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As Oil Giants Lose Influence, Supply Drops
New York Times - By Jad Mouawad - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits... More »
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Eastern Europe gets jittery over Russia
Los Angeles Times - By Tracy Wilkinson - Aug. 19 (News Analysis)
the fact that the distracted and overly stretched Bush administration took little concrete action to protect Georgia from Russia's wrath must also give pause to nations that would... More »
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Cuba looks at trimming social welfare
Financial Times - By Richard Lapper - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Cuba, one of the world's last surviving Communist states, is looking at watering down the generous social welfare system that has been a cornerstone of its economy for nearly 50... More »
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NATO Challenges
World Politics Review - Aug. 18 (News Report)
(Video 3:15) The dilemma of the eastern expansion and of overstretch in Afghanistan are two of the challenges... More »
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Georgia sees little sign of Russian withdrawal
Talking Points Memo - By Mike Eckel - Aug. 18 (News Report)
Russian tanks and troops roamed freely around Gori on Monday and made forays toward the Georgian capital, keeping control of the highway that slices through Georgia's midsection... More »
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Russia Never Wanted a War
New York Times - By Mikhail Gorbachev - Aug. 20 (Opinion)
Russia did not want this crisis. The Russian leadership is in a strong enough position domestically; it did not need a little victorious war... More »
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What Did We Expect?
New York Times - By Thomas Friedman - Aug. 20 (Opinion)
If the conflict in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin... More »
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Afer Musharraf, a new U.S. role
Christian Science Monitor - Aug. 19 (Editorial)
Bush, and soon either John McCain or Barack Obama, might be tempted to again back figures in Pakistan that promise quick suppression of jihadi extremists that thrive in the... More »
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Robert Creamer: Crisis in Georgia Beginning to Turn Into a Big Political Liability for McCain
Huffington Post - Aug. 19 (Blog Post)
McCain's warmongering double talk comes back to bite him in the ass as Georgia reveals how weak the US is with all our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. More »
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Anatomy of A(nother) Fiasco
Daily Kos - By billmon - Aug. 18 (Blog Post)
And so, with an absolute minimum of democratic process, the United States of America committed its full prestige and power to the defense of the two former Soviet republics, even... More »
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U.S.-Russia Tensions Heighten Over Georgia Conflict
Los Angeles Times - By Megan K. Stack with Borzou Daragahi, Peter Spiegel, Maggie Farley, Richard Boudreaux - Aug. 15 (News Report)
Despite official denials, Russian troops remained in control on the streets of Gori, a garrison city near the border with the rebel province of South Ossetia, setting up... More »
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As Georgia and Russia Headed for a Clash, the U.S. Missed the Signals
New York Times - By Helene Cooper, C.J. Chivers, Clifford J. Levy - Aug. 18 (News Analysis)
The story of how a 16-year, low-grade conflict over who should rule two small, mountainous regions in the Caucasus erupted into the most serious post-cold-war showdown between the... More »
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Russia and Georgia - A scripted war
Economist - Aug. 14 (News Analysis)
The war in Georgia will make Russia more isolated. Worst of all, it will further corrode the already weak moral fabric of Russian society, making it more aggressive and... More »
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Russia vs Georgia
LinkTV - Aug. 15 (News Analysis)
Long-simmering tension over a disputed region erupts in fighting between Russia and Georgia. Each side claims to be the victim of the other's aggression... More »
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Eastern Uganda Grapples with Power Plant Project
National Public Radio - By Jason Kane - Aug. 14 (Special Report)
(text only) In the East African nation of Uganda, where 95 percent of the people live without electricity, a $750 million hydropower project has been approved by the government... More »
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At Putin's Mercy
Atlantic Monthly - By Jeffrey Tayler - Aug. 16 (Opinion)
The pitiable David-and-Goliath asymmetry of Georgia's dustup with Russia has obscured both the United States' culpability in bringing about the conflict, and the nature of the... More »
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Boundary Issues
New Yorker - By David Remnick - Aug. 17 (Opinion)
On a bright September day in 1993, not long before he ended his two decades in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered a rare public address in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein... More »
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The Great Illusion
New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Aug. 15 (Opinion)
So far, the international economic consequences of the war in the Caucasus have been fairly minor, despite Georgia's role as a major corridor for oil shipments... More »
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The War We Don't Know
The Nation - By Mark Ames - Aug. 14 (Opinion)
While Russia and America see the conflict in abstract terms about spheres of influence and protecting allies, for Ossetians, who still recall the centuries of massacres Georgians... More »
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Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame
FAIR - Aug. 14 (Press Release)
Georgia's contribution to the escalation of tensions in the region were not completely ignored by U.S. media, but its aggressive actions were often euphemized, as in AP's... More »
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Cuba looks at trimming social welfare
Financial Times - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Cuba, one of the world's last surviving Communist states, is looking at watering down the generous social welfare system that has been a cornerstone of its economy for nearly 50... More »
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Musharraf Resigns, Leaving A Shaky Pakistan in His Wake
Wall Street Journal - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Mr. Musharraf's resignation, announced in a national television address Monday, marks a victory for the governing coalition of his political opponents that was preparing to... More »
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Why Iraq Is Still Oil Poor
Time - Aug. 18 (Special Report)
Few are laughing. Frustration over the sluggish pace of Iraq's oil production is rising in the country and abroad as global prices soar. (At the same time, current oil revenues... More »
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Georgia sees little sign of Russian withdrawal
Talking Points Memo - Aug. 18 (News Report)
Russian tanks and troops roamed freely around Gori on Monday and made forays toward the Georgian capital, keeping control of the highway that slices through Georgia's midsection... More »
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Russian Aggression Carries High Cost For NASA
Pajamas Media - Aug. 18 (Special Report)
As Washington reassesses its overall relationship with Russia in the wake of the recent incursion into the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, our current space policy may be... More »
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What Did We Expect?
New York Times - Aug. 20 (Opinion)
If the conflict in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin... More »
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Russia Never Wanted a War
New York Times - Aug. 20 (Opinion)
Russia did not want this crisis. The Russian leadership is in a strong enough position domestically; it did not need a little victorious war... More »
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Afer Musharraf, a new U.S. role
Christian Science Monitor - Aug. 19 (Editorial)
Bush, and soon either John McCain or Barack Obama, might be tempted to again back figures in Pakistan that promise quick suppression of jihadi extremists that thrive in the... More »
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Robert Creamer: Crisis in Georgia Beginning to Turn Into a Big Political Liability for McCain
Huffington Post - Aug. 19 (Blog Post)
McCain's warmongering double talk comes back to bite him in the ass as Georgia reveals how weak the US is with all our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. More »
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Anatomy of A(nother) Fiasco
Daily Kos - Aug. 18 (Opinion)
I'm no foreign policy maven, but I'm also not completely oblivious to what our government has been up to in the Caucasus (unlike, say, about 99... More »