<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><FONT size=3>Non of the links seem to work</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>all of this shows that stated and state sponsored bodies like NATO the UN and the EU </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>cannot be trusted to act for the best of reasons( so the Greens and other so called progressives who supported the bombing of Serbia in 1999 should be ashamed of themselves as should <SPAN>those</SPAN> who supported the USSR and China because of their so called support for liberation struggles when all they wanted to do was like the US set up client states</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Apparently under International law (in theory) ALL peoples have the right to self determination not just those under colonial rule or occupation</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>So Kosova, South Ossetian Chechnya Tibet and Scotland for example all have the SAME right to ceed from the nation states of which they are supposed to be part</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Anarchist of course would oppose the state formed from another state but </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>individual self determination is more likely if you have lots of smaller states with limited jurisdiction and the possibility to escape from one to the other., after all if State B gives me asylum just to spite state A from the point of view of my personal safety it makes no difference and if I then run into trouble with state B(Because I am certainly not going to show my gratitude by supporting them if they do something I oppose) I want to be able to escape to state C</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3> </FONT></DIV><BR><BR><FONT size=3>--- On</FONT> <B>Tue, 8/19/08, Echo of Freedom <I><EchoOfFreedom@riseup.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Echo of Freedom <EchoOfFreedom@riseup.net><BR>Subject: [LAF] Some useful stuff on Russia-Georgia<BR>To: "List - London Anarchist Forum" <laf@lists.aktivix.org><BR>Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 9:33 AM<BR><BR><PRE>Russia-Georgia: Behind the war on South <SPAN>Ossetia</SPAN>
<A href="http://links.%20org.au/node/%20577">http://links. org.au/node/ 577</A></PRE><PRE>August 16, 2008 -- On August 7, after a week of border clashes,
Georgia's pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili </PRE><PRE>launched a military
attack against South Ossetia. South Ossetia, while internationally
recognised as part of Georgia, has been predominantly under the control
of a pro-independence administration since Georgia separated from the
former Soviet Union in 1991. Since a 1992 ceasefire, the South Ossetian
statelet has been protected by Russian peacekeepers. Within 24 hours,
Georgian troops had taken the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, after
destroying much of it with artillary. More than 30,000 refugees (out of
a population of 70,000) fled across the border to the Republic of North
Ossetia-Alania, which is part of the Russian Federation. Using this, and
the killing of 20 Russian peacekeepers, as pretexts, Russia intervened
in full force: bombing targets throughout Georgia, driving the Georgians
out of South Ossetia (including territory not previously held by the
South Ossetian administration) and crossing into Georgia-proper to take
the town of Gori.
* Read more <http://links. org.au/node/ 577>
Boris Kagarlitsky on the Russia-Georgia conflict & video
<http://links. org.au/node/ 576>
August 14, 2008 -- Georgia has resolutely condemned Russia's actions in
Chechnya. Russia has severely criticised NATO actions towards Serbia.
Later on the Georgian authorities tried to do the same thing in South
Ossetia as the Russian authorities had done in Chechnya. Moscow decided
to treat Georgia in the same way as NATO had treated Serbia. Bad habits
are contagious.
* Read more <http://links. org.au/node/ 576>
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