Consortium News editor Joe Lauria talks to podcast host and author Scott Horton on the New York Times article “The Plot to Subvert an Election,”the paper’s 10,000 word expose on the supposed Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Alexander Moore: Is It Time to Kick Out One Leg of the Nuclear Triad?
An argument for eliminating the ICBM Fleet in favor of a more cost-effective, safe dyad.
NATO’s biggest exercise since Cold War set to take place starting Oct 25
Exercise Trident Juncture will run from Oct. 25 to Nov. 7 in Norway and surrounding sea and air spaces.
Paul Robinson: No History, No Culture, Please [Re: New ‘report’ from IMR]
God forbid that students should learn about Russian culture and history before expressing any opinions about that country…
John J. Mearsheimer: The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
This is an excerpt from the new book The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John Mearsheimer.
NY Times Op Ed: Russian Meddling Is a Symptom, Not the Disease
It is understandable that legislators and the public are concerned about other countries meddling in our elections. But foreign meddling is to our politics what a fever is to tuberculosis: a mere symptom of a deeper problem.
Smart Geopolitics: Armenia’s past and future
Pietro Shakarian, the American-Armenian scholar, talks about Russian foreign policy and Russian-Armenian relations.
Paul Robinson: The Russians Done It!
The latest news made me think that it’s probably about time for a new regular feature on this blog, recounting the latest dastardly deeds for which Russia has been deemed responsible, and titled ‘The Russians Done It.’
Stephen F. Cohen: More Cold War Extremism and Crises
Overshadowed by the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, US-Russian relations grow ever more perilous.
BBC: Tensions rise as US threatens to ‘take out’ Russian missiles
The threat from a senior US diplomat to “take out” Russian missiles that Washington believes are in breach of an important Cold War arms control treaty looks set to cause additional tensions with Moscow, just ahead of a meeting of Nato defence ministers that opens in Brussels on Wednesday.
TAC Editorial: The Not-So-Elusive Swamp Creature
Pretending that Russian collusion is the biggest corruption scandal in Washington is laughable.
Reuters: Russia completes delivery of S-300 system to Syria
Russia has delivered an S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Syria, it said on Tuesday.
Foreign Affairs: Why Russia and China Are Strengthening Security Ties
Western conventional wisdom holds that mistrust between Russia and China is too deep to form meaningful strategic bonds. Yet this view is dangerously wrong, writes Alexander Gabuev, Senior Fellow and Chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Fred Weir and Joshua Mitnick: With new missile defense for Syria, Russia shifts its relationship with Israel
Russia has just taken a huge gamble in Syria.
Doug Bandow: America Is Determined to Fight the World
The United States sanctioned Beijing for purchasing Russian military equipment. Does the administration really believe that China will cancel the deal because of American economic pressure?
VIDEO: Robert Wright on Russia, Ukraine, China, and meddling in foreign elections
Author Robert Wright talks with Nikita Petrov on the controversial issue of foreign interference.
VIDEO: John J. Mearsheimer Says US Foreign Policy is ‘Doomed to Fail’
After the end of the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy officials prided themselves for bringing communism to an end. Decades earlier, they claimed victory over the defeat of fascism. But Professor Mearsheimer argues that this kind of foreign policy, called “liberal hegemony,” is doomed to fail, if it hasn’t already.
Paul Robinson: ‘Stop Fake’…If only!
Paul Robinson takes a look at some of Twitter’s self-styled “analysts” and comes away feeling he just visited “wacko-land.”
Patrick Lawrence: The Battle for Our Minds
There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence.
Nadia Azhgikkina: Dialogue Is the Best Medicine: Citizens Speak Out Against Reinvigorating the Cold War
Whom Do We Trust?” was the theme of the conference in St. Petersburg organized by Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy and the Herzen State Pedagogical University, gathering experts and students from two countries.