Congress Just Passed a Bloated and Destabilizing $619 Billion Defense Bill Congress Just Passed a Bloated and Destabilizing $619 Billion Defense Bill
The bill allocates almost double the amount for the development of a new, unnecessary nuclear weapon as it does for nuclear disarmament.
Dec 9, 2016 / James Carden
Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War
The preceding Cold War generated a prolonged slurring and suppression of dissenting American voices, and it may be happening again.
Dec 7, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen
9 Things Obama Can Do Before Leaving Office to Prepare for the Trump Takeover 9 Things Obama Can Do Before Leaving Office to Prepare for the Trump Takeover
In the next 40 days, the President can declassify secret documents, pardon whistle blowers, and punish high-level officials who abused their power.
Dec 5, 2016 / Pratap Chatterjee
Is America Poised to Become the Most Dangerous Country on Earth? Is America Poised to Become the Most Dangerous Country on Earth?
Donald Trump’s administration—filling up with racists, Islamophobes, and billionaires—already has the feel of an increasingly militarized, autocratic government-in-the-making.
Dec 1, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt
False Narratives, Not ‘Fake News,’ Are the Real Cold-War Problem False Narratives, Not ‘Fake News,’ Are the Real Cold-War Problem
Any détente initiatives by President-elect Trump must break with spurious US accounts of the new Cold War.
Nov 30, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen
Putin Didn’t Undermine the Election—We Did Putin Didn’t Undermine the Election—We Did
Our election system is embarrassing not for anything Putin allegedly did. Leaders of both parties, if they had any concern for the republic, would move expeditiously to reform our ...
Nov 29, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Friends and Foes of Détente With Russia The Friends and Foes of Détente With Russia
The mere adumbration of Trump–Putin cooperation has sent American Russo-phobic cold warriors into a frenzy of preemptive opposition.
Nov 23, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen
Is Trump About to Bring a Maverick Democratic Congresswoman Into His Cabinet? Is Trump About to Bring a Maverick Democratic Congresswoman Into His Cabinet?
Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump both reject the foreign-policy establishment’s fidelity to the twin policies of military intervention and regime change.
Nov 22, 2016 / James Carden
The Militarization of Diplomacy and Other Corruptions of US Empire The Militarization of Diplomacy and Other Corruptions of US Empire
In part two of our interview, former ambassador Chas Freeman gives a master class in foreign policy.
Nov 22, 2016 / Patrick Lawrence
One of Trump’s Top Military Advisers Played a Key Role in the Disastrous Iraq Occupation One of Trump’s Top Military Advisers Played a Key Role in the Disastrous Iraq Occupation
Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg has also been an executive at two of the nation’s most notorious intelligence contractors.
Nov 18, 2016 / Tim Shorrock