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Lee Kuan Yew is finally dead — and America’s elites are eulogizing a tyrant and psychological monster

Lee Kuan Yew is finally dead — and America’s elites are eulogizing a tyrant and psychological monster

March 31, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Lee Kuan Yew made Singapore wealthy & kept people in line with barbaric fear. Clinton & Kissinger should be ashamed It would be difficult to match Boris Yeltsin, the drunkard who turned tanks on Russia’s post-Soviet democracy, for the effusions…

Obama’s Middle East Mess and How to Clean It Up

Obama’s Middle East Mess and How to Clean It Up

March 30, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

“I think what we’re seeing is a rerun of the Iran/Iraq war” Kerry said, “We have to negotiate with Assad.” Yes that Assad. The U.S. Backs Sunnis, no Shiites, no Saudis, no Iranians…Huh? This has to be a singular moment…

China’s New Development Bank: How Obama Blew It in the Pacific (Again)

China’s New Development Bank: How Obama Blew It in the Pacific (Again)

March 23, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

When China launched a new multilateral lending institution last October amid fanfare in the Great Hall of the People, the Obama administration had already spent many months opposing it. It urged Beijing not to go forward; then it lobbied allies…

America’s immoral exceptionalism: The lie we keep telling ourselves about foreign policy and democracy

America’s immoral exceptionalism: The lie we keep telling ourselves about foreign policy and democracy

March 19, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Americans are disgusted with all of these wars, but feel powerless to do anything about it The task of historians in our time is to unbury the buried. For journalists, it is to see that the truth of events is…

Why Draghi’s Stimulus Plan Is Europe’s Last Shot

Why Draghi’s Stimulus Plan Is Europe’s Last Shot

March 16, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It looks as if Mario Draghi is at last on the way to earning his nickname. Mr. Whatever It Takes, the European Central Bank’s president, launched his long-awaited quantitative easing program last week. Early indications are promising: The policy that…

Tom Cotton’s war on reality: The GOP will recognize no limits

Tom Cotton’s war on reality: The GOP will recognize no limits

March 12, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The extreme right will risk global conflict to preserve the fading dream of America’s eternal hegemony That letter Republican senators, 47 of the 54 now seated, sent to Iran this week to sabotage the Obama administration’s nuclear talks is preposterous…

A Nuclear Deal with Iran Starts to Look Likely

A Nuclear Deal with Iran Starts to Look Likely

March 9, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Will we or won’t we have an international deal defining Iran’s nuclear programby the negotiators’ self-imposed deadline? There are two weeks left. This is now the kind of cliffhanger the London bookmakers usually offer odds on. My wager is that…

Let’s all pity Netanyahu and the GOP: Israel, Iran, irrational thinking — and Thomas Friedman’s usual muddled nonsense

Let’s all pity Netanyahu and the GOP: Israel, Iran, irrational thinking — and Thomas Friedman’s usual muddled nonsense

March 5, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

A reactionary leader addressing a reactionary legislature will expose the creeping irrelevance of them both Many readers will have seen Benjamin Netanyahu’s sentimentally charged but otherwise empty speech to Congress on Tuesday. If you missed it, you can watch it…

Germany’s New Policy Plan Puts the US on Catch Up

Germany’s New Policy Plan Puts the US on Catch Up

March 2, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It takes a strong nation, as opposed to one that’s merely powerful to rethink the way it conducts its foreign relations. Germany now proves the point, and Americans should sit up straight and take a long look. This is nothing…

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