Chris Hedges: Rusia, Ukarine y la crónica de una guerra anunciada

Después de la caída de la Unión Soviética, hubo un entendimiento casi universal entre los líderes políticos de que la expansión de la OTAN sería una provocación tonta contra Rusia. Qué ingenuos éramos al pensar que el complejo militar-industrial permitiría que prevaleciera tal cordura.

Chris Hedges
Por Chris Hedges
Ukraine Russia Feaeture photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, became obsolete. President Mikhail Gorbachev reached out to Washington and Europe to

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JFK y la estrategia de paz

Muchos en Occidente no se dan cuenta de cuánto JFK fue una excepción a la norma en lo que respecta a la política exterior de Estados Unidos.

Rick Sterling
Por Rick Sterling
JFK Peace Feature photo

John F Kennedy (JFK) was inaugurated as president of the United States nearly sixty years ago today. In the less than three years before he was assassinated in November of 1963, he managed to initiate major changes in America’s foreign policy. Those changes are documented in books such as “JFK and the Unspeakable” and “Betting on the Africans” and

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El Día de los Caídos en el Holocausto La Embajada de los Estados Unidos afirma falsamente que Auschwitz fue liberado de los Estados Unidos

La declaración fue recibida inmediatamente con desprecio por aquellos que sentían que era otro ejemplo de la eliminación soviética y un insulto al enorme sacrificio que hizo la Unión Soviética para derrotar al fascismo en Europa.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
Soviet troops Auschwitz Feature photo

The United States Embassy in Denmark has apologized for a statement it made earlier this week that incorrectly claimed that it was American troops that liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In fact, Red Army troops reached its gates on January 27, 1945. “We acknowledge the important contributions of all Allied Forces during WWII and

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Twitter Users Slam WaPo’s Attempt To Re-Write Al-Qaida History

‘Was it USSR who created Al Qaeda? Did the US support all kinds of terrorist fighting against USSR in Afghanistan?’ one skeptical Twitter user posted, questioning the Post’s reporting.

MintPress News Desk
Por MintPress News Desk
A group of Afghan mujahedeens, Islamic guerrillas, look over a U.S. Marine humvee in eastern Saudi Arabia, Monday, Feb. 11, 1991. The Marines visited a camp consisting of about 300 mujahedeens who have been asked by the Saudi government to help fight against Iraq in the Gulf War. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)

WASHINGTON --- Despite the United States’ clear history of supporting extremists and provoking instability in the Middle East, the Washington Post recently attempted to blame Russia for the rise of al-Qaida in the region. The Jan. 5 article by Amanda Erickson, a foreign policy writer at the Post, pointed to attempts by the former Soviet Union to

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Declassified Files Show U.S. Targeted Soviet Civilians With Nukes During Cold War

Declassified Cold War files show disturbing nuclear targeting of population centers.

Lauren McCauley
Por Lauren McCauley
Nuclear missile launch site SF-88 in San Francisco, California.(1959).

The National Security Archive on Wednesday for the first time declassified a list of potential Cold War nuclear targets, and the picture is chilling. Among the industrial infrastructure and military sites that analysts concluded would achieve "high levels of damage" for the Soviet Union is one particularly troubling type of target:

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Tragedy And Farce: How The West Lost Post-Soviet Russia

Analogies comparing Putin to Hitler miss the mark and conveniently omit the West’s hand in creating the current state of affairs.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Por Jeffrey Cavanaugh

History, Karl Marx said, repeats -- first as tragedy, then as farce. With the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine bringing the West and Russia closer to conflict than they’ve been at any time since the end of the Cold War, pundits have been playing fast and loose with historical analogies, painting Moscow in the harshest possible light. Russian

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