Friday, July 28 06

No cool heads today as Russia 'expresses concern' about Georgia's attacks on Abkhaz border positions, and Russian peacekeepers block a Georgian military convoy in Abkhazia. Two more Canadian troops die in Afghanistan, days after reports of a split in support for Operation Athena, Michael Ignatieff stands firm against critics of his Afghanistan position. The Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) Defense Policy Group has a good vantage point to study the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) approach. This article on ZNet back in May, 2006 described the Canadian Invasion of Southern Afghanistan. Here's part II of: 'How Australia orchestrated "“regime change" in East Timor' from the World Socialist Web Site. It's official: hair-split elections are some kind of recurring trend. Is high-altitude bombing an effective tool in modern war? Darfur refugee camps in recent CBC and BBC pictures. The International Rescue Team (IRT) is a New-York-based NGO anti-genocide advocacy group with and emphasis outside North America, that receives funding from major corporatdonorsrs, and Crossfire War is a web log for: 'Analysis of international events in the Eurasian Continent and other regions involved in WWIII: 1994-2007.' This article lays out some arguments for political secession of the city New York (!?). A rebel group in eastern D.R. Congo agrees to a cease-fire leading up to the key election.