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NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

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Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


Green Press Initiative
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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Jerome has an excellent diary up and he knows the Ukraine, Caucasus, Caspian regions as well as the BTC pipeline. The agressor this time is Saakashvili who acts more like a dictator than a democrat. The provinces South Ossatia and Abzkazia have no Georgian forces within. There was a truce with Russian peacekeepers in S Ossatia, an ethnic independent region with close cultural ties to their Russian counterpart North Ossatia. It's a very mountainous area with small population. They have known wars with Georgia for the last 100 years. With no provocation and well planned, Georgia bombarded the capital city Tskhinvali. Within days it lies in ruins and nearly 2000 civilian deaths. The Russian peacekeepers were either killed or wounded. Georgia will be punished by the Russian bear and pay a heavy price for the demolitions. Russian news media calls it continuously a "GENOCIDE" and wants the responsible politicians brought to justice. Russia will respect the Georgian territory, except for the two break-away provinces. It's clear the S Ossatian people want to be reunited to Russia and Abkazia wants its independence .. remember Kosovo?

There is no western news media in South Ossatia, so the view you link is western propaganda (Georgia and US). Before the fighting was underway, Russia made an appeal to the SC of the UN to no avail, as the US would not be interested until Georgian troops had overrun S Ossatia within 48 hours. Poor judgement as usual from Bush & Co and another major defeat for the US, EU and NATO. Russia has been provoked and will benefit immensely from this victory.

See my two diaries at BooMan (it's also the more accurate title for your diary)

  • Georgian Attack Killed 1,600 S Ossatians
  • Georgia Pulls 2,000 Troops out of Iraq to Battle Russians

    "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

  • by Oui on Sun Aug 10th, 2008 at 03:53:25 PM EST
    Yes, Booman's title is extremely tendentious. I'm glad you pointed that out. I haven't seen any "traditional" media outlet use such a slanted title: one of those rare instances when the corporate media is behaving more responsibly than the liberal blogosphere.

    It's interesting how the West seems to be taking this in stride, and there is no hysteria at all that I've noticed. Now that push has come to shove, a certain realism has set in. As someone Jerome quoted said, "Nobody wants to fight Russia." Because Russia let its empire go peacefully (something Britain was incapable of doing), people seem to have forgotten that Russia is still a major power.

    Here's another development: Russian navy sinks Georgian boat

    I think we are going to see a Russian reprise of the US in Iraq under Bush I or Israel in Lebanon in 2006, although, based on what it has done so far, it looks like Russia will be much more restrained.

    Republicans are like fetuses: both are incapable of thought. That's why Republicans are against abortion.

    by Alexander on Sun Aug 10th, 2008 at 04:37:10 PM EST
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