Articles by Katrina vanden Heuvel
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The Case for Diplomacy in Ukraine
Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – As 2023 unfolds, we fear that US policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. Throughout the course of the war, the Biden administration has slowly, steadily, even stealthily increased US involvement.
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What Do North Americans Care About? Not a Cold War with Russia and China
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
20 Sep 2022 – US Citizens’ top security concerns include safety at home and protecting jobs. The US Congress is about to add tens of billions of dollars to the military budget.
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Gorbachev’s Legacy
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In 11 Mar 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union. Within a few weeks, his full-scale reformation began to unfold. Perestroika (“restructuring”)—as Gorbachev called his reforms—officially ended with the URSS in 1991. The historic opportunities for a better future it offered Russia have been steadily undermined ever since.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – As China unleashed live-fire military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, simulating a real “reunification by force” operation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ceremonial visit to the island last week, the bipartisan fervor for a new Cold War with China and Russia took greater hold in Washington.
→ read full articleWe Need a Real Debate about the Ukraine War
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – Bringing the war in Ukraine to an end will demand new thinking and challenges to the orthodoxies of this time.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that he does not recognize “spheres of influence,” and the concept “should have been retired after World War II.” Those are empty words because they obviously do not apply to the Western Hemisphere–or the USA. Take Cuba, for example, or Nicaragua, Venezuela… Hypocrisy is common in international relations.
→ read full articleThe Exit from the Ukraine Crisis That’s Hiding in Plain Sight
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Is there any way out of this exceedingly dangerous crisis? Perhaps the only hope is the Minsk II agreement, forged in February 2015 between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by Germany and France, and endorsed by the European Union and the United Nations. The agreement essentially called for a recognition of reality in law.
→ read full articleOn 9/11, It’s Time for a Reckoning and Reflection of Decades of Failed U.S. National Security Policy
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
9 Sep 2021 – A Reckoning with America’s Failed National Security Policy Is Long Overdue – This country desperately needs a fierce and energetic citizen intervention—a movement that demands both a reckoning and a change in course. Our democracy may be corrupted, but the American people can still call our leaders to account and challenge entrenched interests.
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‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Jul 12-19 Issue – Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen sat for a chat with The Nation. Born in Vietnam and raised in the United States, where his family was resettled as refugees, Nguyen has become an essential literary voice—at once an eloquent champion of the displaced and a trenchant critic of empire.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen – The Nation,
3 Nov 2014
28 Oct 2014 – In a wide-ranging conversation, he discusses the surveillance state, the American political system and the price he’s paid for his understanding of patriotism.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen – The Nation,
13 Oct 2014
We recently met with the courageous whistleblower for over three hours in Moscow for a wide-ranging conversation on surveillance, technology and politics.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Nation,
24 Mar 2014
This Monday [17 Mar 2014] marks the eleventh anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq—a solemn punctuation mark to the steadily increasing violence that has gripped that country over the past two years. There is no question that hatred of the US government is strong in Iraq, regardless of what people think of Saddam.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Washington Post,
1 Apr 2013
Bipartisan agreement in Washington usually means citizens should hold on to their wallets or get ready for another threat to peace. Economist James Galbraith calls this the “predator state,” one in which large corporate interests rig the rules to protect their subsidies, tax dodges and monopolies. This isn’t the free market; it’s a rigged market.
→ read full articleTime for ‘Banksters’ To Be Prosecuted
Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Washington Post,
16 Jul 2012
Fixing the rate even a few hundreds of a percentage point could make Barclays millions on any single day – money taken out of the pockets of consumers and investors. Once more the banks were rigging the rules; once more their customers were their mark.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Nation,
10 Jan 2011
The herculean effort required to win Senate ratification of a modest arms reduction treaty is a stark reminder of how tough it will be to reach more far-reaching agreements on nuclear weapons in the 112th Congress.
→ read full articleTHE FIERCE URGENCY OF DISARMAMENT
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor of The Nation,
13 May 2009
"After a long winter of discontent we have the audacity to hope for springtime…. But there are miles to go before we sleep." –Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapalawe, President of Pugwash For more than five years, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) and its Chairman, Dr. Hans Blix, have worked to generate proposals for reducing the […]
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Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Nation editor and publisher,
18 Dec 2008
An important and inspiring new group, Global Zero, launched in Paris this week with a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in 20 to 25 years. More than 100 prominent military, political, faith, and business leaders met in Paris and delegations then visited both Washington and Moscow to push Global Zero’s program. The group sees […]
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