reason.com - 10/27/2008
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Last Friday, Salon.com columnist and blogger Glenn Greenwald, one of the Bush presidency's harshest critics, blasted both major party presidential candidates for perpetuating the "blatant falsehood" that Russia launched an "unprovoked attack" on Georgia last August. This, he asserted, was a ...
salon.com - 10/27/2008
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(updated below) Over at Reason Magazine, in an
article by Contributing Editor Cathy Young , I stand...
accused of harboring "sympathy for Russia"; tolerance of, and perhaps even support for, Putin's internal repression and oligarchical rule; and ...
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The Russia/Georgia conflict and the tactics of 2002 - ...
thenation.com - 10/23/2008
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Rocking the Black Vote Subscribe Media Amy Alexander
: Dallas DJ Tom Joyner is encouraging African-American listeners...
to engage in electoral politics. From Gorbachev to Putin Subscribe Russia Robert V. Daniels : Five authors provide differing views of ...
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The Cold War That Wasn't
weeklystandard.com - 11/3/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
At an event at a Boca Raton synagogue,
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) unconscionably says that the United...
States should let Russia invade Georgia. Beginning at the 3:50 mark in the following video, which was recorded by Pamela Geller of the blog ...
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Dem. Congressman: "Let [Russia] Invade Georgia. It's ...
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Putin's apologists
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Cathy Young is baffled by some Western leftists' excuses for post-Communist Russia:
Whatever is eventually learned about the start of the war, Russia's actions afterwards are not in doubt: the illegal invasion and partial occupation of Georgia; the looting and destruction of Georgian property and military equipment; the abetting of ethnic cleansing in Georgian villages by South Ossetian vigilante squads; the abrupt, unilateral recognition of the two separatist republics. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili may be no paragon of democratic governance or ...
Cathy Young Responds to Glenn Greenwald Re: The Left and Putin's Russia
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Editor's Note: On October 24, Contributing Editor Cathy Young wrote a column taking the left to task for "making excuses for Putin's Russia." That column, which discussed in detail Salon's Glenn Greenwald, provoked a response from Greenwald, which can be read here. Below, Cathy Young responds to Greenwald. Several points are in order. 1. Once again, Greenwald muddies the issue by conflating two different positions: (A) that Russia's invasion of Georgia was an "unprovoked" attack; and (B) that the principal "bad guy" in the conflict was Russia while the principal ...
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