Quick Take: So…what’s with all the spying?
Kit Knightly
Breaking news, from just a couple of hours ago, is that five British men have been charged with “conducting hostile activity in the UK to benefit Russia”. Details are...
The US Pivot to Asia: Cold War Lessons From Vietnam for Today
Cynthia Chung There were Cold War preparations underway as early as August 1945 and the two regions selected, Korea and Vietnam, were pre-planned years in advance before the actual...
The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus
Edward Curtin Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his conclusions. A thousand voices are already telling him what he has found, and yet...
In Defence of Realism
Frank Lee One of the unstated and extant features of the post-modern age has been the demise of the Westphalian Treaty. This arrangement had in times past regulated the...
Lunar Narratives: Landing on the Moon, Politics and the Cold War
Binoy Kampmark Anniversaries are occasions to distort records. The intoxicated recounting of the past faces a record in need of correction. Couples long-married hide their differences before guests. Creases...
Trump’s Treasonous Traitor Summit or: How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism
So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit … or Trump’s meeting with his Russian handler, as the neoliberal ruling classes and their mouthpieces...
Trump Officially Restores Cold War
by Eric Zuesse originally at StrategicCulture.com On January 20th, CBS News bannered “Terrorism no longer the military’s top priority, Mattis says” and opened: There is a major change in...
International Systems of States and Global Security Models
by Dr Vladislav B. Sotirovic Introduction The fundamental aim of the text below is to deal with the concept and models of global security as one of the crucial...
Common Knowledge vs. Reality: The propaganda ghosts of the Cold War
by Denis Churilov Russians are extremely sceptical people. This is partly due to the fact that the modern Russian history has been turbulent, rollercoaster-like, with ideological frameworks changing a...
Why Trump rolled over on Russia
by Philip Roddis, from Steel City Scribblings Trump’s cave in on rapprochement with Putin shows the hollowness and shallow worldview of this inept narcissist. More importantly, it shows an...
A GEOPOLITICAL CONVERGENCE BETWEEN THE US AND RUSSIA
The end of the Cold War era in 1989 brought during the first coming years a kind of international optimism that the idea of the "end of history" really...
The Fake New Cold War & The Fake Old Cold War
Jeremy Corbyn is merely stating the obvious. No, of course we would not go to war with Russia. For anything, ever. Although we did intervene after the Revolution in...
French General Calls for NATO’s Liquidation
Sputnik NATO’s present format and the alliance’s continuing expansion eastward is beneficial only to the United States, which seeks to keep Russia and Europe at odds, says retired French...
Independents And Jill Stein Won The Democratic National Convention
by Rob Cotton, via Twist the Knife The Democratic National Convention, being little more than a dismal, choreographed vision into the bleak abyss of our Neoliberal future, will be...
Jack Matlock: We must return to the position Reagan and Gorbachev set out
via East West Accord On Tuesday, Ambassador Jack Matlock testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Amb. Matlock told the Committee that he is “deeply concerned with the direction...
America’s Now-Aggressive War Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org America’s aristocracy is determined to take over Russia. Ever since the end of the Soviet Union and of its communism, the Cold...
