Robin E. Möser’s article “‘A Fly in the Ointment’: Apartheid South Africa’s Transnational Nuclear Network during the Cold War, 1953–1976” makes an important contribution to the emerging literature on nuclear proliferation in general, and, more specifically, to the literature which focuses on the relationship between different nuclear suppliers and nuclear clients. The question of how... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
The US was the bulwark of The Alleged West. And even in Europe, everyone who mattered supported NATO, as far as we knew. Looking back now, it’s our acceptance of the whole farce that seems odd. You’d think people would catch on after a few decades, but we never did.| THE EXILED – MANKIND'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE
Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter. Subscribe to the Radio War Nerd podcast hosted by Gary Brecher & Mark Ames for podcasts, newsletters and more! It’s a full-time job, keeping track of the US/NATO campaign to start a fire somewhere on China’s borders. It’s...| THE EXILED – MANKIND'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE
The third temptation of Christ: Christ and the devil on a pinnacle of the temple.’ Coloured chromolithograph after John Martin. Wellcome Collection. (CC BY 4.0) One Billion Years to the…| Calmgrove
We are republishing the article by the comrades of the International Communist Current in response to the new global conditions and the position of the internationalists. In recent articles written on the first days... The post Trump 2.0: New steps into capitalist chaos appeared first on Internationalist Voice.| Internationalist Voice
As Cold War 2.0 heats up and places the world in peril of nuclear war, it is worthwhile to look back at the history of the original Cold War where Russophobia began to metastasize like a cancer in U.S. society. A new book by Gabriela Gavrilov,[1] U.S.-Russian Commercial Relations 1763-1933: Origins of Russophobia shows that […] The post U.S. Corporations Made a Killing in Soviet Russia After Lenin Exempted Many of Them From Nationalization Decrees—So Why Was There Ever a Cold War? first a...| CovertAction Magazine
Since inauguration day, the Trump White House has routinely evoked a deep-rooted Cold War framework for expressing America’s relationship with war. This framing sits at odds with the president’s inaugural address in which Mr. Trump, conjuring Richard Nixon, argued that his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.” From January 2025 on, the administration has instead engaged in a steady drumbeat of aggressive militaristic taunting, threatening real and perceived enemi...| Responsible Statecraft
For us, the crucial concern in this Ukraine-Russia war is not who ends up in control of Crimea and the Donbas, but that the U.S. not be sucked into a war with Russia that could escalate into a world war and a nuclear war. To President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, ... Read more...| Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website
After Putin’s speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for the accelerated admission of Ukraine to the NATO alliance… This could mean a U.S.-Russia war, which could escalate to World War III and nuclear war, and was something that every U.S. president from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan saw as his ... Read more...| Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website
Forced constantly by the establishment to choose between them, patriotic Americans may one day come to choose, as did their fathers, the country they love over the crown that rules them. Asked, “What is an American?” many would answer, “An American is a citizen of the United States.” Yet, at ... Read more...| Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website
By Michael Bobelian – The Washington Post In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump’s stand on a border wall,” Patrick Buchanan, the former Nixon and Reagan White House aide and Republican presidential candidate, wrote in 2019. “Why? Because mass migration from the global South … is the real ... Read more...| Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website
the intelligence individuals are less James Bond and George Smiley than bureaucrats| CONTINGENT
BRITISH MEDIA REPORTED THE death on Saturday of Oleg Gordievsky, arguably the most significant double spy of the closing stages of the Cold War, whose disclosures informed the highest executive levels of the West.| intelNews.org
Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne| JHI Blog
This fall I am going to be presenting a paper on the Navy’s development of the Hunter-Killer Submarine (SSK) and how they evolved the World War II submarine into more familiar submarines of today. …| The Text Message
The A-10 Tankbuster is about as big as its name suggests, so called because of its fearsome reputation as an armored vehicle swatter housing a gun so enormous that the plane had to be designed around it. Commended for its lethality during the first Gulf War and the Afghanistan War, 367 of these titans are still part of the US Air Force today after they impressed generals with their stellar performances and valiant feats on the battlefield. Contents Background and Development The A-10 started ...| PlaneHistoria
Even while the iconic Spitfire was still in frontline service with the RAF, plans were being drawn up for a new generation of combat aircraft that would offer performance not dreamed of by wartime pilots. One company that would drive this forward was not new, but it was also not a name popularly associated with the design of British military aircraft: English Electric. And they would go on to produce an aircraft with unbelievable performance – the Lightning. Contents English Electric Compan...| PlaneHistoria
In 2009 a famous incident occurred at the Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, United Kingdom, involving a Cold War Handley Page Victor bomber.| PlaneHistoria
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is perhaps the most well-known Soviet dissident. He was the author of The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume work originally published in 1973 which significantly turned international public opinion against the Soviet Union. Described by Canadian psychologist and right-wing media personality Jordan Peterson as the most important book of the 20th century, the text| CovertAction Magazine
The fifth war: if it comes, will it be simply another round in the long duel between Arab and Jew fought over the old battlefields and for the old objectives, or will it be Armageddon, a confrontation between the superpowers that could set the world alight? No one, naturally, can say. What can be said with confidence is that another war will not be like the last The post From 1975 | Can Israel Win Another War? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
After World War II, the city of Berlin was divided in four sections with one finding themselves closed off with concrete and barbed wire. A wall was built that separated the free from the enslaved. In the 1970s, Georgina Liu found herself living on one side but getting to venture into the other. Liu shares […]| The Brophisticate
As late-stage capitalism breaks down, it increasingly deforms language. We see it every day, in every news report, in every mainstream analysis, as elite state power doubles down on mass manipulation.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
On June 26, 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed in San Francisco, California. There are approximately 100 properties in the National Register files that contain the term “United Nations,” including the San Francisco Civic Center (National Archives Identifier 123858074), where the organizational meeting for the international organization was held in 1945. “The … Continue reading The 80th Anniversary of the Signing of the United Nations Charter (Properties in the Nation...| The Text Message
It’s time for another episode of On Writing. A Better Peace welcomes William Inboden to the studio to discuss his book, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink." Will sits down with host Michael Neiberg for a conversation about capturing the efforts and accomplishments of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and his administration as they confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat and won the Cold War. The discussion examines how W...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
23 June 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-44 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Diane Labrosse Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Today in 1952, President Harry S. Truman journeyed to Groton, Connecticut to dedicate the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus. The keel-laying ceremony took place…| Today in Connecticut History
Based on the 1985 Soviet-U.S. citizen's summit, the 2025 version with Russians in St. Petersburg and Americans in Kingston, N.Y., kicked off Tuesday with a discussion featuring Dennis Kucinich, Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, Gerald Celente and Joe Lauria. Watch the replay. https://www.youtube.com/wat| Consortium News
Who controls the language of ideas will shape the future of thought and artificial intelligence| Ideas Beyond Borders
Review by Alexandra Chinchilla, Texas A&M University 3 June 2025 | PDF: http://issforum.org/to/RE127 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Daniel R.| H-Diplo|RJISSF
An increasingly small proportion of each country’s population was alive during some of the most seminal moments in 20th-century history, altering the worldviews of today’s electorates.| GZERO Media
I’ve written a new piece about two philosophers – Raymond Geuss and the late Alasdair MacIntyre – for the Marginalia Review of Books. There’s no paywall. You can read it her…| Benjamin Studebaker
In the early spring of 2025, Russian coverage of East Asia reflected confidence in foreign policy as well as a quest to solidify successes. One article recognized achievements […]| The Asan Forum
The Girl with the Needle mostra la crisi della società occidentale dove a farne le spese sono le classi più fragili| Lo Specchio Scuro
Jeremi and Zachary have a conversation with Dr. Mark Pomar on the historical impact of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty’s critical role of radio communications during the Cold War, and the challenges they face today including the recent threats to their operation. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “Radio Liberty”. […] The post This is Democracy – Broadcasting Democracy appeared first on Not Even Past.| Not Even Past
Colorado has had a significant and controversial history within the U.S. nuclear program.| Greeley Museums
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Saigon and the reunification of Vietnam after almost a century of colonial and great power meddling. It was the first full blown American military…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. With the last American combat troops withdrawing from Vietnam in M…| The Unwritten Record
The United States’ views of Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh during World War II and during the Cold War changed quite dramatically. It is important to analyze the results of changed perceptions during this period. The Tonkin Resolution in 1964, which will be summarized later, delineated the changes to United States policy and actions in...| The Desert Way with Jaylyn and John
How many of us of a certain age were admonished as children to “clean their plates” at mealtime because “people were starving in Europe.” Wasting food was sinful. Images of shivering, hungry, bone…| Envisioning The American Dream
Putin has done what the Soviets long dreamed of accomplishing- a Russian-controlled puppet placed in the White House. The vodka must be flowing in hell as Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev are g…| Envisioning The American Dream
Churchill’s hatred of Communism is well-known, but he never saw Soviet Russia, and later Communist China, in the same light as Nazi Germany, which he considered beyond negotiations. But Tucker-Jones veers into historical swampland by asserting that Churchill's 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri, was "paradoxical," if not “hypercritical,” since Churchill claims “sold out” Eastern Europe well before Yalta. The post Anthony Tucker-Jones on the Selling Out of Eastern Eur...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Today is a day of no TV for me. On Inauguration Day, 2025 my TV goes dark. Other than 2017, for over 50 years I have watched with pride every televised presidential swearing-in. Whether on …| Envisioning The American Dream
Before Joe hands over the keys to the White House on January 2oth, he’s flashing the warning lights. In his final speech from the Oval Office, Joe Biden did not tell America to stand back and…| Envisioning The American Dream
Originally written for a book review contest, here's my take on a revisionist Watergate history that offers wild and fascinating theories on the reasons for the break-in that changed American history.| Jim Nelson
Explore how rising developing nation debt, coupled with slow economic growth and rising interest payments, is impacting global stability.| Vision of Humanity
It is an embarrassment Hollywood hasn't been able or willing to make a better movie about Ronald Reagan in forty years.| Never Was
The deal could incentivize Russia to imprison more innocent people, critics say.| POLITICO
Viktor Belenko's defection with the MiG-25 Foxbat provided the West with crucial Cold War intelligence and a significant propaganda victory.| Historic Mysteries
The mysterious Ozersk, known as City 40, was not on any maps. Completely walled off, it was home to a covert Soviet nuclear program.| Historic Mysteries
Over the years the US military has gone to great lengths to maintain its superiority. Sadly, this includes carrying out some outrageous human experiments.| Historic Mysteries
Everyone makes mistakes, but some mistakes are much bigger than others. For these people their mix-ups weren’t just embarrassing, they were deadly.| Historic Mysteries
To the outside world, Camp Century seemed to be a research station. But in reality it was the home of Project Iceworm, a secret US nuclear Arctic missile base.| Historic Mysteries
When I started this blog years ago, I made a private agreement with myself: I would avoid writing topical political content. Substack, social media, and the blogosphere is saturated with political commentary, providing lots of heat but little light. I don’t like trafficking in outrage, which is the fast-track to success in political blogging. However, […]| Jim Nelson
Blairite retread George Robertson is set to lead Labour’s “Defence Review”, with former US Presidential advisor Fiona Hill on hand to keep it in line with US imperatives. The conc…| Urban ramblings
The age of discovery was destruction, and the Cold War ended with the worst people on top| indi.ca
IF THE BERLIN WIND BLOWS MY FLAG: ART AND INTERNATIONALISM BEFORE THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AT DAADGALERIE, N.B.K., AND GALERIE IM KÖRNERPARK, SEPTEMBER 9, 2023 – JANUARY 14, 2024 The exact aim of the large-scale, three-site exhibition, When the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag: Art and Internationalism Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, is difficult to define. The first sentence of the exhibition’s introductory text promised to offer insight “into the history of the DAAD Artists-in-B...| ARTMargins