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“Cruel bastards hang together: All you need to know”: The world according to the New York Times

“Cruel bastards hang together: All you need to know”: The world according to the New York Times

January 27, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

American media covers the world through American eyes. Let’s look at Syria the way the rest of the world does The long-anticipated all-parties conference on Syria was scheduled to open in Geneva Monday, but of course it did not. Now…

One Year Later, Europe’s Migrant Crisis Could Sink the EU

One Year Later, Europe’s Migrant Crisis Could Sink the EU

January 25, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It’s now nearly a year since waves of migrants from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia began pounding European shores. Apart from the appalling human tragedies unfolding daily, it looks as if the greatest casualty of all may…

Bernie Sanders and David Brooks, both wrong: This year of Fox News and Donald Trump-fueled rage can’t be fixed by any candidate

Bernie Sanders and David Brooks, both wrong: This year of Fox News and Donald Trump-fueled rage can’t be fixed by any candidate

January 19, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

We are angry. We are afraid. We are exceptional. And the problem with America is that very combination Everything was going smoothly these holidays just past. Then, on the last day of the year, David Ignatius published an opinion piece in the…

Iran Deal Meets First Major Hurdle, Marking a Win for Obama

Iran Deal Meets First Major Hurdle, Marking a Win for Obama

January 18, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

We’ve just lived through a little bit of history. As of Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that the contentious-from-the-start deal between the U.S. and Iran has met its first and most important challenge under the accord governing its…

Misreading China Leads to Another Foolish Market Rout

Misreading China Leads to Another Foolish Market Rout

January 11, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

As the global rout in stocks last week reminds us, markets are always reliable. We can count on investors to overreact to events they don’t understand, including a plump scapegoat like China. By the S & P Global Broad Market Index,…

He’s made the Middle East worse: Let’s be honest, Obama bears as much responsibility for this mess as predecessors who shaped them

He’s made the Middle East worse: Let’s be honest, Obama bears as much responsibility for this mess as predecessors who shaped them

January 6, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Decades of poorly concocted policies with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and others haunt us — and worsen every day It is all there now for us to see. Decades of cynical, poorly devised policy in the Middle East, vacant of…

From Mideast to Moscow, These 3 Crises Could Wreck Obama’s Foreign Policy

From Mideast to Moscow, These 3 Crises Could Wreck Obama’s Foreign Policy

January 4, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

What a start for the Obama administration’s final year. In the course of a few days,Russia declares the U.S. a threat to its security taking relations to a perilous new low, and Iran announces it will escalate a new missile…

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