Russia and Georgia: Caucasian calculus

(The Intelligence Daily) -- War clouds refuse to disperse a year after Georgia waged war against Russia. On the anniversary of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ill-fated invasion of South Ossetia 8 August, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned: "Georgia does not stop threatening to restore its 'territorial integrity' by force. Armed forces are concentrated at the borders near Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and provocations are committed," including renewed Georgian shelling of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali. What is the...

Obama Administration Revives Bush-Era Quarantine Regulations for H1N1 Flu Virus

(The Intelligence Daily) -- While the American far-right rants against alleged "Obama death panels" and other Freddy Krueger-like scarecrows to frighten--and divert--the kiddies, our capitalist...

Top 50 US War Criminals Who Need to be Prosecuted

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Compiled below, in hopes that it may be of some assistance to Eric Holder, John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, active citizens, foreign courts, the International Criminal Court,...

Winners and Losers in the American Warfare State

(The Intelligence Daily) -- “On my last day in Iraq,” veteran McClatchy News correspondent Leila Fadel wrote August 9th, “as on my first day in Iraq, I couldn’t see what the...

Rove and Miers to Testify Publicly Before Congress About Attorney Firings

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Back in March, when House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers announced that he and his staff had reached an agreement to have Karl Rove and ex-White House Counsel...

Video: Obama is a marketing dream and was employed by the CIA

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