McCain: The Hothead and the Finger on the Button

September 5, 2008

by Doug Bandow

John McCain believes that he should be president because only he is prepared to meet the inevitable foreign policy challenges. Only he will put the nation’s interest first. Whatever you think of the economy, civil liberties, or social issues, they don’t matter. Only John McCain is ready to be the military’s commander in chief.

Note - video “John McCain More Wars” below the article

Putin’s Ruthless Gambit

Putin’s Ruthless Gambit

By Michael T. Klare

03 September, 2008
TomDispatch.com

Many Western analysts have chosen to interpret the recent fighting in the Caucasus as the onset of a new Cold War, with a small pro-Western democracy bravely resisting a brutal reincarnation of Stalin’s jack-booted Soviet Union. Others have viewed it a throwback to the age-old ethnic politics of southeastern Europe, with assorted minorities using contemporary border disputes to settle ancient scores.

America’s High Stakes Gamble with Russia

Politics / New Cold War Sep 02, 2008 - 03:55 AM

By: Stephen Lendman

Prior to entering WW II, US strategists had a clear aim in mind at its conclusion - to hold unchallengeable power in a new post-war global system: military, economic and political in a “Grand Area” encompassing the West and Far East. Essentially most parts outside the communist bloc and exploiting it under disarming rhetoric like being “selfless advocates of freedom for colonial peoples (and an) enemy of imperialism.” Championing “world peace (also) through multinational control.”

Dancing With Chaos: Will a Russo-American Nuclear War Happen (Soon)?

By MANUEL GARCIA, Jr.

01/09/08 “Counterpunch” — - The first, and also previous, nuclear war consisted of two atomic bomb attacks that destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, on August 6 and August 9 of 1945. These attacks by the United States of America against an utterly defeated and prostrate Japan occurred in the last month of the Pacific War (which occurred between December 7, 1941 to August 15, 1945 for the USA) and were demonstrations of remorseless American power intended to deflate the triumphant spirit of a Soviet Union victorious against Nazi Germany (May 8, 1945), and to check the Soviet leadership from advancing its forces into Japan (despite being implored to do so by the Allies at the Yalta Conference six months earlier).

Georgia Aftermath: End Of The Unipolar World?

By Dr Moeed Pirzada

25 August, 2008
Khaleej Times

There are moments when history is made; when in a flash the future divorces the past and world moves into the next stage.

Tiny Georgia’s failed attempt to regain the lost South Ossetia and the Russian attack on Georgia appears a rather insignificant, self-contained conflict in the Caucasus yet this little understood development may mark the end of the America’s uni-polar moment.

Mystery in Moscow: The Puzzling Recognition of Ossetia, Abkhazia

August 28, 2008

By Nebojsa Malic

Crisis in the Caucasus took an unexpected twist this week. As Russian troops pulled out of Georgia, their demolition of American-built military bases nearly complete, the government in Moscow recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. Until now, Moscow’s official policy of support to the breakaway regions stopped short of recognition – even in the wake of the U.S.-EU severing of Kosovo from Serbia earlier this year.

War With Russia Is On The Agenda

By Paul Craig Roberts

26/08/08 “ICH” — – Thinking about the massive failure of the US media to report truthfully is sobering. The United States, bristling with nuclear weapons and pursuing a policy of world hegemony, has a population that is kept in the dark–indeed brainwashed–about the most important and most dangerous events of our time.

Note video - “McCAIN/RUSSIA-GEORGIA/REV. RICK WARREN/AUG. 16, 2008″ and “McCain on Russia and Georgia war” below the article

We Tilt at Windmills as World War Looms

By Simon Jenkins

24/08/08 “The Times” — - Is the world drifting towards a new global war? From this week the dominant super-power, America, will for three months pass through the valley of the shadow of democracy, a presidential election. This is always a moment of self-absorption and paranoia. Barack Obama and John McCain will not act as statesmen but as politicians. They will grandstand and look over their shoulders. Their eye will stray from the ball.