Hats off to John Batchelor, the radio talk-show host and podcaster, who has countered the raging Russophobia and Cold War revival by regularly interviewing the eminent Russian scholar Stephen F. Cohen. (Links to the podcasts are here.) Cohen, who taught Russian history and politics for many years at Princeton and New York universities and who is affiliated with the pro-detente American Committee on East-West Accord, is a rare voice of calm good sense on Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the hacking of the DNC and John Podesta email accounts. Batchelor is a hero for having Cohen on his program about once a week.
Anti-war blog – And, they kill school girls…
While the anointed masters of modern morality discuss the layers of consent over recent revelations between ‘Jane Doe’ and the Cornell 7, or with all the vigour of Christian conservatives during the Satanic panic the outraged want to ban school girl uniforms from,...































