Or, as I have found, reading the books of active real professional investigative reporters. These are usually in the ‘Politics’ or ‘History’ sections of bookstores. And biograhpy sections. But unless you do the actual investigating and/or reporting, you will have to seek it out or follow links to websites to books, to magazines for what I can list right now.
Most news from magazines and newpapers will only allow you to have information that they want or have been ordered to give you but you pick and choose and you will find more than you might think. Like international newspapers and magazines providing you understand the language.

Gaston,

Unfortunately, i don’t feel comfortable giving you two or three web sites where you’ll get the “truth”.  Most of the websites (like Truthdig) tend to recycle mainstream news stories or simply post editorials.  There is little investigative web journalism.

I will recommend counterpunch.com as a good source of reading material.  I think that you’ll find more of what you’re looking for by choosing a couple and making yourself at home in the comments section.  Here you can ask questions, and generally follow links for further reading.

Truthdig has a very good comment section, especially if you don’t bother so much with the US politics articles.

When a link leads you to a good site, bookmark it and check back now and again.  While the truth is out there, it is mostly buried and left to you to piece together.

Cheers

A libertarian, non-interventionist view:

If you thought the US leadership knew nothing about Middle Eastern culture (for example, the differences between Shi’ites and Sunnis), you were right.

Now, we have the same gang of nitwits pretending to know something about the ethnic and cultural differences between Georgia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. What sheer effrontery! What boundless chutzpah!

Putin would be totally correct to tell the US to go to hell and stay out the affairs of countries on the far side of the globe.

Of course, the US has supported the Saakashvili regime in Georgia—a regime hardly noted for any democratic or freedom-supporting tendencies. Our brilliant tyrants in Washington want to use Georgia as a chess piece in their efforts to surround Russia with unfriendly regimes. What a bunch of warmongering jerks!

Ron Paul and the Founders are right. “Free and open trade with all nations; entangling alliances with none.” Amazingly, this sound policy of not wanting to bomb total strangers on the far side of the globe is derided as “isolationism!”

Those who call for a non-interventionist foreign policy are not “isolationists”: they want to engage foreign countries with exchange of goods and ideas. If you really want to experience “isolation” from the rest of the world, try following our masters in Washington as they attempt to bomb the rest of the world into submission.

Bill: we get no news about the US violence in Iraq because long ago the Bushco bunch made rules against showing the American public what is actually happening. As a preteen/teenager when Vietnam happened, it seemed like that was all that was on the news and in the newspaper and this war zip, nodda, nothing. Makes you wonder what other illegal things they are trying to hide, doesn’t it?

And now on this mornings web news: America airlifting Georgian soldiers out of Iraq to take them home to fight. Perhaps we need some major conflict, aside from the floods, fires in California, and other disasters here at home so we can airlift out own soldiers back to America and get them the hell out of Iraq.

And wasn’t it just a few months ago Bush was seeking favor from Russia to locate his missiles in the area that Russia was not comfortable with? Bet this sits well with them.

And it is about time to eliminate the name “National Guard” as they no longer exist as they were originally intended to be, as is “National” as in homeland and not on foreign soil as they are now. The new guard should be called, “Team America World Police”, like that stupid puppet movie from a few years ago, since we have a puppet of a president who seems to think that we should be the world police anyway.

You folks on the Democrat side of the aisle need to start going after this senile lunatic McCain NOW before some of the rubes in this country actually start believing that the US has “vital interests” in the former republics of the Soviet Union. Some Americans have a vital interest getting an oil pipeline built that doesn’t go thru Russia so that they can make more money while sending American youth of the working & poor classes off to their profitable,imperial wars while they strut around wearing flag lapel pins and chanting USA #1 at sporting events. I’m 63 years old and I’ve seen too much of this crap in my lifetime. Enough is enough. McCain’s background as a naval pilot disqualifies him as an expert on war. Dropping bombs from high altitude, returning to your ship for a nice meal, a shower and a soft bunk is not quite the same war that an infantryman sees. Go to the State Dept. and see what happened in the journal of foreign affairs in 1954 when the French asked for help at Dien Bien Phu. Eisenhower consulted the JCS and this is what he recieved as advice; The Air Force said they could knock out the Viet Minh in 2 weeks. The Navy said “victory” in 6 weeks. the Army said; “a minimum of 600,000 COMBAT TROOPS, no timetable & no guarantee of victory”. Ike listened to the Army.

samosamo…the beast will die only when the thirsty machinery no longer has any oil pools to drink from, followed by TV…...only then will Dorothy’s, mesmerized gaze, suddenly wrenched from TV, and like the sudden burst of sunlight, following a stormy night, the scene behind the curtain will bring the clarity of a new day.

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope

zeitgeist,

I feel strongly that your euphemism could have equally have meant: We the ‘elites’ have declared and are waging war against you the people, the dumb veggies that we hooked on tv and oil or would that be oil and tv?
And having had war declared on one’s self and having war being waged upon one’s self would be very serious busniess, well, if it wasn’t for tv and oil or is it oil and tv. I’m confused.

Thanks linguist, fortunately, I have with my cable subscription, the same RT ‘Russia Today’ channel depicted in your link, which I’ve been monitoring.

CNN…....forget it! Better yet…..block it so your children can’t accidently tune to it!

For those that don’t have RT cable station, you can also keep up at the following link:

Real News Video:  Russian-Georgian War Threatens To Drag Israel Into The Conflict:
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=91&task=videodirectlink&id=223

**samosamo: I would say that Russia will not just idly lay around while american imperialists are gobbling up all those new southern asian oil states.
Peace, Best Wishes and Hope**

Precisely! Remember the Bush, so called, defense shield? A euphemism for: expansion shield, and a corporate shield at that!! These folks don’t give a hoot about democracy, only the bottom-line.

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope

**bill: why can AP run pictures of victims of Russian violence, but not those by US in Iraq?**

Good point bill! Should speak volumes to all listening!

The biggest propaganda station to be shut down in the Georgia region was that owned and operated by neocon, boot-licker Rupert Murdoch of Fixed News. Good for them! No doubt, it was his diarrhea of the mouth that played no little part in helping to foment and fan the flames for this insurrection.

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e76/kremlevalex/wtd.jpg

The conflict Russia/Georgia highlights the hypocrisy of both wannabe’s policy vis a vis Iran. In the case of Iran, a country that has not invaded its neighbors, “everything (including nuclear) must remain on the table” whereas Russia and Georgia which have invaded something are asked for “restraint.” It is the typical attitude of the bully. Be obliging to other bullies but frighten the little fellows. After all, in the real world of today the other bully also has nukes. Both McCain and Obama act as if they are already our President which they are not. Only Mr. Bush can determine what might be done if anything. He is remarkably mute and “restrained”. Condy is hiding under the table. This is the shipwreck of a recklessly stupid Bush policy.
There is also an eerie similarity with the conflict of Hitler Germany and Czechoslovakia. When Hitler threatened to take Sudentenland by force, Stalin gave the Czechs extremely vague and insincere insurances that he would come to their help which he never intended to honor. When the chips were down he retracted because the Soviet Union had no borders with Czechoslovakia and he was not sure that his army could beat the Germans.
2000 Georgian soldiers in Iraq. Why? That, my friends is called brown-nosing in our language. In German “Rueckendeckung.” In French: “Merde.”

No western cameras in South Ossetia. The conflict over Georgia’s breakaway republic is as much about information as it is about weapons. South Ossetia’s press service claims Western media outlets can’t be trusted because they haven’t been operating in the region ”since the conflict began”.

http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28738/video

“Only the Russian media and one Ukrainian channel have been filming in the breakaway republic. No western camera crews have been working in the conflict zone,” Suslan Bekoev, South Ossetian committee for information and press, said.

http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28788/video

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has instructed the General Prosecutor’s office to conduct a through investigation into crimes committed by Georgian military against the residents of South Ossetia. He made the move after his meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 

Vladimir Putin arrived in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia on Saturday late in the evening. Refugees arrive in North Ossetia from South Ossetia. Exodus started after the Georgian forces intruded into Georgia’s breakaway region Friday night. Georgian forces have completely destroyed the capital Tskhinvali. Over 34 thousand people have already fled from South Ossetia, and reportedly 2 thousand people were killed during the aggression. Thousands of people are still hiding in cellars in Tskhinvali, and these people cannot leave the city since the Georgian forces firing at them. Over ten Russian peacekeepers, who have been in South Ossetia under international agreements, were killed and over 150 Russian soldiers were injured.

All this has prompted Vladimir Putin to describe the action of the Georgian military as a crime against civilians, a larger number of which are citizens of Russia. Vladimir Putin suggested gathering documental evidences of the crimes committed.

Dmitri Medvedev says that he will issue a relevant decree because the Prosecutor General’s office should investigate each incident. The prosecutors must gather documental evidences and analyse them thoroughly to bring the culprits to justice said Dmitri Medvedev.

Meanwhile, Russia’s human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin suggested setting up an international tribunal to punish those who ordered to destroy Tskhinvali and kill civilians:

“I call on human rights organizations, the Council of Europe and other organizations to handle the issue”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on his part said that Russia as a peacekeeper bears responsibility for the development in South Ossetia. He urged the US, the European Union, France, Germany and other countries to join peacekeeping efforts in South Ossetia.

Quixotic your post is full of typical stereotypes and cliches: “USSR regains strength” (USSR collapsed in 1991), “Russia has invaded a sovereign country” (unlike the USA that invaded Iraq behind the back of the UN Security Council, Russia have had peacekeepers there since 1994 under the UN SC urisdiction), “new czar” (Putin is just a strong leader with strong sense of national interests unlike “puppet governemt” placed by the USA in several countries).
There is a Latin saying “Cui prodest?” (Who benefits). I can say that according to all the foundations of the political science the current situation in Georgia is beneficial to Bush government (“Wag the Dog” - rent this movie, I highly recommend it!!!) that was incapable to withstand mortgage crisis and unemployment rate. The best way to distract public attention from INNER CRISIS is make an OUTER CRISIS (in that case Saakashvili pulls chestnuts out of the fire for Bush)
An image of “Russian agressor” can unite population and distract it from more significant inner problems in economics and healthcare system (another great movie all Americans should watch is “Sicko” by Michael Moore)

linguist, August 10 at 5:47 am #

Resolution 937 (1994) adopted by the Security Council at its 3407th meeting, on 21 Jul 1994

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Thank you linguist!!! For this and the history as well.

I had given up trying to find this on line, (at least for the time). Now, you’ve provided it for me. It’s exactly what I wanted to read, and the history helps even more.

Thanks again,
cyrena

Now we see what was wrong with going into Iraq and losing international opinion and the problems with the GOP hamstringing Clinton’s presidency; the USSR regains strength. Russia has resumed bomber flights, exerting international influence, and has invaded a “sovereign” country.

Though our current leader looked into Putan’s soul, and said he was ok, the rest of sane people should have been worried about containing the new czar. My prediction will be the retaking of the former Soviet states into a Russian “republic” or a “Russian Union” based on “terrorist” attacks on Russia. Who remembers Chechnya?

I would say that Russia will not just idly lay around while american imperialists are gobbling up all those new southern asian oil states. This really looks to be a contrived thing to get the world back to permanent wars all the time everywhere. The elites I would bet are behind all of this, controlling the US military now the Russian military, this is a very bad sign. Would somebody ever be able to come up with a plan to stop these evil people from obtaining their goal?
What ever is going to happen will be shocking if not over whelming.

A brief introduction into history: Ossetia (in the years before Soviet Union there was single Ossetia) joined Russian Empire long before Georgia. Later when Georgia was included into Soviet Union Bolsheviks divided Ossetia into North (part of Russian Soviet Socialist Republic ) and South (part of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic) according to geographic landscape (natural mountain chain). Then in the end of the 20th century Georgia announced South Ossetia and Abkhazia separatists. BUT these territories were merged with Georgia during Soviet times. After the collapse of Soviet Union Georgia proclaimed its independence without carrying out referendum in all the autonomous regions (S. Ossetia and Abkhazia were autonomous regions in Georgia).
After the USSR collapse in 1991 Russian Federation as its successor proclaimed that any former citizen of the USSR can apply for Russian citizenship. That’s why 90% of S. Ossetian population have Russian citizenship.

Resolution 937 (1994) adopted by the Security Council at its 3407th meeting, on 21 Jul 1994
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MHII-65G7RP?OpenDocument

Agreement On A Ceasefire And Separation Of Forces, Signed In Moscow On 14 May 1994
http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/georgia-abkhazia/keytext3.php

Jackpine…

Despite calls from international officials late in the week urging Russia to hold its fire…

“These wouldn’t be the same “international officials” who blocked the UN Security Council resolution tabled by Russia calling for “renouncing the use of force by all sides” about a week ago, would they?  Why would the US veto a resolution like that when one of the parties tabled the resolution in the first place?”

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I didn’t even know about this resolution. NOR was I aware that there were both Georgian and Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia under the UN mandate, as Linguist provides here.

Actually, I’d been looking for such a mandate since Friday, but apparently my search hasn’t been focused enough. I’m just interested in the historical details from a non-Western source.

So, I’ll keep looking.

Thanks to both of you for the prompt. There should be something at my regular sites, so maybe I was just tired or got distracted when I was checking before.

If you have any links, that would be really helpful. I’m just going to check the UN site for now.

I just translated the news from South Ossetian website http://osradio.ru/?ent=11831

Afro-American combat engineer and several Georgian troopers are captured in Zar settlement near Tshinvali.  Apparently American officer is a NATO instructor. Now he is transfered to Vladikavkaz for interrogation on what he was dooing in South Ossetia.

By the way in American news there are no interviwes with Ossetian refugees who had been slaughtered in Tshinvali overnight. CNN events coverage only began since Russian peacekeepers entered South Ossetia at 4 am in August 8, 2008. But at 23:30 Georgian army performed a massive rocket mortar shelling of sleeping non-combatants. This is what Saakashvili calls “to establish constitutional order”. Both Georgian and Russian peacekeepers were in South Ossetia under the UN mandate. But approximately half an hour before the Georgian attack on Tshinvali they left their positions. Later on Russian PK blockpost was shelled from tanks and mortars.
But that fact has never been mentioned in Western Mass Media. Anti-Russian paranoia reigns there.

Without a doubt, Saggy, there is a neo-con connection to all of this.  There are definitely CIA personnel in Georgia.  Good evidence links US involvement to the string of “color revolutions” throughout the former Soviet sphere of influence.  You could also take a look at Cheney’s maps of desire.  Caspian pipelines running through Georgia are a prime interest…provoking the Russians and testing our weapons systems against them directly is just a bonus.

We’re playing at the Great Game, but our bumbling amateurs fail to recognize that their opponent - V.V. Putin - is actually a professional.

And unfortunately, the progressive news outlets are playing right along with the neo-conning of America yet again.

Despite calls from international officials late in the week urging Russia to hold its fire…

These wouldn’t be the same “international officials” who blocked the UN Security Council resolution tabled by Russia calling for “renouncing the use of force by all sides” about a week ago, would they?  Why would the US veto a resolution like that when one of the parties tabled the resolution in the first place?

Well, because our son of a bitch Mikheil Saakashvili was all too happy to use his brand new US arms to poke the bear in the eye.  Putin (this is his game, not Medvyed’s) is the wrong guy to keep poking.

But of course, even the “progressive” news outlets keep repeating the meme about Russian aggression.  Do a little digging, truthers, and find out what “democracy” in Georgia really looks like. (hint: lot’s of repression and lot’s of money spent…some if it yours in the form of military aid…on buying cool new killing toys from the US MIC)

The only real question is whether the Bush administration has the cajones to send American troops to back up our tin-pot dictator.  My guess is “no”, but only because we generally don’t pick fights with countries that can fight back.

The Georgians couldn’t even defeat the South Ossetians, they aren’t going to beat the Russians without major help from outside.

As an historical footnote concerning the “Georgian personality”: most of the most evil villains of the Soviet years were Georgian…not even Russian.  Stalin, Beria, etc.  Oh wait, maybe that explains the Bush administration’s fondness for Georgia…

http://www.gush-shalom.org/media/pics/double_eng.gif

Have you seen the movie “Wag the Dog” with Robert de Niro and Dastin Hophman? I really recommend you to do that. Do not trust what you are fed with through your TV.
Really Fox News, CNN and Sky News are brainwashing you. I bet half of the American have not ever known that Georgia is a country not a US state (with Atlanta as a capital).

Try to analyse the situation yourself by comparing news from Russia, for instance. http://www.russiatoday.com
That is the only way to reveal the truth.

Don’t be a victim of double standards.