Carl Boggs — Russophobia and the Specter of War

Review of Stephen F. Cohen’s important book, War with Russia?

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Russophobia and the Specter of WarCarl Boggs

Tucker Carlson Tonight — Russian Studies Prof: Criticisms of Trump Over Putin Presser Are 'Like Mob Violence'

Tucker Carlson of Fox News hosts US Russian expert and Professor Emeritus Stephen F. Cohen, who is a contributor to The Nation. He is married to The Nation's publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel.

We are unlikely to see him on the Rachel Maddow Show at MSNBC, where one would expect a liberal.

It's turning into a topsy-turvy world.

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Russian Studies Prof: Criticisms of Trump Over Putin Presser Are 'Like Mob Violence'

Tucker Carlson Tonight

Stephen F. Cohen — Unverified ‘Russiagate’ Allegations, Irresponsibly Promoted by Congress and the Media, Have Become a Grave Threat to American National Security

Cohen observes that Neocons, the Democratic Party, and the media are united in their Russophobia, This is irrational in that it is undermining US foreign policy directed at US national security and national interests, and putting Americans and the world at risk.

The Nation
Unverified ‘Russiagate’ Allegations, Irresponsibly Promoted by Congress and the Media, Have Become a Grave Threat to American National Security

Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton University

Sputnik— Is Trump Trying to Prevent a New Cold War?

The US is fomenting a new cold war not because it is actually wants to fight a war with Russia or China but rather to force new arms race that will disrupt their development by committing massive funds to armaments, while at the same time feeding the US military-intelligence-industrial-financial complex that is the core of the US economy. It is also doing to to justify the continued existence of NATO and its expansion in order to cement post-WWII US occupation and control of Europe. The still believes that it can accomplish its objectives through regime change rather than war.

Should Trump win, he will find not one the deep state but also the US elite aligned against him if he insists on foreign policy realism.

The US media is strongly backing Hillary Clinton and the neoliberals, neoconservatives, and liberal interventionists. Stephen F. Cohen is saying that the media owes the country a debate on the issues instead of picking a winner that agrees with the elitist position and portrays the populist point of view as naïve and un-American.

This is shaping up to be a nasty campaign in which the stakes are not only trillions of dollars but also world domination, bringing the rats out of the sewer.

Sputnik
Is Trump Trying to Prevent a New Cold War?

Stephen F. Cohen — The Obama Administration Has Just Recklessly Escalated Its Military Confrontation With Russia

The Pentagon’s announcement that it will quadruple US-NATO military forces in countries on or near Russia’s borders pushes the new Cold War toward actual war, possibly even a nuclear one.

The Nation
The Obama Administration Has Just Recklessly Escalated Its Military Confrontation With Russia
Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics at New York University and Princeton University

See also

Russia really has only one option — massive thermonuclear retaliation against all NATO countries and Japan that would annihilate them (us) in the event of attack as a strategy of deterrence.

South Front
Russia rules out nuclear arms talks with US

Dan Kovalik — Rethinking Russia: A Conversation With Russia Scholar Stephen F. Cohen

Last week I had the honor of interviewing Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics at NYU and Princeton University, where for many years he was director of its Russian Studies program. Professor Cohen, a long-time friend of Mikhail Gorbachev, is one of the most important Russia scholars in the world and a member of the founding board of directors of the American Committee for East-West Accord, a pro-detente organization that seeks rethinking and public discussion of U.S. policy toward Russia.

Despite his impressive credentials and intimate knowledge of Russia and its history, you will rarely hear Cohen's voice in the mainstream press. And it is not for a lack of trying; his views, and those of others like him, are simply shut out of the media, which, along with almost every U.S. politician, has decided to vilify Russian and Putin, irrationally equating Putin with such tyrants as Adolf Hitler.…

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Rethinking Russia: A Conversation With Russia Scholar Stephen F. Cohen
Dan Kovalik