{"id":400873,"date":"2019-03-22T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-right-book-at-the-right-time\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:07:17","slug":"the-right-book-at-the-right-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-right-book-at-the-right-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Book at the Right Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/the-right-book-at-the-right-time\/512anoxq3ml\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-90413\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/512anOxQ3ML-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/512anOxQ3ML-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/512anOxQ3ML.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>If Vladimir Putin really wanted to hurt the United States he\u2019d send Russian bombers to drop copies of Ron Ridenour\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0996487069\/dissivoice-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert<\/a><\/em> on schools throughout America. Chronicling US crimes and obstructions against peace for over 100 years, this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsar_Bomba\">Tsar Bomba<\/a> of a book ranges over the 1918 US invasion of Russia, US capitalism\u2019s neverending collaborations with fascists and takfiris, the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK\u2019s assassination, Soviet involvement in Afghanistan and the momentous year 2001 when Vladimir Putin offered to align Russia\u2019s foreign policy with the US only to get repaid by the US serving notice that it would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, setting off a new arms race. (Your humble reviewer believes that the only reason for the US to leave the ABM Treaty is that Dick \u2014 the real \u201cdecider\u201d \u2014 Cheney decided that a nuclear war could be fought and \u201cwon.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Aside from an exciting account of the Russian revolution, there\u2019s little in the book about Russia\u2019s domestic affairs over the past century. Instead, Russia and the US are contrasted in their foreign policies and dealings with each other. The chief takeaway is that Soviet and Russian leaders from Stalin to Khrushchev to Brezhnev to Gorbachev to Putin were\/are a whole lot more cautious, practical and less ideological than their US counterparts. (Fidel Castro wanted the Soviets to leave tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba but the Russian leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/the-right-book-at-the-right-time\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Vladimir Putin really wanted to hurt the United States he\u2019d send Russian bombers to drop copies of Ron Ridenour\u2019s Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert on schools throughout America. Chronicling US crimes and obstructions against peace for over 100 years, this Tsar Bomba of a book ranges over the 1918 US invasion of Russia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}