In their crusade to get Trump and distract from their own corruption, the Democrats have moved on from Russiagate to an impeachment inquiry over “Ukrainegate.”
Analysis
Pepe Escobar: The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War was Won
What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer.
Joe Cirincione and Zack Brown: Why letting our allies get nuclear weapons is a bad idea
We should not be diverted by the illusion of nuclear stability. There is no such thing.
George P. Shultz, William J. Perry and Sam Nunn: Open Skies Help Keep the Peace With Russia
International security isn’t a given. Historically, peace among the great powers is a rarity. It’s also a great accomplishment. Like trust, peace and security take a long time to build and only a moment to dismantle.
ICAN: Enough is Enough: Global Nuclear Weapons Spending 2019
$72.9 billion. That’s how much nine countries spent on nuclear weapons in 2019. In a just-released report, ICAN produced the first estimate in nearly a decade of global nuclear weapon spending, taking into account costs to maintain and build new nuclear weapons.
Marlene Laruelle: Understanding Russian Interference Through a Russian Lens
The United States, and Western democracies more generally, currently view Russia through the lens of their own internal crises, argues Laruelle, an expert on Russian politics and author of Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation.
David B. Larter: The US Navy returns to an increasingly militarized Arctic
The trip into Russia’s backyard was the latest in what the U.S. Navy has made clear will become a habit in the frigid waters of the Arctic.
Rolling Stone: Everyone Is a Russian Asset
America laughed at Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Tulsi Gabbard, but her ideas fit perfectly in the intellectual mainstream.
Diane Johnstone: A Circle in the Darkness
We should remember that the U.S. does not merely use its allies – its allies, or rather their leaders, figure they are using the U.S. for some purposes of their own.
Paul Robinson: How Peace Became Unthinkable
A couple of articles in the New York Times really struck me this Sunday. For they reveal with the utmost clarity the bizarre way that Americans view the world, especially the respectable folk of the ‘moderate’ Democratic left who write and read the New York Times.
Branko Marcetic: The criminalization of foreign policy dissent
Intelligence Committee transcripts reveal the extent to which it was ideological opposition to, or simply political disagreement with, the incoming administration over foreign policy that drove suspicion of a Trump-Russia conspiracy.
David Bromwich: Short Cuts
The mood of the country has been more poisonous than this; at the time of Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia in 1970, and again in the run-up to the Iraq War. Worse, yes; but it has never been crazier.
Andrei P. Tsygankov: The Dark Double: US Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values
The election of Trump prompted the liberal media to discuss Russia-related fears. The leading theory was that Trump would now compromise America’s interests and rule the country on behalf of Putin…
Gov. Jerry Brown: Letter to the New York Times
“Softening Russia’s Image With Art and Cash” (front page, Oct. 7) was shocking in its distortion of the role that Russian culture and history play in our country.
Glenn Greenwald: The Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: “Resistance Journalism”
The most menacing attribute of “Resistance Journalism” is that it permits and tolerates no dissent and questioning: perhaps the single most destructive path journalism can take…
Robert Wright: How The New York Times distorts our view of Syria
The New York Times wants to make sure you know that Trump’s withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria has strengthened US adversaries.
Peter B. Zwack: Arms Control in the COVID-19 Era
While the world’s attention is riveted on the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, another urgent existential threat is quietly growing in the background: the steady termination of nuclear arms control treaties between the United States and the Russian Federation and the absence of new arms control negotiations.
Doug Bandow: Time to Extricate From Ukraine
Kiev has become a drag on Trump, but if we don’t watch out, it could turn into a geopolitical threat to everyone.
VIDEO: Krystal Ball: Russiagate Conspiracy Theorists Re-emerge in Burr Investigation
Krystal Ball disputes Russiagate conspiracy theorists such as Marcy Wheeler that speculate the FBI wants to stop Sen. Richard Burr from exposing Russian collusion.
Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor React to This Week’s Democratic Debate
Democrats might be unaware of the New Cold War…