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Checkers versus Chess

It’s a day away from Labor Day in the USA and this morning a US Coast Guard cutter, the Dallas, pulled into the Georgian port Batumi to offload 34 tons of humanitarian aid, as GW Bush attempts to counter Russia’s incursions into the trans-Causascus region. A fragile ceasefire holds in the area, although a top […]

End of the World Russia

My father doesn’t read the newspapers or watch the TV news. Too much bad news. Iraq, rising prices, global warming, food crisis ad nauseum. It’s enough to make you think the world is coming to an end and a Russian doomsday cult convinced that the world was facing destruction sought refuge in a cave. Seven […]