Georgian Army Moves To Retake South Ossetia

Russian Troops Storm Into Breakaway Province

By MARC CHAMPION
August 8, 2008 3:30 p.m.

Russia and pro-U.S. ally Georgia were on the brink of war Friday, with Russian troops and tanks moving into Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia.

Hundreds of civilians were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121817403177323701.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

Av: John Pilger

Published on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 by The Guardian/UK

The Lies of Hiroshima Live On, Props in the War Crimes of the 20th Century
The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims’ names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East

by John Pilger

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/06/10835/