The links for most of the info directly below are NYT"s and IBT'sIf it's quoted, it's from there.But, first, the mainstream media is playing the divide card. In NYT's article headline“Protesters’ Clash Shows Region’s Divide”When the corporate NATO war media uses the word “divide” they want you to believe that the ''divide" is between parties of equals. It isn't.
By now everybody nows what happened among the far right of the Arizona Republican Party over the last few days. The state legislature passed some crackpot anti-LGBT bill that lets anyone make up some religionist excuse for discrimination against gays-- or anyone else they don't like. They passed the same crap last session but Governor Brewer vetoed it. This time Senators Flake and McCain immediately called on Brewer to veto it again-- and so did the Arizona business community. And then several Republicans in the legislature said, basically, "Oops, we screwed up. Can we get a do-over? No?
Georgia Wants NATO Membership & More War, ETIM Threatens Kyrgyzstan & More
*The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Central Asia and the Caucasus region between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players.
Xinhua News Agency | February 12, 2014
TBILISI: Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania said Wednesday that the country has decided to join the NATO Response Force (NRF) in 2015 with financial support from the United States.
With thanks to freethinker!lengthy but a worthy read A Bosnian Spring- Let’s call it a putsch.Feb 09/2014I have added additional links to the post
Since 2007, Democrats have been predicting that demographics, coupled with Republican knee-jerk bigotry and xenophobia, will turn Texas blue within a decade. When Texas-born Rand Paul confirmed this yesterday, he neglected to mention that Georgia is turning blue just as quickly.
And moreJust a bit more then 7 minutes and extremely informative
FZ: You know Putin well. You've met him more than any American. Do you think he’s watching what is happening in Ukraine and thinking, the West and the United States is doing this essentially as a way of surrounding Russia?
HK- "I think he thinks that this is a dress rehearsal for what we would like to do in Moscow. And so..."
FZ: Regime change?
By Noel Brinkerhoff and Danny Biederman | AllGov | January 29, 2014
Privatization of the criminal justice system has extended beyond prisons that are run for profit and now includes probation operators making a buck off Americans who have violated the law.
In Georgia, they want Medicare expansion and they want to keep their crazy anti-healthcare Governor. Maybe they listen to too much Hate Talk Radio and watch too much Fox News and have wound up with addled brains, but an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released today yields a portrait of one very confused electorate.
And perhaps lower gas prices?While the west offers up destabilization.Irish Times
