CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.
WATCH: A Foreign Policy of the Absurd
Category: Soviet Union
Moscow Nights — and Days
Andrew P. Napolitano says that in his interviews with them, two of Putin’s closest confidants showed appreciation for Trump’s intended “reset” of U.S.-Russian relations.
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.
Chris Hedges: The Road to Dictatorship
Donald Trump’s dismantling of the Deep State presages the formation of something far worse.
Angling Toward Armageddon
William Hartung reports on a resurgent network of nuclear hawks who want to build more kinds of nuclear weapons and ever more of them.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
The late U.S. president may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
An Ignored US Diplomat’s Warning on Russia
In an interview with Natylie Baldwin, E. Wayne Merry reflects on his 1994 State Department telegram concerning Western relations with post-Soviet Russia.
Harris, Trump & the Race to Oblivion
The next administration will be confronted with distinctly ominous decisions about the already monstrous U.S. nuclear arsenal, writes Michael Klare.
Vijay Prashad: How Revolutionary Fire Starts
In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same.
Free Speech & the Department of Political Justice
The feds apparently believe that the First Amendment has some holes in it for the speech that the government hates and fears, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.