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 the post- glasnost era and of the failed ...
salon.com - 10/27/2008
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salon.com —
(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 - ...
itar-tass.com - 10/21/2008
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itar-tass.com —
YEREVAN, October 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia will support
Iraq’s request to the U.N. Security Council for an...
extension of the international military presence in that country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. “There are ...
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Georgia On and Off Our Minds
Hit & Run —
... Mark Ames at the Nation thinks that the New York Times took an unwarrantedly kind view of the sterling qualities of Georgia's government and behavior in the recent Russia v. Georgia contretemps, and is now quietly backpedaling. Some excerpts: ...
Stop with the Cold War Talk
democracyarsenal.org —
... The Nation has an article cataloging the rapid shift in US perceptions of the Georgia-Russia war. It describes the transformation from the “Russia (evil) invaded Georgia (good) for no reason whatsoever except that Georgia was free” understanding of the situation to an understanding that recognized at least some Georgian culpability. ...
Bailing Out Georgia
Antiwar.com Original —
... of American foreign policy. As Mark Ames points out in The Nation , the evil-authoritarian-Russia-attacked-poor-little-democratic-Georgia narrative has been completely debunked check out Der Spiegel 's " ...
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