As a grand strategist and America’s most powerful media figure at the time, he exuded the integrity missing from today’s discourse.

None of the news outlets that helped spread suspicion about Russian Twitter trolls helping Trump win the 2016 U.S. election is owning up to their hype or catching any flak.

Ice-free Arctic routes created by climate change have opened up the first new global shipping route in a century. The Russian-developed water passage is bound to disrupt the lengthier Atlantic-centric routes for global commerce.

This was a difficult conversation to take notes from, given the rather poor quality of Karaganov’s English, but there are many important nuggets here, I believe. I hope I have interpreted some of the many ambiguities fairly to all parties. Karaganov’s words are also a tribute to the fine intellectual contribution of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, one to which I also contribute an occasional course, online, and one for which Glenn Diesen has himself taught in the past. Glenn Diesen is also a contributor to my next book, which I co-edit with Stephen Marmura, Russiagate Revisited: The Anatomy of a Hoax, to be published by Palgrave.

This would make a good TV thriller: a few years in the future, with the world in economic turmoil and the whole planet in a tense, uncertain mess, French-speaking Quebec finally breaks away from Canada in a dramatic, overwhelming referendum.

How Russia experts only tell half the story and make achieving peace more difficult

The FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s private residence because President Joe Biden would rather talk about Mr. Trump, classified documents, security at Mar-a-Lago and even unconstitutional raids against his political enemies — literally ANYTHING! — other than his own catastrophic record going into the next election.

A solution to Russia’s war in Ukraine doesn’t need to come from Russia or Ukraine. But it needs to come from somewhere

If public opinion doesn’t match up with the Washington program then it must be wrong, misunderstood, or worse, irrelevant.

Once a force for peace and justice, today the western media loyally serves the national security state, playing a major role in intensifying conflict and militarism at home and abroad.