© EcoHealth AllianceDr. Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance • 2016 The U.S. has finally barred Dr. Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance over reckless gain-of-function research, but whistleblower Jeffrey Silverman warns this is just the tip of a much deeper and more dangerous bioweapons iceberg. After years of denial, deflection, and […]
RTSat, 16 Aug 2025 18:19 UTC © Marco Tacca/Getty ImagesSlovak Prime Minister Robert Fico Direct dialogue with Moscow is crucial, Slovak PM Robert Fico has said, urging Brussels to take its cue from Washington. The summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in Alaska has […]
© Frederick Florin/AFPEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Brussels has been relegated to running behind Trump, pleading to let Zelensky have any say in a Russia-Ukraine war resolution. The European Union had been wailing about “transatlantic unity” in the run-up to US President Trump heading to the negotiating table […]
The war hawks may laugh, but in a world teetering on the edge, diplomacy is no joke. © AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Trump proclaimed Friday he and Russian President Vladimir Putin made “great progress” toward ending Moscow’s war on Ukraine after meeting for nearly three hours in Alaska. The Alaska […]
The Realist Review and The American Committee for US-Russia Accord has gathered top experts on US-Russia relations and international and diplomatic affairs to share their thoughts on the Alaska Summit this past Friday.Below are contributions* from Ted Snider, Richard Sakwa,, Nicolai Petro, Christopher Mott, Anatol Lieven, Paul Grenier, and James W. Carden. *** The war is now going disastrously for Ukraine. The Russian armed forces have breached their defensive lines, partially encircled key logistical hubs and nearly cut off Ukraine’s forces in the east from their supplies. The Ukrainian armed forces face the threat of collapse and of Russia occupying all
“The Peace Dividend: The Most Controversial Proposal in the History of the World” was published in 2016. Much has happened since then. The Ukraine War, Russiagate, the hyper-demonization of Putin and Russia, Gaza, the Iran War. The increases in military spending have accelerated beyond even our most pessimistic expectations. The militarization of everything American has exploded and now the waste of our resources, our money, our enormous talents as a modern society have put the nation in debt to the tune of $37 trillion and counting. The need for citizens to stand up to this insanity has likewise grown exponentially. …
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Shares Natalyie Baldwin asks the British author about the Soviet collapse, the 1990s, Vladimir Putin’s governance, the rise of a new cold war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Richard Sakwa in 2014. (Jwh, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Natylie Baldwin Special to Consortium News Richard Sakwa is a British academic expert […]
Shares Alan MacLeod on Langley’s sprawling network of hidden websites that served as global spy terminals disguised as harmless blogs, news hubs and fan pages. (Illustration by MintPress News) By Alan MacLeod MintPress News The C.I.A. didn’t just infiltrate governments; it infiltrated the internet itself. For over a decade, Langley […]
Shares ALASKA SUMMIT: If Moscow wants to avoid its own Vietnam in Ukraine, Putin may accept a “negotiated solution” that applies copious lipstick to the pig of actual defeat for the U.S., NATO and Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin with U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin on Aug. […]
On August 6, U.S. President Donald Trump posted that special envoy Steve Witkoff had just returned from “a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Trump said that “Great progress was made!” During that meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Trump administration with a ceasefire proposal. When asked if it was true that Witkoff was “coming back with a ceasefire proposal,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio replied in a word, “Yes.” Two days later, Trump announced that he would meet with Putin in Alaska on August 15. “What happened” in the Witkoff-Putin meeting “was good,” Rubio said, “because
Shares ALASKA SUMMIT: Those who hope for progress when the two leaders meet for their “feeling-out” summit are gloomy and anxious, writes Tony Kevin. But the warmongers are gloomy and anxious too. Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast after Russian rocket strike on May 23, 2023. (Donetsk Regional Military Civil Administration, […]
Shares ALASKA SUMMIT: Those who hope for progress when the two leaders meet for their “feeling-out” summit are gloomy and anxious, writes Tony Kevin. But the warmongers are gloomy and anxious too. Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast after Russian rocket strike on May 23, 2023. (Donetsk Regional Military Civil Administration, […]
Shares ALASKA SUMMIT: CN Editor Joe Lauria joined Jackson Hinkle’s Legitimate Targets to discuss the Putin-Trump meeting and the Middle East. What was once Seward’s Folly may become Trump’s as the U.S. and Russian presidents meet this Friday in Alaska. CN‘s Editor Joe Lauria was Jackson Hinkle’s guest on his […]
Shares ALASKA SUMMIT: CN Editor Joe Lauria joined Jackson Hinkle’s Legitimate Targets to discuss the Putin-Trump meeting and the Middle East. What was once Seward’s Folly may become Trump’s as the U.S. and Russian presidents meet this Friday in Alaska. CN‘s Editor Joe Lauria was Jackson Hinkle’s guest on his […]
Shares Ramzy Baroud says Western institutions’ delayed recognition of Israel’s Gaza genocide is consistent with an historic erasure of Palestinians’ telling their own story. Palestinian Arab men reading the Huna Al-Quds magazine in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, 1940. (Jerusalem archive/Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain) By Ramzy Baroud Z Network The Israeli human rights […]
ACURA and RootsActionAugust 13, 2025This week’s summit between Presidents Trump and Putin in Alaska is an opportunity for Russia and the West to negotiate a peaceful settlement in Ukraine. There will be no perfect solution—for any settlement to resemble a just peace, each side will necessarily have to come away dissatisfied. We believe the more urgent goal of stopping the bloodshed must be prioritized over maximalist, inflexible views of what constitutes core Russian and American interests. The Trump administration seems committed to a provocative but ultimately self-defeating diplomacy. While the president claims he wants peace, his administration seems intent on provoking
August 12, 2025 His deals are informed by hyper-transactional dealmaking. Ad Policy Donald Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L), and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (R), sign the joint declaration “peace road map” following their trilateral meeting at the White House on August 8, 2025.(Azerbaijan Presidency / Anadolu via Getty Images) Despite campaign promises of peace, Donald Trump’s presidency has thus far represented business as usual for Washington’s war profiteers. Although claiming to run as a peace president, The Donald swiftly disregarded his own base in favor
Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States and its president, John F. Kennedy, could not tolerate such weapons placed by a hostile power on its doorstep and the world only knew years later how close we were to nuclear war. Thankfully both Khrushchev and Kennedy backed down – with the Soviet leader removing the missiles from Cuba and
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