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Meet Charles Radford: US sailor who spied on Kissinger during the 1971 India–Pakistan war

A young US Navy yeoman, Charles Radford, secretly copied classified documents from the National Security Council during the early 1970s. He passed these sensitive papers, including those related to Henry Kissinger's handling of the India-Pakistan war, to senior military officers. This internal spying revealed a power struggle between civilian leaders…

The Times of India

France launches Orion 26, its biggest military drill since the Cold War

Orion 26 mobilises 12,500 troops, 25 ships and 140 aircraft as France and 24 allies rehearse high‑intensity warfare in Europe amid growing Russian threats.

Euronews

'If India jumped Pakistan...': Unsealed Watergate files reveals Richard Nixon asked China to interfere in Bangladesh Liberation War

In his grand jury testimony, Nixon described a secret assurance given to Beijing during the war. His full statement reads: “The Russians were supporting India. … Nobody was supporting Pakistan because there was an embargo on the shipment of arms. … But we were giving moral support to them, and…

The Times of India

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Why the end of the New START treaty doesn’t necessarily mean another nuclear arms race

Experts say smaller guardrails around arms control are still in place

The Independent UK

Welcome to new cold war as world descends on Italy amid global political chaos

Organisers are hoping for a celebration of winter sport at Milano Cortina 2026 but tensions will not be far from the surface

The Guardian - UK

Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh are unlikely allies in first look at "genre-bending, action packed buddy comedy" from Dungeons and Dragons directors

Mayday has a first look and release date

Total Film

US government declassifies Cold War-era 'JUMPSEAT' spy satellites

The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satellites, eight of which launched to Earth orbit between 1971 and 1987.

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The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict

The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass…

The Conversation

How NZ can survive – and even thrive – in Trump’s new world of great-power rivalry

In the wake of the US military intervention in Venezuela and Donald Trump’s repeated threats towards Greenland, a wave of pessimism has swept the western world.

The Conversation

America's Top Catholic Cardinals Denounce Trump's Foreign Policy As Nation's 'Moral Role' Faces Crisis

Three senior US Catholic archbishops issued rare joint statement declaring America faces its most profound moral foreign policy debate since Cold War ended.

International Business Times

America's Top Catholic Cardinals Denounce Trump's Foreign Policy as Nation's 'Moral Role' Faces Crisis

Three senior US Catholic archbishops issued rare joint statement declaring America faces its most profound moral foreign policy debate since Cold War ended.

International Business Times UK

6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Disney Plus, Netflix, Prime Video, and more (January 19–January 25)

A new Game of Thrones spin-off, the latest Ryan Murphy show, and much more besides...

Total Film

In Emilia Clarke's New Spy Thriller 'Ponies', "Tangible" 1970s Interiors Are Your Cue to Solve the Mystery, Says Its Production Designer

The plot twists and relationships in the Cold War-era series are "teased by the use of palette, materiality, and iconography," Sara K White reveals to us

Livingetc

Donald Trump's Plan to Invade Greenland Faces 'Disaster' Warning From Elite Soldiers

'Denmark's elite Sirius Patrol—Arctic dog sled soldiers—could face US forces if Trump invades Greenland. Former admiral warns: 'You will face disaster' in Arctic warfare.'

International Business Times UK

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American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing

President Donald Trump appears to have upended an 85-year relationship between American farmers and the United States’ global exercise of power. But that link has been fraying since the end of the Cold War, and Trump’s moves are just another big step.

The Independent UK

Cold War nuclear bunker just ‘days away’ from falling into sea as it teeters on the edge of a cliff

The structure is clinging to the cliff, with little of it left to support it

International Business Times UK

New Cold War Warning Issued As AI Unveils Chilling Era Of 'Great Power Politics' And Escalation

AI reveals humanity faces historic risks of global conflict through regional wars, nuclear treaty expiration, and a new Cold War era of economic and cyber warfare.

International Business Times UK

Full List of 81 House Republicans Who Voted Against Defunding $315M Democracy Fund

81 House Republicans broke ranks to reject an amendment defunding $315 million for NED. Here's the complete list and what it means for taxpayers and US foreign policy spending.

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US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice

President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or not” is just the latest chapter in a codependent and often complicated relationship between America and the Arctic’s largest island – one that stretches back more than a century but has recently been on the…

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s Greenland threats echo dark moments of cold war alliances

Soviet invasions of allies helped destroy the Warsaw Pact – Trump’s dangerous rhetoric risks repeating the mistake inside Nato

International Business Times UK

Real Life 'Eleven' Of Stranger Things Series Show Shocking Government Tests On Humans - Fact Or Fiction?

Stranger Things' finale revives debate on CIA's MKUltra and Montauk myths. Discover if real mind control experiments were fact or fiction.

Fortune

Trump already has open door to grow U.S. military presence in Greenland thanks to a little-known Cold War-era agreement between the U.S. and Denmark

“This agreement is very generous, it's very open,” one foreign policy expert said. “The U.S. would be able to achieve almost any security goal that you can imagine under that agreement.”

International Business Times UK

Aldrich Ames Dies at 84: A Flashback on How a CIA Insider for Moscow Lived as a Double Agent for Nine Years

Former CIA insider Aldrich Ames has died at 84. His nine-year espionage for Moscow remains one of the worst betrayals in US intelligence.

Pedestrian.tv

Government Secrets & The Montauk Project: The True Story Behind Stranger Things

Turns out the weirdest thing about Stranger Things might be how real it is.

International Business Times UK

WW3 Fears as Putin Rushes Nuke Bombers to UK's Doorstep on Christmas — NATO Jets Scrambled

Russian nuclear-capable bombers neared UK waters on Christmas Day, prompting NATO to scramble jets and stoking fears of escalation as Putin tests Western resolve amid the Ukraine war.

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