They patrol the streets of the Ukrainian capital in matching urban camouflage and march in lockstep through Kyiv with torches…
John Buell: Nuclear Brinkmanship Is Back: Why We Need a New Peace Movement
Nuclear modernization is one of the most wasteful aspects of a bloated military budget and drains the economy of persons and resources needed to mitigate the damage climate change is already inflicting.
PODCAST: TruthDig: Liberals Are Digging Their Own Grave With Russiagate
“This new Cold War [is] more dangerous than the preceding Cold War,” professor Stephen Cohen tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence.”
Andrew Bacevich: Among the Pro-Restraint Progressives
The only way we’ll defeat the foreign policy establishment is if the Left and Right can be brought together.
Lyle Goldstein: Does Russia See a War Threat in Warsaw?
The United States need not further inflame the new cold war with unnecessary and provocative basing arrangements in Eastern Europe.
US News and World Report: U.S. Considering New Lethal Aid to Ukraine to Deter Russia
THE TOP MILITARY commander for operations in Europe said Monday the U.S. is considering providing additional lethal aid to Ukraine to deter future Russian naval aggression akin to the recent crisis in the Kerch Strait.
CCI’S INVESTIGATIVE TRIP TO RUSSIA 2019
The dramatic and dangerous deterioration in relations between the U.S. and Russia demands that we all take unprecedented actions in 2019. It requires that citizens find unusual ways to educate and break through the mire of political actions and inaction to create new initiatives. CCI led the way in U.S.-USSR relations in the early 1980s before the term “citizen diplomacy” was coined. We are again searching for unparalleled ways for citizens to act.
Stephen F. Cohen: The Long History of US-Russian ‘Meddling’
Even though the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found “no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia,” Russiagate allegations of “collusion” between candidate and then–President Donald Trump and the Kremlin have poisoned American politics for nearly three years.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy
The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.
Lyle Goldstein: Hypersonics Are Speeding up Great Power Competition
The new arms race should not be fed or ignored.
Chris Miller: The New Cold War’s Warm Friends
Why Chinese and Russian detente may be here to stay.
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson: Cat blog BuzzFeed Represents Degradation of US media
It’s hard to remember that not so long ago, America had prestige media outlets. Harvard graduates literally went to work for Newsweek, rather than private equity. Not anymore. “Teen Vogue” now has a news division and so does a New York based cat blog called BuzzFeed.
Leonid Bershidsky: Most New Russian Emigres Aren’t Fiery Dissidents
The Atlantic Council sees a “Putin Exodus” of people who oppose the regime. The reality is more complicated.
Gordon Hahn: Is Putin’s Russia Entering a Regime Crisis?
One can posit five stages of regime decay…
Stephen Wertheim: A Clash Is Coming Over America’s Place in the World
Is it time for the U.S. to confront other great powers — or to retreat?
Gallup Poll: Majority of Americans Now Consider Russia a Critical Threat
Russia’s already negative image among Americans only worsened over the past year, with a majority for the first time saying that Russia’s military power poses a threat to U.S. vital interests and a third identifying Russia as the United States’ chief enemy.
VIDEO: Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel Debate ‘War With Russia?’
Fox 11 (Los Angeles) sits down with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of “The Nation,” and Stephen Cohen who has written columns for “The Nation” about and putting his work together in a new book.
VIDEO: Charles Glass – The Horror of Syria: What Happened, What Might Have Been Different
Charles Glass, a writer, journalist, broadcaster, former ABC-News correspondent, and publisher, who has written on conflict in the Middle East, Africa and Europe for the past forty-five years, spoke to the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth.
James Carroll: Doomsday Redux: Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off Assembly Line
Last month, the National Nuclear Security Administration (formerly the Atomic Energy Commission) announced that the first of a new generation of strategic nuclear weapons had rolled off the assembly line at its Pantex nuclear weapons plant in the panhandle of Texas.
Valeriy Solovey: The True Story of How Russia’s Foreign Policy Process Evolved
Moscow’s foreign-policy behavior hinges on the practice of strategic patience.