I have been listening to “The John Batchelor Show radio news magazine.[1] Based at WABC radio” for the last several weeks and during that time he has had as a guest, at least once a week,a Stephen Frand Cohen (born 1938)who is an American scholar of Russian studies. His academic work concentrates on developments in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the country’s relationship with the United States”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Cohen
If you want information unfiltered by the MSM for the Obamites try to get bachelor podcasts/and or listen to him live. Batcherlor is a NY sytle Republican, and may be too liberal for some at this Blog, but he and his guests are knowledgeable and interesting. Learn to do your own filtering, that be thinking in Rio Linda, because his guests run the gambit of opinions. I am, and I guess others will be the better informed.
If you’ve listened to Stephen Cohen more than a few times you’ll have discovered he’s a dyed in the wool rusophile, whose very subtle justification of Putin becomes evident after four or five exposures.
Just as important in assessing his attachments is the fact that he is the husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor in chief of ‘The Nation’ an unapologetic progressive/socialist monthly rag. Birds of a feather do flock together.
Take his words with a block of salt, he’s very slick.
A good choice. You are right on with your characterization, but Batchelor’s show is so interesting and stays on a true high intellectual level. If anyone in the media wants to know how to do a real objective news show they should listen to Batchelor and take notes.
I used to enjoy listening to John Batchelor on the car radio on Sunday nights, but he is no longer in my area. Sunday evening talk shows are so bad that I now listen to music.
His “bumper music” is superior to just about everyone else’s.
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Speak of the devil. Here’s a recent tweet of Stephen F. Cohen’s wife, Katrina van den Heuvel.
“These rightwing rodeo warmongers don’t have principles. They arerank hypocrites re intl law & intervention— always ready to take down Prez.”
Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) March 04, 2014
Cohen was a Soviet shill for decades. He kind of faded away when the USSR fell apart, but the left has called him back to duty to attack America again and blame the USA for Putin’s crimes against other countries. He’s leftist scum, and his wife is the editor of the far left Nation magazine and a thoroughly nasty person in her own right.