Today’s disinformation-heavy world is riddled with false narratives designed to both confuse and re-direct our natural anger from those arsonists who have worked to light our civilization on fire over centuries, and instead focus our hate onto such external foes as Russia, Venezuela, Iran or most especially… China. It is for this reason (and due…
Category: Diplomacy
Robert Frost and the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Gerald Therrien [The following is a transcript to Gerald’s recent lecture to the Rising Tide Foundation. To access the lecture format click below.] I wanted to talk about Robert Frost – not about his poetry, but instead about his politics and about the year 1962 – the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. That…
Tragedy, Dialogue, and Politics: Applying Tragedy’s Therapy to Russian Relations with the West
By Professor Nicolai N. Petro When we refer to something as a tragedy, we typically mean that something bad has happened over which we have no control. It is precisely our powerlessness to change these circumstances that we deem “tragic.” For the ancient Greeks, however, tragedy is something that human beings create by virtue of…
Verona Eurasian Economic Forum: freedom of expression, tolerance, mutual respect
The ongoing crises in the world threaten global catastrophe, and at the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum everyone agreed that diplomacy, not military reinforcement, is needed to prevent the worst-case scenario. By Professor Edward Lozansky The XVII Verona Eurasian Economic Forum agenda, which took place last week (5-6th of December) in Ras Al Khaimah, one of…
Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 03
In this third Roundtable co-sponsored by The American University in Moscow and Rising Tide Foundation, experts Alistair Scott, Martin Sieff and Anton Chaitkin deliver their analysis on the geopolitical landscape and the historic and philosophical undercurrents shaping today’s crisis. To register for future round tables (which will be held every two weeks), contact Ed Lozansky…
Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 02
In this second roundtable hosted by the American University in Moscow and the Rising Tide Foundation, Matt Ehret, Dimitry Lascaris and Hall Gardner discuss the causes and solutions to the current world crisis. To register for future round tables (which will be held every two weeks), contact Ed Lozansky or register online here: https://russiahouse.org/american-univ… The…
Understanding Today’s War Danger and its Remedies [An Afternoon with Ray McGovern]
As the nations of the world are pulled into a storm unlike anything ever experienced by humanity, various futures are opening up over the horizon. Some of those futures are beautiful and others darker than you can possibly imagine. However without understanding the nature of the battle fronts in either the Pacific, Ukraine or elsewhere…
Humanity at a Crossroads: Cooperation or Extinction
By Matthew Ehret We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy the likes of which has never been seen in history. Up until the turn of the 20th century, the only forces capable of wrecking extinction-level havoc onto the biosphere remained comets and asteroids travelling 18 km/second which periodically slammed into the…
How Saudi Arabia Broke Free of the Empire
On Sunday Sept 15 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted Gordon McCormick who unpacked some extremely important historic lessons of British Imperial manipulation of Southwest Asia and the battle of the two Saudi Arabias.
The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?
In this new film, the Arctic is presented as you’ve never imagined it: Both as a strategic battleground over the future of the human species today, and as pivot of world history shaping the Russia-USA partnership that saved the Union during the Civil War. This film showcases how the Arctic represents either a domain of…