http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080814/116045281.html
MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia’s General Staff said Thursday it was concerned by the nature of cargoes the United States was airlifting to Georgia, questioning if they were really humanitarian aid.

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Mike Whitney
Novakeo
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT
The American-armed and trained Georgian army swarmed into South Ossetia last Thursday, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians, sending 40,000 South Ossetians fleeing over the Russian border, and destroying much of the capital, Tskhinvali. The attack was unprovoked and took place a full 24 hours before even [...]

http://www.antiwar.com/….
August 14, 2008
Ossetia as botched Balkans replay
by Nebojsa Malic
Six days ago, as most of the world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing, Georgian troops attacked the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia. Russia quickly intervened, ousting Georgian forces from the region and attacking [...]

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Published on 11-08-2008
Source: Think Progress
Today the New York Times reports that Russia is escalating its war with Georgia, “moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia” and even bombing parts of Tibilisi, the Georgian captial.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/…
By Robert Parry
August 12, 2008
It’s touching how American neoconservatives who have no regard for international law when they want to invade some troublesome country have developed a sudden reverence for national sovereignty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Civilian Deaths on Increase In Conflict Over S. Ossetia
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 10, 2008; A01
GORI, Georgia, Aug. 9 — Russian strategic bombers and jet fighter planes pounded targets in many parts of Georgia on Saturday, hitting apartment buildings and economic installations, as well as military targets in an escalating war that is [...]

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Danger Room
Noah Shachtman
“Russia has launched a full scale military invasion,” Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said today in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital. Saakashvili is planning to withdraw Georgia’s entire 2,000-men contingent from Iraq within three days to help repel the Russians, even as Saakashvili calls for “an immediate ceasefire” in a conflict that Russian officials claim has [...]

http://cryptogon.com/…
August 9th, 2008
Via: AFP:
Russian warplanes on Saturday staged a raid near a major international oil pipeline that runs through Georgia but did not damage it, Georgia’s prime minister said.
The 1,774-kilometre (1,109-mile) Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline is the world’s second longest and takes oil from Azerbaijan to Western markets.
Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze told Georgian television: “The [...]

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By: Ben Smith
August 9, 2008 07:51 AM EST
When the North Caucasus slid into war Thursday night, it presented Senators John McCain and Barack Obama with a true “3 a.m. moment,” and their responses to the crisis suggested dramatic differences in how each candidate, as president, would lead America in moments of international crisis.

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Infowars
August 8, 2008
Georgia, US start military exercises despite tensions with Russia
CNews
July 15, 2008
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian and U.S. troops started a joint military exercise Tuesday amid growing tensions between the ex-Soviet republic and Russia, a Georgian defense ministry official said.