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With another summit on the horizon for President Trump and Vladimir Putin, perhaps as early as this fall, will the future of U.S.-Russian relations largely hinge on such meetings? An editorial in the new issue of The Nation -- “Parsing the Surreal From the Sensible in Trump’s Helsinki Performance” -- calls for protecting the security of U.S.…
"While Putin’s behavior has been objectionable, there is something profoundly hypocritical about the U.S. elite pretending that the U.S. doesn’t embrace people like Putin all the time. "Take Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He is guilty of most of the same infractions held against Putin. Netanyahu openly campaigned for the Republican candidates in 2012 and…
In an article published this afternoon by The Nation magazine -- “I Came as a Journalist to Ask Important Questions” -- Sam Husseini sheds new light on what occurred at the Helsinki summit yesterday when he was forcibly ejected from the Trump-Putin news conference
Reuters reports in "Trump says 'ultimate deal' with Putin would be world without nuclear weapons" that: "Asked what would be the best possible result from his meeting with Putin, Trump said: 'What would be the ultimate? Let’s see. No more nuclear weapons anywhere in the world, no more wars, no more problems, no more conflicts. ...…
With the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki just days away, The Nation has published “Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security,” which the magazine describes as “a rare open letter cosigned by over 20 prominent cultural and political figures -- Democratic Party loyalists and former Republican politicos alike -- imploring public officials to implement a pronounced…
Controversies over "Russiagate" and U.S.-Russian relations took a new and possibly historic turn today as The Nation magazine published a rare open letter from an array of prominent Americans calling for "concrete steps ... to ease tensions between the nuclear superpowers."
"U.S.-Russian military relations are especially tense today in the Baltic region, where a large-scale NATO buildup is under way, and in Ukraine, where a U.S.-Russian proxy war is intensifying. The 'Soviet Bloc' that once served as a buffer between NATO and Russia no longer exists. And many imaginable incidents on the West’s new Eastern Front,…
"Kavanaugh worked for then-Republican nominee George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore, which effectively robbed the American people of the presidency.
"While racist violence raged through Ukraine, punctuated by a wave of attacks on Roma encampments by the state-funded C14 neo-Nazi militia, Congress played host to an actual Ukrainian fascist. He was Andriy Parubiy, and besides being the proud founder of two Nazi-like parties -- the Social-National Party and the Patriot of Ukraine -- he was…
"Donald Trump is raising legitimate concerns about the security value of the NATO alliance, given the very high expense of maintaining this alliance, borne in part by the U.S. public. By any reasonable standard, NATO lost its function in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since then it has functioned as a make-work…
