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Gilead Sciences’s criminal drug testing: a cover for the Pentagon’s illegal arms testing?

5 October 2018
The company Gilead Sciences has deliberately carried on with testing Sovaldi (Sofosbuvir), its drug against Hepatitis C, in violation of international laws and without first obtaining its patients’ consent.
24 patients died in December 2015, during tests conducted by the Georgian laboratory of the US firm. However, Gilead Sciences has decided to continue the tests without informing its guinea pigs that some of their predecessors had died. This led to another 49 deaths. This is what the (...)

NATO-Georgia Commission Declaration at the Brussels Summit

Brussels (Belgium) | 12 July 2018
We, NATO Heads of State and Government and Georgia, met in Brussels today to discuss security, defence reform, and cooperation. Allies congratulate the people of Georgia on the centennial anniversary of their independence. Allies and Georgia emphasize the unique scope and depth of Georgia’s relationship with the Alliance. Allies welcome the substantial progress on reforms in Georgia over the past decade in consolidating its democracy and achieving stronger economic development, more (...)

On the way to re-launching GUAM against Russia

16 March 2018
On 2 March 2018, the parliaments of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine held a joint conference at Chisinau.
The Presidents of the three Parliaments of the three Republics of the former Soviet Union, issued a joint declaration denouncing the occupation by the Russian army of regions belonging to their three countries (South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Transnistria, Crimea and Donbass) .
These Parliamentarians, who spoke out surrounded by US officials, announced that the Organization for Democracy (...)

Raphaël Glucksmann against François Fillon

20 March 2017
François Fillon is the only personality to date, to have checked all the boxes to be a genuine candidate for the French presidential elections . He has been subject to pressures from all sides to ensure that he withdraws. He is reproached for being subject to an investigation which sees magistrates pursuing him even though he does not appear to have committed any crime or delict but because he appears to have paid his parliamentary assistant on the scale of a Grade A public official.
In (...)

Members of Daesh have been moved from Syria to Ukraine

2 November 2015
Mikheil Saakachvili and John McCain during their subversive activities in Georgia.
As announced on the 1st August 2015, the International Islamic Brigade was created by Turkey and Ukraine in order to destabilise Russia in Crimea .
Over the last three months, a base has been set up by Ukraine in Kherson, facing Crimea. Turkey has organised the transfer of several hundred Daesh combatants from Syria to Ukraine.
However, contrary to what we believed in August, the jihadists have not (...)

Mikheil Saakhachvili renouces his Georgian nationality

4 June 2015
Mikheil Saakachvili, who was the President of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, has renounced his Georgian and United States citizenships and adopted Ukranian nationality. He was immediately named Governor of Odessa by President Petro Porochenko.
Ex-Minister of Justice under President Chevardnadze, he resigned in 2001, was elected President of the Chamber in 2002, and then President of the Republic thanks to the « Rose Revolution ».
Trained in the United States, he came to power thanks to an (...)

Georgia joins anti-Islamic State coalition

8 September 2014
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel went to Georgia, where he was greeted by his counterpart, Irakli Alasania. He announced that Georgia had agreed to sign on to the list of 10 countries of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State.
The number 2 of the Islamic State, Abu Omar al-Shishani, whose real name is Tarkhan Batirashvili, is an agent of the Georgian secret (...)

Georgian government accuses predecessor of systematic torture

22 June 2013
The Interior Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili [photo], announced on 17 June 2013, that a weapons cache was discovered in the region of Samegrelo. It also contained drugs, in addition to written documents and videos. Nine people were arrested, including a Ministry of Defence official and two police officers.
On 20 June, the Minister of the Interior organized a private screening of the captured videos for the press. Shot two years ago, they show the police raping and torturing (...)

"NATO’s favorite despot"

U.S. Prepares Georgia for New Wars in Caucasus and Iran

by Rick Rozoff

Chicago | 10 February 2012
Placed in power in 2003 by a US-backed regime change operation, Georgian President Saakashvili has enthusiastically pandered to Washington’s every whim ever since: From contributing a hefty troop contingent in Afghanistan, to opening up his country’s territory to accommodate US military designs in the region, essentially against Russia. This time, as Rick Rozoff details, Georgia’s soil will be used in a possible attack on Iran. In return, Saakashvili’s puppet masters have promised to secure him another electoral win.

Georgia: Tbilisi Woos Iran While Washington Watches

by Giorgi Lomsadze

31 May 2010
In Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, recent developments have upset the scaffolding set up by the U.S. through its colour revolutions to gain control over former USSR states. It is now Washington’s staunchest ally Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, propelled into power by the 2003 "revolution of the roses", who is rocking the boat through his recent "real politik" rapprochement with Iran, causing a further shift in the configuration of alliances in the region.

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Georgia: Simulating War Or Provoking It?

by Rick Rozoff

Chicago | 17 March 2010
Less than two years since its military aggression against South Ossetia, Georgia was thrown into panic overnight as a fake report of a Russian attack was shown on Imedi TV. President Saakashvili called the incident "unpleasant but useful", alleging that such reports could prevent similar real-life occurrences! Ahead of national elections in May and imminent discussions on the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, feigning a permanent threat from Russia might be Saakashvili’s last argument for staying in power, but one which could also easily backfire.

U.S. to resume training Georgian army

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 13 August 2009
Georgian soldiers in May, taking part in exercises organized by NATO, over Russian objections.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
The United States will resume a combat training mission in the republic of Georgia to prepare Georgian troops for counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, a U.S. Defense Department official said on Thursday.
“Georgia wants to be part of the international effort in Afghanistan. We want to help them get ready,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.
The United States (...)

Russia to use force if Georgian shelling continues

2 August 2009
Russian tanks rolling into South Ossetia in August 2008.
Russia says it is prepared to use force to protect its troops and civilians in South Ossetia if Georgia continues its military provocations, according to Russian officials.
Earlier on Saturday, the South Ossetian Defence Ministry claimed one of its lookouts in the border zone was fired upon, although no casualties were reported.
Although South Ossetian authorities do not report any casualties in these alleged attacks, and Georgian (...)

Bush says Georgia is making progress in building vibrant democracy

by George W. Bush

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 23 November 2005
I send greetings to all those commemorating the second anniversary of the Rose Revolution.
Freedom is the longing of the soul and the permanent hope of mankind. Two years ago, the desire for liberty inspired thousands of Georgian citizens to reclaim their sovereignty and complete the journey to independence first begun in 1989 during the last days of the Soviet empire. These brave men and women, armed only with roses and the power of their convictions, stood up to claim liberty in their (...)

"Time For a Return to Yalta"

by Mijail Saakashvili

11 May 2005
For 60 years, the word Yalta has meant treason and neglect. The agreement between Great Britain, the USSR and Unites States at the Black Sea resort area brought millions of people under the yoke of tyranny. That was what President W. Bush reminisced last week in Latvia. Happily, the European division created by this agreement belongs now to the past.
The 1989 generation put an end to the Iron Curtain. It is our task from now on to contribute to the reunification of Europe as a whole by (...)

“The Americans and the Russians Made a Mistake Betting on Saakashvili”

by Shalva Natelachvili

3 May 2005
Most of all, George W. Bush must understand that he was the guest of the whole state of Georgia and all of its citizens. The U.S. President was not personally visiting Saakashvili as our President wanted us to believe. Bush knew that there are two poles in Georgia: those of the Saakashvili’s group and the Labor Party members. He has enthusiastically written to me two times. He must admit that Saakashvili has discredited the west values: those of democracy. He has practically become a (...)

Gambit Adjar, Checkmate

Remarkable Move in Georgian Chess

by Paul Labarique

19 March 2004
The United States and Russia are facing off through interposed nations to control the oil of the Caspian Sea. Georgia, a result of the collapse of the USSR, has fallen into Washington’s influence for the so-called “revolution of roses”. However, Moscow still had military bases in the country and supported undercover the secessionist movements. After Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it was Azaria’s turn to rebel. As the country seemed to escape from the civil war, France was trying to interfere in the game. Its former NATO representative has just been granted Georgian citizenship and become member of the government.

The “Roses Revolution”

The Secrets of the Georgian Coup, an ex-Soviet Republic

by Paul Labarique

7 January 2004
Presented as a spontaneous and non violent movement, the riot that forced Eduard Shevardnadze’s resignation from the presidency of Georgia is, in real life, the result of a patient manipulation. Georgia, a disputed strategic oil target between the Russian Federation and the U.S., has become the center of their conflict. The popular anger, skillfully manipulated by Madeleine Albright’s Democratic Institute and formed by youth associations funded by George Soros, allowed the CIA to put its men in control of Tbilisi, the capital of the country.