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Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.

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The Washington Post's campaign to depict Russia as the enemy is unrelenting. Again, on the 19th, we could read in the paper the following: "U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said."

Nothing, however, compares with President Obama's speech to the UN General Assembly (September 24, 2014) where he classified Russia to be one of the three threats to the world along with the Islamic State and ebola.

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A war between nuclear-powered United States and nuclear- powered Russia is "unthinkable". Except that American military men think about it, like Cold-War US General Thomas Power, speaking about nuclear war or a first strike by the US: "The whole idea is to kill the bastards! At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win!" The response from one of those present was: "Well, you'd better make sure that they're a man and a woman."

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William Blum is the author of: Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2 - Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower - West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. (more...)
 
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