{"id":310480,"date":"2017-05-30T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-does-the-united-states-beat-up-on-capitalist-russia\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:18:42","slug":"why-does-the-united-states-beat-up-on-capitalist-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-does-the-united-states-beat-up-on-capitalist-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does the United States Beat Up On Capitalist Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_93031\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93031\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-29-at-9.50.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-29-at-9.50.00-PM.png 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-29-at-9.50.00-PM-300x194.png 300w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-29-at-9.50.00-PM-768x497.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by josef.stuefer | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cold War we are familiar with ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. In his new book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/151073032X\/counterpunchmaga\">The Plot to Scapegoat Russia<\/a>,\u201d lawyer and human rights activist Dan Kovalik writes about a new Cold War against Russia \u2013 and about the peace that never came. He discusses the role of the Democratic Party and the CIA, but his book centers on explaining why hostilities resumed.<\/p>\n<p>The real motivations of a revived confrontation are hardly the stuff of day-to-day news, and so the author relies upon the historical record for discovering the origins of a new Cold War. And he tells why the old Cold War was waged.<\/p>\n<p>The common explanation was a pretext, he thinks. In Kovalik\u2019s words: \u201cthe Cold War, at least from the vantage point of the US, had little to do with fighting \u2018Communism,\u2019 and more to do with making the world safe for corporate plunder.\u201d This proposition, implied more than dwelled upon, enables the author to account for other U. S. wars and interventions.<\/p>\n<p>CIA involvement is mentioned but not detailed. For Kovalik, \u201cthe CIA is a nefarious, criminal organization which often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/151073032X\/counterpunchmaga\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-93019\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/05\/plotkovalik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"262\"\/><\/a>misleads the Ameri\u00adcan public and government into wars and misadventures.\u201d These two themes \u2013 the real reason for why the United States fights wars and the CIA\u2019s role in such wars \u2013 are unobtrusively present throughout the history recounted in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Readers hungry to know about the \u201cplot\u201d advertised in the book\u2019s title will need&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/30\/why-does-the-united-states-beat-up-on-capitalist-russia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by josef.stuefer | CC BY 2.0 The Cold War we are familiar with ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. In his new book \u201cThe Plot to Scapegoat Russia,\u201d lawyer and human rights activist Dan Kovalik writes about a new Cold War against Russia \u2013 and about the peace that never came. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}