Tag: Russia
On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how, in the mid-1990s, senior British political and military officials were well aware that NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe “would provoke Russians,” and likely trigger all-out war. Hitherto unreported Ministry of Defence files reveal London knew...
At the turn of the millennium, Russia teetered on a precarious geo-political edge. A nation scarred by the wild 1990s, grappling with whether to cling to the chaotic promises of neo-liberal reform, or reclaim echoes of its ironclad Soviet resolve.
The economy was a rotting corpse, being feasted upon by...
In a classic 1967 essay, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” Noam Chomsky argued that faculty at top U.S. universities had betrayed their calling of speaking truth to power by working on military counterinsurgency programs and providing ideological support for the U.S. war in Vietnam whose human costs were incalculable.
In the...
Expiry of New START is set to trigger dangerous new nuclear arms race
On February 5, the Trump administration allowed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to expire, leaving the U.S and Russia with no agreements for the regulation of nuclear weapons for the first time in more than...
Kyrylo Budanov Has Ties to Far-Right Pro-Banderite Groups
From the Phoenix Program to Operation Condor and the Contra War to Operation Timber Sycamore and the Global War on Terror, the CIA has a long history of training fascist death-squad operatives, torturers and assassins.
The historical...
The European Union (EU) has a population of 450 million people, yet its foreign policy is determined by a country with a population of 1.3 million people—Estonia.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia. Her...
Foreign politics and censorship in Denmark, where I have lived off and on for 35 years, is actually worse than in the United States today. Not one of the 16 political parties with members in the 179-seat Danish Parliament (follketing) supports Russia’s reasons for its “Special Military Operation” (SMO)...
Despite 30,000 sanctions, Russia is taking a step toward multi-polar world.
We are currently witnessing world history unfolding before our eyes.
The destruction of the financial and international relations system by Western countries is contributing to global changes in the world economy and the development of a multipolar world order. These...
As Cold War 2.0 heats up and places the world in peril of nuclear war, it is worthwhile to look back at the history of the original Cold War where Russophobia began to metastasize like a cancer in U.S. society.
A new book by Gabriela Gavrilov, U.S.-Russian Commercial Relations 1763-1933:...
On March 4, 2018, Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian intelligence officer turned British defector was allegedly poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, along with his 33-year-old daughter Yulia.
The two were admitted to a hospital after they were allegedly found unconscious on a public bench in the...
