Georgia

Georgia holds regular competitive elections and hosts lively media and civil society sectors. However, oligarchic influence affects the country's political affairs, and opposition figures have faced physical attacks. Corruption in government persists and media freedom is undermined by intimidation and pressure against journalists. Executive and legislative interference in the courts remains a substantial problem, as does a lack of transparency and professionalism surrounding judicial proceedings.

South Ossetia has been autonomous since the early 1990s from which date Russian and Georgian peacekeepers have been [there]. The US puppet president of Georgia attacked S. Ossetian civilians with his American and Israeli trained and equipped army, killing about 2,000 and driving 30,000 into Russia, and the Georgian peacekeepers turned their weapons upon the Russian peacekeepers. The American puppet, installed by the neocon National Endowment for Democracy, committed this war crime ... to end the separatist movement in order to smooth Georgia's entrance into NATO.

The process of surrounding Russia with military bases continued unabated ... with various "color revolutions" ... Washington even attempted to install a Washington-controlled government ... and did succeed ... in former Soviet Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin. The President of Georgia, a country located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, is a Washington puppet. Recently, he announced that former Soviet Georgia is on schedule to become a NATO member in 2014 ... What is the purpose of Georgia being a NATO member except to give Washington a military base on the Russian underbelly?

The tragic events in the nation of Georgia show that U.S. foreign policy is a bust ... Georgia has been angling for membership in NATO for years. President Mikheil Saakashvili's Russian policy was nothing short of a pro-American in-your-face policy strategy. The Bush administration encouraged it by training and equipping the Georgian military. All of this stirred Russian suspicions about U.S. objectives in its "backyard." ... The immediate cause of the recent clash was Georgia's violent move to put down separatist activity in South Ossetia, one of two ... areas with sympathies toward Russia.

Wolf von Laer: ... Georgia, the country, is also very strong. And I was blown away by that when I read a report. So each time, when they organize something, they write an after-action report. And they wrote 15 pages. They had 500 people there for a one-day event. They have been on a campus tour before to tell other people about it. They have been on television before this talking about the event. They had Subway there, Coca-Cola, all kinds of corporate sponsors there. And they raised all their own money for this event, so we didn't have to pay one dollar of the money that we are raising ...