On September 5, 2018, Pamela Tetarenko and William (Bill) Headley were greeted in Krasnodar by Natasha Ivanova, who has been the Center for Citizen Initiative’s program director in this city for nearly 20 years.
Glenn Greenwald: Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S December 18 announcement that he intends to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria produced some isolated support in the anti-war wings of both parties, but largely provoked bipartisan outrage among in Washington’s reflexively pro-war establishment.
VIDEO: William Arkin Says Media Is “Trump Circus” That Encourages Perpetual War
“Prisoners of Donald Trump.” That’s how longtime NBCreporter and analyst William Arkin described the mainstream media in a scathing letter last week announcing he would be leaving the network, accusing the media of warmongering while ignoring the “creeping fascism of homeland security.”
Robert Jervis on “One Hundred Years of Russian-American Relations.”
As Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock explain in their introduction to this symposium, the “frustration, indeed exasperation,” about world affairs expressed by many members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) at the spring 2017 meeting led them to convene a meeting to see what light the study of the history of Soviet and Russian relations with the U.S. might shed on the current conflict…
Geoffrey Roberts: War with Russia? A stern warning.
This book will delight Professor Cohen’s supporters and enrage his opponents, while readers of a moderate persuasion will be able to admire the passion and tenacity of his resistance to the trend towards provoking war with Russia.
Michael Petersen: The Naval Power Shift in the Black Sea
Moscow’s objectives in the region are not merely limited to the Black Sea basin. While the Black Sea Fleet assists with the defense of southern maritime approaches to Russia, it also allows Moscow to use the Black Sea as a jumping off point into the eastern and central Mediterranean.
Paul Robinson: It lies within
In his 2008 book Flat Earth News, long before the current frenzy about ‘fake news’ and Russian ‘disinformation’, British journalist Nick Davies sought to explain why the global media contained so much ‘falsehood, distortion, and propaganda.’
Philip Bump: That sophisticated, specific Russian 2016 voter targeting effort doesn’t seem to exist
Could the Russians have deployed sophisticated social media tracking tools to follow users across sites and determine where they were based, then tailor political messages to the broad groups or Twitter accounts they created? In theory, sure — but it seems like an awfully indirect way of targeting specific geographies,
Lucy Komisar: The Man Behind the Magnitsky Act
Statements by Browder in this article come from the printed record of his Senate testimony, and his various public appearances and writings.
Jimmy Dore: “Bombshell” Russiagate Reports Show….Nothing Much
And now for something completely different….
Stephen F. Cohen: What Trump’s Syrian Withdrawal Really Reveals
A wise decision is greeted by denunciations, obstructionism, imperial thinking, and more Russia-bashing.
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.
EVENT: Stephen F. Cohen and Dan Rather in Conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel
On Wednesday, Jan 23, at 7:30 pm, iconic journalist Dan Rather and The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel will join historian Stephen F. Cohen, to discuss his new book, War with Russia? in which Cohen argues that America is in a new Cold War with Russia that’s even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. Visit 92Y.org or call 212.415.5500 for tickets.
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.