The investigation of the Trump campaign, his administration, family and associates has gone on for more than two years without any serious evidence supporting the Russia-Trump collusion theory.
Daniel Larison: Another Pointless Round of NATO Expansion Awaits
NATO expansion keeps stumbling ahead like the zombie policy that it is.
Bloomberg: Russia, Turkey Tensions on Syria Persist as Putin Meets Erdogan
Russia and Turkey remained at odds over a threatened assault by Russian-backed government forces on the last major rebel bastion in Syria as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin prepared to meet in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Graham Stack: Everything you know about Paul Manafort is wrong
It is a huge irony of U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into alleged collusion between U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 election campaign and the Kremlin, that the biggest fish caught to date is charged with the doing the opposite of colluding with Russia…
Al Jazeera English: Is the US hypocritical in attacking Russian election interference?
A quick explainer video…
Paul Robinson: Stubborn Resistance
The dogmatic pursuit of human rights may make people feel virtuous, but in the end morality has to rest on practical realities, and those dictate that the strategy of ‘stubborn resistance’ is deeply counterproductive.
VIDEO: Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Japanese leader Shinzo Abe a peace treaty without preconditions by the end of the year. Decades after the end of WWII, the two states have yet to sign an agreement.
Aaron Mate: The Mueller Investigation Is Sending People to Jail—but Not for Collusion
The Russiagate fixation has diverted attention from many of Trump’s damaging policies and turned vast segments of the public into spectators of an endless drama.
Patrick Lawrence: Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran
America’s three principal adversaries signify the shape of the world to come: a post-Western world of coexistence. But neolibera and neocon ideology is unable to to accept global pluralism and multipolarity, argues Patrick Lawrence.
Lawrence Wilkerson: Are Warnings About Chemical Warfare in Syria Another ‘Weapon of Mass Distraction’?
Col. Larry Wilkerson says that it was the plan of John Bolton and the neocons to take Iraq, then Syria, and then Iran. These false flag operations are all about maintaining the perpetual war in the region.
Ray McGovern: On the Brink with Russia in Syria Again, 5 Years Later
The New York Times, on September 11, 2013, accommodated Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s desire “to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders” about “recent events surrounding Syria.”
Patrick Buchanan: Is Donald Trump Going Full Neocon in Syria?
Is Trump ready to order American action against Russian and Syrian forces if Assad gives his army the green light to take Idlib? For the bombing of Idlib has already begun.
PODCAST: The Day After A Nuclear War
In 1983, a movie was released about nuclear war that shocked 100 million Americans. This episode dives into the movie and how it impacted President Reagan to change his views on nuclear weapons policy. Washington Post Reporter Dan Zak is also interviewed about his book “Almighty,” which profiles nuclear activists and covers the history of U.S. nuclear weapons.
Bloomberg: Aiming at Putin With Sanctions, U.S. May Hit Emerging World
If U.S. sanctions flip Russia to basket case from haven, a fresh stampede from emerging markets could be in the cards, according to some investors and analysts.
Marlene Laruelle: Is Russia Really “Fascist”? A Comment on Timothy Snyder
The fact that Timothy Snyder is an influential public intellectual and respected historian is no reason for scholars not to challenge his facile and polemical analysis of the contemporary Russian state
Ted Galen Carpenter: Washington Quietly Increases Lethal Weapons to Ukraine
Critics who say Trump is being “soft on Russia” should be paying attention to this.
Paul Grenier: Russia-gate as Symptom: The Crisis of American Community
Are the divisions that fragment the United States primarily driven by some deep flaw in its political life, or was the United States doing just fine, thank you very much—until Russia came along during the 2016 presidential race and started sowing division and dissension? Framed that way, the question answers itself.
Robert Legvold and Valery Garbuzov: A discussion on US-Russian relations
Washington is boiling with passions, and the new sanctions are only the initial step of the US response to the Russian foreign policy, which has become much more active recently. Contradictions tear America apart and it suffers from a “constitutional crisis”. Can Russia and the US return to the path of constructive cooperation in the present conditions?
PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen Talks with AM 970’s Frank Morano
NYU and Princeton University Professor Emeritus Stephen Cohen talks with NYC radio host Frank Morano on the latest controversies involving the Trump administration, the bipartisan foreign policy consensus and US-Russia relations.
‘Meeting Gorbachev’ Review: Werner Herzog Finds a True Hero in Documentary
Herzog’s is a nostalgic, grateful, and surprisingly tender lament for a breed of politician that wanted to bring people together — that saw world peace as an extension of their patriotic duty, and not anathema to it.