Tag: Cold War
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.
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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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
How the psychology of oppression perpetuates harm to animals and the environment
To achieve justice for all species and the environment, we must create a more relational world.
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .
Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction
Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.