August 2008

More News From South Ossetia – Georgia – Russia

August 11, 2008 by Richard Nadeau

South Ossetians flee cellars for safety in Russia by Dmitry Solovyov / Reuters / August 11, 2008 JAVA, Georgia, Aug 11 (Reuters) – A safe haven in Russia was almost within sight for refugees from South Ossetia’s besieged capital on Monday as they waited in parched streets for buses to ferry them over the border. […]

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Day-by-day: South Ossetia crisis

August 10, 2008 by Staff

BBC News / 14:20 GMT, Sunday, 10 August 2008 A day-by-day look at how the conflict involving Russia and Georgia over the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia is unfolding. SUNDAY 10 AUGUST Georgia says its forces have withdrawn from South Ossetia and that the Russians are fully in control in the region’s capital, Tskhinvali.But […]

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Russia accuses West of bias over South Ossetia

August 10, 2008 by Staff

Reuters / 10 Aug 2008 14:08:43 GMT MOSCOW, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Russia on Sunday accused Western countries and media of a biased pro-Georgian position in the conflict in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia and said this might hamper future relations with Moscow.”Western countries behaved strangely in the first hours of aggression towards […]

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Hundreds die as Georgia war escalates

August 9, 2008 by Staff

Editor: Did you notice – those of you who still get the Union-Tribune – its anti-Russian bias this morning in the headline “Russian military strikes Georgia”(8/09/08)? Georgia actually began this current round of fighting with its own invasion of South Ossettia. The front page article in the U-T did not even mention that fact on […]

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There May be a Left, But is it Moving?

August 9, 2008 by Staff

An Interview with David Sirota by John Stauber/ CounterPunch / Weekend Edition – July 12 / 13, 2008 Sheldon Rampton and I could see it coming soon after the Democrats took control of the Congress in 2007. In March, 2007 we pointed out that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with the support of MoveOn, was advancing legislation […]

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Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery

August 9, 2008 by Staff

In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks by John Byrne / Published: Friday August 8, 2008 A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to […]

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Russia & Georgia Clash Over Break-away Region of South Ossetia On Olympics Opening Day

August 8, 2008 by Staff

By Fred Weir and Paul Rimple / The Christian Science Monitor / the August 9, 2008 edition MOSCOW; and Ergneti, Georgia – The diplomats may still be talking of peace, but from the front line deep inside the pro-Moscow breakaway republic of South Ossetia, a long-feared war between Russia and NATO-leaning Georgia appears to be […]

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U.S. & Iraq Could Be Close to Withdrawal Deadline

August 7, 2008 by Staff

NBC News and news services / August 7, 2008 BAGHDAD – The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later, two Iraqi officials said Thursday. A U.S. official in Washington acknowledged progress has been made […]

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500: Deadly US Milestone in Afghan War

August 7, 2008 by Staff

  by: Kirk Semple and Andrew W. Lehren / The New York Times / 06 August 2008 Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a sniper’s bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet. A television reporter […]

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Reader Rant: ‘Activism is dead in Ocean Beach’

August 7, 2008 by Staff

OB Planning Board Approves Condos for the End of Saratoga by OB Tony I got up and went down to the planning board meeting last night (Wed., Aug. 6) to see what would happen on the proposed “Dempseys” Project (12 condos scheduled for the half block where the old Dempseys restaurant existed and its surrounding […]

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Love it or hate it, KUSI covers San Diego in its own special, old-school way

August 6, 2008 by Staff

Editor: In light of recent developments regarding the owners of KUSI – the McKinnon family – posed to buy the Union-Tribune, we found the following piece from last May to be of interest. By Karla Peterson /UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER / originally posted May 26, 2008 Teacher layoffs. Drug violence in Mexico. College tuition increases. On […]

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Would KUSI Owner McKinnon Push the Union-Tribune Rightward Under Guise of “Local Control”?

August 6, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

SAN DIEGO, CA. Today, even the Union-Tribune had to admit that KUSI owner Michael D. McKinnon wanted to buy San Diego’s only daily newspaper. Yesterday, Don Bauder, the Reader blogger – and former Union-Tribune columnist -, had confirmed in his post that a wealthy group of locals were approaching the Union-Tribune to buy it. Both […]

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HIROSHIMA: Remembering The Bomb

August 6, 2008 by Richard Nadeau

I was almost a year old when the US dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then I have read and watched numerous accounts of that historic event. It is difficult for me to explain my lingering concern about these events throughout my life. Yet, in the late 1980s I worked with Greenpeace […]

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The Lies of Hiroshima Live On, Props in the War Crimes of the 20th Century

August 6, 2008 by Staff

The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims’ names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East by John Pilger / CommonDreams / August 6, 2008 When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression […]

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Follow This Dime-Why Misgovernment Was No Accident in George W. Bush’s Washington

August 6, 2008 by Staff

By Thomas Frank / TomDispatch.com / August 4, 2008 Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment-for-profit ended with the cavalry charge and the robber barons, at […]

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The Price of Oil, Tripled? An Attack on Iran Could Make It Happen

August 6, 2008 by Staff

A war with Iran would ruin our economy and finally kill off our weakened, anemic democracy. By Chris Hedges / Truthdig / August 5, 2008. An attack on Iran, which Israeli and Bush administration officials appear set to carry out if Iranian uranium enrichment is not halted, would ignite a regional war in the Middle […]

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Book says White House ordered forgery to link Saddam Hussein & Al Qaeda

August 6, 2008 by Staff

by Mike Allen / Politiclo / August 5, 2008 A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged […]

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This is Horseshit

August 6, 2008 by Staff

by Cindy Sheehan / www.opednews.com / August 6, 2008 You know, I don’t care if it’s not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: “horseshit.” I don’t care if it is not a good “tactic” to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horseshit anyway. I don’t care […]

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New poll shows Obama losing support among young and women

August 6, 2008 by Staff

By Steven Thomma / McClatchy Newspapers / August 5, 2008 Barack Obama has lost ground among some of his strongest bases of support, including young people, women, Democrats and independents, according to a new ATV/Zogby poll. The Illinois Democrat has also lost some support among African-Americans and Hispanics, where his lead over Republican John McCain […]

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Kill the Union-Tribune, Please!

August 5, 2008 by Doug Porter

Last week’s announcement that San Diego’s daily snoozepapers were on the auction bloc should have come as no surprise. Frank Gormlie’s analysis in this space certainly covered the significant facts about the decline of the Union-Trib and a great deal of its history as a tool for reactionary causes. Now I have a news flash […]

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3 more arrested protesting movement of combat vehicles at Ft. Lewis, Washington – total now 11

August 4, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

The Olympian • Published August 04, 2008 Police arrested three anti-war activists – including two South Sound residents – early Sunday morning for blocking the Fort Lewis main gate. Lakewood Police spokeswoman Heidi Hoffman said the three were arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct at about 2:40 a.m. at the Interstate 5 onramp at Milepost […]

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cartoon o’ da day

August 4, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

E-mail Ashley Pingree Lewis at ashley.p.lewis@gmail.com

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DEA Agents Raid Calif Medical Marijuana Dispensary Same Day As Pro-Medicinal Pot Court Ruling

August 4, 2008 by Staff

California Appeals Court Backs Medical Marijuana Posted by Jacob Goldstein / Wall Street Journal / August 1, 2008 California’s medical marijuana law got an endorsement yesterday from a state appeals court: A three-judge panel ruled that San Diego and San Bernardino counties, which have been fighting the state law, must issue government-sponsored ID cards to […]

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Blue Notes #48 – BOXER BILL BRINGS OCEAN ACT CLOSER & more …

August 3, 2008 by Staff

By David Helvarg / August 1, 2008 / Summer Recess Blue Notes #48 Senator Boxer Introduces Ocean Act On July 23 Senator Barbara Boxer introduced her long anticipated National Ocean Protection Act (NOPA) in the Senate. Different from the comprehensive ocean bill she’d introduced in 2005 (See Blue Notes #13) this one, with its focus […]

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Local Resident & Participant in 1970 Fight to Stop the Jetty Speaks Out

August 2, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

OCEAN BEACH,CA. A local OB resident who was involved in the Summer 1970 fight to stop the jetty that the City of San Diego and the Army Corps of Engineers wanted to build in North OB, has now come forward to share details of those dramatic and exciting days & nights. Our local guy, who […]

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Military’s Social Science Grants Raise Alarm

August 2, 2008 by Staff

Critics of Gates’ Proposals Say Pentagon Funding Could Make Universities an “instrument rather than critic of war-making” by Maria Glod / Washington Post Staff Writer / Sunday, August 3, 2008 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is calling on “eggheads” to help the military unravel questions about the recruitment of terrorists, the resurgence of the Taliban […]

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Remember Hiroshima Vigil

August 1, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

Please join San Diego’s Peace community on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 6:30 – 8 p.m. to say NO TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! NO TO WAR! NO TO WAR PROFITEERS! Commemorative Program and Candlelight Vigil, 6:30 to 8 p.m., in front of the Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum on Harbor Drive (one block south of Broadway). Related/support events […]

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