New Cold War

Veteran diplomat: US confronts China to protect supremacy, not security

Veteran US diplomat Chas Freeman says that despite talk of a New Cold War between the US and China, the US in reality is reacting aggressively to a rising Chinese power whose economic gains threaten US global supremacy. “We’ve become accustomed over the past 75 years to be the overlord in East Asia,” Freeman says. Chas Freeman, who served in top State Department positions and as Richard Nixon’s chief interpreter on his historic 1972 visit to China, discusses the state […]

USA, Russia, Orthodoxy & The Ukraine Schism – Jim Jatras

 Jim Jatras returns to discuss the history of espionage and geopolitics as it relates to Ukraine, Russia and Orthodoxy in the USA.  We cover the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Cold War espionage, ‘KGB Bishops,’ persecution, CIA and expatriates, the present state of Moscow and the West and the new Cold War as it […]
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Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy

Millions of people around the world breathed a sigh of relief with the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. election and victory of the Biden-Harris ticket. Joe Biden’s victory speech exuded a feeling of optimism in its call for a new era of bipartisanship and decency in politics. However, it is unlikely that […]

Pompeo in Greece: Expanding the U.S. Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Thessaloniki and Crete in Greece on September 28-30—the second tour in the span of a year and only a few weeks before the U.S. presidential elections—furthers the aggressive U.S. agenda shaping the latest political developments in the region. The real purpose of Pompeo’s visit was to augment the […]

Remembering Stephen F. Cohen: Katrina vanden Heuvel on life and love with eminent Russia scholar

Katrina vanden Heuvel on the life and legacy of her late husband Stephen F. Cohen, the eminent historian who shaped the field of Russia studies and bravely challenged the New Cold War.  Stephen F. Cohen, the eminent historian who helped shape the field of Russia studies and bravely exposed the fallacies and dangers of Russiagate and the new Cold War, passed away on September 18, 2020 at the age of 81. Cohen’s wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher […]

Exclusive: Huawei Sting Operation Exposed

December 1, 2020 is the second anniversary of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest—or kidnapping, depending on your point of view—in Vancouver, Canada. If you work for the U.S.’s Departments of Justice, Treasury and State, with the CIA/NSA cheering from the galleries, it is just a simple extradition request to “carry out the law.” If, however, […]
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations Towards China Will Lead to Disaster

On July 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy dispatched an unprecedented two aircraft carriers and four other warships to the South China Sea for naval maneuvers in waters claimed by China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo subsequently broke with the official U.S. policy of neutrality in territorial conflicts in the South China Sea and declared that […]