{"id":3038,"date":"2008-08-27T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2008-08-27T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:46:30","slug":"what-the-media-misses-on-the-russia-georgia-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/08\/27\/what-the-media-misses-on-the-russia-georgia-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Media Misses on the Russia-Georgia Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_27_08\/2008_08_27_kotz.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_27_08\/2008_08_27_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/nm\/20080827\/2008_08_26t163425_450x319_us_georgia_ossetia_street.jpg?x=400&#038;y=283&#038;q=85&#038;sig=UNlqJw2.gkD7wROeteOlCA--\" alt=\"Georgia\" \/>Russia announced yesterday that it would recognize the independence of two breakaway Georgian provinces over which it fought a minor war earlier this month. President Bush denounced what he called an &#8220;irresponsible decision&#8221; on  Russia&#8217;s part. NATO&#8217;s decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council, also condemned the move and urged Russia to reverse its position. But Russian president Dmitri Medvedev defended the move saying that Georgia forced Russia&#8217;s hand by trying to gain control by force in the smaller of the two provinces, South Ossetia. He also said, &#8220;We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War.&#8221; The US intends to use a Navy destroyer and Coastguard Cutter to deliver what it&#8217;s calling a humanitarian shipment to the region this week. Georgia is a staunch ally of the US in the Caucasus region, a major transit corridor for energy supplies to Europe and a strategic crossroads close to the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan and energy-rich Central Asia. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney is due to visit Georgia next week. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: David Kotz, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and coauthor of &#8220;Russia&#8217;s Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Russia announced yesterday that it would recognize the independence of two breakaway Georgian provinces over which it fought a minor war earlier this month. President Bush denounced what he called an &#8220;irresponsible decision&#8221; on Russia&#8217;s part. NATO&#8217;s decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council, also condemned the move and urged Russia to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}