Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.
Guardian: Pompeo to meet Putin in Russia amid fears over US-Iran clash
Secretary of state’s visit will be first high-level meeting since redacted Mueller report release
Peter van Buren: Op-Ed-O-Matic: Write Doomsday Screeds Like the Pros
Stylistically anyone with a Russian-sounding name must be either an oligarch, friend of Putin, or have ties to the Kremlin.
Andrew Cockburn: The Military-Industrial Virus
Moscow’s latest submarines, ships, tanks, cyberweapons, and supposed mastery of “hybrid” warfare are regularly invoked to justify a level of spending that, even accounting for inflation, now runs almost double the Cold War average.
Leonid Bershidsky: Biden’s Ukraine Problem Has Nothing to Do With His Son
The former vice president showed poor foreign policy judgment in his bungling, boastful dealings with Kiev.
VIDEO: Panel Discussion on NATO
Featuring: Cecile Shea, nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; James Carden, the contributing writer for foreign affairs at The Nation magazine; Marko Mihkelson, the head of the Estonian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Alexander Nekrassov, a former advisor to the Kremlin.
VIDEO: Jimmy Dore on Keith Olbermann
Progressives Rip Olberman’s Unhinged Red-Baiting
March of the Immortal Regiment, St Petersburg, 2019: reflections of a participant
The March of the Immortal Regiment has tapped into another set of Russian traditions that preceded all its wars: respect for the dead.
Richard Burt and Jon Wolfsthal: How Trump Can Transform Nuclear Arms Control
The president now has the opportunity not only to rescue nuclear arms control but to transform it. He should seize it.
Nikkei Asian Review: Still hope for a North Korean nuclear deal
Greater engagement by China, Russia and Japan improves prospects despite missile tests
VIDEO: Charting a Progressive Foreign Policy for the Trump Era and Beyond
As President Trump destabilizes America’s role in the world, progressives have a unique opportunity to define a new foreign policy for America. But while the ascendant progressive movement in Congress has advanced a bold agenda on domestic policy, it needs to develop a cohesive and principled vision for the U.S. role in international affairs. A panel featuring Rep. Ro Khanna, Peter Beinart, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Andrew Bacevich, Trita Parsi, and Neta Crawford.
Branko Marcetic: From Russiagate to Gunboat Diplomacy
Russiagate hysteria is already being used to push Trump into an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. It’s a disastrous result of a pointless delusion.
Richard Sakwa: Russia-China Alignment Challenges U.S. Hegemony
“The Russo-Chinese alignment is not an alliance, and it’s not a bloc, and it’s certainly not a military alliance. But Russo-Chinese alignment is far deeper and far more extensive than many Westerners have yet caught on,” Sakwa said. “It’s an alignment in which Russia and China will not do each other any harm. They will support each other when it’s in their interests—and it’s a game changer.”
Stephen F. Cohen: Russiagate Zealotry Continues to Endanger American National Security
If Venezuela becomes a Cuban Missile–like crisis, will Trump be free to resolve it peacefully?
James Carden: Time for an International Cyber Treaty?
A cyber wild west is not in the US national interest.
Nikolay Pakhomov: Russia’s Grand Plan to Gain Power In the Shadow of U.S. Sanctions
U.S. sanctions against Iran will result in the development of cooperation between Moscow and countries important to American foreign policy.
Stephen F. Cohen: Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia
I realized it wasn’t the Soviet Union that was the great danger, it was the potential of nuclear war, and it’s still the case today – says Stephen Cohen on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
Paul Robinson: Book Review: Putin’s World
The main point in this book’s favour is that it avoids the more extreme condemnations of Russia which are so prevalent nowadays.
Politico: Venezuela becomes Trump’s latest proxy battle with Russia
The face-off is a potentially explosive confrontation between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as the president heads into his re-election bid.
John Solomon: Ukrainian Embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016
In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country’s president to help.