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The TransnationalDec 05, 2021
Bryce Greene: What You Should Really Know About Ukraine
Pepe Escobar: Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan
Gordon Hahn: “There is no threat of NATO expansion to Ukraine” and “NATO will not expand one inch beyond Eastern Germany”
Robert Wright: In Defense of Whataboutism
Kevin Gosztola: The Inevitability Of Russia’s Attack On Ukraine
Anatol Lieven: Ukraine - What Russia wants, what the West can do
Jan Oberg: Stop the security intellectual disarmament – Learn to conflict and peace constructively!
Edward Curtin: JFK Revisited – Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone – A Film Review
Alfred De Zayas: A Culture of Cheating – On the Origins of the Crisis in Ukraine
Robin Poulton: Ukrainian Sovereignty Means Not Joining NATO
Benjamin & Davies: Memo to Congress – Diplomacy for Ukraine is spelled M-i-n-s-k
Richard Falk: Toward Global Solidarity – A Politics of Impossibility
The Still-Topical Tagliavini Report on the 2008 War in Georgia
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2022/02/07/the-still-topical-tagliavini-report-on-the-2008-war-in-georgia/
By Thomas de Waal, Carnegie in Moscow
David Swanson: To Send Weapons and Troops to Ukraine You’d Have to Be a Stupid Son of a Biden
Scott Ritter: Ukraine Crisis - US ‘Toolboxes’ Are Empty
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
From the National Security Archive at George Washington University
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2022/01/11/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-2/
NATO Expansion – The Budapest Blow Up 1994
From the US NAtional Security Archives at George Washington University
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2022/01/11/nato-expansion-the-budapest-blow-up-1994/
Fredrik Heffermehl: The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize: Freedom for the Press or for the US?
Jan Oberg: The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 Scandal – How it fits CIA and the US ‘democracy”s global media war
Jan Oberg: My columns at China Daily & other Chinese media
William Astore: America’s abyss of weapons and warmaking
Jan Oberg: Is Democracy Gone Forever In Italy? On the Politics of Covid Responses
John Mcevoy: Deathly Silence – Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him
US coverup of Syria massacre shows the danger of the Assange precedent
By Caitlin Johnstone: This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/11/30/us-coverup-of-syria-massacre-shows-the-danger-of-the-assange-precedent/
Leung Wing-Fai: Perceptions of the East – "Yellow Peril: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear"
Carlos Martinez: The left must resolutely oppose the US-led New Cold War on China
School History: Operation Mockingbird
School History: This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/11/18/operation-mockingbird/
Dan Harsha: Taking China’s pulse – How much do the Chinese trust their leaders?
Peter McKillop: Xi Jinping says it’s time for an ‘ecological civilization’
The Costs of Destruction and Construction: Post-9/11 Wars and the Belt and Road
By Hussein Askary
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/11/01/the-costs-of-destruction-and-construction-post-9-11-wars-and-the-belt-and-road/
Tom Engelhardt: The Decline and Fall of the Roman… Whoops!… American Empire
I Piper & J Dyke: Tens of thousands of civilians likely killed by US in ‘Forever Wars’
Jean-Pierre Lehmann: Why the world has to study Chinese history, and how China views history
Farhang Jahanpour: On Arnold Toynbee’s “Civilisation On Trial” today
Jan Oberg: Evidently the West cannot live without enemy images. Go see a shrink so we shall all live in peace
Eurasia News: China begins the “transformation of capitalism”
Fourth America is Almost Over — Americans Want a Divorce
By Andrew Tanner
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/10/11/fourth-america-is-almost-over-americans-want-a-divorce/
Josef Gregory Mahoney: “Biden’s approach to China has been a three-headed monster – compete, cooperate, contain”
John Avery: Working for peace since 1954
Peter J. Peverelli: Human rights measured by the dimensions of culture
Cindy Cohn: ‘Governments Are Spying on the People Who Bring Us the News’
By Cindy Cohn
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/10/04/cindy-cohn-governments-are-spying-on-the-people-who-bring-us-the-news/
Jim Lobe: Europeans see US engaged in new cold war but want no part of it
By Jim Lobe
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/10/04/jim-lobe-europeans-see-us-engaged-in-new-cold-war-but-want-no-part-of-it/
CGTN Think Tank survey: 84.6% believe U.S. war against terrorism in Afghanistan has failed
By CGTN Think Tank, Beijing
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/10/04/cgtn-think-tank-survey-84-6-believe-u-s-war-against-terrorism-in-afghanistan-has-failed/
Blood in the Sand
By Jeffrey Sachs
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/09/30/blood-in-the-sand/
Neta C. Crawford: Calculating the costs of the Afghanistan War in lives, dollars and years
By Neta C. Crawford
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/09/29/neta-c-crawford-calculating-the-costs-of-the-afghanistan-war-in-lives-dollars-and-years/
China a godsend for the US arms industry
By Alex Lo
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/09/29/china-a-godsend-for-the-us-arms-industry/
Chas Freeman's views on the US-China relationship and its future
Interview with Chas Freeman
Reclaiming Utopia
By Biljana Vankovska
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/09/16/reclaiming-utopia/
Richard Falk: Everything went wrong in Afghanistan
By Richard Falk
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/09/14/richard-falk-everything-went-wrong-in-afghanistan/
September 11 Twenty Years Later: What Should Have Been Done?
By Jan Oberg
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://transnational.live/2021/09/11/september-11-twenty-years-later-what-should-have-been-done/