The Nation‘s Stephen Cohen visited The John Batchelor Show on Tuesday to discuss the seemingly unopposed efforts of the American “war party� to undermine a political solution to the Ukraine conflict. The “misinformation coming out of many Western and NATO capitals about some new Russian escalation of which there is no evidence,� Cohen said, is... Read More

Stephen Cohen, contributing editor at The Nation, visited The Jon Batchelor Show on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments in the Ukrainian conflict. While discussing the nature of the Kiev government, Cohen remarked, “According to Washington…this is a democratic government that represents the Western, democratic, capitalist aspirations of the Ukranian people…In my judgement that is... Read More

Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen joined The John Batchelor Show on Tuesday to discuss the future of the Ukrainian crisis. In the aftermath of the implementation of the Minsk II agreements, Cohen questions whether Kiev will take the next step and give Eastern Ukraine a greater degree of autonomy. If this goes through successfully, at... Read More

Is a federated state the only possibility for peace in Ukraine? The Nation’s Stephen Cohen thinks so, and he joined The John Batchelor Show on Tuesday to explain why. On the show, Cohen and Batchelor discussed the latest developments in this month’s “Minsk II� negotiations. Cohen addressed NATO Deputy Commander Sir Adrian Bradshaw’s comment that... Read More

Is the ongoing, brutal fighting in eastern Ukraine our Cuban Missile Crisis? On Tuesday, February 5, Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen delivered a keynote speech at Fairfield University expressing just how high he thinks the geopolitical stakes have been raised in this conflict. “The Europeans are in full panic and want this ended,� Cohen explained.... Read More

During a visit to The John Batchelor Show on Tuesday, Stephen Cohen, contributing editor at The Nation, spoke about the role of the United States in the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. Much of the conversation centered around the White House’s statement that “if Russia continues its aggressive actions in Ukraine…costs for Russia will rise.�... Read More

On Tuesday, Stephen F. Cohen joined Larry King on Politicking to talk about Ukraine as the new Berlin in today’s burgeoning Cold War. Cohen noted that Obama’s openness to providing Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons in the amount of $1 billion a year is the wrong foreign policy move in a time when negotiation and... Read More

Stephen Cohen, contributing editor at The Nation, joined Democracy Now‘s War and Peace Report on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments in the Ukrainian conflict. “We’re in a new Cold War with Russia. The epicenter of the new Cold War is not in Berlin, but it’s right on Russia’s borders, so it’s much more dangerous…A... Read More

During a broadcast of The John Batchelor Show on Tuesday, Stephen Cohen, contributing editor at The Nation, expressed his grim concern about the ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict. “John, I don’t know if I’ve ever said this to you before, but every time you say, by way of greeting, ‘A very good evening to you,’ I keep... Read More

In a Skype chat during The Thom Hartmann Program on Monday, Stephen Cohen, a contributing editor at The Nation, spoke with Hartmann about the division in Europe and media’s role within this division, following the Greek elections and the ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict. “It’s a kind of abyss in American-Russian relations at the moment,� Cohen said.... Read More

During a visit to The John Batchelor Show on Tuesday, Stephen Cohen, a contributing editor at The Nation, discussed the serious impact of the recent fighting in Ukraine. “We’re in a fog of war—an expression coming from, I think, World War I, when news reports had become innacurate news reports—misinformation, disinformation from all sides,� Cohen... Read More

On Tuesday, The Nation’s Stephen Cohen joined The John Batchelor Show to discuss the latest violence in Ukraine, and how it might affect the diplomacy process. One of the major issues, Cohen said, was the continued violation of the so-called Minsk accords, signed during diplomacy talks in September 2014. “What we’ve seen…is an extraordinary rapid... Read More

On Tuesday, The Nation’s Stephen Cohen joined The John Batchelor Show to discuss Western policy towards Ukraine and the media’s latest attempts to cover it. Cohen began by discussing The New York Times’s recent investigation on the ouster of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, a piece that he called an “astonishing piece of media malpractice.�... Read More

The Donetsk People’s Republic, the contested area of eastern Ukraine that has been the scene of violent confrontations between Ukrainian troops and separatist rebels, recently elected a new leader, Alexander Zakharchenko. On The John Batchelor Show, Stephen Coehn explains that it was not clear whether or not the Kremlin wanted this to take place. The... Read More

In the next few days, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will meet with European leaders Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and François Hollande. Stephen Cohen goes on The John Batchelor Show to discuss what will occur at that meeting and what’s next for Ukraine, now that Poroshenko’s position has drastically weakened and Putin holds all the cards.... Read More

Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, has now formed his own political party, but whether or not he will control a majority of Parliament is now in doubt. As Stephen Cohen explained on The John Batchelor Show, “For Poroshenko everything, everything—the war, the political future of Ukraine, his own future, and the billions of dollars that the... Read More

“The crisis has split Europe. It’s not quite a barricade, they’re not shouting at each other, but it’s clear that behind closed doors two European…points of view have emerged,� said Stephen Cohen, a contributing editor at The Nation, on The John Batchelor Show. “One is that this Ukrainian crisis shows a resurgent, revanchist, aggressive, imperialistic,... Read More

“By NATO’s own rules, Ukraine cannot join NATO, [because it is] a country that does not control its own territory,� Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen said to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, addressing speculation that Ukraine will join NATO after it signed a cease-fire deal with pro-Russian rebels. Cohen went on: “You have to meet... Read More

“The most I can boast is, I try hard to understand,� Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen told Thom Hartmann yesterday in an interview about the latest from Ukraine. “There is so much misinformation, whether intended or unintended, coming out of Washington, particularly [out of] Kiev and out of Moscow that a person has to figure... Read More

“The most important political figure in Europe—I think it’s fair to say she is—is coming to Kiev, � said Stephen Cohen on The John Batchelor Show this Tuesday. Cohen, contributing editor for The Nation and author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold Wars, and The Victims Return: Survivors of... Read More

For weeks, the US-backed regime in Kiev has been committing atrocities against its own citizens in southeastern Ukraine, a region heavily populated by Russian-speaking Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. While victimizing a growing number of innocent people, including children, and degrading America’s reputation, these military assaults against cities, captured on video, are generating intense pressure in... Read More

Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 7 and July 17. For months, the US-backed regime in Kiev has been committing atrocities against its own citizens in southeastern Ukraine, regions heavily populated by Russian-speaking Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. While victimizing a growing number of innocent people, including children, and degrading America’s reputation, these military... Read More

Dr. Stephen Cohen, a Russia scholar and longtime contributing editor at The Nation, laments what he perceives to be the absence of debate over US policy towards Ukraine. “The mainstream media has deleted people such as myself who are arguing for a change of policy,� he says. Appearing here on The Thom Hartmann Program, Cohen... Read More

Petro Poroshenko has won this weekend’s presidential election in Ukraine. A business tycoon who previously served as economics and foreign minister, Poroshenko favors a trade deal with the European Union. Pundits view his ascent to the embattled country’s highest office as confirmation of the view that Ukraine wants to move towards the West. Nation contributor... Read More

Pundits are hopeful that Sunday’s presidential election in Ukraine will be a step towards national reconciliation after months of unrest. Dr. Stephen Cohen, appearing here on The John Batchelor Show, isn’t so sure it will have the anticipated salutary effect. The danger, he warns, is that if people in eastern Ukraine do not recognize the... Read More