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Obama’s Stealth Sanctions Against Russia Are a Dirty Trick

Obama’s Stealth Sanctions Against Russia Are a Dirty Trick

June 30, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

These are fast times for Ukraine. The crisis over its future between East and West suddenly has more momentum and more chance of resolution than it has in many months. But it is newly fragile, too. A false move now…

Next on China’s 'My Way' List: Hong Kong

Next on China’s ‘My Way’ List: Hong Kong

June 23, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Push is rapidly coming to shove between China and Hong Kong, which bills itself as the “World City.” If the world doesn’t sit up and take notice soon, the political future of the autonomous territory could be imperiled and things…

George W. Bush’s horrific, deadly blunder: Would Saddam Hussein be better than Iraq’s new hell?

George W. Bush’s horrific, deadly blunder: Would Saddam Hussein be better than Iraq’s new hell?

June 18, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Eleven years, and so much death, misery and destruction later, Iraq’s best outcome looks like the one Bush upended Foreign policy, at least the American kind, is like a stone thrown into a pond: The ripples outward go on and…

Iraq: We Broke It, but We Can’t Fix It

Iraq: We Broke It, but We Can’t Fix It

June 16, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

As Iraq descends into a sectarian war that could prove more gruesome than any other that has befallen its people, two questions face the Obama administration. When and why did the mistakes begin? What’s the smart choice now? Answer the…

American exceptionalism and American innocence: The misleading history and messages of the 9/11 Memorial Museum

American exceptionalism and American innocence: The misleading history and messages of the 9/11 Memorial Museum

June 9, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The 9/11 Memorial gets grief profoundly. But the museum cynically exploits tragedy, confuses history with ideology After a dozen years of thinking, planning, disputing, designing, building and — we cannot leave this out — patriotic hyperventilating, we have a museum…

Japan’s Pivot Away from the West Leads Back to China

Japan’s Pivot Away from the West Leads Back to China

June 9, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Japan-watchers have asked since the “bubble” of the late-1980s, “What are the Japanese going to do?” Now Shinzo Abe, the bluntly nationalist prime minister, is making this clear, prompting a new question: “How will Americans and Japan’s neighbors handle what…

China’s Strategy Has Completely Eluded Washington

China’s Strategy Has Completely Eluded Washington

June 2, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The Chinese dragon, awake and alert for some time, is suddenly stretching its arms and embracing what it thinks with conviction is its destiny as a Pacific power. Will the American protectorate in place for 70 years hold, they ask…

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