Scott Horton talks to Paul Robinson about yet another round of claims that President Trump colluded with Russia to disingenuously win the 2016 election.
Max Blumenthal: About Elizabeth Warren’s foreign policy team
With her list of foreign policy advisors, Warren unveiled a cast of pro-war think tankers, Cold Warriors and corporate careerists united in support of the Beltway consensus. So much for “big, structural change.”
Steven Pifer: Spinning good news on arms control
Trump and his administration are spinning an image of progress on nuclear arms control. As with their assertions on COVID-19, the image does not reflect reality.
PODCAST: Interview with Andrei Nekrasov, director of “The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes”
Film critic Eileen Jones and Russian filmmaker Evgenia Kovda talk with Andrei Nekrasov about the scandal surrounding his film “The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes.” The most censored film in recent memory.
Jason Ditz: America vs. Russia: Brinksmanship With Nuclear Bombers Risks Starting a Disastrous War
In the past few months, the Black Sea is a lot less quiet than it ought to be.
Lyle Goldstein: China Is Prepared to Reap the Strategic Rewards of Its Relationship With Russia
Moscow has transferred more than five hundred aircraft – large military transports, early warning aircraft, refueling aircraft, attack jets, and fighter interceptors – to Beijing since 1990.
M K Bhadrakumar : How Russia can help ease tensions in the Himalayas
Russia is the only country that can act as facilitator for any eventual Chinese-Indian rapprochement.
Erik Wemple: How Politico’s Natasha Bertrand bootstrapped dossier credulity into MSNBC gig
The speculative mess that Bertrand has left all over Nexis transcripts serves as an indictment of cable-news sensibilities.
SCMP: China-India border dispute: both sides see need for troops to quickly disengage
Foreign ministers meet in Moscow for first time since Himalayan border tensions turned deadly.
David B. Rivkin, Jr. and George Beebe: Election Mirage: Why Claims of Russian Meddling Should Be Questioned
The winner in this deepening struggle between the White House and the intelligence world is not yet clear. But the loser is already evident: American national security.
Arata Moeini:Why The Blob Needs An Enemy
The dominant tendency among many foreign policy observers is to overprivilege the threat of rising superpowers and to insist on strong containment measures to limit the spheres of influence of the so-called revisionist powers. Such an approach, coupled with the prospect of ascendant powers actively resisting and confronting the United States as the ruling global hegemon, has one eminent International Relations scholar warning of the Thucydides Trap.
VIDEO: Chas Freeman: America in Distress: The Challenges of Disadvantageous Change
In the United States and other democracies, political and economic systems still work in theory, but not in practice. In some ways, the scene in Washington now resembles that in Saint Petersburg in the last days of the Tsar, with sycophants and charlatans running amok and government capacity in rapid decline. And like Tsarist Russia, America is losing its aura of imperial purpose and invincibility.
John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is Coming…Unless We Stop It Now
General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the atomic bomb, testified: “There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis.”
Lyle Goldstein: Russia’s Relationship With China Is Growing Despite Setbacks
What are the strategic implications of Moscow and Beijing working closely together in a sensitive domain?
AFP: Georgia Hosts Major Drills With 2,800 NATO Forces
Some 2,800 troops from the United States, France, Britain, and Poland took part in the Noble Partner 2020 exercises held at training centers near Tbilisi.
The Atlantic Council goes to bat for the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
US and UK government funded think tank publishes piece defending the neo-Nazi Ukrainian battalion.
David Rieff: Evangelists of Democracy
Why, a full two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, are American government agencies, major philanthropies and NGOs – notably the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the NED and its subsidiaries, Freedom House and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations – still push for democracy-promotion expansion?
Matthew Petti: Will Turkey Drag America Into a ‘World War III Scenario’ With Russia?
The U.S. military is cautious about the role it is playing in Syria while the State Department is eager to step in and help Turkey as it tussles with Russia.
David Vine: Millions displaced by US combat since 9/11
The wars the U.S. government has fought since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have forced 37 million people – and perhaps as many as 59 million – from their homes, according to a newly released report from American University and Brown University’s Costs of War Project.
Paul Robinson: More Lunacy from the Mainstream Media
It is a strange world we live in. At least, it is if you live in the world of political commentary.