Prof. Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University and of Russian studies and history at New York University, his recent book is titled ‘War with Russia? From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate’; Cohen discusses the forces that shaped his political thinking on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
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Great interview…
Rip
R.I.P. Mr. Stephen Cohen. You'll be greatly missed.
Stephen Cohen and Dmitry Simes are the only two clever and competent american kremlenologists, I know here in Russia. The new generation of american kremlenologists is unfortunayely just ignorant propagandists.
"What desegregated the south was basketball." Good lord, this guy is nuts. No wonder he is always on Fox. Shameful Paul Jay. Lets negate the people who died fighting for decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
Well, Professor Cohen is much like his father who seemed to have little problem with segregation and he makes a lot of excuses for this fact. Amazingly, many white southerners knew it was wrong. He has little problem with the anti woman, anti immigrants propaganda coming from Putin.I guess he feels right at home since Putin is seen as the last white leader protecting western conservative(the irony!) values by white supremacists.
I recommend Frontlline's The Putin Files.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/the-putin-files/
Нет, нет, Стёпа, это твоя судьба!
The National Guard ended segregation.
amazing you don't see this guy on mainstream news, instead propagandist dunces lie to us
Should be next ambassador to Russia.
Excellent 🙂
My late husband was on football scholarship at U of K & he had the first black roommate, nobody else would room with him. The football team protected this guy or it would have been very difficult for this young black man & not so easy for my husband either. (grad 1968) Talent saved their butts.
Stephen Cohen is THE ONLY person that actually knows what he is talking about. Sad that he has been isolated from American social and media life.
Really interesting.
there is every indication that mr Cohen is a spineless cowardly fellow….what is his claim to fame ?
I agree with Prof. Cohen's assessment of Russia in general. It has been used as a foil for the west for over 100 years. How incredible that just 9 years after the USSR was obliterated by the global powers that 911 happened and Russia disappeared off the radar; only to suddenly reappear as a new threat to the west just prior to the Sochi Olympics. One can't help to see the parallels with Nazi Germany and the Munich Olympics. Was this an accident or fate Prof. Cohen?
He truly knows what he is speaking about. Very logical person. Extremely honest.
Love to watch TheRealNews for this sort of Real Journalism.
Love to see paul Jay back doin interviews
I find Stephen Cohen's story strangely moving. He insists on his real experiences, not on stereotyped images.
it is our "SUDBA" to watch this video! thx to prof. Cohen for his wonderful interview! Hope Russia and the West can be friends!
Fascinating, thank you!
Great stuff
Fascinating. I hope his voice will be heard so that we can avoid new confrontations with Russia.
I love Stephen Cohen! Too bad these videos are horribly cut and titled and released separately so that it's next to impossible to just watch the discussion.
He can't seriously think the lack of Russophobia was from "not knowing any". That's like the opposite of how prejudice & xenophobia works.
… Prolly just meant his area wasn't exposed to it.
Mission impossible
When you're young nothing is understandable but everything is normal. When you're older everything is understandable but nothing is normal.
Wonderful to see Pro. Cohen's photos through the ages!
Your J. Stalin bashing tells a lot about you Mr Cohen. Totally disgusting. After Kruschev with his ukranian gang of thieves and liars everything went wrong in the world. Stalin was and still is the only leader of the working class that ever lived.
An alliance twixt two hegemons doth not work toward a sustainable world of of peace, justice, equality and hope. Power in Russia and the US must be quarantined rather than consolidated.
Why "Part 4/5" in the title? Sounds like 1/5 given the intro…
They had their side and we had ours…let's talk about NYC. I was only concerned about myself. Let's talk about living in England and having to decide where to travel next. .. I am listening…
I like to listen to this on my phone but the volume is too low even when set to max 🙁
Both of u clowns can shut up now. This iams early in the show. You two think u are just tthe best at giving out how good you are and the placee uu come from. Nazi is the word for it.
Great discussion. Thank you Paul and Stephen. We are so deprived of such frank discussions; it is heartbreaking.
This interview started out talking about different realities; I'm heavy into philosophy and I believe logic shapes an individual's reality. I'm a couple of years younger than your guest; I grew up in the Mid-West and this created my logic. I'm a middle baby boomer; the WW2 logic had very little influence in creating my reality. Protests for equality shaped my logic; a race equality was the reality of my childhood. As an American dialectic; a mixture of Black and White, I was rejected by both races so I developed a logic of class equality; the solution to my inequality reality. I've always grown things; as a child I had a garden in my Grandmother's back yard. I discovered the writing of Marx and Chairman Mao at a young age and Chairman Mao was a perfect fit that helped me develop an organic logic of class equality.
Young kids have a saying "don't blame the player blame the Game" which says there is a structure; a design. The Game has rules and if you understand the rules and use them to your advantage you can have success in the game. People are threatened by Communism, Socialism and Marxian thought but what people fear most about Marx is his critique of Capital. Marx dissects Capital (value in motion); he defines the laws that govern value in motion. The law of ownership leads to accumulation of the universal equivalent of value; money. Accumulation of money allows for the accumulation of power; power that insures the ability to accumulate more money. As value in motion increases the mass of accumulation increases; this is the dialectic of Capital's reality .
Most philosophy's are secular in nature but my reality has an organic logic. Contrary to popular belief history did not end with Capitalism. Capitalism is an organic process a game that has society at the edge of extinction. Everybody knows this but they can't escape the logic that has them a slave to the game of Capital in motion. Free will and destiny are the philosopher's greatest query but what if they to are a dialectic also. Destiny is the design; the master and free will or freedom; is the essence or geist the slave. What if just like the plant the design is the instructions to grow and the essence is the fruit it bares. This system is collapsing; all organism's die and Capitalism is not immune. Chris Martenson has a podcast titled "Living with Integrity" and I recommend people watch it and try to metabolize the integrity logic.
Jay conflating anti-Communism with Racism right out of the box.
How sick is that?