Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Tag: Cold War

The American empire in (ultimate?) crisis

The decline and fall of it all?

Right-wing extremism and the Cold War go hand-in-hand

U.S. “ironclad” support for militarism undercuts attempts to curb right-wing terrorism. From white supremacist violence in the West Bank to gendered violence in Olongapo, we can’t defeat at home what we export abroad.

The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?

A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet

What difference does a war make?

The geopolitics of the new Cold War.

Would a “cold” war be the best news around?

Ukraine, Taiwan, and other flashpoints in a new age of geopolitics

The high stakes of the US-Russia confrontation over Ukraine

The U.S. must step back from the brink of a U.S.-Russia war, and then from the larger Cold War with China and Russia that they have so blindly and foolishly stumbled into.

Answering the armies of the cheated

What happened was this: shortly after the end of the Cold War, virtually the entire American foreign-policy establishment succumbed to a monumentally self-destructive ideological fever.

Waiting for the cyber-apocalypse

The cold war has already turned hot — on the internet...

What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall means 30 years later

The return of war-as-the-answer.

What’s behind Bolton’s attacks on the ‘troika of tyranny’?

With all eyes focused these days on Trump and his myriad crimes, John Bolton’s speeches are a reminder that even worse options are waiting in the wings.

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The US-China tech race, resource wars, and the cost of militarization

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