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Crucial NATO decisions expected in Finland and Sweden this week
STOCKHOLM (AP) — To join or not to join? The question of NATO arises this week in Finland and Sweden where Russia's invasion of Ukraineshattered the long-held belief that staying out of the military alliance was the best way to stay out!-->…
British YouTube star ‘Bald and Bankrupt’ arrested in Kazakhstan
British travel vlogger Benjamin Rich, better known as "Bald and Bankrupt", has been arrested for "unlawful acts" at a Russian-controlled spaceport in Kazakhstan, officials say. The nature of the charges against him were not…
The forgotten father of Kazakh modernization
Although most don't recognize his name today, President Nursultan Nazarbayev's predecessor was known to almost everyone in the Central Asian country 30 years…
Biden’s visa proposal helps Rob Putin from ‘his best brains’: official
Biden has asked Congress to ease visa restrictions for highly educated Russians wishing to move to the United States.
It would help deprive Putin of his "best…
Illinois farmers speculate in a volatile global market
When Dennis Green was a young, beginning farmer in southern Illinois in the 1970s, he didn't think much of the Soviet Union as a player in global agriculture.“Russia, Ukraine and some other countries were still part of the Soviet Union. In…
All nuclear weapons are dangerous, regardless of whether they are held by Russia or the United…
TEHRAN — Expressing concern over the expanding war in Ukraine, a nuclear physicist says all nuclear weapons are dangerous to world peace.
“All nuclear weapons are dangerous, no matter who owns them. They will destroy us if we don't…
Tensions rise after breakaway region of Moldova reports attacks; kyiv accuses Russia
The separatist region considered a possible hot spot in UkraineSmall breakaway state reports series of attacksMoldova seeks to improve troop readiness for combatKremlin expresses deep concern, Ukraine blames MoscowAntónio Guterres calls for…
OPINION: Young socialists must learn more than just political slogans
"Eat the rich!"
It's a gathering weep for dozens of young people eager to get involved in political activism. But who are the rich? And what do they mean by "eat?"…
Russia’s Disinformation Campaign Sounds Like Orwell’s ‘1984’ Warned –…
Madeline Roache apparently has a dream job: getting paid to watch TV and transcribe what she sees.Don't envy him. She watches the morning news in Russia.Roache is a London-based colleague and analyst at NewsGuard, which assesses the…
Reviews | China is forging its way into Pacific island nations. The United States must push back.
Placeholder while loading article actionsGlobal attention may be fixated on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but the world cannot afford to ignore problems elsewhere. China's new security pact with the tiny Solomon Islands is one example. It…
The “Messy Middle” – The New York Times
If you live in most Western countries, your government's support for Ukraine, including sending arms and imposing sanctions on Russia, can give the impression of a united global response to Vladimir Putin's invasion.But this is not the…
Why isn’t the UN doing more to stop what is happening in Ukraine? – Boston News, Weather,…
(CNN) — Watching the brutal footage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has many around the world wondering why isn't the United Nations doing more to stop the war? Among them, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
Western nervous stance on Ukraine emboldens Putin
It is naïve in the extreme to pursue the appeasement of a Kremlin dictator bent on exterminating a great European state. American policy must change. Russia must be stopped. This cannot be done by the United States slowing down the…
Secret bunkers hidden in the streets, woods and buildings of Greater Manchester which were built in…
Nestled in the farthest corner of the woods, hidden hundreds of feet underground and filled with subterranean corridors and rooms reminiscent of past tensions, Greater Manchester is home to a series of little-known nuclear bunkers. They!-->…
Opinion: We must maintain our humanity while fighting Russia | The mail
By Robert Pawlicki InsideSources.com
It has been two decades since we had Ukrainian guests in our house. My wife and I hosted many former guests from the Soviet…
COLUMN: Avoiding nuclear war | Daily Sentinel
Since Russian tanks and troops poured into Ukraine, the Biden administration has demanded that it do more on the military front: establishing a no-fly zone, supplying fighter jets to Ukraine and even prepare to send American troops into…
I went to the first McDonald’s in Russia for the bathroom
In 1991, when I was a student in Russia, the newly opened McDonald's in Moscow served as a symbol, a tourist attraction, and the only place - and I mean the only one - with clean public restrooms. The very idea of clean…
Once ‘the smallest defector’ from communism, Des Plaines man wants US to do more for…
Forty-two years after his fight for freedom from communism made him Chicago-area's most famous preteen, Walter Polovchak, a Ukrainian resident of Des Plaines, is angry about the war ravaging his homeland.
He wants…
CAL THOMAS: JFK, Reagan and Biden | Opinion
President Biden's speech in Warsaw on Saturday night reminded me of two previous presidents who gave speeches in the face of the autocracy that was then the Soviet Union and now is Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, a man Biden…
5 Cold War movies to watch as US-Russian tensions rise amid invasion
About thirty years after the end of the Cold War, tensions between the United States and Russia are escalating after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than a month ago. In light of that, here are five Cold War films that…
Russo-Ukrainian War: How Ukrainians Ruled the USSR for 31 Years After Stalin
The Arch of Friendship of Peoples, known in Soviet times as the Monument to the Reunification of Ukraine and Russia, was installed in 1982 to celebrate 60 years of the USSR and the 1 500 years of Kyiv."As now we want nothing to do with…
The United States and the West must stand aside and do more to help Ukraine
Ukraine needs boots on the ground to survive. So will the United States and NATO reconsider their decision and confront Russia?For months, US intelligence was aware of the possibility that Russia was planning to attack Ukraine without…
Fear of provoking Putin is driving the Western world to disaster
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that NATO should refrain from imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine due to the risk of an all-out war between NATO and…
The actual purge where Stalin murdered over 1,000,000 people | by Andreï Tapalaga ✒️ | March 2022
Stalinism's greatest success on Soviet society is remembered as the Great PurgeJoseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov in 1937 (Source: public domain)JThe Soviet purge is still remembered as the most terrifying time in communist society when the…
Live Updates: Russia invades Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual address to members of the US Congress on Wednesday, as Ukraine continues to press the United States for more help in its fight against the ongoing unprovoked and deadly invasion…
Lifting Iran Sanctions Won’t Make a Nuclear Deal More Likely
The Biden administration is said to be on the verge of lifting all sanctions against numerous of Iran's worst human rights violators and sponsors of terrorism in return for Iran's remarkably weak nuclear concessions. History has shown…
Invasion of Ukraine was ‘on the horizon’ – Former USSR resident and Brookhaven…
For a Brookhaven native who once lived in the former Soviet Union, Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be seen "on the horizon."
Bill Perkins lived for 12 years in the Central Asian city of Almaty, in the former Soviet republic…
Fossil energy profits fuel Russia’s war machine and Ukraine suffers
Photo by Gerard Malie/AFP via Getty Images
No one really believed that the story ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall or in 1991 with the…
Why Putin should have learned from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, saying his mission was to "denazify" the country while sending a message to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Admittedly, Nazism is the drum that any politician can beat to justify…
Volodymyr Zelensky leads the defense of Ukraine with his voice
In Europe's most defining hour since the collapse of the Soviet Union, as a vengeful and erratic autocrat invades Ukraine darkly alluding to the scale of its nuclear arsenal, a comedian has taken on the role by Winston Churchill. Volodymyr…
Behind India’s repeated abstentions against Russia at the UN, the legacy of past policies
Amid ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, India has abstained from a US-sponsored United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that deplores Russia's actions in the strongest terms. Explaining his abstention, India's permanent…
Putin’s war to bring Ukraine to heel worries Eastern Europe
PODBORSKO, Poland - Scattered across the Polish forest like archaeological ruins, the crumbling concrete bunkers have stored Soviet nuclear warheads for decades. Today, they retain only the memories - deeply painful for Poland, joyful for…
The Cold War may be over, but the battle never was
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It was called a "sister city".The Berlin Wall had crashed into a pile of rubble. The Cold War was thawing. The Soviet Union would soon disintegrate as well. I worked as a reporter for WKRC-AM…
Soviet Union Connecticut man speaks out against Putin and Ukraine invasion
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Here in New Haven County there is a man with strong ties to Russia and Ukraine – even President Putin. He has an interesting perspective on what is happening in his native country.
As Russia invades…
Putin waves the nuclear sword against the West
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It's been a long time since the threat to use nuclear weapons has been raised so openly by a world leader, but Vladimir Putin just did, warning in a speech that he has the guns available if anyone dares to use military…
The Simpsons predicted the Russia-Ukraine crisis in 1998. Here’s the proof, Trending News
What the "Simpsons" think today, the world thinks tomorrow. The show seems to have predicted the current crisis between Ukraine and Russia in 1998. In one of its episodes, the series once again predicted the return of the…
Putin says he could recognize Ukraine’s breakaway regions
Moscow says Ukrainian armored vehicles tried to enter RussiaKiev calls Russian allegations 'fake news'Ukraine and West on high alert as Russia creates pretext to invade Macron proposes Biden-Putin summitWhite House says summit only possible…
Ukrainian president calls for sanctions list against Russia to be made public now
Speaking to CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said "any provocation is very dangerous" when asked about a potential false flag pretext for a war with Russia. "I think the most complicated question is that in the Crimea, in the…
US hopes to deter Russian invasion of Ukraine
So there is no real debate about what is happening at Ukraine's borders. The firepower is there to see, and it's part of Mr. Putin's strategy of coercion. The only mystery remaining is what Mr. Putin intends to do with it. At first, US…
Lithuanians warn from experience: deter Russia, don’t negotiate under military blackmail
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The military and political games Vladimir Putin is playing with all of Europe will continue whether Moscow invades Ukraine or not. Nowhere in Europe do leaders and citizens understand this hard truth better than in the…
Hidden costs of the conflict in Ukraine, part 3: nuclear proliferation
In Parts 1 and 2, I reviewed the environmental costs that can arise during military conflicts. There are the obvious costs of war itself, but there are also hidden costs for things like post-war recovery and cyberattacks. In this last…
“With Ukraine, Putin has imposed a debate on the acceptability of Russia as a European…
This is a multidimensional crisis. The first is a deeply historical and political question about Russia's position in Europe. If you look at the last four centuries, Russia was an integral part of the European order along with Prussia,…
Did capitalism win too soon?
When the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, a cheer went up across the continent as it marked the end of communism in East Germany and Central Europe. This was followed in 1991 by the breakup of the!-->…
When Nixon Visited China and Changed the Cold War Balance of Power
On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation on a live television broadcast to make an unexpected announcement: he had accepted an invitation from Beijing to become the first American president to visit the People's!-->…
Putin warns the West and Ukraine, but keeps his intentions secret
MOSCOW - President Vladimir V. Putin has said he is ready to continue negotiations on Russia's security demands in Eastern Europe, but has issued a stern warning about the possibility of full-scale war between Russia and the West - in a…
Biden waves his saber at Putin…but it’s Xi he really wants to scare | Simon Tisdall
IIf, as seems increasingly likely, Russia decides not to launch an all-out invasion of Ukraine, the American and British politicians who have spent weeks scaring the public into talking freely about impending Armageddon will have an…
In Beijing, Olympic Spectacle and Global Power Games
BEIJING — Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday opened an Olympics meant to celebrate his country's increasingly secure global status, standing defiantly alongside his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, in a competition of increasingly…
Warmongering against Russia in the name of Auschwitz
German Bundeswehr troopsThe more the US and NATO escalate their war campaign against Russia, the more aggressively the ruling class in Germany behaves. The media are caught up in a veritable war frenzy and demand that the German government…
EXPLAINER: The Winter Games, a different Olympiad
BEIJING (AP) — The first so-called modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens. But the first Winter Olympics didn't take place until 1924 in Chamonix, France. Calvin Coolidge was the US President at the time, and Vladimir Lenin died that…
January 31, 1982, forty years ago: peace with Pak
The prime minister has offered to sign a peace and friendship treaty with Pakistan. Surprisingly, Ms Gandhi made her offer at the end of her hour-long meeting with Pakistani journalists and not during the formal Indo-Pakistani…
Former CIA agent and creator of ‘The Americans’ says the US and Russia aren’t that…
With tens of thousands of Russian troops massed along the Ukrainian border, Moscow finds itself in one of its most tense clashes with the West since the fall of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin denies plans to invade Ukraine, but the…
What is NATO and when does it act?
By Ivana Kottasova and Bryony Jones, CNN
NATO — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to give it its full name — is a non-aggressive European and North American defense alliance created to promote peace and stability and to…
Ukrainian Texans pray for peace as tension mounts with Russia
On Sundays, parishioners of St. Sophia Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in The Colony recite a prayer for the "Old World.""We also pray for peace...especially for peace in Ukraine," the priest…
Russian tech and political leaders slam proposed crypto ban
Russia's recent crypto ban has drawn criticism from several big names, including Alexei Navalny's chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, and Telegram founder, Pavel Durov. On January 20, the Central Bank of Russia released a report proposing a…
What a Potential Russian Invasion at Chernobyl Means
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukrainian soldiers, Kalashnikov rifles slung over their shoulders, patrolled through a silent, snowy forest, past houses abandoned for so long that vines twirled through shattered windows.The fields lie fallow, the…
The Thing Series Adds More Headaches to Marvel’s Timeline
In the new Thing series, Ben Grimm mixes up history by calling Russia the USSR, which adds another puzzle to Marvel's tricky timeline.
There is a time indicator in the new Thing series which…
Russia must stop clinging to idea of reviving Soviet Union, says Ukraine
A view of the Moscow Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral.Mikhail Japaridze | CASS | Getty ImagesBRUSSELS — Russia must move forward in the world and stop dreaming of rebuilding the Soviet Union, a senior Ukrainian diplomat has told CNBC as…
Belarus announces joint exercises with Russia in February
The Belarusian strongman has announced that his country and its close ally Russia will hold joint military exercises near the eastern borders of NATO and Ukraine in February, according to media reports. reported Monday.…
What are the two biathlon events?
Belarusian Hanna Sola competes in the women's 4x6 km relay event at the IBU Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, southern Germany, on January 14, 2022. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)Watch…
As Biden warns Moscow of ‘devastating sanctions’ over Ukraine crisis, will Putin be the…
No less than three high-level talks between the United States (U.S.) and Russia over the past week have seemingly failed to resolve the standoff over Ukraine, a standoff in which Russia appears to hold all the strengths.
It is said that…
Making concessions to Putin will only whet his appetite for more
Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. (Photo by Denis Balibouse / AFP / Getty Images.)On Monday, Russian Lifetime President Vladimir Putin explained that the "peacekeepers" paratroopers…
How to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine
You may not have been glued to the Finnish President's annual New Year's speech. It's understandable but unfortunate, because Sauli Niinisto said some remarkable things. His speech should give an idea to the European Union, to…
Austrian solution for Ukraine?
After World War II, Austria, like Germany, was divided between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. Like any spectator of The third man the film knows that Vienna, like Berlin, had four zones of occupation. Unlike the solution for…
Kazakh regime comes to an end in “revolution”, dissident leader says
Published on: 06/01/2022 - 21:46Amended: 06/01/2022 - 21:44
Paris (AFP) - The regime that has ruled Kazakhstan since the fall of the Soviet Union is coming to an end in a popular revolution…
January 5, 1968: the Prague Spring begins
What would later become the Prague Spring began with the accession, that day in 1968, of reformist Alexander DubÄek to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
DubÄek tried to!-->…
Difficult figures: Germany abandons nuclear power, (some) Americans justify anti-government…
Joe Biden: The president asterisk Biden won over 81 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, the highest number of presidential candidates in U.S. history. Would that be enough to give his presidency an air of legitimacy after his…
Global retreat from the United States? – Newspaper
The end of the US military occupation of Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban to power have sparked an intense debate over the future goals and directions of US foreign policy. The main question is whether the US military withdrawal…
Mongolia’s Path to Democratic Revolution – The Diplomat
AdvertisingIt is December 10, 1989. A Mongolian band sings "The Sound of a Bell" in Sukhbaatar Square - symbolically awakening the Mongolian population and welcoming democracy. At this time, the Soviet Union was on the verge of…
How Finns sabotaged Red Army retreat with Polka music
The war between Finland and the Soviet Union was cold, not only in terms of the temperatures on the ground during the fighting, but also in terms of the feelings each side had for each other.
Before World War II broke out in…
How strange to see your country die
During the last years of Soviet communism, the English-speaking media focused heavily on political developments in the western regions of the USSR, with an!-->…
Armenian-American groups fight COVID disinformation
In Armenia, it is estimated that less than a quarter of residents had been vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-December, even as the country fired vaccinated tourists.The numbers are nowhere near as striking in Glendale and Los Angeles…
US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber caught on Google Earth
A $ 2 billion B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is now visible on Google Earth after a Reddit user shared a photo of the plane flying over a farmer's field in Missouri.The user, as Hippowned, posted the photo of Davis, Missouri on Monday, which…
Russian-American Escalation: How Did We Get Here? | Conflict
Over the past year, tensions between Russia on one side and Ukraine and the West on the other have erupted, fueling fears of yet another armed conflict. The two sides exchanged accusations of provoking a military escalation and there was…
This is what made the Tupolev Tu-16 badger so impressive
At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was trying to acquire a huge military outweighs its Western rivals. Nuclear weaponry was of course underway, but the Soviets were keen to improve and massively expand their air force.…
The United States paid a heavy price for condoning the genocide in Bangladesh in 1971 – OpEd…
By Arul Louis *
American realpolitik took a 180-degree turn between 1971 and today, but Washington continues to pay a heavy price for the decision that led it to turn a blind eye to the genocide perpetrated in Bangladesh by Pakistani…
The Germans neglect the Soviets, surprised by the defeat of Moscow | The Second World War
(December 17, 2021) Eighty years ago this week, the Red Army drove the Wehrmacht from the gates of Moscow.…
How the liberation of Bangladesh shook South Asia – the diplomat
Supporters and leaders of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party shout slogans during a rally in favor of a new citizenship law which opponents say threatens India's secular identity, in Kolkata, India on Friday February 7, 2020.…
Vladimir Putin claims collapse of Soviet Union forced him to work as a taxi driver
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Poutine claimed that the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s had left him so struggling financially that he was forced to work as a taxi driver to earn extra money.
"Sometimes I had to…
Azerbaijan celebrates 18th anniversary of death of national leader Heydar Aliyev
December 12, 2021 12:01 AM (UTC + 04: 00)
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Today marks the 18th anniversary of the death of Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev. The memory of the national leader is…
Victory Month: United States, China and Soviet Union in South Asian Theater of War
Nixon wanted the United States and China to act jointly against India and informed his Chinese counterpart of the movement of the US Naval Task Force through a map showing the deployment of US and Soviet forces.
On this day in 1971, when…
Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt dies at 66
âHe has been generous not only to his staff, but to me as well,â she said in an email. "From our conversation I expected some wise advice and serious mentoring, which came, but not before he spent half…
Donald Nuechterlein: Russia is testing the United States and Europe again | Don Nuechterlein
After Stalin's death in 1953, his successors wanted a period of reflection with Washington. President Dwight Eisenhower obliged them with a period called "detente". This lasted until 1960, when a new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev…
Alexander Dolitsky: The Life of Yuriy Sokolov, the Siberian Gulag, and the Dangers of Government…
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY
Siberian Gulag in the life of Yuriy Sokolov
Soon after graduating from high school in Kiev, Ukraine at the age of 17, I was employed at the shipbuilding factory named Leninskaya Kuznitsa (Lenin's Forge), now known as…
U.S. and Russian foreign ministers to meet as tensions in Ukraine soar
Published on: 12/02/2021 - 03:50Amended: 12/02/2021 - 03:49
Stockholm (AFP) - Chief diplomats from the United States and Russia are due to meet in Sweden on Thursday as tensions soar after…
The two peace missions of Europe by Kemal Derviş
Both on climate change and on new dual-use technologies, Europe's founding peace project should go global. The devastation of the region during the two world wars deprived it of the desire to dominate others,…
Valley News – Column: A brief throwback to the 1950s
Posted: 11/26/2021 22:10:27 PM
Modified: 11/26/2021 22:10:11 PM
I recently received an email from a friend, a heart cry from a beautiful gardener: "Climate change, COVID-19, conspiracy theories and…
Baltic state lawmakers to visit Taiwan amid threats from China
ANI |
Update: November 25, 2021 4:55 PM STI
Taipei , November 25 (ANI): A dozen Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian…
Reviews | What Biden and Xi can learn from the Cold War nuclear arms race
The United States and Russia are working together from Cuba to prevent further nuclear crises. The world's first nuclear arms race offers two important lessons on how to avoid a second: First, the United States and China should avoid…
The evolution of the space race
The former Soviet Union launching the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in space in October 1957 was a turning point in the history of mankind. He scored the first blow in the space race. The Soviets followed with a series…
How the West underestimates Russia’s Putin
It is often said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "play a weak hand well. "But according to Catherine stoner, an expert on Russia at Stanford University, this conventional analysis is incomplete. She argues that…
Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2022 – Possible Canucks Sweep?
The four male players elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022 could be former Canucks.
On Monday, the Hockey Hall of Fame finally inducted its Class of 2020, an honor delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jarome Iginla, Marian…
Russia steps up pressure on Poland and Ukraine
Polish security personnel behind a barbed wire fence at the Belarusian-Polish border. Poland and ... Belarus clashed with thousands of migrants seeking entry into EU member Poland on November 9, with Warsaw saying the…
No Peace Dividend Again – OpEd – Eurasia Review
Back in the days when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a lot of talk of a peace dividend - a sharp cut in US government spending on militarism. The dividends of peace did not come. Instead, the U.S. government began to spend…
A proclamation on the occasion of World Freedom Day, 2021
08 NOVEMBER 2021
For nearly three decades, the Berlin Wall was the physical symbol of the Cold War, separating democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. Today we remember the East Germans who fled and those who died trying to…
36th Los Angeles Marathon Winners Announced – NBC Los Angeles
Participants in the 36th Los Angeles Marathon set off for races on Sunday morning, and the male and female winners have already crossed the finish line.
John Korir of Kenya is the winner in the men's race with a time of two…
America’s Mathematical Wars | The Economist
November 6, 2021WASHINGTON DCAAMERICA A a math problem. Its students have been poorly ranked on international mathematics exams for decades. In 2018, 15-year-old Americans ranked 25th in the OECD, a club of predominantly rich countries.…
Development, assistance and economic links – OpEd – Eurasia Review
Russia is a true friend of Bangladesh. Diplomatic relations were established between Bangladesh and the Soviet Union on January 25, 1972. Next year will mark the 50e anniversary of bilateral relations. Bangladesh has maintained…
When you fight a police state, there are no safe spaces
This image can be seen in many civil society organizations created in the 1990s, where a leader, or group of leaders, still sits at the helm all the time, working 20 hours a day without a personal life, on weekends. and vacations, building…
Military spending drops warning to California
In summary
Pentagon spending was once a huge factor in the California economy, and its decline tells us that we shouldn't take prosperity for granted.
California has experienced…
PAT BUCHANAN: Can Poland be Poland – and stay in the EU? | Chroniclers
This was the call of the American conservatives four decades ago when the solidarity movement of union leader Lech Walesa formed in the port city of Gdansk to demand their release from the communist system imposed on…
Photographer discovers Soviet underworld in Tbilisi, Georgia
Beneath the streets of Tbilisi is a network of Soviet-era tunnels, bomb shelters, and chambers that many residents know nothing about. Over the past few months, the photographer David Tabagari explored this silent underground world with…
Uzbekistan’s rocky road to reform
Shavkat Mirziyoyev won Sunday's presidential poll in Uzbekistan to start another five years as head of Central Asia's most populous country. The incumbent has always been the big favorite to win the vote, and the only…
Russia, US release latest nuclear weapons tally as Moscow-NATO relationship crumbles
Russia and the United States released their latest nuclear weapons tally at a time when ties between Moscow and the US-led NATO military alliance were in freefall.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday released its latest report on "the…
The failure of the 1956 Hungarian revolution – the Soviets blamed the West as Orbán does today
Sixty-five years ago Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian revolution. The Soviet Union launched a propaganda campaign blaming the West for the uprising and bloodshed. Howard Norton, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, reported from…
White House media tell Americans not to complain, but to lower expectations “like the Soviet…
The mainstream media, defending Biden's White House amid the president's polls, urged Americans to lower their expectations of daily living conditions instead of blaming the federal government for their new problems, the panel discussed on…
Left links of domestic spies
Oct 19, 2021 Left links of domestic spies
Big budget movies like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "True lies" sparked the intrigue with the shock of someone discovering that their spouse or…
SR-71 pilot tells the story of a tense mission over the Barents Sea where he spotted a scrambled…
"I assumed the MiG-31 pilot would love nothing better than an opportunity to fire his missiles at an SR-71 Blackbird," Ed Yeilding, SR-71 Blackbird pilot.
âFlying straight towards…
China launches second crewed mission to build space station
JIUQUAN, China, October 16 (Reuters) - China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and a woman - to the central module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit…
Calls intensify to end Wisconsin election review amid blunders by ex-judge in charge
The glaring errors became clear shortly after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state's 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least…
Christian Lange, Andrew Carnegie and the arc of internationalism – Carnegie Europe
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded last week to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively, was an important reminder of the vital role civic actors play in promoting international peace. It also…
The soybean curse: is Ukraine facing the same fate as the Amazon?
Protein Plan and Green DealThe reasons for the commission's plan are manifold. Soybeans were previously mainly used to produce vegetable oils, but their market value exploded when what was left after oil production began to be used as a…
The hydrogen moment has finally arrived
October 9, 2021HYDROGEN A controversial since the tragedy of the Hindenburg, a filled airship that caught fire in 1937. Boosters say gas is a low-carbon miracle that can power cars and homes. The hydrogen economy, they hope, will redraw…
Blinken delivers remarks on Babyn Yar commemoration
The United States is committed to taking action so that the Babyn Yar tragedy is not repeated.
âSo on this anniversary, we honor the memory of all who are lost in Babyn Yar, we recommit ourselves to…
Musician claims he was fired for “conservative” views on Black Lives Matter
A former member of the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra is suing the organization, claiming he was fired for expressing widespread conservative beliefs about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Yuri Grankin,…
Germany extends pensions to more Holocaust survivors
BERLIN (AP) - The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said on Wednesday that Germany had agreed to extend compensation to Jewish survivors who endured the siege of Leningrad during the Second…
Professor blames left-wing ‘outrage crowd’ for cancellation of MIT climate science…
A University of Chicago associate professor of geophysics spoke out against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Tuesday after the university canceled its invited lecture amid criticism from activist groups on campus.During…
10 times Marvel heroes betrayed their own values
Marvel heroes are some of the most complicated heroes in all of comics. It was their claim to fame when they were first…