Time magazine. One big loser in the Russian-Georgian war was Israel

How is it if you stand up to bully like Russia that makes you a loser

TIME MAGAZINE
It is important that the entire world understands that what is happening in Georgia now will affect the entire world order,” Georgian Cabinet Minister Temur Yakobashvili said last weekend. “It’s not just Georgia’s business, but the entire [...]

John McCain secretly planning to kill the UN ?

And this is a bad thing ?
INDEPENDANT UK
Johann Hari: John McCain and his secretive plot to ‘kill the UN’
 
 
All too often, it is used as a blue punch-bag for any old complaint about the state of the world
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Does John McCain have a “hidden agenda” to “kill the UN”? That’s what the man [...]

AL Qaeda suffering in the Propaganda war as well as military war

Beginning of the end
US ARMY TIMES
Terrorists’ propaganda takes hit in Iraq
 
By Jim Michaels – USA Today
Posted : Thursday Aug 21, 2008 18:49:14 EDT
WASHINGTON — Military successes in Iraq have nearly crippled al-Qaida’s ability to produce battlefield propaganda, hampering for now its ability to recruit fighters and raise money, the U.S. military and analysts say.
The amount [...]

Today Georgia, Tomorrow Ukraine

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ACORN demands Pasadina Texas Police stop arresting Illegal “Brown” people

VIDEO HERE
KHOU TV
KHOU.com staff report  

PASADENA, Texas — Members of the community group ACORN marched on the Pasadena police station on Thursday, to complain about what they consider police harassment of Hispanics as a means to enforce immigration laws.

The group had hoped to meet with acting Pasadena Police Chief Michael Jackson, but instead had to [...]

The growing Syrian Ballistic missile threat to Israel

STRATEGY PAGE
Shaping Up The Super SCUDs Of Syria

August 21, 2008: Syria has been testing its ballistic missile inventory lately, with over a dozen missiles fired in the last few months. Israel has made no secret of the fact that, in a future war with Syria, they estimate that there would be as many as 3,300 Israeli [...]

The Baghdad diarist returns

GAWKER

Remember Scott Thomas Beauchamp, that soldier who wrote candidly about the dehumanizing effects of the war for The New Republic while pursuing a passionate affair with the TNR intern fact-checking his pieces until the conservablogosphere began campaigning to get him shitcanned? Former TNR staffer Spencer “Attackerman” Ackerman tracked him down in Germany for a fascinating [...]

Shimon Perez “Dont place Russian Missiles in Syria”

And yes they are surface to surface missiles not anti missile system
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Israel Expresses Concerns Over Possible Russia-Syria Arms Deal
18 minutes ago

(RTTNews) – Israel’s President Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Thursday expressed concerns over a possible Russia-Syria arms deal, saying it would destabilize the Middle East.
Earlier, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had offered to [...]

First Presidentual Debate set at Ole Miss involves Foreign policy

Commericalappeal
McCain, Obama to debate foreign policy at Ole Miss on Sept. 26
In what could turn into a duel of “told you so” and “did not…did too,” the first presidential debate, hosted by the University of Mississippi in Oxford on Sept. 26, will focus on foreign policy and national security.
That represents an unexpected change from the [...]

Russia “The whole 1968 Prague invasion was really overblown western Propaganda”

RUSSIA TODAY

World remembers Prague Spring
Forty years ago Russian tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to kill the country’s liberal reforms. The leaders of the small central European country were trying to create what they called ’socialism with a human face’. Military intervention by the USSR and other countries of the Warsaw Pact put [...]