The START Treaty, the last remaining limit on the arms race, expires next February. Democrats could unify behind renewing the new START agreement, and also embrace Elizabeth Warren’s call for a “no first use” declaration of nuclear weapons, helping to move the nuclear confrontation off hair-trigger status.
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Paul Robinson: More on Election Meddling….
You may have missed it in the all the excitement around the world, but Canada has a general election coming up in October.
Erik Wemple: The Steele dossier just sustained another body blow. What do CNN and MSNBC have to say?
Christopher Steele told Fusion GPS, the research firm that commissioned his work, that at least 70 percent of the claims in the dossier are accurate. An obvious question arises from that assertion: Which ones?
Patrick Lawrence: The Establishment is Changing its Tune on Russia
Russophobic rhetoric persists in Washington, but a counter-argument is emerging.
The National Interest: Is NATO Still Necessary?
There will inevitably be other global challenges that countries will face together over time. However, NATO at seventy is not the instrument to address them.
Ted Snider: Demythologizing the Roots of the New Cold War
Most histories of the cold war begin at the dawn of the post World War II period. But the history of U.S-U.S.S.R. animosity starts long before that: it starts as soon as possible, and it was hot long before it turned cold.
Mikhail Gorbachev: When The Pandemic Is Over, The World Must Come Together
During the first months of this year, we have seen once again how fragile is our global world, how great the danger of sliding into chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic is facing all countries with a common threat, and no country can cope with it alone.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev: The New Problems with Putin’s Old Political System
There remains no mechanism for selecting a successor to Vladimir Putin or for ensuring that the current system can perpetuate itself through this middle of the twenty-first century.
Daniel Larison: Good Riddance, Bolton
It took far too long to happen, but Bolton’s firing is undeniably good news.
William Hartung and Ben Freeman: How the Military-Industrial Complex Is Using the Coronavirus
Arms industry lobbyists are addressing this pandemic and preparing for the next by pushing weapons sales.
Tucker: John Bolton refuses to acknowledge his mistakes
Nor have Leftists who spent years slandering RussiaGate skeptics…
AP: Lavrov bristles at suggestion Russia is using coronavirus pandemic to boost its global influence
Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday angrily rejected Western claims that Moscow has used the coronavirus crisis to expand its political influence, saying the world needs unity to surmount the pandemic.
Andrew McCarthy Talks To John Batchelor
The most alarming aspect of the Trump–Russia investigation, and of the stark difference between the aggression with which it was pursued and the see-no-evil passivity of the Clinton emails caper, is the way the investigative process was used to influence political outcomes, writes McCarthy.
Steven Pifer: Trump’s fake news on arms control?
New START expires next February. While it can be extended by up to five years, and Putin is ready to agree, the Trump administration has not taken up the offer.
Aziz Rana: On the pressing need for a non-imperial vision of the US and the world.
Simply claiming that Russia embodies the external threat and ideological antagonist of the old Soviet Union does not make it so.
VIDEO: Aaron Mate: The Sanders Campaign Kowtowed to the Russia-gate Narrative
The Progressive movement’s failure to reject Russiagate & Ukrainegate ultimately helped the Democratic Party establishment defeat Bernie Sanders.
Aaron Mate: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell hits Russiagate rock bottom
Aaron Maté slams MSNBC’s latest Russiagate dud, exposing how Lawrence O’Donnell’s embarrassing retraction is part of a pattern of bogus conspiracy theories that push the limits of political self-satire.
William S. Smith: A Debauched Culture Leads to a Debauched Foreign Policy
Our recent hubristic wars did not happen in a vacuum, but downstream from the swamp we call our modern elite.
Daniel Bessner: The Fog of Intervention
Simply maintaining an enormous military able to intervene anywhere in the world carries its own set of malign consequences: endless wars, global arms proliferation, a militaristic political culture, the diversion of resources from welfare to weapons, and the strengthening of the military-industrial complex, to name just a few. The Education of an Idealist does not account for these social ills.
Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Part I COVID-19 Siberia: Life in the Village
This is the first in a three-part update on “COVID-19: The View from Siberia”