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Sunday, August 10, 2008 |
Goebbels would have been proud of our Western press. The way they are reporting the clashes in South Ossetia is the usual cold war propaganda. On Dutch tv yesterday (and all in all so far) there have only been images of the damage done by Russian bombings. No shocking images of the initial brutal killing of about 1500 Ossetians by the Georgian army and the fleeing of some 30,000 South Ossetian citizens to Russia. For the West the Ossetians are 'unpeople'.
Some videos here, here and here.
GR: "The night of August 7, Georgian forces launched an attack on Tskhinvali, which Tbilisi cynically described as an effort to restore the constitutional order. Just hours earlier, Saakashvili declared a ceasefire in the conflict zone, but the move was only a propaganda maneuver disguising the plan for a large-scale offensive. The timing is carefully chosen - the attention worldwide is focused on the opening of the Olympic Games, Russian Prime Minister V. Putin is in Beijing, and Russian President D. Medvedev is on a short vacation."
But Saakashvili seems to have overplayed his hand, and his Blitz Krieg is backfiring. The hypocrisy of the West is becoming blatant too.
OTB: "Ari Rusila argues that the bloody crisis in South Ossetia is directly tracable to Western backing of Kosovo's secession. While we considered Kosovo's claim 'unique', he argues, 'Moscow and [a] few other capitals considered the move a serious step toward the degradation of international law and the triumph of arbitrary approaches to the resolution of global problems'.
To understand the Russian response, imagine how Americans would respond if Serbia launched an attack into Kosovo while our KFOR troops were still there, and then imagine how much stronger the U.S. response would be if, in the course of the attack to retake the province, our troops took casualties because of that attack. These are the unfortunate, ruinous things that happen when state sovereignty is reduced to a meaningless phrase by past interventions and partitions, and the governments that attacked Yugoslavia over its internal affairs and partitioned Kosovo have no authority to find fault with what Russia is doing now."
GlobalResearch: "Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has sent an official note to representatives of all member countries in Brussels in connection with Georgia's military actions against South Ossetia. He's calling on them not to support Mikhail Saakashvili.
'Russia has already begun consultations with the ambassadors of the NATO countries and consultations with NATO military representatives will be held tomorrow,' Rogozin said. 'We will caution them against continuing to further support of Saakashvili.'
Rogozin says Georgian aggression against South Ossetia is obvious.
'It is an undisguised aggression accompanied by a mass propaganda war,' he said.
Rogozin has linked Friday's onslaught to the support given to Saakashvili at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest. At the meeting, Rogozin says, it 'was hinted Georgia has prospects in NATO'.
'It all confirms our numerous warnings addressed to the international community that it is necessary to pay attention to massive arms purchasing by Georgia during several years. Now we see how these arms and Georgian special troops who had been trained by foreign specialists are used,' he said."
Guardian: "It is crudely simplistic to cast Russia as the sole villain in the clashes over South Ossetia. The west would be wise to stay out.
In the Balkans, the west promoted the disintegration of multiethnic Yugoslavia, climaxing with their recognition of Kosovo's independence in February. If a mafia-dominated microstate like Montenegro can get western recognition, why shouldn't flawed, pro-Russian, unrecognised states aspire to independence, too?
Given its extraordinary ethnic complexity, Georgia is a post-Soviet Union in miniature. If westerners readily conceded non-Russian republics' right to secede from the USSR in 1991, what is the logic of insisting that non-Georgians must remain inside a microempire which happens to be pro-western?"
But again it is clearly shown the West is not concerned about people, about democracy or freedom, the only concern of the US and perfidious Albion is power and therefore they will do anything to encircle and destabilize the new powers like Russia, China and India. And the propaganda war of the West is in full blow.
But this time the nations around Georgia are fully supporting Russia and some are mobilizing against Georgia. Saakashvili can't even provide his own country with the necessary electric energy it requires to keep its citizens comfortable and its economy working. Saakashvili is a failed president and even the Georgian population is increasingly disgruntled with his government. He is a pawn of neocon interests. And he has seriously misjudged the situation. His attempt to provoke and engage the US in another war is falling flat. The Georgian population again is the victim of a horrible power game.
Novinite: "The armed forces of the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia have launched an operation to push Georgia's troops out of the Kodor Valley - the only part of the Abkhazian territory that they control."
Once again the West has only managed to create another war situation, one of many. The US and Britain are the two nations that are constantly threatening peace and stability all over the world, and their rationale is 'oil', greed and power. But again it appears they have miscalculated badly. And Saakashvili seems to have been duped by the US and NATO.
11:54:42 AM 
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Watch this satirical recapitulation of the Bush administration.
Sadly enough, Bush has not only ruined the US but is still continuing, in the best American tradition, to ruin the world. However, his madness has now reached a stage in which everything is backfiring.
PressTV: "Kuwait says it has the 'courage' to advise the White House not to escalate its war of words with Iran over the country's nuclear program."
Mathaba: "Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that Beijing officially recognizes Iran's right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."
So, George, now it's time to bend down your head and cry; put your hands forward so we can lead you to the International Criminal Court for war crimes. You and a few other abusers of power.
The whole clique of con men in the upper regions of the US administration must be cleaned out.
Harper's: "Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exists to serve the public, not particular individuals.
The conservatism that speaks to us through its actions in Washington is institutionally opposed to those baseline good intentions we learned about in elementary school. Its leaders laugh off the idea of the public interest as airy-fairy nonsense; they caution against bringing topnotch talent into government service; they declare war on public workers. They have made a cult of outsourcing and privatizing, they have wrecked established federal operations because they disagree with them, and they have deliberately piled up an Everest of debt in order to force the government into crisis. The ruination they have wrought has been thorough; it has been a professional job. Repairing it will require years of political action."
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