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Journalists and their good friends in the White House

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - It's actually difficult to find a news story of any significance that isn't shaped at its core by the incestuous, deeply affectionate relationship between the Government and the establishment media.

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The War We Don't Know

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Nation - By Mark Ames - Aug. 14 (Opinion) - While Russia and America see the conflict in abstract terms about spheres of influence and protecting allies, for Ossetians, who still recall the centuries of massacres Georgians committed against them, it is highly personal. They will still recall the Georgian massacres in the early 1920s, when Georgia was briefly independent, which exterminated up to 8 percent of the Ossetian population.

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The Long Run - Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By David D. Kirkpatrick - Aug. 17 (News Report) - "Just as Sept. 11 revolutionized our resolve to defeat our enemies, so has it brought into focus the opportunities we now have to secure and expand our freedom," Mr. McCain told a NATO conference in Munich in early 2002, urging the Europeans to join what he portrayed as an all but certain assault on Saddam Hussein. "A better world is already emerging from the rubble.

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U.S.-Russia Tensions Heighten Over Georgia Conflict

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Los Angeles Times - By Megan K. Stack with Borzou Daragahi, Peter Spiegel, Maggie Farley, Richard Boudreaux - Aug. 15 (News Report) - Despite official denials, Russian troops remained in control on the streets of Gori, a garrison city near the border with the rebel province of South Ossetia, setting up roadblocks into the city as Georgian forces looked on helplessly

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As Georgia and Russia Headed for a Clash, the U.S. Missed the Signals

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Helene Cooper, C.J. Chivers, Clifford J. Levy - Aug. 18 (News Analysis) - The story of how a 16-year, low-grade conflict over who should rule two small, mountainous regions in the Caucasus erupted into the most serious post-cold-war showdown between the United States and Russia is one of miscalculation, missed signals and overreaching, according to interviews with diplomats and senior officials in the United States, the European Union, Russia and Georgia. In many cases, the officials would speak only on the condition of anonymity.

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Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

FAIR - Aug. 14 (Press Release) - Georgia's contribution to the escalation of tensions in the region were not completely ignored by U.S. media, but its aggressive actions were often euphemized, as in AP's reference to "a crackdown by Georgia last week" (8/11/08), and were rarely allowed to interfere with the preferred narrative of Georgia as victim of an expansionist Russia.

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Russia vs Georgia

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

LinkTV - Aug. 15 (News Analysis) - Long-simmering tension over a disputed region erupts in fighting between Russia and Georgia. Each side claims to be the victim of the other's aggression. Is Russia re-asserting its military might for the world to see, or did Georgia over play its military hand? SOURCES: Russia Today, Russia; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; BBC News, U.K.; Deutsche Welle, Germany; Press TV, Iran; ABC News, U.S., Fox News, U.S.

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Russia and Georgia - A scripted war

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Economist - Aug. 14 (News Analysis) - The war in Georgia will make Russia more isolated. Worst of all, it will further corrode the already weak moral fabric of Russian society, making it more aggressive and nationalistic. The country has been heading in the direction of an authoritarian, nationalistic, corporatist state for some time. The war in Georgai could tip it over the edge.

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Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Scientific American - By David Biello - Aug. 15 (News Report) - More bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen depleted to support most ocean life--are spreading, dotting nearly the entire east and south coasts of the U.S. as well as several west coast river outlets.

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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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