"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The harbor of Poti in Georgia is near the major oil terminal of Supsa in the Black Sea. Georgia is reporting the harbor has been destroyed. This major secondary route for oil on Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is now closed and the…
Image from Asia Times in 2005 who has useful background on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline that supplies the US, EU, and Israel. The pipeline was bombed in Turkey just a few days ago. The PKK, a Kurdish separatist organization, has claimed…
Georgia declares state of war yet calls for cease-fire. Is this due to muddled reports from the fog of war or someone bit off more than they can chew? By all accounts, Georgia started it by shelling South Ossetia. But…
(Detail of map from University of Colorado. Click for full map.) While the US has certainly been training and arming troops from Georgia, Russia has been doing the same in South Ossetia, and indeed their tanks have entered there –…