Former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern addressed the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow on April 29 ahead of the celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis.
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Category: Nuclear Weapons
VIPS MEMO: Arms Control — Toward Lasting Peace
At the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis, the Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity issue this memorandum calling for nuclear arms control leading to lasting peace.
WATCH: Albanese’s Unlikely Challenger
AU ELECTION: Running against Anthony Albanese in the Australian prime minister’s Sydney district on Saturday is the unlikely figure of a two-time, Oscar-nominated film director who’s mad as hell and can’t take it anymore.
The New Age Militarists
The high-tech oligarchs surrounding Trump are set on using artificial intelligence and new technologies for the sake of uniting us around perpetual war, says William Hartung.
Ukraine Timeline Tells the Tale
Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now.
VIPS MEMO: To New DNI Tulsi Gabbard
The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) invites new Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to consider its advice and offers her a selection of its past memoranda.
Walking the Walk on Iran Nuclear Talks
Trump hinted he’d prefer a “nice” diplomatic deal, but Iran’s top diplomat said though he was prepared to listen it would take a lot more for Iran to begin negotiations with the U.S., writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
Angling Toward Armageddon
William Hartung reports on a resurgent network of nuclear hawks who want to build more kinds of nuclear weapons and ever more of them.
The Recklessness of AI
Artificial Intelligence seems destined to change the world. But until now its errors are being allowed to kill innocent people, writes one of two Joe Laurias.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria
Decades after deploying mass violence and rendering citizens grotesquely ignorant of the world, U.S.-led powers appear willing to risk world war, while reinventing a terrorist to lead what was a secular nation until last week.