2008-08-29 Richard Moore The US state department yesterday warned that disclosure of secret information in the case of a British resident said to have been tortured before he was sent to Guantánamo Bay would cause “serious and lasting damage” to security relations between the countries. Sound familiar? These are the words of a bully, “Do … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore Begin forwarded message: From: jeff wefferson <> Date: August 28, 2008 11:14:46 AM GMT+01:00 To: •••@••.••• Subject: Still Smoking? “Polonium 210 – It’s Everywhere?” Greg Sams Reply-To: •••@••.••• NOTE FROM JEFF: Greg Sams is a psychedelic activist, author, and synthaissance-mind, and a great mate. Here’s a piece he wrote recently (I believe … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=67728§ionid=351020602 Russia monitoring NATO movements Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:21:16 GMT Destroyer USS McFaul anchors in Georgia’s Black Sea port Russia warns NATO against the build-up of its naval forces in the Black Sea, saying that the Russian fleet is monitoring their movements. Deputy Chief of Russia’s General Staff, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, said … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=67757§ionid=351020602 Russia: NATO interference means war Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:09:45 GMT Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin Russia’s ambassador to NATO has warned that any military interference in the Caucasus conflict will be considered as declaration of war. In an interview with the Russian newspaper Vremya Novostei, Dmitry Rogozin, warned that … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q3/080718a_nr.html Boeing, Missile Defense Agency Successfully Complete Missile Defense Sensor Integration Test ST. LOUIS, July 18, 2008 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], working with industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, today successfully completed a Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system test that demonstrated the most complex integration to date of … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/gree-a28.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Australia & South Pacific Australian media attacks Germaine Greer over essay on Aboriginal violence By Richard Phillips 28 August 2008 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author Australia’s mainstream media last week launched … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/denv-a28.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Police continue repressive tactics in Denver By Tom Eley 28 August 2008 In the two days since Denver police—acting at the direction of U.S. Secret Service—attacked and jailed nearly 100 peaceful protesters outside the Democratic National Convention, the … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://tinyurl.com/5mahpv Death from the Skies August 24, 2008 by Brian Harring South Ossetian officials accused Georgia on Sunday of building up military forces along the edge of South Ossetia and claimed a Georgian unit fired sporadically at villages overnight. There were no reports of casualties, but South Ossetian spokeswoman Irina Gagloyeva … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FOE20080826&articleId=9946 Militarism and a Uni-polar World By Lenora Foerstel Global Research, August 26, 2008 The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller as an off-shoot of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). David Rockefeller was chairman of the CFR in 1970 and subsequently became the founding chairman of the Trilateral … Read more
2008-08-28 Richard Moore http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4592765.ece From The Times August 23, 2008 Rockets, guile and the lessons of history: the Taleban besiege Kabul Jeremy Page in Kabul The lorry drivers who bring the Pepsi and petrol for Nato troops in Kabul have their own way of calculating the Taleban’s progress towards the Afghan capital: they simply count … Read more
2008-08-27 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/dems-a27.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Democratic convention meets with Obama campaign in crisis By Patrick Martin 27 August 2008 The first two days of Democratic National Convention have been dominated by a sense of foreboding and unease, with mounting concern that the Obama … Read more
2008-08-27 Richard Moore http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27medvedev.html August 27, 2008 Medvedev’s Statement on South Ossetia and Abkhazia MOSCOW — Here is the text of the statement made on Tuesday by the president of Russia, Dmitri A. Medvedev, recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from the Republic of Georgia, in an English translation provided by the Kremlin … Read more
2008-08-27 Richard Moore To BBC’s credit, they include here statements of the Russian leaders, so that perceptive readers can figure out what’s really going on. Mr Saakashvili described the declaration as “the first attempt in Europe after Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union to… change the borders of Europe by force”. Evidently Saakashvili slept … Read more
2008-08-27 Richard Moore But the prospect of the West’s rhetorical attacks was not enough to dissuade Russia from its Georgian military adventure in the first place. Thus the lie of a ‘Russian adventure’ is constantly repeated. As Hitler said: “The chief function (of propaganda) is to convince the masses, whose slowness of understanding needs to … Read more
2008-08-27 Richard Moore As you read this, there a few things to keep in mind: • The West gave Kosovo ‘independence’ (ie, the resources were grabbed) with no justification in international law, no Security Council resolution, and Kosovo was attacked by no one. • The country that has violated the most Security Council resolutions (by … Read more
2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/laird/2008/0825.html Credit crisis II A world financial Armageddon? by Christopher Laird, PrudentSquirrel.com | Date, 2008 Where are we now in the credit crisis, and why isn’t the massive Fed and ECB weekly lending working to loosen interbank lending? Why is the credit crisis not really improving? Where is this going next? We … Read more
2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/article/north-korea-suspend-nuclear-disablemen http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSEO2172420080826 North Korea to suspend nuclear disablement Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:52pm EDT By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Tuesday it will stop disabling its nuclear facilities and consider restoring the Yongbyon reactor that can make material for atomic bombs, accusing the United States of violating a … Read more
2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9931 Defense Intelligence Agency Seeking “Mind Control” Weapons By Tom Burghardt Global Research, August 24, 2008 Antifascist Calling… A new report from the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council (NRC) argues that the Pentagon should harvest the fruits of neuroscientific research in order to enhance the “warfighting” capabilities of U.S. soldiers … Read more
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2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/geor-a26.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org US continues to ratchet up tensions with Russia By Barry Grey 26 August 2008 The United States has continued to intensify its confrontation with Russia in the wake of Moscow’s withdrawal of troops from most of the Georgian territory it held following the five-day war provoked … Read more
2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF10Ak03.html THE ROVING EYE Exit strategy: Civil war By Pepe Escobar “In reality, the electoral process was designed to legitimize the occupation, rather than ridding the country of the occupation … Anyone who sees himself capable of bringing about political reform should go ahead and try, but my belief is that the … Read more
2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://www.uruknet.de/?p=4661 Occupation HQ attacked in central Baghdad Aljazeera.net Tuesday 10 August 2004 – Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars have hit the headquarters of US-led occupation forces in Baghdad. Reporting from the eastern al-Rustamiya district, Aljazeera sources said the attack on Tuesday was carried out at the same time as a similar raid on … Read more
2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/article/russian-parliament-recognizes-breakaway-georgian-enclaves http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/50628.html McClatchy Washington Bureau Posted on Mon, Aug. 25, 2008 Russian parliament recognizes breakaway Georgian enclaves Tom Lasseter and Alla Burakovskaya | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: August 25, 2008 07:12:07 PM MOSCOW — Russia’s parliament voted unanimously Monday to recognize the independence of two Georgian breakaway regions that its military invaded … Read more
2008-08-26 Richard Moore http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=5439074 Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks Pittsburgh cancer institute warns of cell phone-cancer risk, defying published research By JENNIFER C. YATES and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Writers The Associated Press PITTSBURGH The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: … Read more
2008-08-25 Richard Moore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082402150.html? An Uncertain Death Toll In Georgia-Russia War By Tara Bahrampour Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, August 25, 2008; A01 TBILISI, Georgia — It was evening, and Manana Rodiashvili had just milked her cow. The disputed region of South Ossetia had seen skirmishes in recent days, but her village was calm. And … Read more
2008-08-24 Richard Moore http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20606.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Send Page To a Friend Nuclear Chicken in Poland Putin Can’t Afford to Back Down By Mike Whitney “Don’t blame the mirror if your face is crooked.” Vladimir Putin quoting Russian proverb 24/08/08 “ICH” — – If the Bush administration proceeds with its … Read more
2008-08-24 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9907 many maps in original The Eurasian Corridor: Pipeline Geopolitics and the New Cold War By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 22, 2008 The ongoing crisis in the Caucasus is intimately related to the strategic control over energy pipeline and transportation corridors. There is evidence that the Georgian attack on South Ossetia … Read more
2008-08-22 Richard Moore http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/tremblay=1093 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Why Not Simply Abolish NATO? by Rodrigue Tremblay [NATO’s goal is] “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” Lord Ismay, first NATO Secretary-General “We should immediately call a meeting of the North Atlantic Council to assess Georgia’s security and review … Read more
2008-08-22 Richard Moore http://www.binghamton.edu/fbc/commentr.htm Commentary No. 239, Aug. 15, 2008 Geopolitical Chess: Background to a Mini-war in the Caucasus by Immanuel Wallerstein The world has been witness this month to a mini-war in the Caucasus, and the rhetoric has been passionate, if largely irrelevant. Geopolitics is a gigantic series of two-player chess games, in which … Read more
2008-08-21 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/pipe-a21.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe US oil pipeline politics and the Russia-Georgia conflict By Alex Lantier 21 August 2008 US media claims about Georgian democracy notwithstanding, a key factor in US backing for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in his conflict with Russia has been … Read more
2008-08-20 Richard Moore The two lawmakers called on the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group to insist on amending the agreement when it meets to consider the deal on Thursday in Vienna. So what that’s they’re going to call the post-oil, nuclear fuel cartel. rkm _________ http://www.truthout.org/article/india-nuclear-deal-could-trigger-arms-race-us-lawmakers India Nuclear Deal Could Trigger Arms Race: US Lawmakers … Read more
2008-08-20 Richard Moore By spending a couple of billion dollars on decoy technologies, Russia would commit the US to trillions of dollars of countermeasures. The cost ratios are such that even Iran could outspend the US. This is a good example of the ‘asymmetric strategy’ being actively employed by Russia and China. The classic example … Read more
2008-08-20 Richard Moore The US and Russia are at odds over the terms of the cease-fire agreement. Washington insists that it requires Russia to remove all the military forces it sent into Georgia after August 7 back onto Russian territory. Russia, citing a provision that allows it to take unspecified security measures, insists it can … Read more
2008-08-20 Richard Moore The US and Russia are at odds over the terms of the cease-fire agreement. Washington insists that it requires Russia to remove all the military forces it sent into Georgia after August 7 back onto Russian territory. Russia, citing a provision that allows it to take unspecified security measures, insists it can … Read more
2008-08-20 Richard Moore Friends, It is educational to observe the subtleties of spin, the ways lies can at the same time be nearly true. And it’s informative to notice which parts of the story get distorted, and which come through more or less straight. This reveals concerns and intentions on the part of the spinners … Read more
2008-08-19 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=4028 Russian General Says Georgia May Commit False Flag Terror Attacks Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, August 18, 2008 Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Anatoly Nogovitsyn warns that Georgia may be planning to commit false flag terror attacks by using mercenaries dressed in Russian uniforms, as Russia moved to … Read more
2008-08-18 Richard Moore Friends, I don’t normally publish Faal’s stuff, as he, or she, is usually over the top in her unverifiable claims. In this piece, however, she makes sense and some of the details she mentions I’ve seen corroborated by reliable sources. In any case, I think the viewpoint is worth seeing. -rkm _______________________ … Read more
2008-08-18 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/irel-a18.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Ireland Irish government prepares public spending cuts, lay-offs By Jordan Shilton 18 August 2008 An article in the Sunday Business Post on July 27 revealed that the Irish government is to initiate severe cuts to public spending over … Read more
2008-08-18 Richard Moore Friends, The phrase “withdrawal from Georgia” seems to have two different interpretations. Washington wants “Georgia” to include South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russia has made it clear that those provinces are now part of Russia, as the populations there have overwhelmingly voted. As this article reports, Russia is backing up that quite justified position … Read more
2008-08-18 Richard Moore http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20535.htm Putin’s Winning Hand: Once the Atlantic Alliance is shattered, America’s lifeline to the world is kaput By Mike Whitney 16/08/08 “ICH” — – There are no military installations in the city of Tskhinvali. In fact, there are no military targets at all. It is an industrial center consisting of lumber mills, … Read more