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Category: Cold War
The Return of the War Department
America’s rebranded Department of War promises a new era of endless death and violence, says William Astore.
Interview: Richard Sakwa on Russia Since Perestroika
Natalyie Baldwin asks the British author about the Soviet collapse, the 1990s, Vladimir Putin’s governance, the rise of a new cold war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
NATO: The Most Dangerous Organization
By the time of its out-of-theater intervention in Afghanistan, it became clear that NATO now had the ability and permission to operate as the policeman of the U.S.-led order.
Michael Brenner: Over the Brink
The perilous U.S. attack on Iran is the culmination of a projection of America’s own existential dread.
WATCH: RU/US Citizen’s Summit
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: 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.