The hope is that diplomat William Burns, tapped for CIA director by Joe Biden, will be able to change the culture at Langley and not be subsumed by it. By Ray McGovern In nominating former Deputy Secretary of State William […]

Eduard Lozansky During his first election campaign in 2016, Trump promised to defeat the “deep state” once and for all, in other words, “drain the Washington swamp”, i.e., direct the country’s human and material resources to the welfare of all […]

Joe Biden is drawing heavily on the Obama-era team to staff the US State Department. That could be a good thing or a bad thing By Mark Galeotti Joe Biden seems to be getting the band back together, drawing heavily […]

The fracture point in Russia-West relations emerged after Moscow refused to accept the “colonial” conditions on which Western companies might use Russia’s natural resources, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TV host Vladimir Solovyov in an interview, uploaded to his […]

By Andrey Kortunov Even the Mayor in Gogol’s Inspector General, not being the sharpest tool in the shed, acknowledged that Alexander the Great was a hero, although he cautioned against proving this statement by destroying government property. Indeed, Alexander the […]

To professional analysts, it has long been clear that the “Russiagate” saga – including the “Russian hacking” claims, the Trump-Russia collusion claims, as well as the “Skripal poisoning incident” and the more recent “Navalny poisoning incident” – has been a […]

Several experts debated what is the purpose of America and U.S. power. (Excerpt) by Jacob Heilbrunn Many have asked what are American interests and what is the goal of U.S. foreign policy? The Center for the National Interest recently hosted […]

By Ray McGovern Forget what Vice President Pence has suggested he might do this week regarding counting the votes for president and forget President Trump’s ominous military buildup near Iran, the Sunday NY Times two-column, above-the-fold lede tells us what […]

By Scott Ritter Over the course of the past decade, the United States has spent billions of dollars building a covert cyber warfare capability targeting Russia. In 2019 this capability was used to insert malware designed to threaten Russia’s power […]

By Jonny Tickle The Russian Embassy in Washington has once again called on the US to extend the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), due to expire in February. The decision to end the agreement was made unilaterally by the […]