Zaid Jilani, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. October 5, 2009. Rep. Nathan Deal has since released a statement saying "I regret my choice of words and in no way meant to offend anyone."
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. "We are going through every single detainee's records... to make a judgment about whether or not they should be tried [or] ... released," Biden told the BBC.
Martina Correia, Comment Is Free. May 20, 2009. My brother has faced the death chamber three times for a murder he didn't commit. Now he's in danger of getting a new execution date.
Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch. May 18, 2009. Troy Davis has faced execution three times in two years despite damning proof of his innocence. We can't allow this injustice to continue.
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. December 2, 2008. Jim Martin is up against Saxby Chambliss in Georgia today, and there just is not that much enthusiasm for this race on the Democrati side.
Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 25, 2008. Palin is going to Georgia on behalf of GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss who is in a runoff election against Democrat Jim Martin.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Election 2008. November 21, 2008. The pressures of the runoff and the continuing questions about his ties to a scandal-scarred sugar company seem to be getting to Chambliss.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. November 12, 2008. Citing "high percentage of minority vote" in Georgia, Chambliss laments not getting "our folks" out to vote.
Steven Rosenfeld, November 1, 2008. So much for McCain's claim that "the fabric of democracy" is being torn. It's only being ruffled by Republicans in battleground states.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Election 2008. October 31, 2008. It's one thing to open offices and organize volunteers in these states, but we're talking about TV advertising in the last four days.
Mark Ames, The Nation. October 28, 2008. Deconstructing the NYT fairy tale of the poor innocent small democracy of Georgia attacked by a cruel Cold War Russian monster.
Marlene Martin, International Socialist Review. September 19, 2008. Troy Davis faces execution on September 23rd. Will Georgia knowingly kill an innocent man?
Noam Chomsky, CounterPunch. September 15, 2008. It's in America's best interests to regard Russia a resurgent power and not apply a strategy of confrontation against it.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. September 4, 2008. The recent fighting in the Caucasus is part of a bigger struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energy riches of the Caspian Sea basin.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. August 28, 2008. Biden, Obama, and the Dems are rallying to escalate the war in Afghanistan. But trading one war for another would be catastrophic.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. August 27, 2008. In order to win, McCain needs a new Cold War. Lucky for him that Republicans are so good at whipping up false international threats.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. August 27, 2008. Joseph R. Wood, Cheney's deputy assistant for national security affairs, was in Georgia shortly before the war began.
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. August 27, 2008. Russia, Georgia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are in turmoil, but the corporate media reports only on the DNC.
Michael T. Klare, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 21, 2008. This struggle started when the former Soviet republics began seeking Western customers for their oil and natural gas.
Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 18, 2008. The self-righteous posturing coming out of DC should be tempered by recognition of the ways in which the U.S. has contributed to the crisis.
