NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress fanning the fire of a ‘Russian threat.’ Peter Kuznick says it is an ‘obscene bipartisan spectacle applauding war’; Pietro Shakarian discusses the self-serving NATO expansion and the hyperbolic Russia threat narrative
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PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen Talks With Lew Rockwell
Professor Cohen talks with libertarian radio host Lew Rockwell about US-Russian relations and the latest RussiaGate developments.
The Fictitious ‘Russian Attack’ vs. the Real Imperative to ‘Cooperate With Russia’
The Kremlin did not “attack America” in 2016, but the myth could lead to war between the nuclear superpowers.
Jacobin: Closing the Russiagate
With the end of Mueller’s inquiry, our long, national hallucination is finally over. But the damage done by neocons and liberal conspiracy theorists is just beginning.
Kevin Gosztola: It’s Time To Reckon With Clinton Democrats Who Pushed Russiagate
Why Clinton Democrats Invested So Much Into Trump-Russia Narrative….
Ed Lozansky: Is democracy the answer to the world’s problems?
Washington under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama delivered a sharp nyet to Russia’s aspirations to join the West.
Andrew Bacevich: Robert Kagan’s Cloudy Crystal Ball
He now perceives global authoritarianism as today’s greatest challenge, with conservatives on the wrong side of the fight.
Grayzone Project: A Very Incomplete List of Sinister Things ‘the Russians’ Have Been Up To
A friend of the Grayzone has been keeping tabs on everything that Russia, “The Russians,” and Vladimir Putin have been blamed for in the past two years or so. We thought this list was a perfect window into the hysteria of Russiagate and published it with a few additions of our own.
Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.): NATO Is Not Dying. It’s a Zombie.
Walter Russell Mead checked the pulse of the Atlantic Alliance in a recent op-ed and concluded that NATO is dying. But Mead is wrong. NATO is simply a zombie periodically reanimated through various methods, usually voodoo magic.
Lee Smith: System Fail
The Mueller Report is an unmitigated disaster for the American press and the ‘expert’ class that it promotes.
Michael T. Klare: New Pentagon plan to overhaul the US nuclear arsenal
There is no higher priority for national defense,” the Pentagon declared last year, than for the United States to “replace its strategic nuclear triad and sustain the warheads it carries.”
Paul Robinson: The Strongmen Strike Back
Liberalism v. authoritarianism is a false dichotomy. If nothing else, it ignores the vast differences between different regimes which are labelled as ‘authoritarian’ or ‘illiberal’.
RFE/RL: G7 Letter Takes Aim At Role Of Violent Extremists In Ukrainian Society, Election
As the Ukrainian presidential election nears, the world’s leading industrialized nations have some strong words for Ukraine’s top cop amid recent far-right violence in Kyiv and other cities.
James Carden: NATO Turns 70
Time has proven the skeptics correct.
Lev Golinkin: Stop Appropriating Atrocities To Talk About Russian Meddling
Calling the Russian election attack another September 11 betrays an insulting lack of perspective, akin to that of a bored teenager who claims sitting through algebra class is “literally torture”…
Rachel Maddow’s Ratings Tank After Mueller Report
Here are Rachel Maddow’s ratings since news of the Mueller Report…the results may surprise you, or will they?
Stephen F. Cohen: The Real Costs of Russiagate
The editor of The New Yorker, itself an ardent Russiagate publication, asks whether “the moral and material corruption [Trump] has inflicted will be with us for a long while.” Perhaps. But the institutional costs of Russiagate are likely to be with us for even longer.
Dr. Matt Bivens: Russiagate: The Great Tragic Comedy of Modern Journalism
I know of smart, progressive-leaning journalists who politically oppose Donald Trump, but who feel like strangers in their own newsrooms, afraid to speak out against this mob psychosis.
Alex Shepherd: Give It Up, Democrats. The Russia Investigation Is Over.
There’s no need to turn the Russia investigation into the next Benghazi.
Leonid Bershidsky: Looking for external enemies is counterproductive for both Russia and the U.S.
The level of Russia expertise in the U.S. media and intelligence community is lower than it should be.