George F. Kennan

Apr 30, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson |George F. Kennan |Simon James |F.W. Dupee

April 30, 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia University administrators had begun suspending students and clearing an anti-war encampment, there was a sense that history was repeating itself. Since the sixties, Hamilton Hall has been for protest on the Columbia campus. It was famously taken over by Civil Rights activists and anti-war protestors in April, 1968, and was subsequently seized by students in 1972, 1985, and 1992.

Feb 23, 2024 | allouryesterdays.info | George F. Kennan

In today’s FT (February 23)…There is a curious sentence in the excellent article “The power of Europe’s rebel farmers” by Alice Hancock and Andy Bounds (FT Weekend, February 10). They write that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned of “‘substantive agricultural production losses’… if temperatures continue to rise.”If?

Sep 4, 2023 | transcend.org | Edward Lozansky |George F. Kennan

Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service 9 Aug 2023 – For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in the USA as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I have relatives and friends in all three countries, and for the last 35 years, I have been trying to do my best to make them friends, partners, or even allies.

Aug 11, 2023 | americanthinker.com | Edward Lozansky |George F. Kennan

These days, saying Russia's war in Ukraine is "unprovoked" is a must.  There are some notable exceptions from a few American "dissidents," who say Russia was provoked, but their opinions are dismissed at best or submerged in name-calling at worst. I'd leave it up to those who will read this article to the end to decide who is right.

Jan 30, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | George F. Kennan |Ebenezer Obadare |Zongyuan Liu |Manjari Chatterjee Miller

Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE At a large dinner given in New York in recognition of his ninetieth birthday, the author of these lines ventured to say that what our country needed at this point was not primarily policies, "much less a single policy." What we needed, he argued, were principles -- sound principles -- "principles that accorded with the...