Saturday, 6 September , 2025

Perestroika

Renaissance or ruin? Yeltsin’s desperation dismantles democracy

By Stephen F. Cohen October 10, 1993 AS THE POSSIBILITY of dictatorship looms yet again over Russia, the Yeltsin government is relentlessly imposing an epic spin...

Yeltsin crushes revolt

· Parliament taken in tank battle · Opposition parties and newspapers banned Tue 5 Oct 1993  President Boris Yeltsin moved swiftly last night to stamp his...

On Trump, US-Russian relations and the state of the World |...

Belgian journalist Michel Collon, Greek journalist and former member of SYRIZA Secretariat Dimitris Konstantakopoulos and ex-senior CIA Analyst Ray McGovern debate Trump, East-West relations and the...

Washington’s Century-Long War on Russia

By Mike Whitney March The United States has launched a three-pronged offensive on Russia. First, it’s attacking Russia’s economy via sanctions and oil-price manipulation. Second,...

All Western leaders were lying, promising not to expand NATO

NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd,...

The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People

The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’) By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...

No party, no socialism

June 3, 2005 The right wing has attacked historian Moshe Lewin’s new book, “The Soviet Century,” which covers the Soviet Union from the early 1920s...

Genocide by Prescription: The ‘Natural History’ of the Declining White Working...

By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya, MD Introduction: The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ -...

The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin

The senior historian of the Soviet Union presents a powerful and original analysis of the warring between Lenin and Stalin and the collapse of...

Moldova – zone of geopolitical clashes or the golden bridge between...

Who Are We and What Do We Want? By Iurie Rosca In order to understand Moldova and its problems, the Western media consumer has to accept...