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Express.co.uk
April 28, 2018
'Australia will be KEY Cold War nation with US nukes in Sydney harbour'. THE United States should place nuclear-capable warships off the coast of western Australia to combat the growing military presence of China in the Pacific Ocean, a new report has warned. By Sean Martin. PUBLISHED: 14:34, Fri,Ãâà...
Worldcrunch
April 28, 2018
-Analysis-. MOSCOW — The list is long: the scandal around the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, an unprecedented expulsion of Russian diplomats, sanctions leading to the fall of the ruble and a hit on aluminum giant Rusal, retaliatory sanctions, strikes on Syria and over-the-top rhetoric ofÃâà...
Newsarama
April 28, 2018
Check out a preview of May 16's Cold War #4 from AfterShock Comics. COLD WAR #4 / $3.99 / 32 pages / Color / on sale 05.16.18 writer: Chris Sebela artist: Hayden Sherman colors: Hayden Sherman letters: Hayden Sherman cover: Hayden Sherman With no safe havens left, the splintered sides of theÃâà...
Rappler
April 28, 2018
The can has been stored for decades at the underground facility, one of dozens built during the Cold War as the United States braced for the possibility of a nuclear attack. Today, the sound of children's laughter filters down through vents to the long, narrow basement beneath the Oyster-Adams School, justÃâà...
BBC News
April 28, 2018
A long-awaited report into a top-secret Cold War unit of the Swiss army has finally been published, 27 years after it was written. The Cornu report reveals that neutral Switzerland had surprisingly close co-operation with the UK - a Nato member. But some readers are disappointed; the full details wereÃâà...
HowStuffWorks
April 27, 2018
On their 2017 sixth album L.A. Divine, Cold War Kids pay tribute to Los Angeles and all its strange glory. "In many ways L.A. is the least divine city, the most hedonistic and irreverent and disconnected from history," says Cold War Kids' singer/guitarist/pianist Nathan Willett. "L.A.'s so massive, I feel like I'mÃâà...
The Local Switzerland
April 27, 2018
There have long been calls for the so-called Cornu report to be made public but anyone hoping for the definitive story on the secretive Cold War organisation and extent to which Swiss neutrality may have been compromised by its existence during that period will be only partly satisfied. The version justÃâà...
The National Interest Online
April 16, 2018
FOR THE first time since the Cold War ended, air-raid sirens sounded in Hawaii on November 28, 2017. The exercise was part of the revival of the state's emergency warning system in response to the possible threat of North Korean nuclear missile attack. But the wail of the siren could also symbolize theÃâà...
Modern Diplomacy
April 15, 2018
In some cases, the very evidence that has put people all over the world in a frothy orgasm of Cold War bloodlust is actually the evidence people should be noting for why war is unlikely. Consider the following incidents/initiatives that have taken place over the past few years and consider how often any oneÃâà...
Bleeding Cool News
April 15, 2018
It's gritty, jagged, and unnerving enough to fit the setting of Cold War. However, figures, shapes, and environments are so difficult to parcel out that any style points are lost in the vague amalgam of characters, chunks of building, and playing with the framing and set-dressing. His color art looks good too, butÃâà...
Courier Mail
April 15, 2018
PRESIDENT Donald Trump's Cold War has come to Queensland after Rio Tinto announced it was suspending contracts with its partner, Rusal, at Queensland Alumina, in Gladstone. Rusal is a owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and has a 20 per cent stake in QAL, but is now subject to sanctionsÃâà...
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
April 15, 2018
In my researches for the final volume of my Thatcher biography, there is plenty, of course, about the Cold War, and its end. A constant bone of contention with the Russians was defection to the West. They were particularly furious about the MI6 exfiltration of the KGB man and British double agent OlegÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 14, 2018
"The Cold War is back with a vengeance, but with a difference" - the words of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres - who is warning that the situation in Syria is in such chaos that it poses a serious threat to international peace and security. His statement came a day before the US, UK, and FranceÃâà...
Quartz
April 14, 2018
The US and its allies, namely the UK, faced off with the Soviet Union for decades following the allied victory in World War II. History appears to be repeating itself. The Cold War “is back with a vengeance, but with a difference,” secretary general of United Nations Antonio Guterres said Friday.
The Australian
April 13, 2018
“These voices, and any possible actions, will only contribute to further destabilisation in the region,” Assad said. GRAPHIC: Armed forces in the Middle East. In the most tense military stand-off with Russia since the Cold War, Britain and France will back the expected US airstrikes and may launch their own.
ABC Local
April 13, 2018
Joining us now with his thoughts is Igor Yurgens, he's the chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Development in Russia. He used to be a senior economic adviser to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and he's in Australia as a guest of the Lowy Institute. He said the current tension betweenÃâà...
The Sun
April 13, 2018
A cold war is a state of conflict between two nations that does not involve direct military action. The conflict is primarily pursued through economic and political actions, including propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, where countries at war rely on others to fight their battles. The term cold war was rarelyÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 13, 2018
“The cold war is back – with a vengeance,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday as the US and Russia remained at loggerheads over Syria, with Russia now claiming that Britain “staged” a fake chemical attack in the town of Douma this week. But the situation is worse nowÃâà...
BBC News
April 13, 2018
The UN's secretary general has said the Cold War is "back with a vengeance". Antonio Guterres also warned about the dangers of escalation over Syria. The US and its allies are considering launching missile strikes against Syria after a suspected chemical attack, an action which Russia - whose forces areÃâà...
Bleeding Cool News
April 13, 2018
Carter Carlson was a special ops agent during the Cold War. He performed many top-secret wet work missions, and, at the end of the war, he was sent after a group of Soviet scientists allegedly responsible for creating many of the most dangerous weapons of the war. However, he finds a facility abandonedÃâà...
The National Interest Online
April 13, 2018
FOR THE first time since the Cold War ended, air-raid sirens sounded in Hawaii on November 28, 2017. The exercise was part of the revival of the state's emergency warning system in response to the possible threat of North Korean nuclear missile attack. But the wail of the siren could also symbolize theÃâà...
Times of Malta
April 13, 2018
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the Cold War is back "with a vengeance". He said the Middle East is in such "chaos" that it has become a danger to international peace and security - and Syria "represents the most serious threat". The UN chief told an emergency meeting of the UNÃâà...
CBS News
April 13, 2018
UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday that the Middle East is in such "chaos" that it has become a threat to international peace and security -- and Syria "represents the most serious threat." The U.N. chief told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that theÃâà...
The Independent
April 13, 2018
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the "Cold war is back with a vengeance," as he issues warning that the world is at risk for "full-blown military escalation" over the latest suspected chemical attack in Syria. He was referring to a threat of a military response by US PresidentÃâà...
9news.com.au
April 13, 2018
The Russian Defense Ministry has accused Britain of staging a fake chemical attack in a Syrian town outside Damascus, a bold charge vehemently denied by Britain as a "blatant lie". The exchange follows the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, and comes amid Moscow's stern warnings to theÃâà...
ABC Online
April 13, 2018
The United States has accused the Syrian government of using banned chemical weapons at least 50 times since the civil war began seven years ago. And now the US has joined France and Britain in confirming that chemical weapons were used in last weekend's attack that killed dozens of peopleÃâà...
BBC News
April 12, 2018
The West is facing a level of danger not seen since the Cold War, the former chief of MI6, John Sawers, told the Today programme. He also said communication lines should be kept open but "does not approve of what President Trump is doing" by tweeting messages. 12 Apr 2018. Share this with Facebook Ãâ÷ Share this withÃâà...
Hyperallergic
April 12, 2018
LOS ANGELES — Not long after the Cold War concluded, Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history,” and that Western liberal democracy would inevitably consume all of humanity. The quarter century since has demonstrated this idea laughably wrong, with neoliberalism currently flailing about worseÃâà...
BBC News
April 12, 2018
The West is facing a level of danger not seen since the Cold War, the former chief of MI6, John Sawers, told the Today programme. He also said communication lines should be kept open but "does not approve of what President Trump is doing" by tweeting messages. 12 Apr 2018. Share this with Facebook Ãâ÷ Share this withÃâà...
New York Times
April 11, 2018
Now, analysts warn, the region is becoming a battleground in what feels like a new Cold War. Russia, they say, is expanding its influence and magnifying ethnic tensions in countries that hope to join the European Union. Its involvement has already spurred Brussels to revive dormant aims for enlargement.
Today.com
April 10, 2018
Cold War-era US air base in Greenland gets a second act. Continuing our “Top of the World” series, NBC's Jacob Soboroff visits an arctic U.S. military base that was built during the Cold War, but is now taking on new significance amid mounting tensions with Russia and North Korea.
Verdict
April 4, 2018
Russian officials have suggested relations between the country and the west are now similar to, or worse than, during the Cold War. Tensions between Russia and the UK have been running high since the poisoning of the former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in early March.
The Nation.
April 4, 2018
Cohen has previously explained why the new Cold War is potentially even more dangerous than was its 40-year predecessor, citing factors such as the political epicenter's now being on Russia's borders, lack of a mutual code of conduct, and the unprecedented demonization of the Kremlin leader. He hadÃâà...
Newsweek
April 4, 2018
The head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin used a quote from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 to attack what he called the “unprecedented hypocrisy” of the West amid worsening relations. Naryshkin told a security conference in Moscow that the West is engaging inÃâà...
BreakingNews.ie
April 4, 2018
Senior Russian security officials have launched diatribes at the West, accusing it of fomenting a new Cold War in a bid to retain waning influence in global affairs. Moscow used an annual security conference attended by top officials from Asia, Africa and Latin America to criticise the US and its allies,Ãâà...
CNN
April 4, 2018
(CNN) — Berlin and its infamous wall are the epicenter for Cold War tourism, but there are plenty of other sites around Germany that portray the tension between east and west after World War II. Many important installations can still be found dotted throughout the country, relics of a time when West GermanyÃâà...
KXLY Spokane
April 4, 2018
Probstzella Railroad Museum: The Iron Curtain not only impacted pedestrians and the autobahn, but also rail travel. The Probstzella station in Thuringia, though technically not in West Germany, was where many train journeys from the west halted. Used as a GDR border checkpoint from 1949 to 1990,Ãâà...
Newsweek
April 3, 2018
The U.S. has deployed an air defense artillery unit to Europe for the first time since the Cold War, signaling increased tensions between Russia and the West in the 21st century. In a ceremony held last week, 678th Air Defense Artillery Brigade Commander Army Colonel Richard Wholey uncased hisÃâà...
The Guardian
April 3, 2018
Downing Street has issued a plea for “proportionate” action from Russia to the Salisbury poisoning row after its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, warned that relations with the west are now worse than during the cold war. Theresa May is visiting Scandinavia next week with the international security threatÃâà...
Citywire.co.uk
April 3, 2018
The Times: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said that relations with the West has deteriorated more than during the Cold War after the Skripal poisoning, suggesting that the modern relationship was more volatile and unpredictable. Financial Times: Ukraine's largest commercial lender PrivatBankÃâà...
Niner Noise
April 3, 2018
For the San Francisco 49ers, arguably the only team in the NFC West capable of contending for a division crown this year, the latest move only serves to pour more fuel on the fire growing in this cold war-like scenario. The Niners weren't quite as active in free agency or on the trade market this offseason.
Lonely Planet Travel News
April 3, 2018
Tea, cake and Cold War memorabilia. That's what visitors to East Yorkshire can expect when they make it past Hull as far as the east coast village of Holmpton. Here there is a field that was once the site of a Royal Airforce base, and within it sits an unassuming modern bungalow that hides a big surprise – aÃâà...
Military Times
April 2, 2018
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 263rd Air Defense Artillery, South Carolina National Guard, conduct a live-fire exercise at Fort Stewart, Georgia in 2016. Now a fellow ADA unit from South Carolina, the 678th, is deployed to Europe. (Staff Sgt. Kevin Pickering/Army). In an echo of the Cold War, a U.S. Army airÃâà...
Palatinate
March 31, 2018
Even more surreal is that this rivalry involves not the US but the innocent-seeming United Kingdom. But we must be careful not to be hyperbolic. A new Cold War is not among us. It isn't difficult to be swept into the emerging anti-Russian hysteria. The threat, particularly to Russian exiles, certainly feels real.
The Conversation US
March 31, 2018
That's led some analysts – in Russia and in the West – to describe current Russian relations with the West as a new manifestation of the old Cold War. Since 2010, President Vladimir Putin's increasing reliance on a strategy of meddling in the domestic politics of the United States and European UnionÃâà...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
There's a lot of loose talk about a new "Cold War" - a comparison of present-day tensions to the bitter ideological and military rivalry that existed between the Soviet Union and the West from the 1950s to the end of the 1980s. But such comparisons may be misleading. "The Cold War," says Michael Kofman,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 30, 2018
Cold War-style chill as Russia expels 60 American diplomats, scores of European ones. By Sabra Ayres ... The Russian retaliation, which also included the closing of the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg, sent Moscow's relations with the West into a deep chill that was almost reminiscent of Cold War days.
WIRED
March 29, 2018
The Cold War I grew up with pitted Western capitalist democracies, led by the United States, against Communist dictatorships, led by the Soviet Union, in a contest for world domination. Two worldviews competed against each other on a global stage. The contest was ultimately won not on the battlefield, notÃâà...
The Nation.
March 28, 2018
But in calling for a strategic dialogue with Russia, without regard for the role we played in bringing about these nuclear dangers, they are in effect urging the reinstitutionalization of the Cold War and the very arms race we once thought it safe to assume we had put behind us. And by flinching from theÃâà...
WLOS
March 26, 2018
A model of the "Project Zebra" memorial stands in the Arts of the Albemarle building in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Monday, March 12, 2018. The city council initially OK'd the Russian-financed monument commemorating the World War II operation, but a new council has declined to sign a memorandum of understanding thatÃâà...
