On September 5, 2018, Pamela Tetarenko and William (Bill) Headley were greeted in Krasnodar by Natasha Ivanova, who has been the Center for Citizen Initiative’s program director in this city for nearly 20 years.
Glenn Greenwald: Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons
interceptJanuary 14, 2019
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S December 18 announcement that he intends to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria produced some isolated support in the anti-war wings of both parties, but largely provoked bipartisan outrage among in Washington’s reflexively pro-war establishment.
VIDEO: William Arkin Says Media Is “Trump Circus” That Encourages Perpetual War
Democracy NowJanuary 14, 2019
“Prisoners of Donald Trump.” That’s how longtime NBCreporter and analyst William Arkin described the mainstream media in a scathing letter last week announcing he would be leaving the network, accusing the media of warmongering while ignoring the “creeping fascism of homeland security.”
Robert Jervis on “One Hundred Years of Russian-American Relations.”
H-DiploJanuary 14, 2019
As Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock explain in their introduction to this symposium, the “frustration, indeed exasperation,” about world affairs expressed by many members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) at the spring 2017 meeting led them to convene a meeting to see what light the study of the history of Soviet and Russian relations with the U.S. might shed on the current conflict…
Geoffrey Roberts: War with Russia? A stern warning.
irish timesJanuary 14, 2019
This book will delight Professor Cohen’s supporters and enrage his opponents, while readers of a moderate persuasion will be able to admire the passion and tenacity of his resistance to the trend towards provoking war with Russia.
Michael Petersen: The Naval Power Shift in the Black Sea
war on the rocksJanuary 14, 2019
Moscow’s objectives in the region are not merely limited to the Black Sea basin. While the Black Sea Fleet assists with the defense of southern maritime approaches to Russia, it also allows Moscow to use the Black Sea as a jumping off point into the eastern and central Mediterranean.
Paul Robinson: It lies within
irrussianalityJanuary 14, 2019
In his 2008 book Flat Earth News, long before the current frenzy about ‘fake news’ and Russian ‘disinformation’, British journalist Nick Davies sought to explain why the global media contained so much ‘falsehood, distortion, and propaganda.’
Philip Bump: That sophisticated, specific Russian 2016 voter targeting effort doesn’t seem to exist
WAPOJanuary 11, 2019
Could the Russians have deployed sophisticated social media tracking tools to follow users across sites and determine where they were based, then tailor political messages to the broad groups or Twitter accounts they created? In theory, sure — but it seems like an awfully indirect way of targeting specific geographies,
Lucy Komisar: The Man Behind the Magnitsky Act
100 ReportersJanuary 11, 2019
Statements by Browder in this article come from the printed record of his Senate testimony, and his various public appearances and writings.
Jimmy Dore: “Bombshell” Russiagate Reports Show….Nothing Much
YouTubeJanuary 10, 2019
And now for something completely different….