Screenshot from MSNBC “This new Cold War [is] more dangerous than the preceding Cold War,” professor Stephen Cohen tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence.” Cohen, a professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University, has a new book
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Canadian Dimension: The CIA’s 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
Screenshot from CIA promotional video Joel Whitney’s new book, Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers, explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Revenge of the ‘Deplorables’
Photo by Gage Skidmore The people Hillary Clinton derided as a “basket of deplorables” have spoken. They have voted out of the pain of their economic misfortune, which Clinton’s branch of the Democratic Party helped engender. What you have is a defeat of elitism. Clinton’s arrogance was on full display
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