Bush Quietly Seeks to Make War Powers Permanent OSC: Russia- Iran Alliance? Fading Superpower, Rising Rivals Putin in fresh attack on US over Georgia: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made fresh accusations of US involvement in the Georgia conflict and rejected suggestions Moscow could target Ukraine next, in an interview aired Saturday. Russia ready to hit back at sanctions - Medvedev: - President Dmitry Medvedev warned Sunday that Russia was ready to retaliate against sanctions, on the eve of European Union summit called to agree on a response to the Georgia conflict. Venezuela Recognizes South Ossetia and Abkhazia Independence: The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, officially declared Saturday his country's support of Russia and of their decision to recognize South Ossetia's and Abkhazia's independence. Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system : Russia is deploying the threat to sell a "game changing" air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new "cold war" with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
By declaring indefinite state of war
By John Byrne
As the nation focuses on Sen. John McCain's choice of running mate, President Bush has quietly moved to expand the reach of presidential power by ensuring that America remains in a state of permanent war. Continue
Article from the Russian press proposing a strategic alliance between Russia and Iran.
By Juan Cole
Pundit on Possible Russia-Iran Alliance To Counter 'Unfriendly' US Moves. Continue
By Bernd Debusmann
In the Great Power game in the region, the score so far is Russia 1, US nil. Does all this mean that the oft-predicted end of America's role as the world's only superpower is near? Depends on the definition of "near". Political power grows from the barrel of a gun, as China's Mao Tse Tung observed, and the United States spends more on its armed forces than the rest of the world combined. There are more than 700 US military bases in some 130 countries. Continue
Sunday, 31 August 2008
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