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1. Can NATO Survive Georgia? : By Immanuel Wallerstein

2. The Biden Bid : By The Nation Editors

3. Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis : By Glenn Greenwald

4. The White House’s Weak Denials : By Dan Froomkin

5. Sick Justice : By The Nation Editors



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A Black and White World

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In the West, Russia Is Still Perceived as the Usual Suspect Prone to Aggression

By Georgy Bovt

bear.jpg Nowadays, while watching Russian and Western television channels simultaneously, even a viewer experienced in information wars can still get a more or less objective picture of the events taking place in South Ossetia and in Georgia. But if the viewer is inexperienced (as is the overwhelming majority of people in all countries on earth), then he will either get lightheaded or think that two completely different wars are being discussed.

I had the opportunity to observe how the Russian-Georgian war is interpreted and presented by the Western, first and foremost European, media. I got the impression that never since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union has the Western interpretation of events been so diametrically opposed to how this is all perceived in Russia and not just on federal television but in public opinion as well. And if today in Russia - and these sentiments are now even stronger then during the second Chechen war - the dominant viewpoint is that in relation to Georgia, on the whole, Russia is in the right and acting accordingly, despite some minor “war flaws,” then in the West, Russia’s actions appear to be a brazen and unprovoked aggression against an independent, pro-Western state headed by a democratically-elected president.

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Putka versus Dubya : Who is going to kill us more?

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in St Petersburg, then known as Leningrad. His father Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, was a factory foreman and his mother, Maria Ivanovna Putina. He was raised as an only child; his two brothers died young, one shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during World War II. In his youth he was often called Putka.

On the world stage, Putka’s arch rival is the 43rd President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush. He was born two days after the national holiday of the Fourth of July, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut where his father was attending Yale College in the Class of 1949. His mother was the former Barbara Pierce, whom his father had married on January 6, 1945. George was their first born. He likes to call himself Dubya (W).

Of late, Putka has been hopping mad with Dubya. Dubya has been riding rough shod in his backyard for some time now with Putka merely watching. Dubya’s latest push to expand NATO to Russia’s borders and his plans to deploy missile defense systems in the former Soviet bloc, however, seems to have finally drawn Putka’s ire. Dubya’s administration’s sporadic criticism of Putka’s rising dictatorship has not helped the matters either. Read more



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Anwaar’s articles appear simultaneously here at Truth Spring and at Soul Vibes in The Pakistan Tribune.


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