On 17 January 1961, the 1st legally elected PM of #DRC was assassinated after being overthrown with help from #WashingtonDC . A dark episode that Devlin, a former CIA agent reveals in his book 'Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone.'
Biden pledged to maximize the available supply of vaccines and materials needed to administer them, using a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to direct private manufacturing.
On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden pledged to maximize the available supply of vaccines and materials needed to administer them, using a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to direct private manufacturing.
Cold War redux: "The US International Development Finance Corporation has struck a deal that will help Ecuador repay billions of dollars in loans to China and boost development in exchange for excluding Chinese companies from its telecom networks."
President-elect Biden pledged to maximize the available supply of vaccines by using a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to direct private manufacturing.
Congress and the incoming president should reconsider Cold War nuclear alert status, the Editorial Board writes
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is growing increasingly impatient more than two years after his landmark summit with U.S. President Donald Trump failed to produce a peace deal between the two Cold War rivals.
After fighting a brutal war & then serving eight years as US President, here was Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 warning about the menacing joint power of the US military and the private arms industry. This was before Vietnam, the cold war'>Reagan Cold War build-up and post-9/11 militarism:
I covered the Soviet Union and its face off with American democracy. To liken this impeachment inquiry to Soviet tactics is to make a mockery of all who stood up for justice, accountability and the rule of law during the Cold War - including many, many Republicans.
In the Cold War, the US was a global (albeit an imperfect) leader for freedom and democracy. Today, we stand with Russia and Saudi Arabia (let that sink in) denying the science of climate change. More than just a mark of shame, the great tragedy lies in the damage being wrought.
As I discuss in detail in From Cold War to Hot Peace, Putin has been harassing me for a long time. That he now wants to arrest me, however, takes it to a new level. I expect my government to defend me and my colleagues, in public and private.
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