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The State Department’s handling of the Ukraine crisis may go down as a textbook diplomatic fiasco, doing nothing to advance genuine U.S. interests while disrupting cooperation with Moscow and pushing Russia and China back together, reports Robert...

"The blog is mightier than the sword." --Headline for article by journalist Amit Lewinthal, israelhayom.com (2012), perhaps relevant eons ago (by social-media standards); image from PDCAST [LISTEN] On Culinary Diplomacy: Culinary diplomacy utilizes...

NOVANEWS The Golden Age of Newspeak BY PHILIP GIRALDI Harvard Professor Stephen Walt has described the current contretemps over Ukraine as “geostrategic incompetence of the highest order” on the part of the White House....

Germany’s Merkel calls American diplomat’s disparaging remarks ‘absolutely unacceptable’ Times of Israel An aide to Russia’s deputy prime minister, who was among the first people to post a video online containing a bugged...

Obama Heads for War in Ukraine by Stephen Lendman Permanent war is official US policy. At issue is unchallenged global dominance.  All independent governments are targeted. Eliminating them is prioritized. So is replacing them with pro-Western...