The dynamic of mass-psychology in the West has reached a perverse level at which not only advocacy for deescalation is blamed as an act of treason, but the decrepit state of domestic economies is pinned on the enemy, which only reinforces calls for the 'necessity of fighting' the imaginary devil at the gates of the shining city on the hill. But the obsession goes even further than that...
Katrina vanden Heuvel is an icon of US journalism and publishing. She was for decades the editor in chief and a pillar of the progressive magazine “The Nation”. As such, she was pivotal in giving alternative voices a place to speak, especially when it came to US involvements in wars. I consider her and her late husband Stephen F. Cohen as giants of US public peace work and realism in international relations. Katrina has been writing about US domestic and foreign policy for 40 years and she is also a member of the American Committee for US-Russia Accord, that has for many years been pushing for better relations between Washington and Moscow.
Art of the Deal or World War III? | Jim Jatras Interview
Former US Diplomat Jim Jatras joins Counter Currents host and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to discuss the following issues: What can we expect from Donald Trump’s foreign policy? More war, more color revolutions or a chance for peace? Can Trump strike a deal with Putin over Ukraine?
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Peace Roundtable #10 f. Alex Krainer, Jim Jatras, Martin Sieff and Drago Bosnic
Dr. Edward Lozansky and Matt Ehret host The Academy for International Cooperation’s Peace Roundtable #9 featuring assessments of the global geopolitical situation, color revolutionary activities, Trump’s efforts to cut down on USAid, and also the dangerous neo-con ideologues trying to salvage the forever war program.
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Col Douglas Macgregor: Trump is Being Hijacked by Those Around Him