Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama
Robert Scheer : Barack Obama
How can a President Obama improve US relations with Russia if some of his closest advisors are unrepentant hawks from the cold war era?
2008
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The Cold War That Wasn't
Mark Ames : Media
Deconstructing the New York Times fairy tale about how nasty Russia invaded innocent Georgia.
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From Gorbachev to Putin
Robert V. Daniels : Non-Fiction
Five authors provide differing views of the post-glasnost era and of the failed promise of democratic reform in Russia.
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McCain's Kremlin Ties
Mark Ames & Ari Berman : John McCain
He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's political advisors have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions.
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End of Iraq's Awakening?
Robert Dreyfuss : Iraq War
A new and growing Sunni resistance movement in Iraq could shatter the false sense of post-surge calm--and it might get Russian support.
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Sarah-geddon
Mark Ames : Presidential Election 2008
McCain's running mate says she's ready to launch World War III, but on whose behalf?
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Toward a New New Cold War
Alexander Cockburn : Foreign Affairs
The initiating party for our next cold confrontation with Russia most certainly was the United States.
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Stalin's Victims Return
Stephen F. Cohen : History
The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Convention 08
The Nation's reporter in Georgia talks about being assaulted by Ossetian paramilitaries. Plus: A DNC preview.
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Ceasefire and Chaos in Georgia
Margarita Akhvlediani : Georgia (Democratic Republic of)
Once geopolitical lines are redrawn, the question must be answered: who started this war?
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Blood in the Caucasus
Katrina vanden Heuvel : US Foreign Policy
It's time for the US to dissolve its cold war military alliances and develop realistic new policies toward Russia.
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The War We Don't Know
Mark Ames : Former Soviet Republics
Up until now, the war between Russia and Georgia was framed as a simple tale of David versus Goliath. In fact, it is far more complex than this, morally and historically.
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Georgia War: A Neocon Election Ploy?
Robert Scheer : Georgia (Democratic Republic of)
Connecting the dots between Georgia's confrontation with Putin and the presidential ambitions of John McCain.
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Dispatch From Georgia
Margarita Akhvlediani : Georgia (Democratic Republic of)
As Russian troops occupy city after city in Georgia, the feeling here that the government has overestimated how much support it will receive from the West.
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Getting Georgia's War On
Mark Ames : US Foreign Policy
Russia's war in Georgia excites John McCain and the same neocons who led us into earlier disasters.
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Solzhenitsyn's Life and Our Times
Katrina vanden Heuvel : History
Despite the controversies he aroused in the West and in Russia, Solzhenitsyn remains above all else a writer who bore witness to Soviet society's long-censored suffering.
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The Missing Debate
Stephen F. Cohen : Presidential Election 2008
Why aren't the presidential candidates talking about Moscow's impact on our national security?
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Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky
Bertrand Russell : Nation History
"I went to Russia believing myself a communist, but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts...of every creed so firmly held that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery."
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Revolutionary States
Ronald Grigor Suny : Non-Fiction
Two new books take a closer look at the "Soviet monster" in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.
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The Ice Forge
Jochen Hellbeck : Non-Fiction
The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.
2007
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A Colder War
Jonathan Schell : Arms Spending & Proliferation
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
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The Courage of Anna Politkovskaya
Natalya Estemirova : Journalists & Journalism
A human rights activist remembers the courage of a crusading journalist, murdered one year ago.
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Skinhead Violence Rising in Russia
Alexander Zaitchik & Mark Ames : Racism & Discrimination
Copying the tactics of terrorists, neo-Nazi groups are targeting reformers, progressives and ethnic minorities.
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Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game
After a surprisingly peaceful weekend of rallies, the first signs of dialogue between the Other Russia movement and the Kremlin are emerging. Will it last?
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The Polonium Papers
Edward Jay Epstein : Great Britain
A lack of hard evidence in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has stopped neither the wheels of British justice nor the cameras of Hollywood.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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