For the sake of America’s security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence.

Expansion dreams are mostly smoke; if Asian countries have common sense they will not tie themselves to NATO

The NATO Summit to be held in Washington from July 9 to 11 will without doubt be yet another exercise in US and Western bluster and triumphalism, as well as empty posturing in what in reality has been for at least 23 years a multipolar world.

The broken promises that led to war.

As thousands descend on Washington for a anniversary summit, we posit that the alliance is broken and sleepwalking into war

To mark NATO’s 75th-anniversary summit in Washington this month, the Quincy Institute invited leading experts and practitioners to reflect on the past and future of the alliance.

Dear Madame President of the Swiss Confederation, Ms Viola Amherd. Dear Federal Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Ignazio Cassis.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, and every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1953

“If the Soviet Union were to sink tomorrow under the ocean’s waters, the American military-industrial establishment would have to continue substantially unchanged until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.” George F. Kennan Foreword to The Pathology of Power by Norman Cousins, 1987.

NATO is expected to announce that it’s stationing a civilian official in Ukraine

Some foreign policy experts want Ukraine to move closer to joining the alliance, while others say it would rupture the military bloc.