A wise decision is greeted by denunciations, obstructionism, imperial thinking, and more Russia-bashing.
Analysis
6 Weeks Since The Guardian’s “Bombshell”….
To mark the 6th week since The Guardian published Luke Harding’s risible and widely discredited “bombshell” report which claimed Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, we are running his interview with the journalist Aaron Mate on his book “Collusion”…
Antony Beevor: Why did Ukraine ban my book?
After the Ukraine government condemned his book Stalingrad, Antony Beevor reflects on governments’ desire to alter the past and warns of the dangers of censorship…
Paul Robinson: Self-fulfilling prophecy
The negative language so prevalent today on both sides of the international divide induces policies which accentuate international tensions and in the end may even create the very dangers they are meant to be protecting us against.
Lyle J. Goldstein: The Russian Card on North Korea Has Yet to Be Played
Moscow may be able to perform the “diplomatic acrobatics” that Beijing and Washington cannot.
Tarik Cyril Amar: We Need to Talk Honestly About the End of the Cold War
Imagine a superpower founded on a revolution inspired by Enlightenment values (often honored in the breach), great violence liberally applied and mostly badly remembered, and a myth of exceptionalism and superior progress that even its critics find hard to fully escape.
Glenn Greenwald: The Cause of “Brain Injuries” in U.S. Diplomats in Cuba….Were Likely Crickets.
We now have what might be the most vivid, reckless and dangerous illustration yet of how NBC and MSNBC functions. If their behavior weren’t so journalistically shameful and destructive, this would be darkly humorous.
Jessica Corbett: Veteran NBC Reporter Rips Pro-War Posture of Corporate Media
That a network insider has blown the whistle on how all this works, and how MSNBC and NBC have become Ground Zero for these political pathologies of militarism and servitude to security state agencies, while not surprising, is nonetheless momentous…
Pietro Shakarian: Cleveland visit 60 years ago this week of No. 2 Soviet official Anastas Mikoyan reflected a detente that served both nations well
Mikoyan was in Cleveland as part of a larger tour of the United Statesthat also included stops in New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. His aim was to ease Cold War tensions with Washington.
Glenn Greenwald: Five Weeks After The Guardian’s Blockbuster Assange-Manafort Scoop, No Evidence Has Emerged
It’s easier to get a substantive comment from the National Security Agency than from The Guardian on this story.
Sergei Halimi: The Guardian’s fake scoop
Had Manafort’s three meetings with Assange really taken place? At first glance, there could be no doubt: the Guardian is respected around the world, and leads in the denunciation of fake news…
VIDEO: Stephen F. Cohen: Trump-Putin dangerously hamstrung by Russia-gate hysteria
Larry King talks with scholar Stephen F. Cohen, whose new book “War withRussia?” details a dangerous new Cold War, made worse by the media andpolitical frenzy over the Mueller probe.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev: Warnings From Eurasia
Perhaps the globe will muddle through the coming crises—and avoid major disasters—but perhaps not.
PODCAST: Sharon Tennison on Citizen Diplomacy with Russia During the Cold War
Sharon Tennison of the Center for Citizen Initiatives tells her incredible story of citizen diplomacy in the 1980s, when she made dozens of trips to the Soviet Union hoping to meet and befriend regular Russian civilians.
Ted Galen Carpenter: NATO Partisans Started a New Cold War With Russia
When historians examine the first few decades of the so-called post-Cold War era, they are likely to marvel at the clumsy and provocative policies that the United States and its NATO allies pursued toward Russia.
Aaron J. Mate: New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics
Far from being a sophisticated propaganda campaign, it was small, amateurish, and mostly unrelated to the 2016 election.
Mark Weisbrot: “Fort Trump” in Poland Is Another Dangerous, Delusional Idea
Should the United States build a permanent military base in Poland? Even some of the more hawkish military analysts, such as Ben Hodges, commander of US Army Europe from 2014 to 2017, have argued that this is “unnecessarily provocative.” The idea was roundly rejected by the US and Germany when it was suggested in 2016.
Lyle J. Goldstein: How Russia Views Mattis’ Departure
Moscow isn’t exactly jumping for joy…Upon news of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all American troops from Syria, the foreign policy “Blob” in Washington, D.C., has gone into high gear with shrill opposition.
Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Maria Butina and the Criminalization of Citizen Diplomacy
Prosecuting Butina endangers NGO activists in both Russia and the US.
Michael Tracey: In defense of Maria Butina
It seems entirely plausible that her biggest crime was networking…