With an eye on Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral vote on Tuesday, Eric Ross says reviving U.S. socialism also requires recovering its history from the Red Scare and Cold War.
NYC Election: Socialism or Barbarism
Tag: Cold War
Scott Ritter: The Birth of the German Fourth Reich
After its defeat, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich was coaxed back to life by the very forces that once conspired to defeat it.
Patrick Lawrence: A Culture of Submission
After the Iron Curtain bisected Germany in 1949 and Americans directed the nation’s Cold War reconstruction it was a kind of mutilation — on maps, but also in psyches.
Patrick Lawrence: Exploding Gas Pipelines
The Europeans successfully resisted the American imperium’s impositions during the late Cold War years. They would not dream of any such effort now.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
The new liberal consensus, born of a shared “exhaustion,” is that it is time to “tune out,” or “take a break,” or simply close one’s eyes and ears.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s Failures Are America’s Failures
What can Americans learn from these opening days of what looks like a very long four years?
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.
BRICS Summit Should End Neocon Delusions
The majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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: No Such Thing as a Small Nuclear War
The NATO escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war as well as the growing conflict around China are more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis.