An historic dialogue between American and Russian citizens takes place Wednesday in the midst of the gravest international crises in decades. Watch the replay.
WATCH: RU/US Citizen’s Summit
Category: Cold War
WATCH: Day One of Citizen’s Summit
Based on the 1985 Soviet-U.S. citizen’s summit, the 2025 version with Russians in St. Petersburg and Americans in Kingston, N.Y., kicked off Tuesday with a discussion featuring Dennis Kucinich, Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, Gerald Celente and Joe Lauria. Watch the…
‘Peace For All Time’: JFK American U Speech at 62
Peter Kuznick delivers a talk at a Simone Weil Center symposium on John F. Kennedy’s momentous 1963 American University speech, marking the president’s transformation from Cold Warrior to peace seeker.
JFK AU at 62: ‘Don’t Humiliate a Nuclear Power’
Sixty-two years ago this week, John F. Kennedy broke with the Cold War in his American University speech and warned against humiliating a nuclear weapons power, words that resonate more than ever, writes Joe Lauria.
Scott Ritter: A US-Russia Citizen’s Summit
Given the present existential dangers in Russia-U.S. relations, an historic 1985 citizen’s summit that was televised from Leningrad and Seattle, will be replicated on June 18 in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kingston, New York.
Ukraine Timeline Tells the Tale
Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now.
Why Putin Entered the War
Three years ago on Monday Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s intervention in Ukraine to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” the country after 30 years of the West pushing Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria on Feb. 24, 2022.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: American-Century Flight
“American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run.
JOE LAURIA: A History of Humiliation
After a history of U.S. bullying and humiliation — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — it can’t be assumed Moscow is bluffing when it warns of nuclear war.
WATCH: Ritter & Celente on Anti-Nuclear War Rally
Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector, intelligence officer, author and journalist, and Gerald Celente, publisher of Trends Journal, discuss Saturday’s major anti-war rally in Kingston, N.Y. with CN‘s Joe Lauria.