European Politics and Policy Blog The release of an intelligence report on Russian interference in the US presidential election, alongside allegations of links between Donald Trump and the Kremlin, have strained US-Russia relations. Tsygankov* argues that there remains a…
Saudi Arabia’s military pressure on Assad served only to make him seek more help from Russia, precipitating intervention which the US was not prepared to oppose Patrick Cockburn The Independent As recently as two years ago, Saudi Arabia’s half century-long effort to establish…
By Sebastian Strangio, Los Angeles Review of Books I. THE NATION OF BURMA was born under a dark star.
By Mario Dujisin Lisbon (OTHER NEWS) – The death of Mario Soares, former Portuguese prime-minister, president, and historic leader of Lusitanian socialism, demonstrated just how united the Portuguese are with regards to his past and his historical projection. Analysts…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Jan 2017 (IPS) – When British naturalist Charles Darwin published in 1859 his theory of evolution in his work On the Origin of Species, he most likely did not expect that robots, not nature, would someday be in charge of the selection process. In his On the…
Eduardo Porter Economic Scene The New York Times Is American democracy broken? There are precedents around the world for the kind of political jolt the United States experienced in November.
Washington’s long-awaited, deeply disappointing assessment of alleged meddling by the Kremlin Kevin Rothrock The Moscow Times U.S. officials released a declassified intelligence report on Friday repeating the monumental accusations against the Kremlin that have been circulating…
By Jay Ogilvy Stratfor What are we utterly wrong about today? Think of the way we look back at practices like slavery and colonialism that were so commonly accepted in their time but were later rejected as offenses against basic morality.
If Vladimir Putin intervened to help Donald Trump, that’s an outrage. But then so is the long US record of foreign interference Owen Jones The Guardian As I write, president-elect Donald Trump – soon to become the most powerful individual on Earth – is having a tantrum on his…
Despite the scores of media pieces which assert that Russia’s interference in the election is “case closed,” some cyber experts say skepticism is still in order. The Nation By James Carden The final days of 2016 were filled with more developments—some real, some not—in the…
