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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run.
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.
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.
Consortium News‘ CN Live! interviewed British journalist Richie Medhurst about his arrest last Thursday by British authorities because of his “opinions” and “beliefs” under the so-called Terrorism Act.
Soon after Russia entered Ukraine, the Pentagon corrected Antony Blinken for saying Kiev would get NATO fighter jets. Blinken was applauded at the NATO summit yesterday for saying F-16s would soon arrive in Ukraine. What changed? asks Joe Lauria.