Current Events, August 2008

• August 31
  • Democrats suspend "war room" operations [1]
  • Nine antiwar protesters arrested at Republican Convention [2]
  • U.S. diplomat's killers are extremists - Sudan [3]
  • Nigerian police seize $630,000 in "Obama funds" [4]
  • Israel deports African migrants to Egypt in crackdown [5]
  • Russia's Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger [6]
  • Owner of Russian opposition website killed [7]
  • McCain suspends most convention activities Monday [8]

• August 30
  • WW II secret memo reveals proposal between Germany and Britain to rule the world. [9]
  • Iran warns any attack would start 'world war' [10]
  • South Ossetia to be absorbed into Russia [11]
  • Palin’s foreign policy experience: meeting with Israeli Foreign Ministry official [12]

• August 29
  • Sarah Palin, a friend of Israel [13]
  • "She is close to the Frozen Chosen" [14]

• August 27
  • Republicans gleefully mock 'temple of Obama' [15]
  • Russia officially recognizes South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states [16]

• August 25
  • The Anthrax Files [17]

• August 23
  • Obama chooses Sen. Joe Biden to be running mate [18]

• August 22
  • NIST WTC 7 Report: shameful, embarrassing and completely flawed [19]
  • Pat Buchanan exposes John McCain’s foreign policy lobbyist [20]
  • US and France not satisfied with Russian withdrawal from Georgia [21]
  • All bets on Senator Joe Biden to be Obama’s VP pick [22]
  • Islamic fighters take over Somali city [23]
  • Al-Qaeda plot against British Prime Minister revealed [24]
  • Obama in a weak position as he heads into Democratic Convention [25]
  • Security turns U.S. conventions into $100 million fortresses [26]
  • Activists sail to bust Israeli sea blockade on Gaza [27]
  • McCain campaign receives threatening letters with suspicious powder [28]
  • Russian Jewish oligarch Khodorkovsky denied parole [29]

• August 21
  • US favors India’s nuclear energy programs [30]
  • Tbilisi admits misjudging Russia [31]
  • Investors pull funds our of Russia after Georgia war [32]

• August 19
  • FBI admits to destroying evidence in the anthrax case [33]

• August 18
  • Doubts over the anthrax case intensify [34]
  • Avant-garde theater makes Auschwitz a fun place [35]
  • Bomb explodes on beach in southern Spain [36]
  • Germany wants Georgia in NATO [37]
  • Pakistan's Musharraf announces resignation [38]

• August 17
  • The Obama strategy against the anti-Obamas [39]
  • Iranian ‘cult’ of imam sparks controversy [40]
  • Obama to announce VP choice this week. [41]
  • School document shows Obama was an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim. [42]
  • Venezuela's Chavez backs Russia in Georgia conflict [43]
  • Pope urges fight against racism [44]
  • Mexico's drug killings 'soaring' [45]
  • Israel to free 200 Palestinians [46]
  • Iran launches satellite carrier [47]

• August 16
  • Native Hawaiians take over palace [48]
  • Work begins on $57 million border fence in San Diego [49]
  • Obama campaign raises almost twice the funds as McCain in July [50]

• August 15
  • Georgia-Russia conflict shows EU's energy vulnerability [51]]
  • Hamas may release Israeli soldier [52]
  • White youth gets four months in prison for displaying a noose during a demonstration. [53]

• August 14
  • Detroit’s Black mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, a laughingstock [54]
  • The war in Georgia, all according to Russia’s plan [55]
  • Some Blacks are unimpressed with Obama [56]
  • Russia may balk at new Iranian sanctions [57]

• August 13
  • Homosexuals flock to Israel’s ‘gay beaches’ [58]

• August 12
  • Paris anti-Semitic T-shirt probe [59]
  • Russian troops advance in Georgia [60]]

• August 11
  • 'Anthrax killer' remains a mystery [61]
  • Jewish Georgian minister praises Israel for her support [62]

• August 10
  • Obama’s dual citizenship [63]
  • Bruce Ivins alibi [64]
  • War in Georgia: The Israeli connection [65]

• August 3
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russian novelist, dramatist and historian dies.[66]

See also

• Current Events archive