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This theory is the latest incarnation of the Nazi formula, explained by Hermann Goeringback in 1946, for driving Germany’s people—or any people—to want war: “Convince them they’re under attack,” casting “pacifists” as threats to their security. (“It works the same in any country,” whatever its form of government.)
The difference is that, this time, “the enemy” is not some other state or states, or even stateless “terrorism,” but the virus.
From David William Pear:
Stephen F. Cohen, Historian of Russia, and a voice for sanity dies at 81 on September 18,2020
Selected videos republished from The Real News Network, where many more can be found.
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May 6, 2019
Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia, Stephen Cohen
I realized it wasn’t the Soviet Union that was the great danger, it was the potential of nuclear war, and it’s still the case today – says Stephen Cohen on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
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February 9, 2017
Empire Files: US-Russia Relations in “Most Dangerous Moment”
Dr. Stephen Cohen tells host Abby Martin that the real alarming danger today is “a new, multi-front Cuban missile crisis.”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jj1pTdgCPhY
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There is much to criticize the Russian president for, says Professor Stephen F. Cohen of Princeton and NYU, but many US political and media claims about Putin are false – and reckless
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Op6Qr7uuMy8
July 24, 2018
Debunking the Dangerous Putin Panic, with Stephen F. Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tUoJwXtMue4
Comment:
Stephen F. Cohen and many other voices of sanity had become persona non grata by the mainstream media because he refused to compromise his principles and honesty. The left abandoned him because he did not fit the anti-Trump narrative of why Hillary Clinton lost to a game show host, fraud and clown.
The real scandal was that Hillary Clinton and the DNC stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders. Her emails are the irrefutable evidence of the real election fraud.
The left is dead. It was starved to death begging for crumbs from the table of neoliberal Democrats. That is why Trump was elected in 2016, and will probably be elected again in 2020. Bernie or Bust is busted.
It is the same reason that the faux left has abandoned Julian Assange. Compromising one’s principles always comes home to roost. All that one gets is bird poop.
Good bye Stephen. The mainstream media is already spitting on your grave.
Having helped impose a mandatory, endless Halloween on the whole country, with forced masking and no gatherings, the CDC is canceling the real thing.
(Of course, they’re spinning it as NOT-a-cancellation, but with trick-or-treating and costume parties “discouraged,” cancellation is exactly what this is.)
Next: Thanksgiving dinners with no outside guests, Christmas with no offline shopping, followed by no New Year’s celebrations.
Article link: https://abc7ny.com/community-events/trick-or-treating-is-high-risk-during-covid-19-cdc-says/6498620/
This is shocking. (Was this guy an FAA agent? Must have been, or surely the flight crew would have reined him in.)
I put that “sic” in there because I doubt that Johnson thought it up himself.
Article link: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-needs-to-rethink-his-covid-strategy
Here is Denis Rancourt’s latest, on that “growing body of evidence” alleged to show that masks do prevent transmission of respiratory viruses (contrary to what the CDC and WHO were saying before their pivot in the spring). This article demolishes that claim, which is no truer for the fact that it’s now being repeated endlessly, by the same exalted bureaucrats and politicians who’ve been hammering that gong for months, and now louder than ever.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343399832_Face_masks_lies_damn_lies_and_public_health_officials_A_growing_body_of_evidence
And here’s a very useful summary of the pertinent facts, from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, sent to me by a good friend who’s a doctor in New Zealand:
https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/
As the threat of COVID-19 recedes into the past, and the mask mandates become more stringent and expansive, we badly need this blacked-out information; so please share it, with anyone who won’t flip out on you for sending it.
Here’s the thread that prompted NYU to email my students, referring them to the CDC’s “authoritative” position on face masks (that is, the one the CDC now takes, having said the opposite before April), and reaffirming NYU’s strict mask mandate (which I never urged the class to violate).
As you’ll see, these tweets are venomous, calling for my termination:
Somehow this thread has made quite a splash, as friends at other schools have contacted me about it, expressing concern about my status at NYU.
I’ve been teaching propaganda (how to study it, not do it) for years now; and while there’s always disagreement, and resistance—both good things—I’ve never had anything like this happen.
