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February
26, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Daniel
Pearl: Should His
Editors Have Sent Him There?
Rep. Dennis
Kucinich
A
Prayer for America
February
25, 2002
John Clarke
Interrogated
at US Border
Blankfort,
Poirier, Zeltzer
ADL
Blinks, Settles Spying Case
Alex Lynch
Naked
from Sin:
The Ordeal of Nahla
and Sami Al-Arian
John Chuckman
Ashcroft
Speaks in Tongues
February
24, 2002
David
Vest
Skate
Date
February
23, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Axis
of Evil and
Media Monopolies
Bahour/Dahan
Cracks
in the Occupation
February
22, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Axel
of Evil: Sex Crimes
and the Constitution
February
21, 2002
Gary Leupp
The
Philippines: Second Front in US's Global War
David
Vest
Reagan
Clone Project?
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Chicago
School and Corporate America: Rotten to the Core
February
20, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
The
Shallow Throat Document
Kay Lee
The
Prison Guard Who Never Owned Up to His Crimes
February
19, 2002
David
Orr
Waylon
Jennings, the Duke,
and the Navajo
John Chuckman
The
Devil and Georgie Bush
Prudence
Crowther
Giblet
Gravitas
Ramzi
Kysia
Caught
in the Iraq DMZ
February
18, 2002
Ron Jacobs
The
US and Iran
George
Lewandowski
Empire
in Declline
Lenni
Brenner
Life
and Death of a Folk Hero
February
17, 2002
Robert
Fisk
Lost
in a Pit of Desperation
February
16, 2002
Phillip
Cryan
Colombia
in War Time
February
15, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
From
New York to Porto Alegre
Robert
O'Brien
The
View from Porto Alegre
Mokhiber/Weissman
Resisting
the Assassins
February
14, 2002
Levy and
Easton
Ante
Pavelic
Real Butcher of the Balkans
Joan Claybrook
Dear
Jeb Bush,
About You and Enron
John Chuckman
Time
for a Woman Prez
Alexander
Cockburn
Banning
the Koran
February
13, 2002
Sen. Russ
Feingold
War
Powers and
the War on Terror
Tom Turnipseed
Bush's
Folly
George
Monbiot
American
Imperialism
February
12, 2002
Uri Avnery
The
Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran
Tommy
Ates
Black
Land Loss
February
11, 2002
Walt Brasch
The
Synergizing of America
John Troyer
Enron's
Deep Throat?
February
9, 2002
John Blair
Criticize
Cheney, Go to Jail
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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February 26,
2002
The Georgia We
Have Lost
The Pentagon is Not Rushing to
the Transcaucasus, It's Already There
By Vasily Streltsov
For a third day high-placed Russian and Georgian
politicians have been pronouncing loaded phrases, in the deparaging
sense, which are not acceptable in diplomatic protocal. In
reply to the suggestion of Igor Ivanov that bin Laden might
be hiding in the Pankisi gorge, a more than insulting answer
followed from President Eduard Shevardnadze, with the proposal
to seek out the terrorist in Ivanov's mother's house. Russian
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Georgian Security Minister
Valery Khaburdzania quickly jumped into the frey, while the
barbs of the Georgian side continued to carry a very offensive
tone.
People who understand international politics
understand that Tbilisi has found a serious argument, which
would allow an absolutely economically weakened country to speak
with Moscow, if not from a position of strength, then from
something similar to that. Sources are informing NG that such
an argument has indeed been found. Yesterday American military
personnel arrived in Georgia. It is a small group, possibly
Army communications specialists or simply advisors who are preparing
the introduction of fundamental allied forces into the Pankisi
gorge. In any case, one can affirm with confidence that the
Americans have got their feet onto Georgian soil, and it is
forever.
International society has already had
the opportunity to be convinced that the singular argument for
speaking from a position of strength in modern geopolitics is
an American military presence. This was demonstrated by the
situation in Afghanistan, who was deserted by all of her allies,
including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. An this is demonstrated
by the case of Gerogia, where a small and weak republic allows
itself to speak with Russia in an offending tone.
The US is once again playing a very complex
combination play with many moves, in which the accent is clearly
placed on the struggle with illegal terrorist organizations,
and as a result of which Russia turns out to be in a losing
situation. Russia faithfully supported the struggle with the
Taliban and formally it has won from this. But Russia has lost
in the strategic sense, as all of the southern tier has been
blockaded by the USA. In order to completely dominate on the
territory of the former Soviet Union, the Americans needed a
military presence in the Caucasus. The best pretext for this
was the struggle with illegal armed formations. Afterwards a
spreading of influence to Azerbaijan and Armenia will follow.
It is very nice that preparations have
already begun in Georgia for fall exercises within the framework
of the NATO "Partnership for Peace" program, "Cooperative
Partner-2002," in the course of which the actions of international
forces will be worked out in the conducting of a complex anti-terrorist
operation. Applications for participation came from 16 countries,
including all of the states of the south Caucasus. And if for
Baku the further drawing together with NATO is a continuation
of the traditional policies of recent years, then for Yerevan
this could mean a definite change in foreign policy priorities
which, it seems, would be fully justified by the emerging competition.
Russia, hopelessly losing, is feverishly
searching for an Nto save face. Events of recent days have demonstrated
that Russia has been carrying on a search for a pretext to
withdraw from Georgia legally in the context of diplomatic canons
for a while now. In this context, the recent proposal voiced
by General Staff head Anatoly Kvashnin to withdraw the Transcaucasus
Group of the Russian military from Tbilisi "in a slapdash
fashion" becomes understandable. If this operation had
actually been carried out in a condensed period, then it could
forever have been said that the Americans arrived in Georgia
already after the Russians withdrew, not giving a toss about
their presence.
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