American Committee for US-Russia Accord

 

ACEWA Board Member and Duke University Professor Ellen Mickewicz casts a critical eye on the new ODNI report on Russia’s alleged “influence” on the US presidential election… [Read more…] about Duke University Professor Says: Think Twice About New ODNI Report

The Post, you might suppose, would have the self-confidence to sit for an extensive interview about its occasional failings. Apparently not.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) addresses the history of U.S. interference in foreign elections at Thursday’s hearing on possible Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

One must assume that those issuing the report hoped that it would influence public opinion. Given the lack of solid evidence offered, it is unlikely to change anyone’s mind.

On Saturday, January 7, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus will be singing the Star Spangled banner and the Russian National Anthem at a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tear Drop 9-11 Memorial at 51 Port Terminal Blvd in Bayonne. The chorus will be joined by the NYPD Ceremonial Unit Color Guard, as well as FDNY representatives, and the Honor Guard from the Bayonne Fire Department.

Defining Putin as America’s main enemy is threat inflation at its worst.

It would seem then that a healthy amount of skepticism toward a government report that relied, in part, on the findings of private-sector cyber security companies like Crowdstrike might be in order. And yet skeptics have found themselves in the unenviable position of being accused of being Kremlin apologists, or worse.

Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. Worrying that the current confrontations between Washington and Moscow — now extending from the Baltic region, Ukraine, and Syria to the American political system itself — is becoming more dangerous than was the nuclear confrontation over Cuba in 1962…

Today it might be worth thinking about creating a samizdat culture here at home as we scan the American communications landscape and solemnly realize how our media elites keep failing us over and over again.

Just as The Guardian had to do just two days ago regarding its claim about WikiLeaks and Putin, the Washington Post has now added an editor’s note to its story acknowledging that its key claim was false…

Who is more responsible for both great powers having reached this level of animosity and acrimony, 25 years after Ronald Reagan walked arm-in-arm with Mikhail Gorbachev through Red Square? And what are the causes of the emerging Cold War II?

The “Russian hacking” story in the U.S. has gone too far.

The problem with this story is that, like the Iraq-WMD mess, it takes place in the middle of a highly politicized environment during which the motives of all the relevant actors are suspect. Nothing quite adds up.

Dear Friends,

For the whole of 2016, we have been actively deliberating how best to use CCI’s 33-year experience in the US-Russia field––since Russia is increasingly being declared America’s enemy #1––which we totally reject.

We’ve concluded that our successful programs of the ’80s are precisely what is needed again in today’s baffling environment.

Talk about disappointments. The US government’s much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.

NYU and Princeton Russian history and politics professor Professor Stephen Cohen reacts to the Obama administration’s sanctions on Russia.