Manichaean Cold War myopia and ludicrous Russiagate allegations have produced one of the worst periods of American “geopolitical” thinking in recent decades.
Analysis
Sina Toossi and Trita Parsi: Beware the Foreign Regime Change Charlatans
Ahmed Chalabi’s imitators are still trying to pressure America into war with Iran.
Lyle Goldstein: Peace in Afghanistan? Don’t Count On It.
A welcome and long overdue complete departure of U.S. forces will require facing up to some uncomfortable truths.
Charles CW Cooke: Bad, Press
How the media fail.
War with Russia? Stephen F. Cohen and Dan Rather in Conversation with Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the US? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West?
Gordon Hahn: The West’s Alienation of Russia: The Next Wave
The alienation of post-Cold War Russia has proceeded in waves. Each successive Western overreach for not just maintaining but expanding its global hegemony has produced a new wave of Russian alienation…
Robert Borosage: Watch How Progressives Respond When Trump Isn’t Wrong
Occasionally the president finds himself on the right side of an issue, and Democrats can’t reflexively react.
Reconsidering Russia Podcast #17: Stephen F. Cohen
Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian History at New York University and Princeton University. He is the author of numerous books on Russia and the former Soviet region, including the influential “Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution” and, most recently, “War with Russia?” on the current state of US-Russian relations.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—Welcome to “The New Abnormal”
Citing lack of progress on nuclear risks and climate change dangers as “the new abnormal,” the Doomsday Clock remains at 2 minutes to midnight, as close to the symbolic point of annihilation that the iconic Clock has been since 1953 at the height of the Cold War.
(Video) Russian Journalist Dimitri Babich Speaks to Center for Citizen Initiatives
In the video below, Babich seemed to try to educate Americans about how it feels to be in his shoes …. in ordinary Russians shoes. – Sharon Tennison
Michael Tracey: BuzzFeed, ‘BOOM!’ and the Russiagate bombshell
Why it’s always worth waiting a full day before passing judgment…
Chuck Spinney: Eisenhower’s Nightmare: Space Wars Edition
Trump’s new missile defense plan will be a bonanza for political patronage in Washington, and a huge fail for peace.
Dmitri Trenin: Russian views of US nuclear modernization
Russian political and military leaders have always been keen observers of US nuclear policy. The current US nuclear modernization program signals to Moscow that the role of nuclear weapons in US national security strategy is on the rise.
Stephen F. Cohen: The End of Russia’s ‘Democratic Illusions’ About America
How Russiagate has impacted a vital struggle in Russia.
Lev Golinkin: What is there to celebrate on the five-year anniversary the Maidan uprising?
February marks five years since the end of the 2013-2014 Maidan uprising, which ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in favor of a pro-Western government led by Petro Poroshenko.
VIDEO: Nuclear Terror In Hawaii
The Hawaii Missile scare is an example of how the nuclear weapons problem is completely out of control. Take the pledge to vote for National Government Representatives who will: Vote For No First Nuclear Weapons Attack; Challenge All Nuclear Armed Nations to Take ICBMs Off of Hair Trigger Alert; and Create Nuclear Weapons and Space Treaties with Unannounced Inspections.
Paul Robinson: Russia Without Putin
Paul Robinson reviews ‘Russia without Putin’ by Tony Wood, an editor of the New Left Review.
Christopher Caldwell: Solzhenitsyn in Exile
Book review: Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Jerrod Laber: The Dangers of Romanticizing Regime Change
Lindsay A. O’Rourke’s book looks at the destructive outcome of regime change gone wrong.
Robert W. Merry: NATO is a Danger, Not a Guarantor of Peace
Status quo supporters like the New York Times poke fun at Trump for questioning the alliance. But who’s the fool?