Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Posted on August 13, 2008 - by Venik
Reuters Published Fake Propaganda Photos
When people read news reports by Reuters, they expect a certain degree of objectivity and professionalism. Too often their expectations remain unfulfilled. The photos below have been floating in the blogosphere for the past few days. They depict the same individuals posing as Georgia soldiers and civilian victims of the “Russian aggression”. Propaganda is nothing [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 - by Venik
Georgia’s Blunder
Saakashvili’s hysterical propaganda aside, it is now evident that Russia’s operation in Georgia was strictly limited to defending the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia against Georgian aggression. Consider the facts: Russia deployed just 6,000 troops in South Ossetia and 9,000 troops in Abkhazia (and even these modest numbers are probably overstated by the [...]
Posted on August 10, 2008 - by Venik
Saakashvili’s Army on the Run
Not three days ago Saakashvili’s US-trained death squads were using Czech-made heavy artillery and US-supplied helicopters to bombard residential areas of South Ossetia’s capital, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians and sending some 30,000 refugees to neighboring Russia. Today, with tails between their legs, Georgian soldiers are running back to Tbilisi, pursued by Russian tanks and [...]
Posted on August 10, 2008 - by Venik
War in Georgia: What’s Coming
The EU wants to blame Russia for the escalating conflict in Georgia, but Brussels cannot ignore the terrible casualties inflicted by Georgian artillery on the civilian population of South Ossetia. Today’s visit to Tbilisi by France’s foreign minister suggests that Saakashvili is being pressured by the EU to back down. The US, on the other [...]
Posted on August 9, 2008 - by Venik
Georgia on a Path to Self-Destruction
I lived in Tbilisi for about a year when I was in sixth grade. Some of my best childhood memories are from that time now more than twenty years ago. My father’s family moved to Tbilisi in 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. My father was three years old then. He spent his [...]
Posted on August 8, 2008 - by Venik
Timeline of Georgia-Russia Conflict
Reuters just published a “TIMELINE – Georgia and Russia’s worsening relations” (August 8, 2008; http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN08472548). As the poor and tiny Georgia, under the guidance of its fearless US-educated leader, is desperately trying to start a war with Russia, I find it is important to amend the Reuters’ accurate but incomplete timeline with some of the [...]
Posted on July 27, 2008 - by Venik
Karl Marx and the White House
The redneck right in the US and their fearless leader John McCain are praising Dubya for lowering oil prices. Just look at the facts, they say, oil price dropped ten bucks and the gas price is a whole penny lower. We’ve been paying a lot of attention to the prices of crude and gasoline, but [...]
Posted on July 26, 2008 - by Venik
The Story of Cuba and Russian Bombers
The news of Russia’s plan to station its nuclear bombers in Cuba has aroused much interest in the US and even drew an official response from a high-ranking USAF general. The only problem with this story was that Russia never had any plans for a bomber base in Cuba. Izvestia – the Russian daily that [...]
Posted on July 22, 2008 - by Venik
Tadic Selling Out… Again
Serbia’s pro-NATO puppet government of Boris Tadic arrested Radovan Karadžić, the leader of Republika Srpska and a Bosnian Serb national hero who in the early 1990s led popular resistance to NATO-backed Muslim extremists in Yugoslavia. In 1992-1996 Karadžić led the heroic defense of Sarajevo against Muslim fundamentalists. The city’s Serbian defenders were finally forced to [...]
Posted on July 19, 2008 - by Venik
BBC World Service and Its Masters
If you are still having doubts that BBC World Service is working for the British Foreign Office, here’s something to consider. In the weeks leading to the UN Security Council vote on sanctions against Zimbabwe every daily broadcast of BBC World News opened with a lengthy and blatantly biased report on the situation in Zimbabwe. [...]
Posted on July 19, 2008 - by Venik
Russia Punching Above Its Weight
I was reading the latest Newsweek (July 28, 2008) and came across the “Poisonous Relations” piece by Andrew Wilson and Mark Leonard. These two clowns are senior members of the “European Council on Foreign Relations” (ECFR) – a “think-tank” and an online propaganda outlet set up by billionaire George Soros (the guy who bankrolled Georgia’s [...]
Posted on July 18, 2008 - by Venik
Chicken or the Egg?
The Asia Times daily never fails to impress me with the quality of their analysis of international relations. The Washington Post and The New York Times look like school newspapers in comparison. The recent piece by Ambassador Bhadrakumar – Russia’s energy drive leaves US reeling (Asia Times, July 19, 2008) – is one of the [...]
Posted on July 17, 2008 - by Venik
Who’s Guarding the Nukes?
“Wrong on Russia”, by Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian Studies at New York University (International Herald Tribune, July 1, 2008), is almost a balanced look at the current problems with Russo-American relations. Ten years of systematically ignoring Russia’s interests following the Soviet collapse have ruined America’s relations with the only country that can destroy it [...]
Posted on July 14, 2008 - by Venik
Practice What You Preach
For years there has been a continuous stream of criticism about Russia using its energy companies to advance the state’s political goals. Every time Gazprom tried to get Ukraine to pay a fair price for the gas, the US and the EU exploded with allegations of “energy blackmail”. How is it blackmail when all Russia [...]
