There's more than a double standard at work in the recent coverage of the Russia-Georgia conflict. Noam Chomsky points up the hypocrisy of Western leaders opining about Russia's invasion of a sovereign nation in Counterpunch and two recent essays in the New York Review of Books and London Review argue that it is inconceivable that the United States did not know about Georgia's decision to attack South Ossetia.  

On GRITtv we speak to three photographers who have documented the events in Georgia and South Ossetia and what they might tell us about US-Russia relations since the end of the cold war. Paul Calhoun, an American photographer who has traveled to Georgia several times; Pierpaolo Mittica whose work has focused on Chernobyl, and Gia Chkhatarashvili a Georgian photographer who has documented the lives of villagers in the mountain town of Svaneti are exhibiting their work at the Abrons Arts Center in New York.