McCain in Charge

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U.S. Demands Sanctions Against Russia

Staff / Truthdig Aug 19, 2008 The Bush administration continued efforts to resurrect the Cold War this week by demanding that European governments back sanctions against Russia. So far, America's allies in NATO are showing relative restraint in the face of a transatlantic temper tantrum. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blowback From Bear-Baiting

By Patrick J. Buchanan Aug 17, 2008 For reasons too numerous to fit into a short summary, Pat Buchanan isn't someone whose writings we'd routinely pick up on this site. However, in this case his essay about the Georgia-Russia conflict, er, bears repeating here, if only to illustrate how not all conservatives see the recent clash in Eastern Europe the way the Bush administration does. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Russia Signs Cease-Fire Agreement, With Reservations

Staff / Truthdig Aug 17, 2008 On Saturday, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed the French-brokered peace treaty already inked by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. However, this is clearly an uneasy and tentative truce: Russian officials say their troops will stay in Georgia for an indefinite time. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Karl Rove’s Ukrainian Sojourn

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 Since Karl Rove skipped out on his subpoena to appear before the House Judiciary Committee last month, the whereabouts of Bush's longtime political strategist have emerged -- Rove was in Crimea, Ukraine, for the fifth annual Yalta European Strategy summit. Also in attendance: former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Former Reagan Official: White House Sanctioned Georgia-Russia Conflict

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 Paul Craig Roberts, who was assistant secretary of the treasury during Ronald Reagan's presidency, sees the Georgia-Russia conflict differently than the Bush administration does: "Americans themselves have nothing to gain," Roberts said Friday; "What is operating is the dangerous ideology of the American neoconservatives whose goal is to assert American hegemony over the entire world." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Saakashvili Claims Europe Invited Russian Invasion

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 "Unfortunately, today we are looking evil directly in the eye," an emotional Mikheil Saakashvili said Friday after he signed a cease-fire agreement to end his country's eight-day showdown with Russia. The Georgian president declared that other European nations ignored clear signs of impending conflict last spring and he hinted that trouble could also be in store for other countries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Georgia Signs Cease-Fire as Rice Looks On

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 After spending several hours in a diplomatic huddle behind closed doors with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday signed a cease-fire agreement brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Saakashvili, however, made it clear during a follow-up news conference that "this is not a done deal yet." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gorbachev: ‘Signs of a Cold War Are Present’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev appeared on "Larry King Live" Thursday to give his read on the Georgia-Russia conflict, asserting that Georgia was definitively the first to attack, in "a barbaric assault" on Tskhinvali, and that "there was support and protection" for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili from elsewhere in the world Updated . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘What Goes Around Comes Around’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 George W. Bush and John McCain may have missed the hypocrisy of condemning Russia's conduct in Georgia while championing the occupation of Iraq, but Middle Easterners managed to connect the dots, according to the Mosaic Intelligence Report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain Is More Dangerous Than Bush

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 Forget the moderate image, promoted by an admiring media. Forget the so-called straight talk and independence. With the Russian-Georgian war winding down, McCain has firmly established himself as an old-fashioned Cold Warrior and a supporter of the huge oil companies that have a big stake in Georgia and the rest of the Caucasus. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

McCain: ‘We Are All Georgians’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2008 If there is any doubt that John McCain is gulping down the neocon Kool-Aid on Georgia, one need only read his new manifesto in The Wall Street Journal, where he once again flaunts his Wikipedia-sourced foreign policy expertise. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )