{"id":218766,"date":"2016-01-25T09:23:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T09:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-game-of-demonizing-putin\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T09:23:29","slug":"the-game-of-demonizing-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-game-of-demonizing-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Demonizing Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Official Washington influences\u00a0the opinions of the American people about world affairs by demonizing certain foreign leaders, making them objects of both revulsion and ridicule, thus justifying \u201cregime change\u201d strategies, a particularly dangerous game when played against nuclear-armed Russia, as John Ivens explains.<\/p>\n

By John Ivens<\/p>\n

On the morning of Jan. 16 at Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign headquarters in Clinton, Iowa, I met Madeleine Albright. She looked different than I remembered her as the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State during Bill Clinton\u2019s second term. She looked less imposing than before, more like a little barn owl seeking refuge from a bitterly cold Iowa winter.<\/p>\n

Secretary Albright was acting as a surrogate for Hillary\u2019s campaign. That Saturday, she was motivating volunteers to canvas and make phone calls for Hillary. I sensed that Secretary Albright came to Clinton, Iowa, to energize older folks on the same weekend Chelsea Clinton was in Davenport appealing to voters of younger generations.<\/p>\n

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