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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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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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At Putin's Mercy

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Atlantic Monthly - By Jeffrey Tayler - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - The pitiable David-and-Goliath asymmetry of Georgia's dustup with Russia has obscured both the United States' culpability in bringing about the conflict, and the nature of the separatism that caused it in the first place

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Boundary Issues

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New Yorker - By David Remnick - Aug. 17 (Opinion) - On a bright September day in 1993, not long before he ended his two decades in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered a rare public address in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein. Although Solzhenitsyn was energetic at the lectern, he was all but finished with his epic work as the chronicler of Soviet cruelty...

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A Two-Sided Descent Into Full-Scale War

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Washington Post - By Peter Finn - Aug. 17 (Special Report) - Nine days ago, late in the afternoon of Aug. 7, Georgian tanks, artillery and infantry began moving out of bases in Georgia and toward South Ossetia, a zone long held by separatists who are backed by Moscow. About 800 troops from Georgia's 4th Battalion left a base in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, that Thursday afternoon, according to Georgian Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili...

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Medvedev Defiant on Response

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Washington Post - By Fredrick Kunkle - Aug. 16 (News Report) - Medvedev also had harsh words for an agreement that Poland and the United States signed Thursday to build an antimissile facility on Polish soil. The deal was "aimed at the Russian Federation," he said. A senior Russian general suggested that the base's presence might expose Poland to a military strike.

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No Permits, No Protests In Beijing's Special 'Pens'

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Washington Post - By Jill Drew, Ariana Eunjung Cha - Aug. 15 (News Report) - As the Olympic Games end their first week, there are no reports that anyone has used the "protest pens" set up in three Beijing parks for demonstrations sanctioned under Chinese law.

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