Sunday, May 25, 2025

Tag: Cold War

The Cold War we can still lose – and why

A pathological president who can pardon convicted criminals or start a nuclear war poses a clear and present danger to the nation and the world.

Is Korea’s Cold War about to end?

The media is missing the real story on the peninsula. If that gives Koreans space to lead, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

US INF pullout will delight arms industry as it threatens to...

The reality is that it has largely been the U.S. that has been the aggressor through the terrifying and costly decades of the Cold War that this latest treaty exit action threatens to re-ignite.

Katrina vanden Heuvel on NATO military spending & avoiding Cold War...

“I would argue that the bipartisan establishment consensus is bankrupt. … We believe you can have secure elections and avoid nuclear catastrophe.”

Could the Cold War return with a vengeance?

The Pentagon plans for a perpetual three-front “Long War” against China and Russia.

Democracy in crisis: Cold War(s) in the cyber age

The Cyber Age has raised the potential for destabilizing democracies through dissemination of fake news and disinformation to new levels.

But I thought the Cold War was supposed to have been...

The Cold War should have ended in 1991 when communism and the Warsaw Pact did, but instead it continued on in the form of NATO.

Emperor Weather

for the moment, it seems, humanity still has the chance to write its own history in a fashion that would allow for a perhaps less welcoming but still reasonably palatable world for our children and grandchildren to live in. And be glad of that.

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Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...

Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?

Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty the strip

As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.

The country Trump seems dead set on imitating

The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

CDC reports drug overdose deaths decline 27% in 2024

With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.