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Yes, it's The Nation but I found very few stories on line and this was the best of a bad lot. Anyway those of you who go back a ways might remember Dr. Cohen as a reliable Soviet apologist back in eighties. More recently he has been doing weekly segment about "the new cold war" on the John Batchelor show. Poor John swallowed all of Dr. Cohen's bilge without batting an eye. And yes, his wife was (as Rush liked to day) Hurricane Katrina.
1 posted on 09/27/2020 10:54:00 PM PDT by pluvmantelo
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was this person an infrequent guest
on Coast to Coast?


2 posted on 09/27/2020 11:28:06 PM PDT by RockyTx
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Thank you God for your Jewish New Year’s present, the kicking of the bucket by the Soviet Union top’s “disinformation” mouthpiece in the US out side of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Steven F. Cohen, formerly of Princeton University if I remember correctly (not the totally insane Rep. Stephen Cohen (D-TN) who is just a left and full of hate for America as any red in congress, past or present (except, perhaps for Maxine Waters and Omar/Tlaib).

This leaves Prof. Ellen Schrecker as one of the top pro-communist disinformation program specialists in academia. She too might be found at the www.keywiki.org site.

One red traitor down, so many more to go.

Cohen was denounced by conservative writers as a Soviet tool as early as the 1980’s in the Wash. Post and later he proved himself so totally wrong as to have discredited his so-called “expert” credentials on the Soviet Union.

Somewhere on the internet and possibly at www.keywiki.org, there is a mention of both articles, the latter one roughly but accurately entitled “The Soviet Union is No Basket Case”. It collapsed only a few years after it was written and published in his red wife’s magazine, “The Nation” (she being Katrina van den Heuvel, its editor/manager.

As for John Batchelor, he has a bad habit of bringing on, often continually, hardcore leftists to promote their anti-American, pro-Soviet Union/Russian version of history and disinformation on the Cold War.

Batchelor is a learned man, and brought us the great China scholar Gordan Chang and Malcolm Homlein on Israel but his devotion to Cohen was almost an obsession despite the large amount of evidence that Cohen was a Soviet “asset” (I suspect an old KGB asset, with or without a CPUSA card or a rank within Soviet intelligence, much like one-time KGB/CPUSA agent I.F. Izzy Stone was in the 50’s and even afterwards as an “independent” writer (my ass).

A domestic disinformation/coverup writer like Cohen is/was Victor Navasky, once the editor of The Nation and teacher of Van den Heuvel, his successor. His book “Naming Names” was an almost complete disinformation/coverup project re communism in Hollywood, esp. the Hollywood 10. He was a nasty SOB. Wouldn’t take questions from people who challenged his slop.


7 posted on 09/27/2020 11:46:45 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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10 posted on 09/28/2020 12:14:40 AM PDT by PGalt
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Apologist??? He was a flag out communist


13 posted on 09/28/2020 12:44:12 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Haven’t listened to Batchelor in a while. Loved his program. Great content...

But both he and Kudlow were a-holes regarding the 2016 immigration debates. Tuned John out about that time.


16 posted on 09/28/2020 2:13:13 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Mr. Cohen was an interesting writer, I read his take on Nikolai Buhkarin, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938, it was well written and makes some interesting arguments.

He was an open apologist for the USSR and a Russophile, but you always knew where he stood. I agreed with very few of his arguments, but I always considered him interesting to read or listen too.

17 posted on 09/28/2020 2:41:08 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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Dr Cohen was brilliant the times I listened to him on the John Batchelor show and I fully understand why Russiaphobes cringe at the mention of his name.


20 posted on 09/28/2020 3:13:54 AM PDT by JonPreston
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SFC was very interesting to listen to on the John Bachelor show. RIP.


21 posted on 09/28/2020 4:17:23 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (She is b.s. crazy, Jim!)
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I remember Tucker had him on at the beginning of the Trump/Russia collusion hysteria. He was reasonable in his discussions - not a foam-at-the-mouther


25 posted on 09/28/2020 5:28:02 AM PDT by time4good
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As I recall Cohen was polite, congenial, persuasive, and wrong 100% of the time. Sorta like Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman.


26 posted on 09/28/2020 6:06:27 AM PDT by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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31 posted on 09/28/2020 7:47:23 AM PDT by bitt (new q posts)
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Tucker Carlson pays tribute to Russia scholar Stephen F. Cohen
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6195472722001#sp=show-clips


34 posted on 09/28/2020 8:55:18 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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