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Who will Biden bomb first?

Who will Biden bomb first?

December 4, 2020 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Elsewhere

The President-elect’s ‘global leadership’ is a return to the failed policies of Obama and Clinton This article first appeared on Unherd on December 4, 2020. “America is back.” So President-elect Biden declared after announcing his cabinet nominations last week, and after…

Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

March 27, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

For our national security, we need self-control more than we need arms-control talks. Let us think together about the letter four United States senators sent recently to the now departed secretary of state Rex Tillerson, urging him to start arms-control…

Cold War Illusions: Losing Friends

Cold War Illusions: Losing Friends

October 1, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, CounterPunch

Just before the November 2016 elections, I was invited to share lunch at a place called Packer’s Corner, a tiny hamlet in southeastern Vermont. I was instantly intrigued. If “faded glory” fairly describes the place now, Packer’s Corner et ses…

How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers

How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers

May 31, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

Joel Whitney talks about his book Finks, which exposes the agency’s corruption of American culture during the Cold War. “The past is a foreign country,” L.P. Hartley famously wrote as he opened The Go–Between. There is a pretty tristesse in…

Shades of the Cold War: How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal

Shades of the Cold War: How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal

July 25, 2016 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Now wait a minute, all you upper-case “D” Democrats. A flood light suddenly shines on your party apparatus, revealing its grossly corrupt machinations to fix the primary process and sink the Sanders campaign, and within a day you are on…

Disarray in NATO Completes Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy

Disarray in NATO Completes Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy

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

As of Friday, when NATO concluded its most important gathering since the Cold War ended, the North Atlantic alliance has a full menu of new tasks. So does Barack Obama’s successor. With the Warsaw summit, Obama’s foreign policy legacy is…

We restarted the Cold War: The real story about the NATO buildup that the New York Times won’t tell you

We restarted the Cold War: The real story about the NATO buildup that the New York Times won’t tell you

June 25, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Our leaders and media push time-worn nonsense about American innocence, while taking aggressive moves. Look out. Have you picked up on the new trope du jour? We are all encouraged to bask in our innocence as we lament the advent…

Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War

Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War

January 29, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Perverse, diabolical obsession: Policy cliques in D.C. have no intention of desisting in this war until they win it It is time to attempt that hardest of things—to see ourselves for who we are, to see what it is we…

Cold War By Other Means

Cold War By Other Means

May 28, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, CounterPunch

Ukraine: the Crisis in Context It is never easy to see the present as history: Being inside events, being the stuff of which events are made, makes distance and the perspective that comes of it difficult. It is not a…

They’re lying about Ukraine, again: Primitive prejudice, stupidity and the reflexive compliance of the New York Times

They’re lying about Ukraine, again: Primitive prejudice, stupidity and the reflexive compliance of the New York Times

May 15, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

We have had the full-frontal porn of an American subversion op, a coverup — then the media’s supine cooperation However Ukrainians settle their drastic differences — and they can, providing all sides find the will to do so — a…

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