This is Jackhamon Radio and I'm Susie Weisman.

On today's podcast we are examining US-Russia

relations as they are, as they are portrayed, and what they represent or suggest.

We begin with Seth Ackerman, executive editor of

Jacobin magazine who has an article called The Expressive

Function of the Russia freak out that skewers much of what is

regularly touted by mainstream media and asks why there's such

a divergence between the substance and fact of US-Russia policy and what the media obsession

in hysteria over the supposed Russian threat represents.

We then talk to Russia expert Hillel Ticdon, editor of Critique, who asks why the U.S. has been so harsh

on Russia when Putin represents a Christian capitalist

if authoritarian politics. We'll get his take on what is behind making Russia our

arch enemy once again now that it no longer pretends to be communist and is indeed a

fraction of what it was industrially in terms of population and its strength.

All this on Jacobin Radio.

Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Weisman.

And on today's program, we're going to look at the US Russian Relations as they are,

as they're portrayed, and what they really represent or even suggest.

Seth Ackerman has a great piece that appeared in Jacobin on July 19th, that's

Jacobin Mag online, and it's called the expressive function of the Russia freak out and it raises key

critical points that are missing from most of what passes as reporting on US

Russian relations and indeed Seth Ackerman skewers much of the

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