Cold War

Canada's spy service destroyed a Cold War dossier on Pierre Trudeau in 1989 instead of turning it over to the national archives, The Canadian Press has learned. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the secret file on the former prime minister was …

This week, President Donald Trump once again found himself defending his stance on accepting campaign help from a foreign government. The latest round of debate on the issue began Wednesday, when Trump said in an interview with George Stephanopoulos that he t…

If Mr. Prices books never became blockbusters, they did garner critical praise. He does not yet enjoy the same degree of fame as John le Carré, Len Deighton or Frederick Forsyth, John Gross wrote in The New York Times in 1986, reviewing Here Be Monsters, but…

By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His latest book is “and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from B…

The Cold War Bunkers of Albania (21 photos)

Far too often, pundits and politicians alike make the case that America should avoid another cold war, this time with China.  There is a problem with this argument. America doesn’t get to choose whether or not to start another cold war.  Just as it was not Am…

Video of a Russian destroyer coming within about 20 yards of a U.S. warship last Friday showed more than just a close encounter between great powers in the Philippine Sea. Close observers of the video quickly spotted what appeared to be Russian sailors sunbat…

BERKELEY (Project Syndicate) In a recent issue of The New York Review of Books, the historian Adam Tooze notes that, across the American political spectrum, if there is agreement on anything, it is on the need for a firmer line against China. Hes right: On …

Links 6/9/19

If a cold war is breaking out, why now? Although the United States and Soviet Union had different political and economic systems, their antagonism centered on a specific dispute: the future of postwar Germany. No single sticking point cleaves America and Chin…