Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. Reagan was inspirational, but to claim he defeated Communism is a disservice to the millions of Eastern Europeans who struggled against great odds for their freedom.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 5, 2009. The starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. November 12, 2008. Why are Obama's closest advisers inveterate hawks who needlessly provoked tension with the Russians during the Cold War?
Noam Chomsky, CounterPunch. September 15, 2008. It's in America's best interests to regard Russia a resurgent power and not apply a strategy of confrontation against it.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. August 27, 2008. In order to win, McCain needs a new Cold War. Lucky for him that Republicans are so good at whipping up false international threats.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. August 2, 2008. The motto of the Bush administration might have been: Pay any price. Or, rather, make everyone else pay the price for us to remain in denial.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 23, 2008. "This is nothing but a transparent attempt to get bipartisan buy in, before the election, to the Global War on Terror."
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. April 30, 2008. For decades these self-professed saviors of the Western world helped precipitate U.S. foreign policy disasters like the Vietnam War.
Jane M. O. Sharp, MIT Center for International Studies. November 16, 2007. A lame duck Bush and a belligerent Putin could roll back the diplomatic victories won after the Cold War.
