Georgian opposition fails to agree on meeting with Saakashvili

Georgian opposition leaders on Thursday gave Saakashvili three days to meet with them to discuss their demand for early elections, otherwise, they threatened to start blocking the country's highways.

The opposition, who have been demonstrating against the president on the streets of the capital for the past month, claim over 60 people, including six police officers, were injured in clashes at a police compound in the Tbilisi suburb of Didi Digomi, on Wednesday night.

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VS: raketschild komt er toch

Volgens de Amerikanen is zo'n schild nodig ter bescherming tegen Iran. De regering heeft er al toestemming voor gegeven, maar er heerst grote verdeeldheid in het Tsjechische parlement over de installatie van het radarsysteem.

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Willen ze nu echt oorlog met Rusland???

De agressor wordt beloond

Georgië krijgt 2.8 miljard euro voor "wederopbouw."

Russian troops attacked, report claims 50 killed

MOSCOW (AFP) — A Russian troop convoy was attacked Saturday in the volatile Caucasus province of Ingushetia and an opposition website said around 50 soldiers had been killed, though officials confirmed only two dead.

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"Verkiezingen worden uitgesteld"

Russisch radicaal-rechts (Zjirinovsky) beschuldigd Amerikaans radicaal-rechts (Cheney/Bush) van complot om de Amerikaanse verkiezingen "uit te stellen."

De sluizen staan open

Wereldwijd pompen de centrale banken honderden miljarden dollars in de markt, hetgeen tot een tijdelijke opleving op de beurs leidde.

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Petition: End NATO now!

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TELL BUSH, CHENEY, RICE AND CONGRESS: U.S. HANDS OFF GEORGIA AND RUSSIA - NO NEW WAR - END NATO NOW!

It is with growing concern that we observe that the U.S. government is threatening new military moves that carry the danger of another war-this time against Russia.

The Bush regime and the corporate U.S. news media have launched an anti-Russia hate campaign. Yet just as with the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the threats on Iran, the threatened military confrontation with Russia is also based on a lie.

The truth, hidden by most of the corporate news media, is that Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, unleashed his U.S.- and Israeli-armed and-trained forces on the tiny autonomous region of South Ossetia, murdering civilians and attacking Russian peacekeeping troops stationed there. Only then did Russian troops respond.

Saakashvili is the president who sent 2,000 Georgian youth to join the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. The U.S. supplies the weapons to his army. U.S. Special Forces and Israeli advisers and mercenary contractors direct the Georgian military, which just held three weeks of joint exercises with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in July. We must take note that like Iraq and Iran, Georgia itself is a prize for U.S. oil companies, as it is a major transit point for Central Asian oil.

There is little doubt that U.S. arming of Georgia and its push to get Georgia into NATO set the scene for the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia and created the threat of a new major war. Now Washington also threatens Russia by placing missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the people there. Surrounding Russia with this military alliance of new NATO members is the greatest danger to peace and stability on a global scale.

It is time to remember that NATO was established as an anti-USSR military alliance aimed at reinforcing capitalist control and preventing socialist revolutions in the colonialist powers of Europe weakened by World War II. Since the end of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. has attempted to vastly expand NATO and turn it into a military instrument to consolidate U.S. corporate power, surround Russia and China and re-conquer the former colonial world.

Consider these examples:

Yugoslavia. Based on the lie that NATO was defending small nations, U.S.-NATO intervention and bombing destroyed multinational Yugoslavia and turned the Balkans into a collection of dependent ministates ruled by the U.S. and Western Europe powers.

Afghanistan. Based on the lie that this was a police action against terrorists, U.S.-NATO have carried out a seven-year occupation leaving the country in ruins and enslaved.

Iraq. Here the lie about weapons of mass destruction was so blatant, and the U.S. position so weak, that most NATO countries refused to join the occupation and utter destruction of Iraq.

No one can believe Bush is promoting peace in Georgia. It is time not only to stop this expansion but to end the NATO war machine completely by dissolving NATO.

It is encouraging to anti-war people worldwide that Georgians themselves have issued a statement condemning the Saakashvili machine. "The entire responsibility for this fratricidal war," the Georgian Peace Committee says, "for thousands of children, women and elderly dead people, for the inhabitants of South Ossetia and of Georgia falls exclusively on the current president, on the Parliament and on the government of Georgia." (Aug. 11)

We cannot do less than the people of Georgia who oppose the current president and want no part of NATO. We demand from Washington:

(1) Stop interfering in Georgia and the Caucasus

(2) Stop attempting to expand the NATO military organization into the countries of Eastern Europe and those that border on Russia.

(3) End the aggressive NATO military alliance

(4) No new wars!

Sign the Petition at http://www.iacenter.org/anti-war/handsoffcaucasus

Related:

Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told

The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to
halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass
destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the
west's most senior military officers and strategists.
Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US,
Nato and the European Union together in a "grand strategy" to tackle the
challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed forces chiefs
from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands insist that a
"first strike" nuclear option remains an "indispensable instrument" since
there is "simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/22/nato.nuclear


-Navo wil als eerste atoomwapens gebruiken

-De Kaukasus-oorlog en de propaganda-oorlog

-Zuid-Ossetië updates

Propagandaoorlog Georgië steeds absurder

(Novum/AP) - Volgens de Georgische president Michail Saakasjvili staan de Verenigde Staten op het punt om Georgische havens en vliegvelden over te nemen. Dat heeft hij woensdag gezegd. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van defensie ontkent ten stelligste.

Saakasjvili zei in een interview dat de aankomst van een Amerikaans goederenvliegtuig met humanitaire hulpgoederen 'betekent dat Georgische havens en vliegvelden onder het bestuur komen van het Amerikaanse ministerie van defensie'.

Het was de zoveelste overdrijving in een lange reeks van gekleurde, tegenstrijdige en half ware beweringen waaraan zowel de Georgiërs als de Russen zich gretig overgeven. Daardoor is het vaak lastig in te schatten wat er nu echt aan de hand is in het conflictgebied.

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Alles over Zuid-Ossetië

DOORLOPENDE UPDATES ZUID-OSSETIË

Oorlog om Zuid-Ossetië vorig jaar gepland door Georgië, gefinancierd door VS

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"VS- straaljagers onderschepten twee Russische bommenwerpers"

...in de West Pacific, aldus CNN breaking news.

Update op HLN.

Nieuwe Koude Oorlog dreigt door raketschild VS

Rusland wil raketten op VS-schild richten

MOSKOU - De Russische strijdkrachten hebben in het conflict over het omstreden raketschild dat de Verenigde Staten in Polen en Tsjechië willen bouwen, gedreigd raketten op die landen te richten.

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Does World War III Loom Large?

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has told Washington in no uncertain terms that his country will not accept military strikes on Iran and reinforced that message with an unprecedented invitation to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit him in Moscow.

Pundits noted that the body language between Putin and Ahmadinejad appeared jolly and relaxed in contrast to the Russian leader's earlier more sober meetings with Germany's Chancellor Merkel and France's President Sarkozy.

And last week, Putin turned his ire on Bush comparing the stringent new US sanctions against Iran and the American president's attitude toward Tehran with that of a madman "running about with a razor blade in his hand". Putin believes the sanctions will achieve little other than to undermine any hope of constructive dialogue between Iran and the West.

Highlighting the reality of war talk in the air, the Director-General of the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies Dr. Bulat K. Sultanov was recently driven to announce that Kazakhstan would side with Russia in case of a US-Russia confrontation. Wouldn't such a confrontation amount to World War III?

Full article by Linda Heard on Arab News

De Maandagmorgen-briefing (week 41)

Essentieel nieuws om de week te beginnen. Met dit keer als onderwerpen: Al Gore, Irak, Turkije, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Rusland, Holland, verkiezingsfraude en de economie.

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