By Ray McGovern The fresh orgy of anti-Russian invective in the lickspittle media (LSM) has the feel of fin de siècle. The last four reality-impaired years do seem as though they add up to a century. And no definitive fin […]

By Tom Couser Tom Couser is a professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University. Dear Strobe, It has been a long time-a very long time-since we’ve been in touch, but I assume you remember me from 1968, when we met […]

By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News The unrest in Belarus that is threatening President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s hold on power invites comparisons with the 2014 overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, another state bordering Russia (and Ukraine). In Ukraine, […]

By Scott Horton This interview was recorded August 13, 2020. The computer garbled the audio terribly, but at least the auto-transcriber was able to make sense of it. The following is edited for clarity and minor mess-ups. Scott Horton: Alright […]

By William Dunkerley “We’re living in a powder keg and giving off sparks.” Bonnie Tyler sang those words in the 1980s. She wasn’t talking politics. But her statement seems like an apt description for the tense framework of today’s US-Russia […]

By Israel Shamir It’s not over yet, but can Lukashenko survive the storm? Ever since the presidential elections of 8/9/2020, Belarus has experienced fitful waves of protests. The protesters claim the elections were rigged, just as the pussy-hat ladies accused […]

By Neil Clark Lukashenko has always admitted his style is authoritarian but notwithstanding this, media coverage of the crisis in Belarus has been slanted and the West’s condemnation of the crackdown on protests reeks of double standards.You can tell a […]

By Patrick Armstrong “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”Friedrich NietzscheThe other day the U.S. State […]

On August 5 – one day before the 75th anniversary of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima – Politico published a very important open letter that urges a rethinking of U.S. policy toward Russia. The letter, signed by more than […]

By Steven P. Schrage Global scandals now labeled Russiagate, Spygate, and what President Trump calls “Obamagate” shook the political world, but hit me closer to home. I’m the reason the so-called FBI “spy” at the center of Spygate, Stefan Halper, […]