http://www.globalresearch.ca…
Global Research, September 18, 2008
Itar-Tass - 2008-09-17
Abkhazia and South Ossetia plan to apply for membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh said.

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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 [...]

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http://novakeo.com/…
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://russia-insider.livejournal.com/25329.html
Aug. 10th, 2008 at 9:42 AM
In the modern world you cant wage a war just with your tanks and planes.
You have to use media. In Germany during WWII they would say “Truth is not what happened, truth is what we tell people”.

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from Pissed On Politics by PoliShifter
We’ve been focused all this time on Iran watching for the signal of a U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. For years now it seems we have been on the brink of attacking Iran. Many have suggested that the Bush Cheney regime would attack Iran for political purposes to help [...]

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.

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from Pissed On Politics by PoliShifter
All hell broke loose yesterday it appears as Russia and Georgia wage war.
Suprisingly, the outbreak of a new war that could plunge us into ww3 was overshadowed by Edward’s affair. Such is the world we live in.

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://dyn.politico.com/…
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.