NATO strategy: the geopolitics of self-fulfilling prophecyhttps://twitter.com/ap/status/742320370565447680 …
A must-read by @hannahgais on the dangers of the fear that drives the new "Cold War"
https://thebaffler.com/this-american-carnage/whos-afraid-of-the-russian-soul-gais …
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This description of the noxious McCarthyite environment in the US in the 1950s and its foreign policy reverberations are eerily familiar in 2018: "all United States citizens were ‘professional patriots and Russian haters’"pic.twitter.com/s9KSW6fdi3
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Important interview from 2017 with Ellen Schrecker, retired professor of American history at Yeshiva University, on the meaning, dangers and legacy of McCarthyism and its current manifestationhttps://fair.org/home/ellen-schrecker-on-the-new-mccarthyism-2/ …
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Important article by
@keithgessen on the American Russia policy-makershttps://nytimes.com/2018/05/08/magazine/the-quiet-americans-behind-the-us-russia-imbroglio.html …Show this thread -
Richard Sakwa of
@UniKent:@keithgessen’s piece “provides an important glimpse into the confluence of factors that have produced the dominant consensus – a group view that many of us think is not only profoundly mistaken but also extremely dangerous”http://russialist.org/richard-sakwa-re-keith-gessens-article-the-quiet-americans-behind-the-u-s-russia-imbroglio/ …Show this thread
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