Professor Stephen Cohen on Tucker Carlson Show: Reaction To Trump’s Russia Comments Like ‘Mob Violence’
July 17, 2018
Professor Stephen Cohen on Tucker Carlson last night:
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Trump-Putin Summit Success: Neocons Furious!
July 16, 2018
Presidents Trump and Putin have just concluded a press conference where although there remained some serious points of contention — specifically, Iran – both leaders agreed that their summit was a great start to restoring good relations between the US and Russia. The neocons – on both the Left and Right – are furious. Former […]
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Climb Down From the Summit of Hostile Propaganda
July 16, 2018
Throughout the day before the summit in Helsinki, the lead story on the New York Times home page stayed the same: “Just by Meeting With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead.” The Sunday headline was in harmony with the tone of U.S. news coverage overall. As for media commentary, the Washington Post was in the dominant groove as it editorialized […]
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PBS Series, The Vietnam War, Receives Emmy Nomination. Should It?
July 15, 2018
Silence. That’s the overriding theme of this episode. Silence, as in Martin Luther King’s admonition that “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Does that not perfectly frame Nixon’s so-called “brilliant” maneuver of celebrating the amoral, even cowardly, silence of the majority of Americans in the face of […]
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Strzok Hoisted on His Own Petard
July 13, 2018
If FBI agent Peter Strzok were not so glib, it would have been easier to feel some sympathy for him during his tough grilling at the House oversight hearing on Thursday, even though his wounds are self-inflicted. The wounds, of course, ooze from the content of his own text message exchange with his lover and […]
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Legalized Groping: Court Grants TSA the Right To Assault You
July 12, 2018
A US appeals court has just ruled that we Americans have no recourse when an aggressive Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener commits an assault on us. The the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that TSA officers were not “investigative or law enforcement officers,” and therefore were protected from liability under the […]
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A Call to Ease Tensions Between the Nuclear Superpowers
July 12, 2018
With Donald Trump about to meet Vladimir Putin in their first summit on July 16, prominent academics, journalists, politicians and activists call for a lessening of dangerous tensions between the two nuclear powers. An Open Letter: Common Ground for Secure Elections and True National Security Many Americans remain deeply concerned about reports of Russian interference […]
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Scholars Demand Mideast Settlement Now
July 11, 2018
The Middle East is in turmoil now, possibly again on the verge of a major war that could draw in the United States and Russia. President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the six nation nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. Although a few […]
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Trump Hammers NATO. Good! Let’s Get Out!
July 11, 2018
President Trump is making waves as he arrives in Europe for the NATO summit. Chiding Germany for benefitting from US protection against Russia while buying billions of dollars worth of Russian oil, he has captured the duplicity of European leaders. But the solution is not to browbeat them to spend more on their militaries. It’s […]
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New START and the Helsinki Summit
July 10, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Jon Wolfsthal makes the case that the Helsinki summit is the right time to begin talks with Russia on extending New START: The July 16 summit in Helsinki between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin presents a unique opportunity to reverse the dangerous nuclear competition between the United States […]
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