Cartoon from Nate Beeler (email, blog) from the August 11, 2008 Washington DC Examiner (not to be confused with the Washington Examiner of the SF chain.
Some suggested reading:
- Background from Human Rights Watch
- "Die Hard," John Feffer on Russia as empire, from Foreign Policy in Focus
- CQ asks if McCain (or his speechwriter) lifted his speech from Wikpedia
- The Georgian government switches to Blogger to stay online and so does Estonia
- Aljazeera's take on the US part in the mess
- Business Week on how this affects oil and gas
- Info from the Pulitzer Center here
- Fiction writers on Georgia here and here
- Global Voices cited by CNN
