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The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert Paperback – June 22, 2018

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4.8 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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Ron Ridenour’s book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert, a true historical page-turner, is destined to endure and inform future readers, writers and researchers about both what has been reported—mainly malicious propaganda—and what truly took place in the one hundred years from the 1917 Russian Revolution until the eruption of the distinct harbingers of the collapse of the US empire in the early twenty-first century. Events often just seem to happen, caught up in the swirl of history. But still, we try to interpret them and to understand. And then, in many cases, take a stand for or against. Understanding is like discovering a new world, like converting to a new faith. Revolt invades your life and everything is different from what it once was. Ridenour’s book helps us along the way to first remembering the historical facts so that we can then understand. His new work documents clearly facts about the early years of the Soviet Union’s relations with the West, its difficult steps toward socio-political maturity and Communism, and its enormous sacrifices along the way: its defeat of Western intervention during the revolutionary and civil war period; its regulation of state economic planning and the reforms required for the industrialization of the nation; its defeat of the German Nazi military juggernaut at the gates of Russia’s major cities and the coup de grace in the ferocious battle in Stalingrad, defeating German invaders and crushing Nazi Germany before the USA even entered the war; and finally the arduous salvation of Russia after the collapse of the USSR under US post-WWII economic firepower and the most treacherous anti-Russian policies since the early 1900s. Those Western policies continue to determine US-Russian relations today. Throughout this long work Ridenour recalls and clarifies diverse significant historical details, obscured by time and by Western propaganda, facts that are so easily forgotten or that were never learned: such ignored truths as the importance of the USSR in the defeat of Japan in WWII and the timing of the US use of the atomic bomb in Japan. Not many people are aware of the extent of the destruction of many Japanese cities which the author details here. He points out that the Soviet Union kept its word to help the United States by its intervention against Japan, the decisive reason why Japan was defeated even before the atomic bombs fell. A stunning but little known fact is that in response to the Russians' sacrifice the Anglo-American leaders—first Churchill and later Truman— were hatching Operation Unthinkable and Operation Pincher to launch a surprise war against Soviet forces in Europe. These military plots included the potential use of nuclear bombs. This is a book that no well-informed Western reader should be without, especially those inhabiting the homeland of the new empire, the dangerously brainwashed United States.
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    June 22, 2018
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    6 x 1.28 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0996487069
  6. ISBN-13
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"Ron Ridenour has written a timely, important and eloquent book showing the dangers of American Exceptionalism and how that bad religion continues to put the U.S. on a dangerous collision course with the rest of the world, and most notably Russia. His book shows that the enemy of the U.S. has never been countries like Russia. Rather, the true enemy is our collective belief that somehow our military domination of the world is not only justified but necessary to make the world safe for democracy and freedom. In fact, as Ridenour shows, the U.S.'s compulsive military engagements abroad are only destabilizing the world and leading us closer to a conflagration which may be the complete undoing of us. This book is a critical reading for our times." - Dan Kovalik

"The author has done his homework, and has footnoted everything. He has worked in Cuba, and has been thorough in documenting all his claims. He supports Communism and pretty much everything "left". If you grew up as I did, in the "home of the free and the land of the brave", it is very hard to read." - Ralph Smithers

"The Russian Peace Threat should be required reading for every student of US history...but of course it won't be. Ridenour reveals the facts that your government does not want you to know: the truth of U.S. hegemony." - William David Pear

"At over five hundred pages, Ron Ridenour's latest book is one I would give every person who is convinced that Russia represents an existential threat to the US -- or who are not sure the media is systematically lying to them. He has managed to combine a detailed history of the US-Soviet-Russia saga with up-to-date -- as of June 2018 -- reporting on the latest turns in Russiagate." - Deena Stryker

"It is an ancient technique of statesmanship to achieve unity by creating an external enemy or danger. With his new book, Ron Ridenour has captured the essential frame that describes the Zeitgeist of the Western world, and above all the American world, in their distortion of reality to exorcise their own sins of excesses of military and economic hegemony. Russia is once again the Black Beast, as it was during the Cold War as part of the Soviet Union." - Andrea Galli

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Ron Ridenour was born in the US Military Empire, 1939. After four years in the Air Force, he rejected the American Dream, in 1961, and has since acted as an anti-war, anti-racist and solidarity radical activist (Long Hot Summer, 1964, in Mississippi; Wounded Knee AIM 1973; anti-Vietnam war coordinator in Los Angeles). He has lived in many countries and worked as a journalist-editor-author-translator for five decades, including for Cuba's Editorial José Martí and Prensa Latina (1988-96). He has lived in Denmark for three decades agitating against its vassal state mentality and warmongering.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Punto Press, LLC (June 22, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 564 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0996487069
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0996487061
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.64 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.28 x 9 inches
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Ron Ridenour was born in the US Military Empire, 1939. After four years in the Air Force, he rejected the American Dream, in 1961, and has since acted as an anti-war, anti-racist and solidarity radical activist (Long Hot Summer, 1964, in Mississippi; Wounded Knee AIM 1973; anti-Vietnam war coordinator in Los Angeles). He has lived in many countries and worked as a journalist-editor-author-translator for five decades, including for Cuba’s Editorial José Martí and Prensa Latina (1988-96). He has lived in Denmark for three decades agitating against its vassal state mentality and warmongering.

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  • John Rachel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Masterfully written . . . such breathtaking scope and depth!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2018
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    Ron Ridenour’s masterfully-written indictment of U.S. militarism and its take-all-prisoners imperial project is of such breathtaking scope and astonishing depth, it would be hard to exaggerate its value and timeliness, as the foreign policy of the Empire of Chaos now as never before in recorded history, steers the world toward apocalyptic confrontation and puts the survival of the entire human race at risk.

    Those readers still in the embrace of the most toxic pile of propaganda ever assembled by a world power, that America is a force of good, spreading democracy, defending human rights, standing with the oppressed and marginalized, should have medics in the room with them to apply emergency procedures as the truth pours off the pages of this book. Ridenour pulls no punches and with meticulous research and documentation, leaves little doubt that his narrative offers nothing less than the explicit and savage truth of over a century of exploits and exploitation. We see brutal, barbaric, merciless application of military and economic power, with the clear and unambiguous goal of world domination — the U.S. as the ultimate empire blessed by God and history and the Fates, exempt from the rules of international law and judgment by anyone who would challenge it. While the focus is Russia, this book covers a lot more ground, offering glimpses into many theaters of confrontation and conflict: China, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, of course the Middle East, as well as many countries in its more immediate sphere of influence, Central and South America. With its 800+ bases currently sprawling across the planet, we’re hard-pressed to find anywhere where the heavy foot of American power does not exercise its self-serving prerogative.

    Those readers who already are familiar with the scope of U.S. hypocrisy, who understand that behind the smiley face of official beneficence and goodness lies an agenda that serves a ruling elite at the expense of the vast number of everyday citizens, both inside the U.S. and out, will still benefit enormously from this book. Much of it might constitute a refresher course, but I suspect many, myself included, will be pleasantly — or unpleasantly — rewarded with both disturbing factual knowledge and Ridenour’s fresh insights and analysis. It may be for such readers “preaching to the choir” but I’ve never heard a choir that didn’t need to be tuned up from time to time.

    Ridenour quotes “The Naked Human”, a poem written by Gustav Munch-Petersen.

    I am only a human
    but I shall one day
    raise earth’s mountains
    and let them shake
    in the ears of those who sleep

    I am only a human
    but I shall one day
    take the sun down from heaven
    and light up all the dark holes
    with merciless white light

    I am only a human
    but I shall one day
    steal the gods lightning
    and sweep the earth clean of dust`

    If I may do some metaphorical borrowing, I’d say that with “The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert” Ron Ridenour has raised some mountains, taken the sun down from heaven, and stolen lightning from the gods. Let’s hope his exceptional scholarship and writing wakes up some people, lights up the dark holes, and sweeps away the dust. Our survival as a species depends on it.
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  • Dr. Roger Kotila
    5.0 out of 5 stars Russia Is Not A Real Enemy of the U.S. -- It Is A Hoax
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2021
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    I am the editor DWF NEWS, Earth Federation News & Views, and the President of Democratic World Federalists. We are an international peace think tank which specializes in "world public interest journalism." Ridenour, an outstanding investigative journalist, provides fact finding as it relates to whether or not Russia is a real, or fake, enemy of the U.S. Our research concludes that the notion that Russia is an "enemy" is a lie, a propaganda hoax contrived by the Pentagon to keep the American public paranoid and hence willing to continue to support the U.S. War Business. Ridenour's "The Russian Peace Threat" is a must read for those of us determined to know the truth. -- Dr. Roger Kotila, Psychologist
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  • Just KEN, thank you
    5.0 out of 5 stars I believe this book is on to something.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022
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    A viewpoint worth investigating. Makes a point that the US and her leaders/henchmen are up to no good. Educate yourself. I am a slow reader so will give a review when I am through the book.
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  • Ralph
    5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed, Documented & Devastating
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018
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    The author has done his homework, and has footnoted everything. He has worked in Cuba, and has been thorough in documenting all his claims. He supports Communism and pretty much everything "left". If you grew up as I did, in the "home of the free and the land of the brave", it is very hard to read. Much of what he has written I already knew, but the obvious reality that the country we grew up in has been pretty much corrupted for most of its history is depressing. The writing style is straightforward and grammatical, not eloquent. But the subject matter is essential to understand, and the writing style achieves that "in spades". By all means read this book.
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  • Bill Lunghi
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for Rachel Maddow
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2020
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    Not disappointed! Very informative and well-documented.
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  • Andrea Galli
    5.0 out of 5 stars It is an ancient technique of statesmanship to achieve unity ...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2018
    It is an ancient technique of statesmanship to achieve unity by creating an external enemy or danger. With his new book, Ron Ridenour has captured the essential frame that describes the Zeitgeist of the Western world, and above all the American world, in their distortion of reality to exorcise their own sins of excesses of military and economic hegemony. Russia is once again the Black Beast, as it was during the Cold War as part of the Soviet Union.

    But the truth is that the Western states are challenged by internal problems. Spicily, Western governments are only accelerating their own decline by denying their own democratic challenges.

    Russophobia - "Russia is to blame for everything" - is the short-term and futile attempt to postpone the day of reckoning when angry and informed citizens of the West will demand a democratic restoration because of their legitimate concerns.

    It is sick, but in the political class of the West it has become an indoctrinated belief that the "insidious" Russians intend to "collapse" Western democracies by making "disinformation a weapon" and spreading "fake news" with their Russian news channels such as RT and Sputnik. This narrative is endless: Western states are basically victims of an evil Russian attack that is supposed to cause a collapse.

    However, it is this anti-democratic and paranoid thinking of Western politicians - supported and fired upon by conscientious media - that kills democracy from within, and not some alleged external enemy.

    There is obviously a sense of the decline of authority and legitimacy in the Western states, even if the real causes of this decline are ignored or denied. Government systems, politicians of all colours and institutions such as the established media and the secret services are increasingly despised and distrusted by the public.

    Who is to blame for this loss of political and moral authority? Western governments and institutions should look in the mirror.

    The collapsing state of Western democracies has nothing to do with Russia. The Russophobia of blaming Russia for the decline of Western institutions is an attempt to find a scapegoat for the very real problems facing governments and institutions such as the news media. These problems are home-made and, because of their chronic anti-democratic nature, are the property of those governments. And also because of the systematic violations of international law in the pursuit of criminal wars and other excuses for treason.
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