The U.S. Government and News Media Are Lying, Again
by Pavel Yakovlev / August 12th, 2008

I lost all faith in the American democratic system and its media when
President Bush initiated a false war against Iraq and got away with it. This
time, the U.S. media and Bush Administration are lying about a different
war - the one between Georgia and Russia. To understand the complex nature
of this conflict, a brief review of history is necessary.

Throughout its long history, Georgia, the country, has had difficult
relations with Russia and its other neighbors, including the ethnically
different Ossetians. Georgians and Ossetians did not always...