Cold War
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NSA: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the German Nuclear Question: Part II, 1965-1969
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), widely accepted today as a global standard for international nuclear policy, was in fact a source of significant tension between two staunch allies, the United States and West Germany, in the mid-1960s, as illustrated by declassified documents published for the first time today by the National Security Archive and the… Continue reading
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NSA: U.S. Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo
U.S. presidents sometimes made nuclear threats in the course of Cold War crises and confrontations, but powerful social norms – not just military considerations – inhibited them from initiating the combat use of nuclear weapons, according to declassified documents posted today by the nongovernmental National Security Archive. Continue reading
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NSA:: New book combines Soviet and U.S. transcripts of highest-level meetings that ended the Cold War
Previously secret transcripts of the summit meetings between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 to 1988, and then George H.W. Bush with Gorbachev from 1989 through 1991, show the Soviet leader pursuing an arms race in reverse, Reagan recommending quiet dialogue on human rights, and Bush seeking new nuclear weapons before coming around to… Continue reading
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Why NATO Has Not Permitted Russia to Join By John V. Walsh
“Those who doubted the wisdom of [Russia joining NATO], besides the possibility that Russia might not accept, which was a side argument, worried that it would impair the continuing military effectiveness of NATO, that Russia, essentially as an insider, would become obstructive and would work against NATO’s continuing viability.” Continue reading
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Russia is enemy of the Western global financial system’
Lawrence Freeman: First of all you should not believe what President Obama says. We are in a very dangerous situation that could escalate to a world war. The decisions that President Obama’s made are not his own. He is a effectively a tool of Wall Street and the British financial system, and they have declared… Continue reading
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Anti-Russia propaganda and the fabrication of a new pro-war consensus By Alex Lantier
Since Crimea voted last Sunday to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia, US officials and the American media have mounted a deafening propaganda campaign, posturing as defenders of world peace, the rights of small nations and international law in opposition to Russia. In this campaign, no lie told to justify support for the Ukrainian regime… Continue reading
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How Crimea plays in Beijing By Pepe Escobar
Ukraine has become the final battlefield in the “cold war”, and it is becoming a possibility that the crisis will trigger a second “cold war”. The Crimean parliament’s declaration of independence from Ukraine ahead of the March 16 referendum indicates that Crimea may go ahead and join Russia. The tug of war between Russia and… Continue reading
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America’s Oligarch Strategy
At US behest, Austria arrested a Ukrainian oligarch named Dmytro Firtash in Vienna on some corruption and bribery charge that appears to be involved tangentially with the United States…Firtash’s problem is that the US identified him with the Yanukovych camp and close to Russia because of his gas dealings. It also looks like Firtash moved… Continue reading
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The New York Times deploys C.J. Chivers to Ukraine By Patrick Martin
A particularly foul and provocative article in the New York Times this weekend portrays the Russian military forces and pro-Russian militiamen in Crimea as a rampaging horde, using guns and whips to suppress popular opposition to a possible annexation of the Crimean region by Russia. Continue reading
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Declassified Documents Shed Light on 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott By Lauren Harper
Declassified documents, including the confidential memo featured in today’s posting, help contextualize the Carter administration’s final decision to boycott the games in the hopes of preventing Soviet expansion into Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Mandela and Cuba: another memory hole By Alex Doherty
Recognition of the role of Cuba in aiding the ANC whilst the western powers backed apartheid is hardly serviceable in maintaining the conventional Cold War narrative. Hence the media’s impressive avoidance of the context of the Castro-Obama handshake and its significance. Continue reading
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Repressing “Un-American Activities”: The Historical Roots of Today’s Homeland Surveillance State By Greg Guma
Political rights are so easily taken for granted – until they’re threatened or curtailed by repressive laws. In the United States, they are usually most vulnerable when people are anxious about some outside threat. Continue reading
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The Sheikh who shook two Superpowers By Satya Sagar
Long after he is gone, in the mythology of the Western world, Osama Bin Laden will always remain the fanatical architect of 9/11, the evil man who brought down the World Trade Center, a long standing symbol of US power. On the Arab and other streets of the Third World he will pass into fable… Continue reading
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The West Versus China: A New Cold War Begins on Libyan Soil By Patrick Henningsen
The question as to why US-led NATO forces are determined to engineer a regime change in Libya is now becoming clear. While media pundits and political experts still argue over whether the Libyan rebel gangs are actually being backed and directed by US, UK and Israel intelligence agencies, broader long-range Western policy objectives for Libya… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: 10 April, 2011
10 April, 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: April 10 United Arab Emirates: NATO’s Outpost In Persian Gulf Pakistan: Mass Protest Against NATO Threat To Libya, World Peace Ivory Coast: French Helicopters Attack Presidential Residence Peru: Humala Wins First Round Of Presidential Elections Afghanistan: NATO’s Yearly Death Toll Rises To 121 Pacific Command Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: 10 April, 2011
10 April, 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: April 10 United Arab Emirates: NATO’s Outpost In Persian Gulf Pakistan: Mass Protest Against NATO Threat To Libya, World Peace Ivory Coast: French Helicopters Attack Presidential Residence Peru: Humala Wins First Round Of Presidential Elections Afghanistan: NATO’s Yearly Death Toll Rises To 121 Pacific Command Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report March 1st, 2011 by William Blum
Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name “Marshall Plan” keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advances, which hopefully will be somewhat progressive. But caveat emptor. Let the buyer… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil's Island By William Blum
… I’m standing in the snow in front of the White House … Standing with Veterans for Peace … I’m only a veteran of standing in front of the White House; the first time was February 1965, handing out flyers against the war in Vietnam. I was working for the State Department at the time… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 