in his place
apparently, shrub's statement yesterday didnt go over very well...
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14.08.2008
What’s a little shock and awe among inferior people we want to rob and destroy, eh?
What do human beings need an infrastructure for?
Why do they need clean water? Why do they need electricity?
What’s a little torture?
What’s a little regime change? Don’t recall when that was a goal of yours?
What’s a little deviant, perverted sexual experimentation and humiliation?
What’s a few secret detention camps?
What’s wrong with destroying an environment for 4 billion years and generations after generations of people? After all, they’re just rag heads, aren’t they Mr. Bush?
Perhaps when Russia even begins to match your tremendous feats of glory can you speak about pulling back you fool of the worst kind.
You can also tell your number two man to shut up. Cheney said "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States."
So how do you plan to answer this erroneously termed “aggression”? He says this will “worsen” relations with the United States? Buddy, relations with the United States could hardly be any worse than they are now.
The United States shows no respect for Russia. The United States shows no respect for any other country weaker than itself, much less a rival as you perceive Russia to be. How about your NATO? Today the west, tomorrow the world, eh? America uber alles!
How about your missile shield breathing down the neck of the Russian nation? There to protect Europe from Iran? The most totally absurd thing that only a moron would believe.
How about your deliberate breaking of your agreements regarding Serbian Kosovo? UN Resolution 1244 which your country agreed to, is the ink dry…you deliberately went against it and recognized Kosovo in total disregard and in violation of that agreement.
And you expect your words to be heeded or even listened to? You are joking! It is said when Caligula went mad he heard laughing.
Do you hear people laughing at you Mr. Bush?
Listening to you, your Vice President, Condi Rice and US and western officials complain about "regime change," "invasion," "bloodshed" and "suffering civilians" (in the light of their crimes across the world) have become nothing but laughable at best and highly infuriating and enraging at worst.
You are an idiot!
We seem to recall that when your Israeli friends were absolutely devastating the people of Lebanon, wantonly killing civilians, destroying their country’s infrastructure and destroying their environment also….the flapping jaw of your representative, Condoleezza Rice and your entire administration were saying no ceasefire, no nothing, just keep on going, keep on committing acts of state terrorism on innocent people, keep on committing your war crimes, you have them covered.
Well, Mr. Bush, this is it. Moscow better get this one right: No limited engagement nonsense. Moscow has the moral and legal right to carry out full scale military operations within Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia to ensure the safety of its citizens, to ensure the protection of Abkhazians and Ossetians and to finally destroy NATO plans for the Caucasus region.
No sane, informed, honest, rational person can blame Russia for reacting to a genocide against their own citizens in Georgia. But then you are NONE of those things.
The problem is not what Russia is doing, but how the US is reacting to it. If you were sane, if you were informed, if you were honest, if you were rational, if you were even marginally fair, you should be happy to see Russian forces put an end to the killing of Russian citizens by the Georgian military. But no, your government is advised by lunatics who belong in psychiatric wards instead of the Pentagon and White House. And you, Mr. Bush, belong in an international criminal court to be judged for your crimes against peace and your crimes against humanity.
Lisa KARPOVA
PRAVDA.Ru ~ read original
see also
brother nathanael kapner
why putin ignores america's threats
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11 August 2008
video: interview of american joe mestas in south ossetia
american citizen joe mestas was vacationing in south ossetia with his wife and five year old daughter. mr. mestas' wife is from south ossetia and mr. mastas has been in the area many times.
mr. mestas said that since the united states has been supporting georgia that he thought that there would be some control over the situation and that it would be a peaceful resolution. mr. mestas says that what is happening in south ossetia is not just the war it is war crimes. mr. mestas says that "george bush and [georgian president mikhail] saakashvili should answer for the crimes that are being committed. the killing of innocent people...and the running over with tanks of women and children and throwing grenades into cellars to kill innocent people, war is supposed to be military against military - georgians are killing innocent civilians - they're committing genocide."
when asked by the russia today interviewer if he wanted washington to step in, mr. mastas replied "i urge every american who may be watching this broadcast right now, to call their senators, their congressmen, the white house and tell george bush to get out! america does not need to intervene in this war -- america needs to stop supporting georgia. what saakashvili is doing is no better than what saddam hussein did and if george bush is supporting that, like he's supporting georgia, he's no better than saddam hussein."
related posts
quarter to three forums linked here
see thread
south ossetian fireworks - page 7
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from stupid to moronic to evil
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." John Stuart Mill
Many years ago, during the 1970s if memory serves, neoconservative Irving Kristol, echoing John Stuart Mill, called his conservative party, the Republican Party, "the stupid party."
Kristol was referring to the Republican’s inability to compete on the policy front. Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan led the Republicans out of the wilderness, but now Republicans have reverted to the stupid party, or more precisely the moronic party.
Take a minute to examine the presidential campaign propaganda that Republicans send around the Internet, and you will see what I mean. For example, recently while Obama was traveling abroad, showing himself to the remnant of our allies, Republican political operatives blitzed the Internet with the suggestion that Obama might not be an American citizen. Doubt was cast on either of his parents being American citizens. The message went on to suggest that Obama refused to produce his birth certificate. All the while, Obama was traveling abroad on a US passport, a document that cannot be obtained without a US birth certificate.
Considering that the Republican candidate, John McCain, was born in the Panama Canal Zone, only the GOP would be dumb enough to make an issue over whether the Democrats’ candidate was born in one of the 50 states.
The innuendo and negativism with which the Republicans are conducting their presidential campaign are unprecedented. There is no sign of issues in McCain’s Karl Rovian campaign. Issues have been superseded by hate, lies, and war.
Republicans stand for war without end, a police state to make us "safe," and "energy independence," which means drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve and offshore of Florida’s Gulf Coast beaches.
What Republicans really mean by "energy independence" is prevailing over environmentalists. Republicans lump environmentalists in the same category with abortionists, gays, feminists, food stamp recipients, trade unionists and terrorists. To a Republican, saving America means prevailing over these people.
The notion that Americans can achieve energy independence by drilling offshore wells and in the Arctic is absurd. A number of experts have pointed out that the best data do not support any such possibility.
For example, Robert Kaufman at Boston University, citing US government data, reports that the US might have 40 billion barrels of oil in undeveloped reserves which are not off limits. Another 19 billion might be in off limit offshore sites and in the Arctic National Wildlife preserve.
All of this oil cannot be brought up at once, and apparently none before 2017. Bringing it all into production would, experts think, increase US oil production by 1-4 percent. In other words, nothing. Currently the US uses 21 million barrels a day, and the entire world uses 86 million barrels a day. At best, the Arctic Wildlife Refuge could by 2017 produce 1 million barrels a day, about one-twentieth of current US use and one-eighty-sixth of current world use.
This is not energy independence, and it would have no material effect on price. Indeed, the offshoring by US corporations of US jobs has a much greater effect on the dollar price of oil by inflating the US trade deficit and driving down the exchange value of the US dollar. But, of course, here we are talking about facts, and facts are of no interest to Republicans.
Republicans are interested in prevailing over the "bad guys." The fact that the bad guys are Bush, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Perle, Billy Kristol, and other such is beyond the Republicans’ imagination. Bad guys are "towel heads" with beards and robes and are "over there" where they must be killed before the come "over here." The extent of the Republican intellect boils down to "over here" vs. "over there."
The other great bugaboo of Republicans is "the liberal media." Fox "News" has Republicans convinced that "the liberal media" is endangering America by siding with terrorists.
Clearly, Republicans never look at "the liberal media." It was Judith Miller at the "liberal" New York Times who served up as fact all the neocon disinformation about Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections. Without the New York Times leading the way, the neocons could never have pulled off their illegal invasions.
On July 18, 2008, the New York Times allowed the Israeli Benny Morris to spew lies about Iran that he used to justify an attack on that country possibly even involving nuclear weapons. This is the same New York Times that the idiot conservatives believe is part of "the liberal media."
It was ABC News that served up the neocon disinformation that the anthrax had been traced to Saddam Hussein.
And, today, August 9, 2008, as I write, it is the "liberal" Washington Post that has written an editorial urging the US to go to war with Russia.
With its editorial, "Stopping Russia: the US and its allies must unite against Moscow’s war on Georgia," the Washington Post has established a world record for the maximum number of lies in the minimum number of words.
Except for the Washington Post, the entire world knows that Georgia (the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, not Georgia USA) initiated the aggression that killed Russian peacekeepers and hundreds of civilians in South Ossetia, peacekeepers who were there with the blessing of Georgia and international agreements.
The true facts are available all over the world press. But the "liberal" Washington Post serves up the lie that Russia has attacked Georgia and conceivably plans to conquer all of Georgia. "This is a grave challenge to the United States and Europe," thunders the Bush Regime’s mouthpiece, aka, "the liberal media."
Thirsting for blood, the "liberal media" declares: "The United States and its NATO allies must together impose a price on Russia."
Here we see the combination of idiocy and delusion in one sentence. The United States has proved that it is incapable of occupying Iraq, much less Afghanistan. Russia has a large trade surplus. America’s NATO allies are dependent on Russian natural gas. Yet the "liberal" Washington Post wants a bankrupt US and "its NATO allies" who are dependent on Russian energy "to impose a price on Russia" for defending its peacekeepers!
Seldom has the world seen such total insanity as the neoconservative Washington Post, a propaganda sheet as far from "liberal media" is it is possible to be.
Georgia was part of Old Russia and the Soviet Union for two centuries. After Soviet communism collapsed, the US taxpayer funded neoconservative National Endowment for Democracy broke every agreement that President Reagan had made with Gorbachev and began using US taxpayers’ money to rig and purchase elections in former constituent parts of the Russian/Soviet empire.
The Endowment for Democracy purchased Georgia as a US colony. The affront to Russia was extreme, but at the time Russia was weak. Oligarchs with outside money had grabbed control over Russian resources, and Russia was in dire straits and could not resist American imperialism.
Putin corrected the situation for Russia.
Now, using American weapons, Georgia for reasons yet to be revealed has violated its own agreement with Russia and attacked South Ossetia, killing in the process Russian peacekeepers. Vladimir Vasilyev, chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Security told the press: "The things that were happening in Kosovo, the things that were happening in Iraq – we are now following the same path. The further the situation unfolds, the more the world will understand that Georgia would never be able to do all this without America."
Yes, without America there would be no war in Ossetia and no war between Russia and its former constituent part.
Without America there would be no war in Afghanistan. No war in Iraq.
Without America there would not be 1.2 million dead Iraqis and 4 million displaced Iraqis. We have no idea of the toll on Afghan civilians, although women and children appear to be the prime targets of the US/NATO forces that are "bringing peace and freedom to Afghanistan."
Recently, US Secretary of State Condi Rice said that the US government could not prevent an Israeli attack on Iran. Israel is an independent country, said the American Secretary of State. What an extraordinary lie.
Israel cannot exist without American weapons and money. Israel cannot attack Iran without overflying Iraq, which the US air force can easily prevent. It is clear as day that the Bush Regime has given the green light to Israel to attack Iran so that the Bush Regime can rush to "Israel’s defense."
Meanwhile the "liberal" media is urging the US to get involved in a war between Russia and Georgia. The insanity will lead to the unloosening of nuclear weapons.
Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct. ~ read original
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general petraeus: u.s. is flying georgian troops into battle zone
times online excerpt:US aircraft have started to fly some of Georgia's 2,000 troops in Iraq back home to join the fight in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq said today.
mike rivero [www.whatreallyhappened.com] points out:
"The flights are ongoing to redeploy the elements of the Georgian contingent so that they can deal with the security issues in their country," General Petraeus told The Times in an interview at his office inside Baghdad’s Green Zone. ~ read moreWhich means the United State is now openly engaged in military operations against Russia, making those transport planes legitimate targets of war.
All anyone who wants to really turn this into a Russo-American war needs to do is shoot one of those down.
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09 August 2008
more on russian / georgian / south ossetia conflict
A Russian convoy outside the village of Dzhaba in South Ossetia.
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared that "war has started."
excerpt:
If you have been keeping up with the news out of the Caspian Basin area, Georgia attacked South Ossetia and killed 10 Russian peacekeepers. South Ossetia wishes to be part of Russia again, not part of Western/CIA/Zionist influenced Georgia. Many of the people in South Ossetia are Russian citizens and Russia has moved to protect them. And Russia is 100% morally-justified in doing so.
Current news reports as of noon Central Europe Time indicate that about 1,500 are dead in South Ossetia, some of them are Russian citizens who live there, not the Russian military forces that have been moved in.
Remember well, America, that Bush's Black, Gap-Toothed Poodle, Candy Rice, was recently in Georgia while Bush was at the G8 meetings. She pledged her support for Georgia and NATO membership...for a nation that is nowhere CLOSE to Europe.
BushCo is desperate to get a pipeline through Georgia to the Black Sea. That is one of the few routes they have out of the Caspian Basin's landlocked oil and gas deals.
Georgia attacked, killed 10 Russian peacekeepers and now several thousand residents of South Ossetia have been killed and wounded. The Russian response was swift and empathetic. The Russian Bear is ANGRY and this Idiot BushCo plan is not going to be tolerated any longer.
Russia moved immediately and put an armored division in South Ossetia and Russian jet fighters pounded targets in Georgia. Military operations continued into Saturday on this side of the world with Russian jets obliterating more targets in Georgia including an entire military base at Gori, Georgia.
The Georgia oil port of Poti has apparently also been destroyed by Russian jets.
Moscow is also sending in even more tanks for peace enforcement. All America heard was the handpicked Zionist President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, whining that the Big Bully Russia was attacking poor little Georgia with 'aggression.' They are NOT admitting it was the US and Georgia who started things. ~ read more
see also
the new york times
bush supports georgia against russia
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ria novosti
russia says georgian forces expelled from south ossetian capital
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brother nathanael kapner:
russia's threat to the zionist west
a christian russia emerging
is putin a true christian leader?
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israel stirring up trouble in russian / georgian / south ossetia conflict
UPDATES:
ynet news: war in georgia: the israeli connection
uruknet: israel and the u.s. behind the georgian agression?
press tv: israel 'has a hand in s. ossetia war'
haaretz: georgian minister tells israel radio: thanks to israeli training, we're fending off russian military
eric hufschmid: why is there a war in georgia?
debka file excerpt:
Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, early Friday, Aug. 8, bringing the Georgian-Russian conflict over the province to a military climax.
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin threatened a "military response."
Former Soviet Georgia called up its military reserves after Russian warplanes bombed its new positions in the renegade province.
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DEBKAfile discloses Israel's interest in the conflict from its exclusive military sources:
Jerusalem owns a strong interest in Caspian oil and gas pipelines reach the Turkish terminal port of Ceyhan, rather than the Russian network. Intense negotiations are afoot between Israel Turkey, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Azarbaijan for pipelines to reach Turkey and thence to Israel’s oil terminal at Ashkelon and on to its Red Sea port of Eilat. From there, supertankers can carry the gas and oil to the Far East through the Indian Ocean.
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Last year, the Georgian president commissioned from private Israeli security firms several hundred military advisers, estimated at up to 1,000, to train the Georgian armed forces in commando, air, sea, armored and artillery combat tactics. They also offer instruction on military intelligence and security for the central regime. Tbilisi also purchased weapons, intelligence and electronic warfare systems from Israel.
These advisers were undoubtedly deeply involved in the Georgian army’s preparations to conquer the South Ossetian capital Friday.
In recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly demanded that Jerusalem halt its military assistance to Georgia, finally threatening a crisis in bilateral relations. Israel responded by saying that the only assistance rendered Tbilisi was "defensive."
This has not gone down well in the Kremlin. Therefore, as the military crisis intensifies in South Ossetia, Moscow may be expected to punish Israel for its intervention. ~ read more
see also
eric hufschmid
why is there a war in georgia?
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08 August 2008
russia 'invades' georgia as south ossetia descends towards war
apparently, a war is breaking out between russia and georgia while all the american mainstream media can obsess on is john edwards.
Russia 'invades' Georgia as South Ossetia descends towards war
Russian tanks have entered Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, pushing the troubled region closer to all-out war. ~ read more

