http://ec2-34-197-6-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com 2026-04-28T09:24:15+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1512833271 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1402323466 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1394225712 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1306804397 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1291916703 Suspect tells authorities army major ordered bomb placement Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. A new storm cloud may be on the horizon for President Obama over evidence that Moscow may have coaxed Georgian nationals into planting a bomb outside the U.S. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1281367499 Ahead of the second anniversary since Georgia’s attack on its breakaway republic of South Ossetia in August 2008, a certain progress in talks on security in South Caucasus can be seen, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Grigory Karasin, said, adding that observers in the European Union (EU) share his opinion. Audio Late in the evening of the 7th of August, 2008, when the whole world anticipated the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili ordered his troops to invade the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinval. Saakashvili promised the locals there would be no violence but at midnight the sleeping city was hit by falling shells which are known to be used in large-scale military operations in the army. But then Georgia used them against the civilians.            After the bombing, the Georgian troops, tanks and other military vehicles, entered Tskhinval. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1265049679 Former Georgian Prime Minister and Movement for Fair Georgia Leader Z. Noghaideli plans to visit Moscow again this February. According to Vzglyad Internet outlet, the purpose of the visit is to sign a cooperation agreement with the pro-government United Russia party. Noghaideli said in an interview to Vsya Nedelya it is time “to put an end to the useless confrontation with Russia and to establish normal if not friendly relations with it”. He said this is, among other things, necessary to address Georgia's problems with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1253297825 Sept. 16, 2009   Tensions are mounting in the Black Sea with the threat of another conflict between U.S. and NATO client state Georgia and Russia as Washington is manifesting plans for possible military strikes against Iran in both word and deed. Referring to Georgia having recently impounded several vessels off the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia, reportedly 23 in total this year, the New York Times wrote on September 9 that "Rising tensions between Russia and Georgia over shipping rights to a breakaway Georgian region have opened a potential new theater for conflict between the countries, a little more than a year after they went to war. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1249836544 August 8, 2009 One year ago, the Saakashvili regime - supervised and armed by the United States, the United Kingom and Israel - bombarded South Ossetia. To protect its nationals, Russia intervened, destroyed the Israeli military bases and penetrated Georgian territory. Counfounded by the efficiency of a Russian army believed to be obsolete, Washington detailed Nicolas Sarkozy to negotiate a cease-fire with Dmitry Medvedev. Today, Sergey Lavrov is still convinced that the observance of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan is the only guarantee of achieving peace in the Transcaucasian region. Sergey Lavrov August 8 marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic events in South Ossetia. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1248993268 July 30, 2009 S.Ossetian leader says Georgia unlikely to attack in future According to Kokoity, Georgia with the help of the United States, NATO, Ukraine, Israel and other countries, has re-equipped itself with weapons lost or destroyed after the August war. "Georgia's army today is better equipped than in August 2008. Training exercises with NATO forces are regularly held and military specialists from NATO countries and the U.S. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1246131475 Russian military exercise feared prelude to invasion June 27, 2009   Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. Training session for Georgian troops (U.S. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1243359860 May 25, 2009 May 25, 2009 “Of all manifestations power, restraint impresses men most”  -Thucydides It seems political turmoil is becoming increasingly common in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. More than five years after the 2003 Rose Revolution, it looks like another regime change might put an end to Mikheil Saakashvili's presidency. During the last few weeks, several protests have been organized by many groups demanding that President Saakashvili tenders his resignation effective immediately. Even former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze suggested "the country's embattled president to resign to avoid bloodshed.. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1243276254 May 25, 2009 “Of all manifestations power, restraint impresses men most”  -Thucydides It seems political turmoil is becoming increasingly common in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. More than five years after the 2003 Rose Revolution, it looks like another regime change might put an end to Mikheil Saakashvili's presidency. During the last few weeks, several protests have been organized by many groups demanding that President Saakashvili tenders his resignation effective immediately. Even former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze suggested "the country's embattled president to resign to avoid bloodshed.. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1242077097 May 11, 2009 NATO War Games In Georgia: Threat Of New Caucasus War Rick Rozoff On May 6 the Cooperative Longbow 09/Cooperative Lancer 09 US-led NATO Partnership for Peace exercises began in Georgia. More exactly, the first half of the paired exercises, Cooperative Longbow 09, which is a command post operation conducted at Georgian military headquarters in Tbilisi. The second, Cooperative Lancer 09, is a field exercise and was scheduled to include 1,300 servicemen from 19 countries (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Greece, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Serbia, Spain, Macedonia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, and the US), including 1,089 foreign troops and 214 Georgian servicemen in exercises at the Vaziani base of the Georgian Defence Ministry near the capital. The first started on May 6; the second will run from May 17-June 1. This is the fourth in what have become annual Cooperative Longbow/Cooperative Lancer exercises, the first having been held in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova in 2006, the following year's in Albania and last year's in Armenia. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1241285903 May 1, 2009 President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have announced that they intend to keep the promise of former president George W. Bush to send $242 million in military aid to Georgia in the 2010 budget. This comes at the very time that NATO war games are being prepared in Georgia, right on Russia's southern border. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev sounded the alarm about the NATO military operations saying, "“Military exercises can’t be conducted where the war has been recently unleashed. Those who took a decision to conduct them will bear responsibility for their negative consequences. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1240172765 April 17, 2009 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has announced it will proceed with its scheduled military exercise in Georgia despite Russia’s ire. NATO spokesman Robert Pszczel said on Thursday that the organization’s war game will go forward according to plan as “it was planned to take place in Georgia and that was known for a long time,” adding “Georgia is with the same rights and responsibilities in the ‘Partnership for Peace’ program.”   NATO spokesman Robert Pszczel Pszczel, however, asked for Russia’s involvement in the war-game, noting “Russia could have joined any time, [it] still could. Although the exercises are starting pretty soon on May 6. But it’s open, I stress again, to all partner countries. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1239821672 Instability in Georgia. A rocky beachhead April 14, 2009 The bloom has officially faded on Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s 2003 rose revolution. The 13 opposition parties in this nation of 4.7 million are united and determined, and began their latest series of demonstrations 9 April, when as many as 100,000 demonstrated in Tbilisi, capturing the nation’s mood of frustration and, increasingly, contempt for their oversize, fanatically pro-American president. They have vowed to persist with a campaign of civil disobedience until he resigns. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1239821472 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1226522227 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1226182461 Nov. 8, 2008 The New York Times on Friday carried a front-page article headlined “Accounts Undercut Claims by Georgia on Russia War.” The article cited a report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a multinational association of 56 member states whose monitors were in Georgia when the fighting broke out, which demolishes the official US account of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war, according to which the war was an act of Russian aggression. The OSCE concluded that the conflict began on August 7 when US-trained Georgian troops shelled Russian peacekeepers and civilians in the capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. According to Friday’s New York Times, “the accounts suggest that Georgia's inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on August 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1225416469 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1222917238 Sept. 29, 2008 Following the end of fighting in Georgia and the humiliating rout and disintegration of the American-trained and supported Georgian army, the political recriminations on the part of Tblisi in Georgia and Washington and the Pentagon in America were frantically being created, sometimes out of whole cloth and always with an eye to putting the sole blame on Vladimir Putin and the leadership of the Russian Republic.                 In the face of overwhelming evidence that the brief but devastating conflict with Russia was specifically caused by an armor and artillery attack on the breakaway provincial capital of South Ossetia by Georgian forces, the erratic and volatile Georgian President Saakashvili. has now been frantically working with American political and military leaders to present his side of the origins of the conflict. Lengthy Georgian apologia and enhancements have gone to the New York Times, various Pentagon public relations groups and the White House, with especial reference to Vice President Cheney. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1222201067 “Washington, D.C., September 20, 2008: “Putin’s total humiliation of his enemy, Georgian President Saakashvili, George Bush and the Israel government and military, .in the brief but deadly war in Georgia that was instigated by Saakashvili ,has caused a wave of fear in Kiev. The Ukraine, an American satellite, knows that Putin has his eye on their country and has proven that he can seize it at any time, un-hindered by a useless NATO. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1221666869 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1221613597 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1221332724 August 20, 2008   The Role of Israel in the Georgian War Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:40 AM From: "Israel Shamir" <adam@israelshamir.net> To: "readers" <shamireaders@yahoogroups.com> _filtered #yiv1095099499 { font-family:Calibri; } _filtered #yiv1095099499 { font-family:Georgia; } _filtered #yiv1095099499 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1221332545 Sept. 12, 2008 PUTIN ~ 1/3 ~ ARD FULL (English subtitles) ~ Интервью Путина ARD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30By6n3r_SQ PUTIN ~ 2/3 ~ ARD FULL (English subtitles) ~ Интервью Путина ARD: http://www.youtube. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1221264968 Posted 9/12/08 OWING TO THE ZIONIST OCCUPATION of the Western press, not only will crucial news be distorted, but essential news will also be suppressed. Such is the example of Vladimir Putin’s defense of Russia’s recent actions in S.Ossetia and Georgia. The Zionist-occupied mainstream media in the West has banned an August 29 2008 interview with Putin conducted by Thomas Roth of the National German Broadcast Services. Even in Germany, the interview was censored. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220920884 9-8-8 BBC News Flash There was a press conference in the EU at about 5pm CET, 11am EDT on September 8, 2008 between Nicholas 'the Nick' Sarkozy, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ivanov. Of course, this press conference was about 24 hours after G.W. Bush announced that the US is going to put a US Navy base in Georgia. That was, of course, more blustering from our juvenile delinquent 'president' because he didn't get his way in Georgia. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220804405    Washington, D.C., September 5, 2008: “While the American media is entertaining the American public with the on-going political three ringer, very serious storms are building, and have been building, in the Middle East. Putin, three times more a national leader than George Bush, has bided his time and patiently awaited his enemy, the United States to attack Russia. Both Washington and Moscow were fully aware of the pending Georgian attack on South Ossetia and both did nothing but wait. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220411151 Sept. 1, 2008 CNN interview with Vladimir Putin Matthew Chance: Many people around the world, even though you're not the president of Russia anymore, see you as the main decision maker in this country. Wasn't you that ordered Russian forces into Georgia and you who should take responsibility for the consequences? Putin: Of course, that's not the case. In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president. The president of the Russian Federation was acting within his powers. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220410069 August 30, 2008 Russia will not be isolated because it protected its citizens and upheld its peacekeeping mission, the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said. In an interview on German TV, Putin suggested that if Russia had not responded to Georgian aggression, there could have been a tragedy along the scale of what happened in the former Yugoslavia. AFP Photo / Alexey Druzhinin “I think a country like Russia, that protected its citizens, and fulfilled its peacekeeping duties, won't be held in isolation, no matter what our partners think within the limits of their bloc. Europe and the U.S. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220220349 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220202978 Posted 8/31/08 Excellent interview on Russian TV with Alex Jones as he declares the USA and UK have been hijacked by the Military-industrial complex TO VIEW THIS VIDEO CLICK ON: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAkHOXxMoM text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220138315 August 29, 2008 Fears are mounting that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over coming days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and Nato naval actions in the Black Sea. Any such move would be a dramatic escalation of the Georgia crisis and play havoc with the oil markets. Reports have begun to circulate in Moscow that Russian oil companies are under orders from the Kremlin to prepare for a supply cut to Germany and Poland through the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline. It is believed that executives from lead-producer LUKoil have been put on weekend alert. "They have been told to be ready to cut off supplies as soon as Monday," claimed a high-level business source, speaking to The Daily Telegraph. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1220052260 8-28-8 Living in Azerbaijan, I may be somewhat closer to recent events in Georgia than many of your other readers. A few points for you to consider: 1. Neither Abkhazia, nor South Ossetia were ever formally an integral part of the Georgian Socialist Republic. Abkhazia, during the Soviet Union days was an independent Socialist Republic. South Ossetia was an Autonomous Region, (Times Atlas of the World - 1990 edition and earlier ­ A. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219940298 Washington, D.C., August 24, 2008: “What amounts to a terrible geo-political defeat for the United States as the direct result of the Russian/Georgian conflict, has caused much sturm und drang here. Cheney, who had no idea that Putin would react so quickly or that the Georgian army would totally collapse, is having a fit. Bush, who expected some kind of a blow to Tehran before he left office, is having one of his sulks and the propaganda organs are gearing up to try to smear Putin and disguise the fact that at the first sign of real trouble, our beloved CIA, the entire U. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219881356 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219867203 Auguest 27, 2008 Mayday, Mayday - World Political Tension By United States War Faction It has come to my attention today, August 26, 2008, that the United States and Britain are planning to aggravate and defy Russia over the conflict that happened in Georgia. The plan, which has been on the table for about one year, is now being implemented by the United States dragging NATO and U.S. navy ships into the Black Sea region to replay the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. If this world crisis that is scheduled to erupt and start World War III by the United States and Britain happens, there will be no 2008 election! The contention will be over the United States trying to defy Russian naval forces from searching their humanitarian aid cargo to be dropped off at the port of Poti, Georgia. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219866883 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.   The power of the Israel Lobby is an important component of keeping Americans in the dark. Recently I watched a documentary that demonstrates the control that the Israel Lobby exercises over Americans’ view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  The documentary is available here: http://www. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219767152 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219507022 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, manufacturing plants and residential areas. It is also the home to 30,000 South Ossetians. When Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ordered the city to be bombed by warplanes and shelled by heavy artillery last Thursday, he knew that he would be killing hundreds of civilians in their homes and neighborhoods. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219450305 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219445683 August 22, 2008 TSKHINVALI, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia's recent military operations in South Ossetia caused some 100 billion rubles ($4.1 billion) in damage, according to the breakaway republic's preliminary estimates. South Ossetia's deputy speaker of parliament, Tarzan Kokoity, speaking of the destruction of local factories, said: "Today it is senseless to speak of the republic having its own industries." He added that the total amount of damage would be evaluated by the end of August. Georgia launched a major offensive to seize control of South Ossetia on August 8, prompting Russia to send several hundred tanks and thousands of troops into the region. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219339430 8-20-8 There comes a time when one has to call a spade a spade and let the chips fall where they may. I detest liars and our government is lined wall-to-wall with such deceitful morons hiding their agendas behind those lies. This Zionist New World Order is overflowing with liars and their lying operatives infesting many nations... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219253690 Tuesday 19 August 2008  Brussels - NATO agreed after U.S. pressure on Tuesday to freeze regular contacts with Russia until Moscow had withdrawn its troops from Georgia in line with a peace deal.     The alliance also agreed to upgrade contacts with Tbilisi but stopped short of accelerating its efforts to join NATO, an ambition which had enraged Russia even before the two-week-old conflict over Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region. Under pressure from the US, NATO has frozen contacts with Russia. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219251366 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219192622 August 14, 2008 The following is Press TV's exclusive full-length interview with former US treasury official Paul Craig Roberts. Press TV: Paul Craig Roberts, you served with the US government. Tell us a little bit about the National Endowment for Democracy. Because I understand that, you believe they had a lot to do with the relations between these two former Soviet states and the United States. Paul Craig Roberts Roberts: The National Endowment for Democracy is a neoconservative organization funded by the United States government and its purpose is to buy and rig elections in the former constituent parts of the Soviet empire. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219184518 Posted 8/19/08 Look at little saddam: at 1.00 he tries to devour his tie. Saakashvili really looks like destructive psycho - and he is. Or maybe does he feel noose around the neck? TO VIEW THIS VIDEO CLICK ON: http://ca.youtube. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/war/georgia-ossentia/news.php?q=1219184094 Posted 8/19/2008 What really happened in Georgia? Some basic facts: 1. The citizens of South Ossetia have long expressed a desire to break away from Georgia and, in fact, declared themselves independent from Georgia in the 1990s. 2. On the first day of the 2008 Olympics, Georgia launched an all-out, "shock and awe" attack on numerous civilian targets in Tskhinvali, the capital city of South Ossetia 3. Russia, which shares a border and a long historical connection with South Ossetia, sent troops into the region to fight back the attacking Georgian military.