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KoKo

(84,711 posts)
Mon May 19, 2014, 06:46 PM May 2014

Multi-Polar World...Stuff you won't hear from MSM Think Tanks Ops on CNN/MSNBC/FAUX NEWS/C-Span!!

Published on May 19, 2014
How is multipolar world going to look like? Will Washington recognize the rise of the other poles? And what is the future: order or chaos? CrossTalking with Rodney Shakespeare, Mark Sleboda and Ehsan Ahrari.

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Multi-Polar World...Stuff you won't hear from MSM Think Tanks Ops on CNN/MSNBC/FAUX NEWS/C-Span!! (Original Post) KoKo May 2014 OP
Well, if it comes from Russia's "think tank Ops", I believe every word. Tarheel_Dem May 2014 #1
Those are things we don't want to hear. zeemike May 2014 #2
Great Show swilton May 2014 #3
More you won't hear on MSM: Kim Jong Un Visits Children in Hospital! uhnope May 2014 #4

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
2. Those are things we don't want to hear.
Mon May 19, 2014, 09:00 PM
May 2014

Because of American (perceived) exceptulism.
So no, you won't hear it on our MSM...nothing but USA, USA, USA.

 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
3. Great Show
Mon May 19, 2014, 10:49 PM
May 2014

Again - I go back to Barbara Tuchman's March of Folly -

More than three decades ago, distinguished American historian Barbara Tuchman emerged in American culture by popularizing history. While Tuchman’s critically acclaimed Guns of August and Stillwell and the American Experience in China were recognized with Pulitzer Prizes, it is her March of Folly that seems so appropriate to provide us with contemporary lessons…..Surveying the recorded past ‘from Troy to Vietnam’ , Tuchman explores the recurring phenomena of governments’ pursuit of policies contrary to their interests. Illuminating the folly with these cases: ‘Prototype: The Trojans Take the Wooden Horse Within their Walls’; ‘The Renaissance Popes Provoke the Protestant Secession (1470-1530)’; ‘The British Lose America’; and ‘America Betrays Herself in Vietnam’ Tuchman argued that governments carry out self- destructive acts despite the availability of recognized and feasible alternatives. It seems appropriate to argue that ending two and one-half decades of détente with Russia and moving closer to not just another Cold War but a hot war is the folly Tuchman warned about.

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