Sen. Rand Paul accused his Senate colleagues Monday of being warmongers and serving in a “war caucus” — as fellow Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell led a bid to protest the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s Message to the New Cold Warriors:
“Knock it off…”
Jackson Lears: Imperial Exceptionalism
It is hard to give up something you claim you never had.
Dr. Hans Blix Talks to the European Leadership Network
Blix: You have to ask, “What is the necessity in having Albania or Montenegro in NATO?” It was created to protect the North Atlantic. Then it moved to the Black Sea. When is NATO going to move to the Caspian? That is my question.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Trump is igniting a perilous new nuclear arms race
President Trump is about to launch a new nuclear arms race.
Sheila Fitzpatrick: People and Martians
Born in 1917 to an American father and English mother, public-school and Oxford-educated, Robert Conquest made his first substantial contacts with the Soviet Union through his work in British intelligence during and after the Second World War.
Shane Ryan: Has Rachel Maddow Entered Her Infowars Period?
There’s a big difference between obsessively covering the Mueller investigation and…this.
EVENT: War with Russia?: Stephen Cohen in conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) present Stephen F. Cohen in conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel this Thursday evening at Washington DC’s Busboys and Poets 14th St location. For more information, go to: https://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-evt-7849202/
Alexander Lukin: How the United States Got Russia Wrong
The West today is paying for its collusion with Russia in the 1990s.
The Local (Sweden): American whistleblower wins Sweden’s Olof Palme Prize
American military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the US government’s secret war plans for Vietnam in 1971, is set to receive Sweden’s prestigious Olof Palme Prize.
AP: Trump suspends arms treaty, citing Chinese, Russian threats
Democrats in Congress and some arms control advocates criticized Trump’s decision as opening the door to an arms race.
Sam Nunn and Ernest Moniz: The U.S. and Russia Are Sleepwalking Toward Nuclear Disaster
Reengagement with Russia is too important to wait for the Mueller probe to end. That means it’s time for Congress to take the lead.
Japan Today: A-bomb survivors worried about U.S. plan to withdraw from arms pact
Atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki expressed concern about the U.S. plans to withdraw from a 1987 bilateral nuclear arms control treaty it inked with Russia.
Glenn Greenwald: NBC Smears Tulsi Gabbard, Relies on Firm Caught Fabricating Russia Data for the Democratic Party
The whole story was a sham: the only “experts” cited by NBC in support of its key claim [that Russia supports Gabbard] was the firm, New Knowledge, that just got caught by the New York Times fabricating Russian troll accounts on behalf of the Democratic Party in the Alabama Senate race to manufacture false accusations that the Kremlin was interfering in that election.
David C. Hendrickson: Fractured: Trump’s Foreign Policy after Two Years
As a visceral dislike of all things Putin and Russian seems to be broadly shared across the U.S. political spectrum, one ventures a contrary opinion with hesitation, but I think this ubiquitous Russophobia is a sort of frenzy, with wild accusation taken routinely as fact, and which is leavened with some good old fashioned ethnic prejudice…
Graham Allison and Dimitry Simes: A Sino-Russian Entente Again Threatens America
The U.S. must revise its policy toward Moscow if it is to meet the threat from a rising China.
Nadège Rolland: A China–Russia Condominium over Eurasia
The 2014 Ukrainian crisis irrevocably pushed Moscow to shift its focus from Greater Europe to Greater Eurasia. But Russia’s turn to the East is not only the ‘inevitable result of the US and EU geopolitical game’; it is also the logical consequence of the gravity shift towards an increasingly politically and economically powerful Asia-Pacific, which provides Russia with tremendous ‘cooperation and development opportunities’.
Messenger-Inquirer: Scholar from Owensboro warns of war in his latest book
A scholar and historian who was raised in Owensboro and is now widely considered an expert on U.S.-Russian geopolitics, has published his latest book, which warns of an ongoing Cold War that is perhaps even more dangerous than the last.
Stephen F. Cohen: Trump’s Withdrawals from Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’
Manichaean Cold War myopia and ludicrous Russiagate allegations have produced one of the worst periods of American “geopolitical” thinking in recent decades.
Mayors and parliamentarians call on Russia and the U.S. to preserve the INF Treaty
Mayors, parliamentarians, policy experts and civil society representatives from forty countries – mostly Europe and North America – yesterday sent an open letter, the Basel Appeal for Disarmament and Sustainable Security, to Presidents Putin and Trump and to the leaders of the Russian and US legislatures, calling on them to preserve the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty…