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With Xi and Putin, Obama Sets the U.S. on a Course of Confusion

With Xi and Putin, Obama Sets the U.S. on a Course of Confusion

September 28, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

President Obama’s September agenda will need a glass case all its own when his presidential library is built. Straight from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit, Obama is now scheduled to meet Vladimir Putin at the U.N. Monday. Count Pope…

How America built its empire: The real history of American foreign policy that the media won’t tell you

How America built its empire: The real history of American foreign policy that the media won’t tell you

September 23, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Perry Anderson sits down with Salon to discuss the Cold War, Hiroshima, American exceptionalism, Iran and more The other day I wrote Perry Anderson, the subject of the following interview, to ask what he thought of the foreign policy debates,…

We do what we damn well please: The demented American exceptionalism behind the neo-con foreign policy con

We do what we damn well please: The demented American exceptionalism behind the neo-con foreign policy con

September 17, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The right wants to substitute religious belief and ideology for reality and smarts. The Iran deal won’t derail them A few blocks south of where I sit, the 70th General Assembly just opened in the U.N.’s glass slab on Manhattan’s East…

How the Iran Deal Alters Ties That Bind

How the Iran Deal Alters Ties That Bind

September 14, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Whatever one thinks of the accord governing Iran’s nuclear program, Iran and the six nations that sat across from it for 18 tough months of negotiation—the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China—will begin this autumn to implement the deal…

America owns this nightmare: Everything Thomas Friedman and the media gets wrong about the migrant crisis

America owns this nightmare: Everything Thomas Friedman and the media gets wrong about the migrant crisis

September 9, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

The refugee disaster unfolding across Europe is the result of decades — even centuries — of Western policies It is not that the West, or America in particular, is responsible for everything that befalls our awful world. Readers sometimes make…

Why Europe’s Migrant Crisis Also Belongs to America

Why Europe’s Migrant Crisis Also Belongs to America

September 7, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Now that the flood of migrants into Europe has reached truly historic proportions, it’s time to acknowledge this as a moment of transformation—and not only in Europe. We’ve all seen the images, watched the television footage, and read the news…

Outright lies from the New York Times: What you need to know about the dangerous new phase in the Ukraine crisis

Outright lies from the New York Times: What you need to know about the dangerous new phase in the Ukraine crisis

September 2, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

While establishment media toe Washington’s line, violence and instability have shaken the Ukraine this week The slightly fetid “phony war” in Ukraine—the unsettling stagnation noted in this space a month ago—is emphatically over. Suddenly there is movement on several fronts,…

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