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Why Baucus Is the Wrong Man as China’s Ambassador

Why Baucus Is the Wrong Man as China’s Ambassador

December 23, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

There are several reasons President Obama just named Max Baucus, the long-serving senator from Montana, as his next ambassador to China. There are also several reasons to judge Baucus the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time…

Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone

Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone

December 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Our media loves to pose as high-minded overseas. At home, they do the government’s bidding almost without fail They say fiction has had its day, given over to Brooklyn-dwellers with nothing to say. True and not. Our newspapers provide splendid…

China Grows Impatient with the Barbarian of North Korea

China Grows Impatient with the Barbarian of North Korea

December 16, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

North Korea’s leader has a baby face and a weird haircut and exhibits the whims of an unsupervised kid at Disneyland. He’s thrown tantrums before, threatening to fire nuclear missiles at the United States, executing a female musical group, and…

American empire is over: Somebody tell John Kerry!

American empire is over: Somebody tell John Kerry!

December 12, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

New York Times embarrassingly praises Biden and Kerry’s sorrowful efforts, all unaware U.S. exceptionalism is dead We have made ourselves a navel-gazing folk, a little like Americans of the 19th century — until we lunged into the world by bravely…

As Democracy Grows So Does Global Corruption

As Democracy Grows So Does Global Corruption

December 9, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It is hard to miss the democratic longings of so many of the world’s citizens as their voices rise these days. In number and diversity, these are surely among the distinct sounds of 2013. It is, however, impossible to miss…

Is China Trading a Fly Zone for a Growing Economy?

Is China Trading a Fly Zone for a Growing Economy?

December 2, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

There is a simple way to look at the complicated crisis that arises as China pressesnew claims to jurisdiction over air space above the Pacific. Beijing’s recent announcement that it will assert rights over a newly declared “air defense identification…

Why Kerry’s Iran Deal Will Hold Up

Why Kerry’s Iran Deal Will Hold Up

November 25, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Secretary of State Kerry pulled off a hat trick in Sunday’s pre-dawn hours, when six world powers and Iran announced an interim deal in Geneva on the latter’s nuclear program. Kerry was all over the Sunday morning talk shows, soft-pedaling…

Reform the New York Times! Media must stop protecting companies tied to Chinese corruption

Reform the New York Times! Media must stop protecting companies tied to Chinese corruption

November 23, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

U.S. corporations are complicit in Chinese corruption. Why are our newspapers so afraid to report the truth Once upon a time, people on this side of the Pacific were encouraged to assume that China’s post-Mao economic reforms would make the…

How Secret How Secret Global Trade Talks Can Destroy the InternetGlobal Trade Talks Can Destroy the Internet

How Secret How Secret Global Trade Talks Can Destroy the InternetGlobal Trade Talks Can Destroy the Internet

November 18, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Talks on the two biggest trade agreements in history are reaching critical stages, and none of us knows anything about them. Like it or not, this is ignorance by design: Months of negotiations across both oceans have proceeded in secret,…

Chomsky’s right: The New York Times’ latest big lie

Chomsky’s right: The New York Times’ latest big lie

November 16, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

More misleading half-truths from a paper too cowed by power and myth to tell the truth about U.S. foreign policy Never before have I written a column concerning nothing more than a pair of quotation marks. Then again, never until…

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