Andrei Sakharov: Second Coming to His Homeland and the World
If the legendary scientist, peace and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov was alive today, he would have celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year and we can imagine that he would be more than...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Is America still the last, best hope of Earth?
“We win. They lose.” That’s how Ronald Reagan described his vision of the Cold War’s end. For eight years, he pushed and prodded the Soviet Union until it finally collapsed, 30 years ago this past...
View ArticleBiden's policies are the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'
Seventeen years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his parliament that “the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” Mr. Putin pointed to Russian...
View ArticlePutin's war tests China's nuclear pact with Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin's order raising the alert status of Russia's massive nuclear forces this week in the midst of an invasion of neighboring Ukraine is presenting a test of a 2012...
View ArticleRussian chess grandmasters slam invasion of Ukraine in joint appeal to Putin
Nearly three dozen top Russian chess players, including a recent challenger for the world crown, a former women’s world champion and a grandmaster who has won the Russian national title eight times,...
View ArticleWhat is Team Biden's foreign policy?
Oh, for the good old days of the Soviet Union. America’s foreign policy and goals were clear then: containment and opposition to communist expansion. Nuclear weapons were a deterrent, but neither side...
View ArticleBiden's channeled JFK and Reagan in call to remove Putin from power
President Biden’s speech from Warsaw Saturday night reminded me of two previous presidents who delivered speeches confronting the autocracy that was then the Soviet Union and is now Russia, led by...
View ArticleUkraine's battlefield success no surprise to their National Guard trainers in...
Leaders in Kyiv began reaching out to U.S. military officials for help soon after Russia rolled into Ukraine following a tense buildup along the border that lasted several months. One of the first...
View ArticleSanctions hit Russian economy, although Putin says otherwise
NEW YORK — Nearly two months into the Russian-Ukraine war, the Kremlin has taken extraordinary steps to blunt an economic counteroffensive from the West. While Russia can claim some symbolic victories,...
View ArticleGen. Wei Fenghe, top Chinese military figure, calls sharp nuclear buildup...
China’s defense minister this week confirmed that the People’s Liberation Army is expanding its nuclear arsenal, but played down the development that a U.S. nuclear commander called a “strategic...
View ArticleBiden's foreign policy weaknesses
Both we and the Soviets understood the rules of the Cold War road. Espionage, as well as subornation of our allies, people and politicians, were the norm but military action was a rarity. The Arms...
View ArticleChina is not the Soviet Union, Beijing's ambassador Qin Gang tells security...
The Chinese Communist Party is not like its predecessor in the Soviet Union and thus there should be no new Cold War between the United States and China, China’s ambassador to the United States said...
View ArticleMikhail Gorbachev dies, Russian news reports say
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died...
View ArticleWar protest: Statues fall as Europe purges Soviet monuments
WARSAW, Poland — In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a park to commemorate the Soviet Army’s capture of that nation in 1944 was toppled last week. It crashed into a pond...
View ArticleCelebrities, leaders, athletes, influential people who died in 2022
One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous...
View ArticleFallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago
MOSCOW — With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus.It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most...
View ArticleOnce-secret files reveal new details of CIA's divisive defector dispute
Once-secret government documents reveal long-hidden details on one of the CIA’s most prominent Cold War controversies, involving defecting Soviet intelligence agents and U.S. counterspy programs...
View ArticleThe new -- or perhaps renewed -- Cold War
On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, and the Cold War ended. Or did it?The answer depends on whether the Cold War was a conflict between two powerful nation-states or a struggle...
View ArticleCuba's role in the Chinese-Russian terrorist network
While many Americans remain concerned about Venezuela's impact on the immigration crisis at the southwestern border, there are more grave problems of global dimensions presenting an imminent threat to...
View ArticleWealth-destroying jobs: Is America destined to stagnate and collapse like the...
Do all jobs have the same value? More people working should lead to higher real incomes, except when the jobs are destroying wealth. Wages have been rising, but prices are rising even faster. So the...
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