Michael T. Klare
The Nation
Northampton, MA, United States
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Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Launched a New Era of Military Competition With China
The House speaker created a new chasm in the US-China relationship. Now Biden must make sure it doesn’t lead to war. → Read More
Biden’s NATO Summit Divides the World Into Hostile Camps
With the home front fatigued, the alliance expands in Europe and campaigns to curb China’s rise. → Read More
The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage| Countercurrents
The war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come as the fighting intensifies in the country’s east and → Read More
We Need International Cooperation to Fight Climate Change, Not War
The world’s ruling elites have chosen to place their geopolitical rivalries above all other critical concerns, including planetary salvation. → Read More
The Deadly Illusion of “Victory”
Choosing peace in Ukraine, not ashes and blood. → Read More
Ukraine’s Nuclear Flashpoints
How to avoid Armageddon in the new nuclear era. → Read More
Stop the Fighting in Ukraine
Now is the time to begin the search for a lasting peace. → Read More
Geopolitics Is a Ruthless Business
Russia’s assault on Ukraine is the most conspicuous recent example of blatantly predatory military actions, but hardly the only one. → Read More
Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington
Democrats and Republicans unite in boosting Pentagon spending. → Read More
A New “March of Folly” in Europe: Can It Be Averted?
There is an urgent need for a diplomatic resolution. → Read More
Welcome to the New Cold War
Whatever Washington might say about peaceful competition, the Biden administration has no intention of allowing China to achieve parity with the United States. → Read More
The “Credibility” Factor and Biden’s Foreign Crises
The US must resist the impulse to intervene in Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran. → Read More
We Need to Take China’s Military Strength Seriously
What’s happening between China and Taiwan should put those of us who fear a major outbreak of war on high alert. → Read More
Placing “Guardrails” on the US-China Nuclear Competition
A failure to challenge inflated claims about China’s nuclear arsenal will have serious and painful consequences. → Read More
Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan
How to avoid US-Chinese military conflict in the Western Pacific. → Read More
Geopolitics Will Cost Us Our Planet
For all of our posturing, we’re doomed if the world’s biggest players aren’t in agreement. → Read More
The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet
By 2049, China will be too busy dealing with climate disasters to launch a war with the United States. → Read More
Great Power Politics After Afghanistan
Resetting the global chessboard. → Read More
Where Do Wars Come From?
Two new books, Margaret MacMillan’s War and Martin Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon, offer close studies of how we end up, or almost end up, marching into war. → Read More
Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon
Washington aims to recast NATO in the image of the US military, with its focus on “great power competition” and a renewed arms race with Russia and China. → Read More