Posted on October 10, 2008
Georgian police officers escort a Russian army conscript who was driving an army truck seized near South Ossetia on Sept. 24.
Cornered by NATO’s expansion, Moscow reasserts its imperial ambitions By Fred Weir
By Pentagon standards, Russia’s lightning summer conflict with Georgia wasn’t much of a war.
There was no forced “regime change” and no “shock and awe,” merely a swift, armored thrust by Russia’s Vladikavkaz-based 58th army that dispersed an ill-advised Georgian military assault on the Moscow-protected statelet of South Ossetia. And though the Russian air force took undisputed control of the skies and targeted some aspects of Georgia’s infrastructure, there was no plan to systematically… more
Erick Lyle's On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City (Soft Skull, May) may not have gotten much attention when it came out earlier this year, but that's a shame.
This collection… more
About halfway through Battle in Seattle, writer/director Stuart Townsend's cinematic dramatization of the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, a group of activists are watching a local TV station's coverage of the… more
Practical Idealists offers useful advice for young activists, but is utilitarian to a fault Progressives need a book that demonstrates to idealistic young people that they can pay the rent and transform society. The book would also nudge older people into activism and address the responsibilities of adulthood.… more
This country's presidential debates are a joke. I'm not talking about the tone or even the topics covered in this election cycle's debates: They were mostly... more
Today’s must read article comes via Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert, as published on Salon.com. It delves into Palin's connection with the pro-secessionist Alaskan Independence Party,... more
Via TPM Election Central:
With the big unions gearing up for the final push in the battlegrounds, the United Auto Workers hits the airwaves in four... more
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