U.S. must expose and confront Russia's criminal behavior
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who just received popular support to remain in power until 2036, is on a crusade to ensure that Russia remains a first-tier nation, while actively pursuing a strategy...
View ArticleChina shows signs of hostility against U.S.
Authorities in Beijing are taking steps that are setting off alarm bells inside the U.S. military and intelligence communities.What intelligence agencies call "indications and warnings" — signs of...
View Article1956 Melbourne Olympics: 1st Games in southern hemisphere
The Melbourne Olympics were already quite unique before they started. They were the first games held in the southern hemisphere, and ran from Nov. 22 to Dec. 8 to take in the Australian summer. And...
View ArticleIsraeli team's massacre overshadows sports at 1972 Olympics
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - The 1972 Munich Olympics were marked by historic achievements and unprecedented controversy but will be forever defined by devastating catastrophe. In hosting the 1972 Munich...
View ArticleChinese probe orbiting moon with Earth-bound samples
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese probe was orbiting the moon on Monday in preparation for the returning of samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years.The ascent module of the...
View ArticleBritish double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98
MOSCOW (AP) - George Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union and passed some of the most coveted Western secrets to Moscow, has died in Russia. He...
View ArticleAP PHOTOS: From Moscow to Pacific, Russia glorifies Gagarin
MOSCOW (AP) - From a giant statue towering over Moscow to a more modest monument on the Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean, dozens of memorials across Russia commemorate Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut...
View ArticleSoviet cosmonaut made pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago
MOSCOW (AP) - Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground control:...
View ArticleLawmakers clash over Treasury nominee's Soviet background, anti-fossil fuel...
Fireworks erupted on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday over President Biden’s nominee to lead a top regulatory post in the Treasury Department, with Republicans...
View ArticleAndrei 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...
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