Archive for the 'War' Category
NATO to Back Georgia
August 18th, 2008Via: Reuters: NATO ministers will pledge support for Georgia and reiterate a promise of future membership on Tuesday while criticising Russian intervention in the country and urging Moscow to respect a peace deal, a spokeswoman said. Washington called an emergency meeting of the 26 NATO foreign ministers to review ties with Moscow and discuss help […]
“American Officials Said”: Russia Deployed Several SS-21 Missile Launchers and Supply Vehicles to South Ossetia
August 18th, 2008This story is actually several days old. I first saw it on Democracy Now, but I couldn’t find any confirmation of it. I held off on posting this. Can we get any confirmation of this from sources besides the U.S. Government? “American officials said,” doesn’t cut it. Via: New York Times: Even as Russia pledged […]
Russian Pullback to Begin Monday
August 17th, 2008Via: AP: Russian troops will begin pulling back Monday from their positions throughout Georgia toward the country’s separatist-held region of South Ossetia, the Kremlin said Sunday. Western pressure has been increasing on Moscow to withdraw its forces under a cease-fire deal signed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. The United States […]
Russia Seizes Arsenal of U.S. Weapons in Georgia
August 15th, 2008I’m squinting as I follow this situation. I almost don’t want to look. Via: Dow Jones: Russian forces have seized a “large arsenal” of U.S.-made weapons in the western Georgian city of Senaki including hundreds of assault rifles, a military spokesman said Friday. “In Senaki, we seized a large arsenal of weapons including 664 U.S.-made […]
RICE: ALL RUSSIAN TROOPS IN GEORGIA “MUST LEAVE IMMEDIATELY”
August 15th, 2008Via: Dow Jones: All Russian forces and irregular units with them must leave Georgia immediately, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in the Georgian capital Tbilisi Friday. Speaking at a joint press conference with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili after he had signed a ceasefire deal, Rice said: “With the signing of this accord, all […]
Russia Threatens to ‘Strike’ Poland in Wake of U.S. Missile Plan
August 15th, 2008Via: CBC: A Russian general says the recently negotiated deal to allow the United States to place a missile interceptor base in Poland “cannot go unpunished.” Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian general staff, made the comment to reporters on Friday. Nogovitsyn was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying Poland was […]
This Is a Tale of U.S. Expansion Not Russian Aggression
August 15th, 2008Via: Guardian: The outcome of six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has triggered an outpouring of the most nauseating hypocrisy from western politicians and their captive media. As talking heads thundered against Russian imperialism and brutal disproportionality, US vice-president Dick Cheney, faithfully echoed by Gordon Brown and David Miliband, declared that “Russian aggression […]
Future Wars ‘To Be Fought with Mind Drugs’
August 14th, 2008This is so 1970s. I’m delighted to learn that Operation Mind Control, by Walter Bowart is now being distributed via BitTorrent. I think that I paid $19 for a photocopy of the book in 1992, and was glad to have it! This book is rare. (Never mind the limited research edition that came out in […]
Russia Continues Occupation, Foreign Minister Says, “Forget” Georgia’s Territorial Integrity, U.S. Military to Deliver “Aid”
August 14th, 2008It’s not over yet. Washington Post: Russian Troops Hold Key Georgian City: Russian troops remained in control of a key Georgian city on Thursday and a Kremlin official suggested that two breakaway provinces will never return to Georgian control. Two days after signing a French-brokered ceasefire and with U.S. and European efforts underway to end […]
Suspected U.S. Missile Strike Kills 9 in Pakistan
August 14th, 2008In how many countries is the U.S. military killing people? I’ve lost track. Via: Los Angeles Times: In what could herald an intensified U.S. campaign against Islamic insurgents in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a suspected American missile attack killed at least nine people near the Afghan border, local officials said Wednesday. It was not immediately known […]
