21 March 2018 — National Security Archive
West German Conservatives Feared Signing NPT Would Leave the Federal Republic “Defenseless” against Moscow Continue reading
Tag: Cold War
NSA: U.S. Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo
1 December 2017 — National Security Archive
Cold War U.S. Commanders-in-Chief Repeatedly Expressed Aversion to Going Nuclear; Even Eisenhower Changed Thinking
JFK: “Once One Resorts to Nuclear Weapons One Moves into a Whole New World”
During Vietnam, CIA Analysts Worried Nuke Use Would Expose U.S To “Widespread and Fundamental Revulsion That [It] Had Broken the …Taboo”
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 611
NSA:: New book combines Soviet and U.S. transcripts of highest-level meetings that ended the Cold War
19 December 2016 — National Security Archive
Gorbachev offered arms race in reverse; Reagan recommended quiet on human rights; Bush sounded very encouraging in 1987 but the 1989 pause interrupted progress
The Last Superpower Summits publishes virtually every word Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush said to each other from 1985 through 1991
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 573
If Stalin Equals “Communism, Bad,” Why Doesn’t’ “Hitler Equals Capitalism, Bad?” By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
4 June 2014 — Greanville Post
“Many critics of the Soviet Union conveniently forget that the Soviet experience was shaped in a significant part by what someday will come to be known as ‘The 75 Years War Against the Soviet Union, 1917-1992.’”
A Special Column for The Greanville Post (Annotated)
Why NATO Has Not Permitted Russia to Join By John V. Walsh
19 May 2014 — Dissident Voice
As the West’s assault on Ukraine gets ever bloodier, the “news” on National Public Radio (NPR) is teeming with anti-Russian propaganda, interspersed with the usual pieces declaiming on one’s senior prom and other matters of equal import. All in all it is a pretty dismal substitute for news and analysis.
Russia is enemy of the Western global financial system’
27 March 2014 — RT
RT: The US President said that we’re not facing a new Cold War yet. He has also called on Russia to be deeply isolated – how do these points come together, how do they even work side by side?
Anti-Russia propaganda and the fabrication of a new pro-war consensus By Alex Lantier
21 March 2014 — WSWS
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 that emerged from last month’s fascist-led coup is too absurd.
How Crimea plays in Beijing By Pepe Escobar
19 March 2014 — People’s Daily Online
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 western countries teaches us four things.
America’s Oligarch Strategy
17 March 2014 — China Matters
a.k.a. Empire in the Age of the 1%
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.
The New York Times deploys C.J. Chivers to Ukraine By Patrick Martin
17 March 2104 — WSWS
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.
Declassified Documents Shed Light on 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott By Lauren Harper
14 February 2014 — Unredacted
Picture of the opening ceremony in Moscow.
On January 20, 1980, President Carter announced that “[u]nless the Soviets withdraw their troops within a month from Afghanistan,” that the US would boycott the Olympic games that year in Moscow. The media, including the Washington Post’s Robert G. Kaiser, supported the boycott, arguing, “the collapse of this Olympiad would send a genuine shock through Soviet society,” though CIA Director Adm. Stansfield Turner warned that such a stunt would backfire. Continue reading
Mandela and Cuba: another memory hole By Alex Doherty
21 December 2013 — New Left Project
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.
Repressing “Un-American Activities”: The Historical Roots of Today’s Homeland Surveillance State By Greg Guma
7 June 2013 — Global Research
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.
The Sheikh who shook two Superpowers By Satya Sagar
7 May 2011
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 as the interloper who dared to hit America in its heartland, eluding its wrath for a decade before becoming a martyr.
The West Versus China: A New Cold War Begins on Libyan Soil By Patrick Henningsen
15 APRIL 2011 — Global Research – 21st Century Wire
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 are being completely ignored.
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 Chief: U.S. Military To Rotate Through Australia
- Post-Cold War NATO Expansion: No Neutrals Left In Europe
- “NATO’s Plans For Future”: U.S. Keeps Three Combat Brigades In Europe
- Visegrad Four Group Plus Ukraine Plan Military Integration
- Abkhazia Says Slain Georgians Tbibili-Backed Saboteurs
- Uruguay Opposes Foreign Military Intervention In Bahrain, Libya
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 Chief: U.S. Military To Rotate Through Australia
- Post-Cold War NATO Expansion: No Neutrals Left In Europe
- “NATO’s Plans For Future”: U.S. Keeps Three Combat Brigades In Europe
- Visegrad Four Group Plus Ukraine Plan Military Integration
- Abkhazia Says Slain Georgians Tbibili-Backed Saboteurs
- Uruguay Opposes Foreign Military Intervention In Bahrain, Libya
The Anti-Empire Report March 1st, 2011 by William Blum
1 March 2011 — www.killinghope.org
The Enduring Mystique of the Marshall Plan
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 beware.
The C-word in Germany By Victor Grossman
11 January, 2011 — MRZine
Once again it was the annual big weekend for German leftists of every conceivable persuasion. It was also a weekend with tons of slush, the result of weeks of cold and snow now ending in thaw weather, but, in the eyes of most participants, also provided by most of the media.
As every year, Sunday was marked by the pilgrimage to the memorial site for Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, murdered in 1919 and still honored, even revered, by tens of thousands, including all the faithful, and a few dozen groups and grouplets, older parties and wannabe new ones.
The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil's Island By William Blum
1 January, 2011 — www.killinghope.org
Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil’s Island
December 16 … 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 and my biggest fear was that someone from that noble institution would pass by and recognize me.
The New Dark Age 