In articles from July 2006 and August 2008, Michel Chossudovsky examines the geopolitics of the conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia and considers US/NATO and Israeli interests in the region given the importance of the BP-controlled Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline.

The politically vacuous Live 8 concerts served to conceal the reality of the G8’s duplicitous and damaging ‘debt forgiveness’ proposal.