The NATO escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war as well as the growing conflict around China are more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Vijay Prashad: No Such Thing as a Small Nuclear War
Tag: Cold War
Anti-Trump Anxiety Ignores History
Given the track record of U.S. authoritarianism, Nat Parry says it’s not surprising that Democrats’ calls for resisting the incoming Trump dictatorship ring hollow for many Americans.
RAY McGOVERN: Russia & China — Two Against One
Xi Jinping’s reception of Putin yesterday in Beijing sealed the increasingly formidable strategic relationship, fundamentally misunderstood in Washington.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Could the Russians Seize Congress?
The Russians have been coming, off and on, for seven-plus decades. While these conjured imaginings may be laughable, the consequences of a culture of Cold War fear are far from funny.
Sick Cultures: When Belief Systems Turn Pathological
Ending the War in Ukraine, Off the Battlefield
In this discussion of the key issues for negotiation, Vijay Prashad says continuing to use military force will only cause further intense suffering.
After Gaza, Conflict in Asia
As the world’s failure to stop massacre after massacre in Gaza shows the deep failure of the U.N.-centered international system, Vijay Prashad turns attention to the conflict looming over Northeast Asia.
SCOTT RITTER: No ‘End of History’ in Ukraine
Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalist post-Cold War vision of liberal democracy — published in 1989 — had a major blindspot. It omitted history.
US in Throes of Unexceptional Imperial Decline
Empires built on dominance achieved through a powerful, expansionist military necessarily become ever more authoritarian, corrupt and dysfunctional, writes William J. Astore. Ultimately, they are fated to fail.
Patrick Lawrence: Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare
Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is henceforth to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it.