tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69203152610955766262024-10-04T19:04:40.512-07:00" We are not living in a sound and rational World, where far-reaching decisions by the US President are based on an understanding of their likely consequences. A World War III is no longer a hypothetical scenario." Michel Chossudovskynld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.comBlogger278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-91549858980439620522009-12-22T08:00:00.000-08:002009-12-22T08:01:13.547-08:00<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091222/wl_nm/us_iran_nuclear_ahmadinejad">WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leaked memo appearing to show Tehran's efforts to design an atomic bomb trigger was forged by the United States, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.S. news program.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-53020062178415104922009-12-04T08:57:00.000-08:002009-12-04T08:59:04.015-08:00<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29349390/">Lack of serious debate on question of Tehran's intentions is stunning</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-46027883242304334962008-08-30T07:46:00.000-07:002008-08-30T07:47:33.082-07:00By Mark Trevelyan <br />1 hour, 9 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080830/ts_nm/georgia_ossetia_dc">GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russian troops deep inside Georgian territory are stopping thousands of refugees from returning to their homes, a Georgian official said on Saturday. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-16732279431684207312008-08-28T17:40:00.000-07:002008-08-28T17:41:27.358-07:00By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer <br />1 hour, 47 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080828/ap_on_re_eu/georgia">MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of pushing Georgia toward war and said he suspects a connection to the U.S. presidential campaign — a contention the White House dismissed as "patently false." </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-66539683240975138392008-08-28T17:39:00.000-07:002008-08-28T17:40:27.375-07:00Experts Believe Russia Has Little to Fear From U.S. Threats<br /><br />By KIRIT RADIA<br />Aug. 28, 2008 <br /><br /><a href="http://">Washington is warning the Kremlin it could face consequences for a decision this week to recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in neighboring Georgia and for continuing to defy calls by the United States and its allies to remove Russian troops from Georgian territory.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-78702795561039642172008-08-25T17:50:00.001-07:002008-08-25T17:53:42.576-07:00Tue Aug 19, 3:00 AM ET<br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20080819/cm_uc_crpbux/op_337089"><br />The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-31295410483179536862008-08-25T17:45:00.000-07:002008-08-25T17:50:11.751-07:00<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080825/pl_afp/georgiarussiaconflictusceasefire">WASHINGTON (AFP) - Russia is still not honoring its ceasefire agreement with Georgia and continues to maintain a "large presence" of troops in the former Soviet republic, the US Defense Department said Monday. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-75036524089784069682008-08-23T09:59:00.001-07:002008-08-23T09:59:46.900-07:00by Stuart Williams <br />39 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080823/wl_afp/georgiarussiaconflict_16;_ylt=AtiLr7QGjtdNBssaBpLRtBJbbBAF">TBILISI (AFP) - Russian forces were on Saturday still deployed deep inside Georgia, keeping their grip on a strategic port city, as Moscow brushed aside Western accusations it was failing to abide by a ceasefire deal.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-36691717064741203922008-08-21T18:24:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:25:34.223-07:00<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7551576.stm">A day-by-day look at how the conflict involving Russia and Georgia over the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia is unfolding.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-29637099999698584752008-08-21T18:22:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:23:29.752-07:00Diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall traces the fault lines in the current Georgian conflict back to the Soviet era and finds some ominous echoes of the Cold War. <br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7563623.stm">There have been ominous signs of score settling between Russia and Georgia <br /><br />My first visit to Georgia was in 1977. I was staying with an old lady, the widow of a rather famous Russian artist called Vassily Shukhaev¸ who spent 10 years in exile in Siberia under Stalin. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-37546587673811619122008-08-21T18:21:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:22:10.095-07:00By Paul Reynolds <br />World affairs correspondent, BBC News website <br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7568209.stm">Russian troops in Georgia: What now for Nato relations with Moscow? <br /><br />On the eve of a special meeting of their foreign ministers to discuss the conflict in Georgia, Nato governments are divided on what to do about Russia. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-42464798121641902092008-08-21T18:20:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:21:04.452-07:00By Jenny Norton <br />BBC News <br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7571096.stm">Georgia was filmed firing rockets into South Ossetia on 8 August <br /><br />The fighting may well be over in South Ossetia, but the war of words between Russia and Georgia shows no sign of dying down. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-48356308951158334692008-08-21T18:09:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:10:12.692-07:00By Margarita Antidze <br />2 hours, 46 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/wl_nm/georgia_ossetia_dc;_ylt=AkqyD0ctxnJWy5Ehz6nOojZbbBAF">TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia said it would complete a pullback of troops in Georgia by the end of Friday but it stopped short of the extensive withdrawal demanded by the West, saying it would keep a force deep inside Georgia's heartland.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-19071562715626935062008-08-21T18:07:00.001-07:002008-08-21T18:07:55.597-07:00By CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press Writer <br />39 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_re_eu/un_russia_georgia">UNITED NATIONS - Russia and key Western nations remained at odds Thursday over a U.N. resolution aimed at bringing peace to Georgia, with the U.S., France and Britain insisting on immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and a commitment to Georgia's territorial integrity.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-50931842433401786232008-08-21T11:56:00.000-07:002008-08-21T11:57:35.598-07:00By BELA SZANDELZSKY, Associated Press Writer <br />1 hour, 10 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_russia">POTI, Georgia - Russian forces dug trenches and built fortifications in key areas of Georgia Thursday, but also rolled columns of tanks north toward home, picking and choosing how their nation would comply with the terms of a peace accord. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-7886194438874206232008-08-19T11:56:00.001-07:002008-08-19T11:56:47.332-07:00<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-georgia18-2008aug18,0,8186.story">German Chancellor Angela Merkel, meanwhile, voices strong support for Georgia's desire to join NATO, a goal that has fed Moscow's anger toward Saakashvili and the West.</a><br /><br />By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer <br />August 18, 2008 <br /><br />TBILISI, GEORGIA -- The Kremlin said Sunday that Russia's military would begin withdrawing its forces from Georgia today, though it was not immediately clear how far or how fast the troops would move.nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-31313312731139334062008-08-19T11:54:00.001-07:002008-08-19T11:54:54.427-07:00<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pillars18-2008aug18,0,7994401.story">The president's reliance on diplomacy based on personal relations with leaders such as Putin and his push to establish democracies from the top down has proved not so viable.</a><br /><br />By Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer <br />August 18, 2008 <br /><br />WASHINGTON -- In the last week, two major pillars of President Bush's approach to foreign policy have crumbled, jeopardizing eight years of work and sending the administration scrambling for new strategies in the waning months of its term.nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-31938953821103562102008-08-19T11:45:00.000-07:002008-08-19T11:50:25.285-07:00By BELA SZANDELSZKY, Associated Press Writer <br />20 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_russia">POTI, Georgia - Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgians in military uniform prisoner at a key Black Sea port in western Georgia on Tuesday, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the United States. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-69709314259855326512008-08-16T12:56:00.000-07:002008-08-16T12:57:51.160-07:00By Charles Krauthammer<br />Thursday, August 14, 2008; Page A17 <br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303365.html">The Russia-Georgia cease-fire brokered by France's president is less than meets the eye. Its terms keep moving as the Russian army keeps moving. Russia has since occupied Gori (appropriately, Stalin's birthplace), effectively cutting Georgia in two. The road to the capital, Tbilisi, is open, but apparently Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has temporarily chosen to seek his objectives through military pressure and Western acquiescence rather than by naked occupation. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-36860687474777069532008-08-16T12:33:00.000-07:002008-08-16T12:34:30.338-07:00By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer <br />2 hours, 17 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_re_eu/fearing_russia;_ylt=AlQnewsI4903c3dpYDu._ntbbBAF">WARSAW, Poland - Poland strikes a deal on a U.S. missile defense base. Ukraine tries to limit the Russian navy's movement in its waters. The Czech Republic's leader warns his nation is in danger of being sucked back into Moscow's orbit.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-49297465727569101302008-08-16T12:03:00.000-07:002008-08-16T12:04:10.251-07:00By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer <br />2 hours, 33 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_russia_207;_ylt=AhvfrGcof.OYjofd6JaBd1dbbBAF">IGOETI, Georgia - Russian forces pulled back Saturday from the center of a town not far from Georgia's capital after Russia's president signed a cease-fire deal, but his foreign minister later suggested there would be no immediate broader withdrawal.</a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-80676430373211318802008-08-16T11:56:00.001-07:002008-08-16T11:56:38.985-07:00by Olivier Knox <br />1 hour, 1 minute ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080816/ts_afp/georgiarussiaconflictus_080816175411;_ylt=AtuPIsxHOgG8207bHP_kghJbbBAF">CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Saturday warily welcomed Russia's signing of a deal to end its conflict with Georgia as "a hopeful step," but warned Moscow must now withdraw its forces. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-91813296639230534652008-08-15T11:13:00.001-07:002008-08-15T11:13:43.907-07:00<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_eu/russia_us_missile_defense">By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer <br />1 hour, 4 minutes ago<br /><br />MOSCOW - A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-11329367517334555662008-08-15T11:09:00.001-07:002008-08-15T11:09:59.225-07:00By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer <br />34 minutes ago<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_eu/us_russia_georgia_133;_ylt=AmWC6uQYbfOU7XzmIXUaXyG9F4l4">TBILISI, Georgia - A reluctant Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Friday he signed a cease-fire agreement with Russia and declared in the presence of the chief U.S. diplomat that the West had behaved in ways that invited the invasion. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920315261095576626.post-17731529195948513482008-08-14T17:10:00.000-07:002008-08-14T17:11:07.913-07:00By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/48077.html">WASHINGTON — Despite an angry pronouncement and a threat of U.S. action from President Bush, the U.S. military is determined to avoid inserting itself between its Georgian allies and its former superpower rival, Russia. </a>nld_coderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788242148597544042noreply@blogger.com0