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

2008-08-18 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=4004 Russia considers nuclear missiles for Syria, Mediterranean, Baltic Posted By admin On August 17, 2008 @ 4:15 pm In World News | 32 Comments DEBKAfile August 17, 2008 DEBKAfile’s military sources report Moscow’s planned retaliation for America’s missile interceptors in Poland and US-Israeli military aid to Georgia may come in the … Read more

2008-08-18 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=4001 Bush Speech Continues Dangerous Brinkmanship with Russia Kurt Nimmo Infowars August 17, 2008 In the video here, Bush tells us Condi has met with the globalist cartel in Brussels and they have decided Russia needs to forget about the rape of South Ossetia by the “democrat” Saakashvili and remove their military … Read more

2008-08-17 Richard Moore Comments welcome on this article, particularly informed ones. rkm http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar_Arch_NY_Mar2_08.pdf Here are the first few paragraphs of the article: ____________________ Solar Cycle 24:  Implications for the United States    David Archibald  International Conference on Climate Change  March, 2008    Do we live in a special time in which the laws of physics … Read more

2008-08-17 Richard Moore With the NATO bombing over, international teams descended upon Kosovo to exhume the “holocaust.” The FBI failed to find a single mass grave and went home. The Spanish forensic team did the same, its leader angrily denouncing “a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines.” A year later, Del Ponte’s tribunal announced … Read more

2008-08-16 Richard Moore Friends, When Britain was laying its trap for Germany, in order to start World War I, one of the main tools London used was entangling alliances. Germany was encircled by nations who all agreed, under British pressure, to come to one another’s aid if Germany attacked. Once this was all set up, … Read more

2008-08-16 Richard Moore      President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia said Thursday that Russia would act as an international guarantor of the two pro-Russian enclaves at the center of the crisis with Georgia, and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov said that Georgia could “forget about” territorial integrity because of the war. This is a very reasonable position, given Georgia’s outrageous behavior, … Read more

2008-08-16 Richard Moore      But the deal reflected growing alarm in countries like Poland, once a conquered Soviet client state, about a newly rich and powerful Russia’s intentions in its former cold war sphere of power. In fact, negotiations dragged on for 18 months — but were completed only as old memories and new fears surfaced … Read more

2008-08-16 Richard Moore “With its actions in recent days Russia has damaged its credibility and its relations with the nations of the free world,” Mr. Bush said in his fourth stern statement on the conflict in five days, and the strongest to date. “Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in … Read more