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Two Women Sentenced to 'Re-education' in China

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Andrew Jacobs - Aug. 21 (News Report) - Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor" after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest areas, according to family members and human rights advocates.

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Georgia at War: What I Saw

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Huffington Post - By Bernard-Henri Levy - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - The first thing that strikes me as soon as we are out of Tbilisi is the strange absence of military force. I had read that the Georgian army, defeated in Ossetia, then routed in Gori, had withdrawn to the capital to defend it. I reach the outskirts of the city, moving forty kilometers on the highway that slices through the country from east to west. But I see almost no trace of the army which has supposedly regrouped in order to fiercely resist the Russian invasion.

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Goodbye Musharraf, hello Taliban

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Asia Times - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - As if on cue, the Taliban launched two of their most daring attacks in Afghanistan on the day that Pervez Musharraf resigned as president of Pakistan, opening up a political vacuum in that country and throwing into doubt its continued cooperation in the United States' "war on terror".

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Russia Never Wanted a War

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Mikhail Gorbachev - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - Russia did not want this crisis. The Russian leadership is in a strong enough position domestically; it did not need a little victorious war. Russia was dragged into the fray by the recklessness of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili. He would not have dared to attack without outside support. Once he did, Russia could not afford inaction.

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God's warriors are multiplying, for our foul luck

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Daily Star (Lebanon) - By Raja Kamal - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - Time is not on the side of peacemakers in the Middle East. Even relentless optimists are giving up. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become increasingly overshadowed and orchestrated on both sides by extreme and uncompromising religious groups that view their political mandate as holy and sacred.

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What Did We Expect?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Thomas Friedman - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - If the conflict in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin. The silver medal for bone-headed recklessness would go to Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the bronze medal for rank short-sightedness would go to the Clinton and Bush foreign policy teams.

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As Oil Giants Lose Influence, Supply Drops

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Jad Mouawad - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand.

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Eastern Europe gets jittery over Russia

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Los Angeles Times - By Tracy Wilkinson - Aug. 19 (News Analysis) - the fact that the distracted and overly stretched Bush administration took little concrete action to protect Georgia from Russia's wrath must also give pause to nations that would throw their lot completely with the U.S. Is the strategic alliance that many Eastern European countries have been building with the U.S. since the fall of communism nearly two decades ago still worth the risks?

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Afer Musharraf, a new U.S. role

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Christian Science Monitor - Aug. 19 (Editorial) - Bush, and soon either John McCain or Barack Obama, might be tempted to again back figures in Pakistan that promise quick suppression of jihadi extremists that thrive in the tribal, mountainous areas. While Musharraf did help in the capture of key Al Qaeda figures - which probably prevented some terrorist attacks - he failed to build up democratic institutions and popular support...

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Robert Creamer: Crisis in Georgia Beginning to Turn Into a Big Political Liability for McCain

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Huffington Post - Aug. 19 (Blog Post) - McCain's warmongering double talk comes back to bite him in the ass as Georgia reveals how weak the US is with all our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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