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Why Xinjiang is emerging as the epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China
By Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong / Globetrotter On March 22, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorizedsanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo,…
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The return of the Cold War in the Caribbean
By Scott B. MacDonald From Global Americans The Cold War is back in the Caribbean, but this not your father’s Cold War. While many of the actors are the same, the roles and motivations have changed. China has filled the…
George HW Bush to lie in state in the US Capitol
From BBC The body of former US President George HW Bush is to lie in state next week ahead of a day of national mourning. An arrival ceremony will be held for Bush Snr on Monday evening at the US…
The US Navy is returning to a Cold War submarine flash point, but the real action may be much farther north
By Christopher Woody, From Business Insider The US and its allies are reassessing their naval operations around Europe and in the Atlantic. These changes are driven in large part by intensifying Russian submarine activity. But changing capabilities mean NATO may…
The Trump-Kim Summit was a great photo op, and maybe nothing more
By Jonah Shepp From New York Mag The 24-hour, by-the-minute news cycle never fares quite so poorly as it does in an event that is significant to the historical record but that produces very little actual news. The summit meeting…
Russia vows to retaliate as US, Europe order diplomats out Read Newsmax Article: Russia Vows to Retaliate as US, Europe Order Diplomats Out | Newsmax.com
Russia vowed to retaliate in kind for the decisions by the U.S. and 14 of its European allies to expel scores of Moscow’s diplomats in the wake of the nerve-agent attack on a former spy in the U.K. “This unfriendly…
The doomsday clock hasn’t been this close to midnight since the first H-bomb test
By Chris Smith From BGR You might not agree with them, but doomsday experts say we’re the closest to a disaster since 1953. That’s when the first hydrogen bomb was tested, prompting the Doomsday Clock scientists to change the time…
Chinese booster rocket nearly smashes into a small town
By Jon Fingas From engadget And unlike many incidents, it was caught on camera. Space agencies prefer to launch near the sea or over empty land when given the choice, and China just got a reminder as to why. A…
Stanislav Petrov, who averted possible nuclear war, dies at 77
From BBC A former Soviet military officer credited with averting a possible nuclear disaster at the peak of the Cold War has died at the age of 77. Stanislav Petrov was on duty at a Russian nuclear early warning centre…
A former KGB spy explains how Americans have been historically naive about the Russians
By Noah Friedman and Alana Kakoyiannis From Business Insider Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America,” explains how Americans have historically been naive about the…
