Ultranationalist Azov battalion wears the swastika and SS runes German television ran a video Monday night showing Ukrainian government troops wearing Nazi symbols. The video was shot by Norwegian broadcaster TV2 last week. “We were filming a report about Ukraine’s AZOV battalion in the eastern city of Urzuf, when we came across these soldiers,” Oysten […] Read More → 
Ron Radosh, A New Step Forward Through their “Long March Through the Existing Institutions” Recently, a few conservative intellectuals have raised serious questions about the College Board’s effort to develop a new curriculum for the Advanced Placement history courses. Stanley Kurtz, at National Review Online, writes that “this Framework will effectively force American high schools to […] Read More → 
To “Reassure Threatened Allies” Escalation over the Ukraine conflict, a/k/a Cold War 2.0, just took another major step forward. Because here comes the cavalry… literally. While the world is focused on the first deployment of US marines in Iraq in nearly a decade, as “humanitarian advisors” of course so as not to destroy the Nobel […] Read More → 
Humberto Fontova Russian president Vladimir “Teflon” Putin is on a roll—or so we’re led to believe by the media. The Russian president combines the slick machismo of James Bond, the cojones of George Patton and the craftiness of Cardinal Richelieu. Actually, in his dealings with Cuba, Putin looks more like Barney Fife. We’re not accustomed […] Read More → 
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton As Americans ponder gender issues, racism and collectivism… Russian battleships are in Shanghai for joint naval drills with the Chinese. The Russian anti-surface destroyer Bystry sailed into port ahead of the “Joint Sea-2014&Prime naval drills, in Shanghai along with a host of other ships. As a contingent of Russia’s Navy Pacific Fleet glided […] Read More → 
As Russian President Vladimir Putin positions his army along the border with Ukraine, his eyes are trained on more than former Soviet territory. The parts of Ukraine where separatists and loyalists face off in ever-more violent clashes are home to the most valuable assets of the nation’s defense industry. More than 50 factories form an […] Read More → 
“Mr. Obama is focused on isolating President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia by cutting off its economic and political ties to the outside world … and effectively making it a pariah state.” So wrote Peter Baker in Sunday’s New York Times. Yet if history is any guide, this “pariah policy,” even if adopted, will not long […] Read More → 
The Cold War is back. Russia’s military seizure of Crimea and preparations for a possible annexation of the southern Ukrainian province have revived fears, calculations and reflexes that had been rusting away since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Whether the crisis triggered by President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to prevent Ukraine, a strategic […] Read More →