Americans who stand for peace with Russia – and for peace with the world at large – have lost a towering intellectual leader and a defender of their cause, writes Gilbert Doctorow.
Category: Russia
Stephen Cohen Has Died; Remember His Urgent Warnings Against The New Cold War
We should heed the dire warnings that Stephen Cohen spent his last breaths issuing, says Caitlin Johnstone.
RUSSIAGATE: NYT, FB & FBI Say Anti-Trump Site, Now Shutdown, Was Russian Effort to Help Trump Win
Misgivings about who ran this site can co-exist with legitimate alarm about combined attacks by the FBI, the Times and other corporate media on the political nature — not the accuracy — of its content, writes Joe Lauria.
US Wars Kill More Like a Python Than a Tiger
Caitlin Johnstone describes the slow, suffocating strategy used by the side with all the resources and all the time in the world, the side which knows it can just relax and wait for the other side to starve to death.
US Sanctions Russian Research Institute that Developed COVID-19 Vaccine
A Russian government spokesperson called the decision “the sanctions theater of the absurd,” Ben Norton reports.
US Military Robots on Fast Track to Leadership Role
It’s time for Congress to ask tough questions about automating combat decision-making before pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into the enterprise, writes Michael T. Klare.
RAY McGOVERN: Catapulting Russian-Meddling Propaganda
The New York Times is leading the full-court press to improve on what it regards as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s weak-kneed effort to blame the Russians for giving us Donald Trump.
There’s Enough Blame to Go Around in Belarus
There are many similarities to what is happening in Minsk today to what happened in Kiev in 2014, but there are also significant differences, writes Joe Lauria.
Western Media Misperceptions About Belarus, Lukashenko & Putin
The fate of of Belarus may lie with Russian integration, writes Craig Murray. But Lukashenko is not “Putin’s man.”
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Huawei, Tik Tok, WeChat & Other Handy Targets
Washington is now committed to preventing any non–Western nations that do not conform to the neoliberal order from rising in any field wherein they threaten to best U.S. companies.