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Written by RRN
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 17:50 |
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 Russia's war in Georgia is about more than just punishing Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's pro-American President, whose doomed military incursion into South Ossetia 10 days ago caused the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
The objectives of Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, are much bigger: to create a new global order in which the US and Russia are equal partners again. Putin has frequently lamented the demise of the Soviet Union. He has described it as the greatest geo-political catastrophe of the 20th century. For Putin, the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin was a period of national humiliation in which a weakened Russia was forced to accept Western economic help and which saw former members of the Warsaw Pact embrace Nato, the West's military club. Russia's objectives extend far beyond Georgia; to create a new global order in which the US and Russia are equal partners aga... |
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Written by RRN
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 17:48 |
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Soon after the solar eclipse on August 1st, fighting erupted between Georgian troops and South Ossetian forces. Following a flurry of threats and counter-threats, on August 7th, in a televised address, Mikheil Saakashvili vowed to restore Tbilisi's control over what he called the "criminal regime" in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and reinforce order. Georgia then unleashed a full-scale attack on the capital of South Ossetia , Tskhinvali, which, in turn, predictably provoked a Russian invasion. KREMLIN ASTROLOGY |
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City defends 'secret jail' built for DNC |
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Written by RRN
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:37 |
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DENVER - Activist groups say the converted warehouse poses a threat to civil liberties. The city maintains the facility is needed in case of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention. The makeshift holding center, dubbed "Gitmo on the Platte" by activists, is located on city-owned property near Steele Street and 38th Avenue. Newly-installed security cameras guard the exterior, chain-link fences and barbed wire form cells inside. "We feel the city should be ashamed of this secret prison they've set up," said Re-create '68 organizer Glenn Spagnuolo. City defends 'secret jail' built for DNC |
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One-world dream marks Olympics |
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Written by RRN
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Monday, 11 August 2008 16:08 |
 Resurgent China on Friday opened the Olympics with volleys of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that wove ancient Chinese history with modern wizardry and aimed to draw a line under months of political controversy. Drums thundered, firecrackers exploded and 14,000 performers flowed through the Bird's Nest stadium in a dazzling extravaganza that presented a benign image of China and offered up a vision of global harmony echoing the Games' motto "One World One Dream". Gulfnews: One-world dream marks Olympics |
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