After blowing away a Russian Peacekeeping base in South Ossetia, ‘experts’ were ’surprised’ by Russia’s response. Yeah, right.

Inevitably, chatter about Georgia is coming round to the pieces that don’t fit. And we wonder if we’re really watching a Brechtian play within a play.
Even Stratfor analysts are puzzllng over ‘The Mystery of The Georgian Invasion‘ [...]

Israel supplies Georgia with all kinds of scary techno toys, including tactical missile systems, anti-aircraft systems, automatic turrets for armored vehicles, electronic equipment and remotely piloted aircraft. … Oh, and by the way, the Times doesn’t put its most idiotic leaders on the net, where they might be easily rubbished and dissected, although this headline is front page on UK newstands.

But so far, the US has been happy to support the man they helped to put in.

…His actions have included removing any rights for workers and closing down independent media - even the TV station at one point.

You’re going to have to read a lot of independents and between a lot of lines to get a handle on this one. Even the UN Security Council can’t agree three lines of text.
While it might not be world war on the ground, international media is locked in ‘moral’ combat while foreign ministers on [...]

Clicking on the familiar link to the Moscow Exile today, at exile.ru, I was formally redirected to to its new host at exiledonline.com.
‘We’re Back And We’re Very Pissed Off‘ says the lead article, under a new masthead which proclaims, ‘Banned In Russia’. Interesting. That became the advertising slogan for Georgian wine only a few [...]

Just when you thought Putin was history, along comes another po-faced President telling us the recession is all our own fault.
Dimitry Medvedev, addressing the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, suggested that our financial institutions had failed to ensure ‘rational behaviour based on a balanced evaluation of risks and rewards’ . He even attacked the obscene [...]

The Missile Defense Shield (MDS) is back in the news.
As we all know, this is the Bush Brainwave that threatens to put Russian and American missiles on a collision course somewhere over Eastern Europe.
It’s always baffled me how Poland could have been remotely interested in the first place. Although the Red Army has [...]

Is your blog site blocked in China? A trip to this site will give you your no no rating in nanoseconds.

The Great Firewall Of China tells you something about media censorship. Because nobody’s protesting about China at all, where censorship is as total as can be. But America has a boodles of billions trade [...]

Here’s another article that rather debunks the latest round of attacks on Russia for using the ‘energy weapon’.
It seems that reports in the press - even from Reuters - are exaggerated.
This article is not from anything like ‘The Socialist Worker’. It’s from a rather dry independent trade journal. What follows is a quick precis, [...]

Russophobic sites are lamenting the fact that Gary Kasparov - ticket funded by Washington - couldn’t attend the Samara EU summit. Not that he was invited anyway.
The same fate befell the eccentric Limonov and a couple of journalists from the Daily Telegraph.
Apparently, the machine at Sheremetyevo airport found all their tickets as unreadable as the [...]