The World shakes
Well, yesterday was certainly interesting. One minute we have a monummentous celebration in Beijing, and the next, Russia invades Georgia over a tiny rebellious mountainous enclave. So two universal truths are reinforced. One, the Chinese know how to throw a good party. Two, the Caucasus remain one of the world’s most irritable sores.
Now, on to the blogs.
Mark Almond/CiF – An informed commentary. And not ignorring one of the fundamentals of the Georgian-Russian conflict, Saakashvili – the Georgian president – is a naive idiot.
Svante Cornell/CiF – Stark, one-sided Russophobia. IMO. But then I would say that.
Robin Lustig – Iraq is flooded with oil-money, so why is the US still footing the bill for reconstruction?
Political Betting – Will two sex-scandals – one tinged with race – destabilise Obama’s campaign?
Real Clear Politics – (Re. one of those scandals) WTF was Edwards thinking?
The Curvature – Two in a row for Cara. Today it’s another story of a defence contractor, this time the Halliburton subsidiary KBR, covering up rape by its workers.
Paul Linford – Closer to home, we have Paul’s weekly Journal column, outlining why David Miliband must move to the centre, and not be shackled with Blairites.
Giles Coren/The Times – Coren, he of the very sweary emails, gives Polly, and many of her fellow Guardianistas, a jolly good thrashing.
Jim Killock – Some light-hearted poking at the Lib Dem’s latest pre-manifesto statement. Background reading here.
The Daily (Maybe) – Jim pens a letter to Ronald McDonald. LOL funny.
Obsolete – septicisle gets playful with some Red-Top satire. Also LOL funny, and in very bad taste. You’re warned.
That’s all. Jennie’s up tomorrow. Bye. *waves*
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For what it’s worth, here’s my take on the South Ossetia war.
A few thoughts on the rush to balance powers:
http://backtowardsthelocus.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/as-the-fighting-begins-nations-shuffle-into-position/
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