a couple of side comments. Cohen is a communist. Always has been as far as I can trace his work/statements, but he is a slick, scholarly-type smear and diversion artist.
He has been the top academic protecting the old Soviet Union and now Russia from real scrutiny as to what is really going on there, in their foreign adventures, and what they have planned for the West.
Cohen wrote a piece for his wife’s Marxist rag, “The Nation” in 1983 roughly entitled “The Soviet Union is No Economic Basketcase”. Six years later someone should have shoved his disinformation piece up his red ass (whilehe was teaching at either Princeton or NYU).
His wife is red propagandista Katrina van Den Heuvel, the protégé of the protector of the Communist Party USA’s history, esp. in Hollywood (his book “Naming Names” was a cover-up of Communist proven and sometimes admitted penetration and control of some of Hollywood (i.e John Howard Larson, the Commissar of Hollywood, the Soviet CPUSA member chosen to lead the infiltration there, which he admitted).
Batchelor, who is very educated, was totally snookered by Cohen’s academic demeanor and suave voice, to the point that he (and Tucker Carlson too), believed his Marxist disinformation crap.
Michael Vlahos - Taught at the Naval Academy and over the years, he became a leftist. He too, was on the John Batchelor Sho. I wondered why he was ever allowed to teach at the Naval Academy, but with a Secy of the Navy like Ray Mabus, the head of the “Queens’ Navy” under Obama, it explained a lot about the neutering of the military academies (Air Force Academy, the worst; West Point graduated an avowed communist cadet and did nothing to oust him over the years; Navy - turning out poor ship commanders whose hobby seems to be colliding with their own fleet ships or having deplorable social behavior - not all but enough to have a major scandal for years).
If you don’t follow some of these people for years (Cohen and Vlahos, for example), you can easily fall under their “scholarly, patronizing” manners and bullshit. That is what happened to both Batchelor and Carlson and it shouldn’t have if they had been aware of who they were dealing with and how communist psychological warfare/disinformation propaganda/ist programs work.
Great post to you, and article ping.
Cohen is a modern more presentable version of I.F. Stone, assigned to a different area of operations.
Thanks, Max. Appreciate the heads up.