Cold War

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The Berlin Wall was opened by accident on 9 November, when an East German Communist Party official announced that anyone could leave It's one of the most bizarre guided tours I've ever been on. I'm driving around Berlin …

Image: Cold War propaganda poster “Is This Tomorrow” depicted America under communism. During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with i…

Revelations of an alleged Russian intelligence operation to murder opponents and spread chaos across the European Union were met with a mix of wonder and derision in the intelligence community. Russia's decision to return to formalized violent operations in t…

Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics says globalization has peaked.De-globalization could have a major impact on the global economy, as well as geopolitical stability. A Trumpian backlash to globalization has res…

Around 20,000 US soldiers will deploy to Europe next year for the largest US Army exercise in 25 years, the US military announced Monday. "Defender 2020 in Europe" is intended to "increase strategic readiness and interoperability by exercising the US militar…

KIEV, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered in Kiev's main square on Sunday to protest against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's deal with Moscow to grant autonomy to Ukraine's pro-Russian rebel-held east as part of efforts to end a five-year conflict …

The streaming cold war got a few notches hotter today, as The New York Times reports that Disney has begun banning advertisements from Netflix on the majority of its TV networksincluding ABC, Freeform, Nat Geo, and more. The only exception to this blanket ban…

That some protesters have resorted to violence, including firebombs and bats, can only be condemned, as must be the excessive force of the police. The demonstrations had, and have, far greater power when they are peaceful. That is one message liberal democra…

The slap that nearly killed a prospective Navy SEAL happened at 10:09 a.m. on October 12, 2017, in the Donnell Classroom inside California's Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, 24 minutes after BUD/S Class 326 students handed out maps and compasses. The instruct…

Enlarge/ Sven Olaf Kamphuis's Facebook profile picture, taken in front of the original CyberBunker facility. Its German successor was seized by police on September 26. 0 with 0 posters participating On September 26, a data center in a former NATO military b…